The year in Review Tylenol Epstein Files Bombing Boats Lyndsey Halligan Gaza Ukraine East Wing Measles Doge Tariffs Kennedy Center Iran Big Ugly Bill 60 Minutes Kimmel Paul Weiss Harvard Redistricting The list is endless Nothing Trump has done has benefited America Nothing

Trump administration throwing out books and scientific materials as they close #NASA Goddard Library. Senseless destruction. Not how I want my taxpayer dollars spent (destroying usable materials w valuable information). @roguenasa.altgov.info #SaveScience #StandUpforScience

Getting lots of help reading the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social #HappyNewYear #Dogs

I'm sharing this because sharing an NYT story about this outweighs my dislike of the publication. We have known for months because of data outside of Japan that this year's flu season was going to be bad but we have an HHS secretary that hates vaccination and so voila.

If Trump was 100% guilty before any of the Epstein files were released, now he’s closer to 600%, 700%, even 800% guilty. MAGA math works both ways.

If I were a genuine progressive who believed in science and shit I would run on a campaign on breaking up food monopiles in this country. I would weaponize MAHA against itself.

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... NY Times is finally stepping up, not only posting these summer ICE raids, but investigating the sequence of events and providing a detailed narrative. It begins with an absurd tactical show of force by Bovino, looking for one (innocent) man. It is excellent. #pinks

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

Do people realize that this is also happening with case law? Like Do You Understand What That Fucking Means???

it’s for exactly this reason that my library network’s catalog system does not retain patron borrowing data, or even permit the creation of linked “family” library accounts. the “free” in “free public library” means, among other things, “free from government interference.”

white people will take off their shoes before stepping on a picnic blanket but start a podcast if asked to remove them inside someone else’s house

Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law? I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.

“Do you support ICE?” “Not really.” “Hell f*ckin’ nah.” These two dudes drink for free on us if we ever run into them in Minnesota 🍻

Statement from Maria Farmer: “This is amazing. Thank you for believing me. I feel redeemed. This is one of the best days of my life. Of course, it's mixed with the fact that I'm devastated about all the other little girls like Virginia who were harmed because the FBI didn't do their job. 1/

We don’t have enough hospital beds to care for the sick kids we already have even without stripping vaccine recommendations. Our PICU is full. Our NICU is full. The pediatric acute care floors are nearly full.

Your Amazon boxes are fueling ultra conservative politicians, FYI.

Maria Farmer worked for Epstein in 1996 and reported his "child pornography" to the FBI back then. They ignored her.

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

Forcing the AG to publicly defend every redaction, line-by-line, would be a fun exercise.

I told my son that the Atlantic reported that the “six seven” phenomenon was over and my kid rolled his eyes and said, “respectfully, no kid is reading that magazine.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Beyond parody. We have an attorney general who is covering up the Epstein Files and a President who is proud he could identify a giraffe

White House Deputy Press Secretary gets community noted

I feel like that makes it worse, bc it underscores that it's not just (using just loosely) RFK Jr randomly being a conspiracy addled eugenicist wackjob -- this catastrophe was coordinated and had the backing of the conservative legal movement

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

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Fun with math…

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting"). When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators. But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.

“Even the delivery was weird: Seemingly under network time constraints, the president read off the teleprompter angrily and quickly, speaking with the motormouth intensity of a 20-something banker who just discovered cocaine and now has a really great idea for a new restaurant.”

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

One thing about @standupforscience.bsky.social: we are *going* to get our message across.

Dear God, Jay Bhattacharya is just hopeless. He can't simply say getting polio is bad and is far worse than any side effects from the vaccine. He's is so far gone. It's tragic really. Too bad for all of us that he runs the National Institutes of Health.

Sick.

Of all the things I swear I never saw coming… This is probably no. 1 Rep Chip Roy has thoughts that make sense. (But if I’m honest, he’s up for reelection in 2026, so I shouldn’t have been all that surprised)

Trump wanted to punish the Pulitzer Prize Board. Instead, he invited an unsolicited audit of his entire adult life. Discovery is a beautiful thing. #uspolitics #authoritarianism #kakistocracy open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...

This is actually the trippiest thing I've ever seen that was not deliberately created by M C Fucking Escher. It straight up took me over a minute to make sense of and now I can't go back. This is the white-and-gold dress on a gram a week of trenbolone.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

WHO AMONG US hasn't sat down 11 times with a journalist and a tape recorder only to be shocked that they'd publish stuff we talked about?

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Read this. Then read it again.

This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)

#Journalism #Headlines #SciComm #StandUpForScience #RFK #CDC

watching regular people who have to stand behind Trump while he speak is captivating this poor guy

If I pull two all nighters, I can be done this book that is four months overdue. Me: Surely I can do that at 50. Also me who injured herself knitting and had to have her ribs put back into place by a physiotherapist: lol sure you delicate flower, let's see this in action