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A follow-up email to Director Bhattacharya 1/4

Laguna Beach protest, cohosted by @indivisible47.bsky.social

Hmmm... I'm not sure I've ever seen maintenance take this long. This isn't to update PubMed to scrub articles that don't align with policy is it? ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2025/07/08/n...

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Want real leadership? Elect a woman.

The assholes from high school who cheated on tests and stole classmates' lunch money are now in charge of our federal government, including nuclear weapons that could end the human race.

Irony is dead. Yesterday the VP was in my neighborhood to receive the 2025 Statesmanship award as part of a ceremony to inaugurate “The Claremont Institute’s Golden Age Agenda… dedicated to seizing this pivotal moment in our nation’s history”. goldenageagenda.com/event/vance/

Given the headlines (or lack thereof) at @nytimes.com these days, was sort of surprised that "foxnation" wasn't a Pangram on today's Spelling Bee word list.

“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase”

Some scenes from the NO KINGS protest about 20 miles north of downtown San Diego near Del Mar. The last two slides are the front and back of the sign I made. My first political demonstration ever.

The best Trump analyst will open your eyes to the whole game.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

As a golfer, there's another way to look at the Sam Snead analogy. Give short putts early so your opponent doesn't get a feel for the greens. The Golf Analogy That Explains a Lot About Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

Since I administered the WH emoluments rules, let me explain why this is forbidden Trump expressed interest in it before it was offered He is going to use & benefit from it a while in office And he's going to keep using it after he leaves! Functionally, it's a gift to him & so it's illegal

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." - Zen Shin #bloomscrolling #pink #flowers #spring #sunshine #green #beauty #photography #nature #pedals

Here’s my experience with a former ICE agent. I was volunteering as a facilitator at a leadership camp for high school juniors. This retired ICE agent was responsible for dividing the attendees into groups of 8 students who did not know each other. (1/5) 🧵

A new WSJ chart says it all: Trump’s auto taxes hit Ford and GM hardest, Toyota and Hyundai less—and make Elon Musk the biggest winner. Billionaire donor in, American workers out. This isn’t economic policy. It’s a heist.

...and now complete(ish) with more than 1150 cities. 1/

🚨Trump's tariff maths is 'Flawed'🚨 Trump’s administration is focusing too much on trade deficit & not “factoring in” America’s financial services. 🇺🇸 “RECIPROCAL TARIFFS” (Spoiler: They Aren’t Reciprocal) Pls watch/share ♻️ this excellent CBC explanation by Andrew Chang. 2/5🧵 youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE

My swan song. I worked with so many wonderful scientists while overseeing this collaboration. 🧪 A global collaboration for systematic analysis of broad-ranging antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Important to remember that the reason most Trump voters think everything's fine is that their chosen media is telling them little more than that he's cutting government waste and frogmarching criminals out of the country. Real information doesn't reach them. An economic collapse? That might.

Folks, this is a scam. The GOP is helping Elon Musk and his friends loot the federal government and give themselves billions in federal contracts—and then wants to give them permanent tax breaks on the back end by cutting critical programs. Let's call it what it is: a scam on the American people.

Take control of your genetic data. Please delete your 23andMe data- the new buyer may be looking for a treasure trove of genetic information without regard for consumer privacy or protection (and the current government certainly won't offer protection).

Wow, just WOW!! Looks like orange Slim Shady is at it again…👇 What. The. Actual. Fuck. ✨

Lots of truth here....

More courageous than most of our legislators.

Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"

The McClellan analogy is particularly apt. Feeling his forces had inferior numbers, when they did not, hesitant to mount a challenge when the opportunity was there, and refusal to pursue a seemingly strong opponent that was, in fact, weak. All just like Chuck.

If Republicans want a partisan power grab for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they won’t be getting any help from me.

And don't forget the browser extension! Help with this archival effort by just surfing the web like normal! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wayba...

"In the first 6 months of the Trump presidency, Trump and Elon Musk and their billionaire friends have engaged in a stunning rampage of open, public corruption." I urge everyone to watch but especially those who screamed about Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco...

This is the best short speech about Trump's desecration of our democracy since he's re-entered office. Read it, absorb it, share it.

Trump and Musk's dismantling of government "has a very familiar smell to it. It’s the stench of the kind of vulture capitalism that has demolished newsrooms across the country in a quest for greater revenue for shareholders." New from @justinglawe.bsky.social:

The future of higher education has never been more perilous. #Trump #Musk #Vought are out to destroy universities. Read more in my latest for @TheNation. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The attacks on #NIH and #NSF, cutting off funding for university-based research won't just decimate science for a generation, it is designed to crater the resources universities need to survive. This was all in Project 2025 and it's here. 2/ defector.com/the-nih-cuts...

The other day PubMed was having issues, particularly for users overseas. Wondering if PubMed is next to suffer cuts and take use yet farther down the path to ceding excellence in biomedical research. Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Trump and Musk are messing with Social Security by demanding 15% cuts to staff. “We are already short-staffed as it is. Right now we are working on applications generally from 2023-ish.” These Trump and Musk Social Security cuts could mean that "easily the wait times will be extended by one year."

If I had a child so seemingly without compassion I wouldn't go around giving talks about raising "amazing children" whilst wearing a huge ring that looks like a ouija board pointer. As Musk Consolidates Power in the U.S., His Mother Is in Demand Overseas www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/w...

Thank you @angierasmussen.bsky.social for alerting me to this article. In graduate school every one knew what you were talking about if you said "Maniatis"- the cloning bible. Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

A terrible moment for the United States and the world. youtube.com/shorts/c_-JI...

New York City 🍎 Washington Square Park Friday March 7th 12 PM - 3 PM

@standupforscience.bsky.social March for Science on March 7. This year more than ever march to protect US research efforts. Find a march near you. 🧪

I don’t think a lot of people outside science understand the symbiotic relationship we have between public, private, and educational sectors. We all lean on each other for help, support, and R&D. In most cases, we aren’t competing so much as all rowing different boats in the same direction.

Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.

It seems there was a dinner at the WH where a military choir serenaded the orange turd and his guest with a rendition of One Day More from Les Miserables, and the ignorant fools loved it. This is what happens when you don’t read. People mock you to your face. 😹

♥️ Democrats care about other people. 🤬 Republicans only care about themselves. The two parties are not the same!

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Man this one really took off. It’s always jarring when I randomly come across screenshots of my posts on facebook and reddit

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!