RFK Jr's crimes are many, but I'm particularly annoyed at his catalyzing the high protein diet fad. If you eat a typical American diet and aren't a muscle-builder, you're probably getting more than enough protein, and anyone telling you otherwise is just doing it Because Gender

This whole thread is gold

Only if they wreck it

We're the biggest USA socialist organization in over 100 years. We're raising minimum wages, demanding tenant protections, winning elected offices, helping workers get into unions, and fighting for the international working class and against the bosses and war-masters everywhere.

We have a world to win.

Similarly, it's depressing how many people (liberals mostly with Gaza and certain leftists with Ukraine) pretend to not realize occupation is not a meaningful peace.

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Good news’

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Further update: apparently the hiring manager isn't pissed off at me, she was just clarifying for someone else on the cc list. I *may* not be as cooked as I thought.

It very obviously is. The preferred presidential budget (in contrast to Congress's budget) greatly reduced grad student and postdoc funding. (There was also some screwing around with CAREER grants at one point, presumably because the commissar in charge had no idea what that actually was.)

Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*.

humans do not host the Muppet Show, Kermit the Frog hosts the Muppet Show! there i said it, i got it off my chest

Space/ #astrosky friends: have an extra lapel pin from a mission/instrument/observation campaign floating around? Consider sending it to me! (DM me for my address) I plan on using them to decorate my Starbucks apron, in a desperate attempt to maintain my dignity as an underemployed scientist

determined to give an exoplanets talk that doesn’t show the radius-period diagram

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” writes Becca Good in a thank-you note to the people of Minneapolis.

In the past week I have: been turned down by two postdocs I was really hopeful I'd get, been ghosted by a third I was also really hopeful about, probably pissed off the hiring manager, and had to begin liquidating my rather meager retirement fund in order to cover rent,

*Of course* Krauss is weird about trans people, it only figures

normie lib House Dem: I think the Senate caucus needs to take a hard look at the direction it's taking, Analilia Mejia: CUT OFF PEEPAW'S BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS I'M READY

honestly it finds its sharpest modern echoes in Joe Biden making American liberals defend the indefensible in Gaza in the desperate hope he wasn't the monster his detractors said he was

I applied to a postdoc five months ago, and still haven't heard anything back. Should I assume that they've ghosted me?

Looking for evening plans next Thursday/Friday? I'll be setting the pre-Valentine's Day mood at CU Boulder's Fiske Planetarium, talking about my favorite cosmic romance between Pluto and Charon 💗 Tickets here: fiske.vantixticketing.com/default.aspx...

Seen in Minneapolis

Impt to note that what Trump will "accept" is largely immaterial to what will happen, as has been the case in every election since he entered politics 11 years ago. What this is, as it has been the whole time, is a loser trying to preemptively position himself to excuse away his impending losses.

KL: He did it. But it was harmless. White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern. Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted. Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is GoT for the boys the way House of the Dragon is GoT for the girls and the gays

These people are such gullible marks

We need to counter crazy with EXTRA MORE BONKERS crazy, here are some ideas: - He couldn't know so much about aliens UNLESS he was in fact an alien himself. - All Harvard faculty are aliens EXCEPT him, he's trying to clue us in to the horrible truth. - His only purpose is to get attention.

Inject this into my veins

NO OF COURSE THERE ISN'T YOU DOORKNOB WHY DOES THIS CHUCKLEFUCK HAVE TENURE AT HARVARD AND I'M SLINGING DRINKS TO SCOTTSDALE'S MOST ENTITLED CHILDREN

What the Epstein files reveal is a world historical crime, just on their merits. And yet people have started memeing them into the One True Conspiracy that explains everything, which is a thought pattern that inevitably leads to the... historical Ur text of that conspiracy.

“Trump may be racist but you’re fat” isn’t the sick burn whatever moron runs the GOP account thinks it is

Update: got my dates wrong, won't find out about the ASU job for a few more weeks (and I think I pissed off the hiring manager by asking), so I'll just be doing my best not to completely crash out until my shift ends in 3 hours

The scheme to replace underpaid gig drivers in America with even more severely underpaid gig drivers in even poorer countries is bad. Americans should drive themselves or pay someone a living wage. Disabled Americans should have access to taxpayer funded services that pay drivers a living wage.

Got rejected for the EPL postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Science. I'm actually pretty nervous now about my prospects--the one other person doing work on network-topology biosignatures for exoplanets was a postdoc there, so I thought I had a good shot of getting a position, too 😫

Obviously the way police treat people is the most problematic but if the dog-loving American public actually knew how many dogs cops kill I think you’d see ACAB become the modal belief

I think this is the first time I've seen an elected official acknowledge poverty among Shoah survivors.

Woke 2: Reify the Right-Wind Paranoia Fantasies

I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention. This is infuriating and devastating.

I think Zohran understands, unlike a lot of his very online supporters, that actually running a functional NYC administration is going to be a lot more effective victory for "the Left" than anything else he can do, and that doing that is in no way, shape, or form something you can take for granted.

AIPAC listen to me, it is extremely vital that you spend all of your money, literally all of it, on running ads against Chuck Schumer in 2028 because he said a mean word about Netanyahu one time in 2024

the Obamas are by a wide margin the most popular political figures in the country and the video is so bad major newspapers are flat out calling it "racist" rather than "racially charged" their only move with anything is to double down so by all means let them double down on this

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

folks you're hearing it more and more!

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Watching the Winter Olympic opening ceremony, and does anyone know who the guys in the ceremonial breastplate and legionnaire helmets who escorted the Italian flag in the stadium? Is that a ceremonial army unit, or just costumed performers?

So. Abolish ICE is the message that won this primary and Rep Grijalva won on the Epstein Files discharge vote. All the proof you need that the Senate Dems who fold on anything but abolish are not representing the voters. Pretty clear message here.