Wow!!! That's a tiny, tiny place

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation. Why would Trump listen? Follow the money.

No words

I go to Barnes and Noble with the boy on occasion and there is a whole ass shelf of Potter crap, that's what you're funding

A critical moment for human rights accountability internationally is when a country's record of compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is reviewed by the independent experts on the UN Human Rights Committee. It comes around about once per decade. 1/10

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Worth watching: New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-covid-variant-immune-escape-potential-confirmed-us-22-other-countries @cidrap.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.

ICE must not be allowed in Toronto. They’ve kidnapped Canadians. They’re currently holding a 7 year old autistic Canadian girl in one of the camps. Boycott all World Cup games happening in the US, and demand ICE stay out of Canada.

This week, I made real progres on 3 issues related to access to care and support for my chronically ill daughter ***looks around with anticipation for trophies ***

What's terrifying about the precedent about this case is that Depp was a public figure. It's much harder for famous people to win defamation cases than it is for private figures to do the same.

Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.

a genocidal racist when they have to pay an extra $1/gallon at the pump:

I know it might be hard to believe, but this beat is, indeed, technotronic

Why is it that everyone I know has had some scammer steal or almost steal money from their credit card or bank account, but if I open Zoom on my phone, I get 100 "new device" login warnings?

Wake up, have coffee Open Bluesky Weep at the cruelty, racism, & murderousness of the MAGA/MAHA regime Close Bluesky

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

COVID-19 vaccines are widely regarded as the most scrutinized medical products in human history, based on the scale, speed, transparency, and intensity of their evaluation.

Seriously I'm so tired of this passive voice framing, as though the hospital bed crunch and the dearth of home care and primary care resources were some sort of natural disaster. The people we elected made this choice. Over and over again. For decades.

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are https://theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-clash-in-oval-office-over-where-they-are/

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

How many kids have to die before these idiots will admit they're wrong?

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same

You know what pisses me off about the announcement by Oz and Makary, now disproven, that leucovorin could treat autism? It’s the false hope given to people with autism and those who love them. If you’ve ever had a kid with a complex condition and you’re desperate for help, you are vulnerable.

they brought back fucking polio

Prasad also made collages of doctors wearing masks to shame them and spread doubt and mistrust. That’s the professionalism and maturity he brought to the table.

Like clockwork.

> @covie93.bsky.social

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

I am reminded every winter that it costs more to provide healthcare for winter related health complications of homelessness ( frost bite, complex amputations, infectious complications) than to provide warm safe shelter for the homeless. Becoming homeless could happen to almost anyone.

I knew this exact thing would happen. I don't think most people realize what a devastating loss this is. A revolutionary tool for preventing chronic, disabling diseases is lost.

18 mo baby Amalia had COVID-19, RSV & pneumonia. #ICE nearly killed her. What if your precious child were dangerously sick & denied medical care? What if you & your baby were being held in a facility serving worms in the food, with foul water & nothing to keep warm but a thin foil blanket?

Keep going with Spanish. The FREE online textbook below teaches Latin American Spanish language and culture through music. It includes audio and video. Chapter 3 focuses on perreo, sexuality, and Bad Bunny, including a couple of his videos. #LearnSpanish #LearningSpanish

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Good. Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

I was really tired and also did not want to work, so I took a nap. When I woke up, the work was still there. That seems unfair, somehow.

Will this mean Trevor Noah's lawyers can ask for unredacted Epstein Files as part of discovery?

This is what most anti-vaxxers believe, that they are really healthy, do all the right exercises and take the right supplements, are immune from any disease, and the only thing that can harm them are vaccines.

Ifmost there's anything I've leaned in the past 6 years it's that the powerful force building and tearing down nations is propaganda.

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

If being armed is a valid reason to kill people, a lot more Americans would be dead