Why a study claiming vaccines cause chronic illness is severely flawed – a biostatistician explains the biases and unsupported conclusions buff.ly/b7gP69K

Cancel culture is when the fans complain. Fascism is when the government threatens to bankrupt media companies with bogus regulatory action unless they fire the host.

The move follows an appearance by the FCC commissioner, who criticized Kimmel's recent monologue.

The FBI supporting Texas targeting the Dem politicians who left the state is exactly the same as the lead up to the civil war-conservatives don’t want state rights but to enforce their will over state lines with federal help

we recorded for three and a half hours and could have kept going

Early in Trump's first term, the WPost wouldn't let us use the word "lie" when commenting on Trump. That did change but I found it ludicrous at the time.

It is not realistic or sustainable for every single government program to constantly promote itself to the public. The clear villain in the DOGE immiseration campaign is the right. We don't need to play into their attacks by implying that we deserve it.

You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation. Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...

No one is calling Ezra Klein right wing! I generally like Ezra's work. I simply think that this framing of the issue is far too common when the empirical dynamics are so clear. Why are the "bluesky won't do debate" people so allergic to actual debate? bsky.app/profile/chat...

Trump isn’t the product of overt populism. He’s the product of Russian disinformation, tech bro greed, and faux Christian fascists… And oh yeah, don’t forget the internet. America has an education problem and a severe inability to focus on reality. Walk down any street. Were completely insane.

It’s funny how the Wine Mom Analysis, that Trump is an insane con man, fascist, and possible Russian plant who has seized the US government as a kind of invader, is dramatically better and more accurate than the Very Serious Person Analysis that he’s a clear continuation of long-running trends

HARVARD HITS BACK AT TRUMP, rejecting his demands, and now Trump is threatening their tax exempt status after freezing $2.2 Billion.

They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.

“Home grown criminal”

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Everything is so horrifying. When I saw this photo, ⬇️I thought of this photo⬇️

Here's the thing: it *didn't* work in 2017. Trump got a lot of what he wanted, stuffed his pockets with money and came within a hair's breadth of being re-elected. The main reason he wasn't this awful was because people in his own Admin held him back. They're gone. You're all that's left, Chuck.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

I really think the only way to get what we need to get across heard is to make content which is entertainment with a high informational value. The learning needs to be hidden, almost. People don’t want to do any thinking, they need info dumbed down to an extent we’d think was insulting.

I know I'm going to get a lot of "ya THINK?" responses to this, but I'll say it anyway: I think we've crossed a line or maybe a 100 little lines that have officially brought us from "pre-fascism" to "fascism." I'm not a hyperbolic person; I don't say this lightly.

What's good for the goose...

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Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NOTE: If Trump/Musk really cared about identifying "waste, fraud, and abuse," they wouldn't have fired all the Inspector Generals, who actually have the expertise to do it

I'm so grateful right now I could cry; a friend reached out with a flat, that's the same rent as my current place, not substantially further away, slightly more space, and we can move in a week before our rent goes up. Crisis resolved, and I didn't have to fight with any real estate agents. 😊

“If the Internet was already a basement, it is now one flooded with influencers devoted to delegitimizing reporting on unflattering truths by transforming Trump loyalists into heroes via memes,” @mctelevision.bsky.social writes.

I don't think people like this understand that the DOE doesn't dictate curriculum! States have more of a hand in that than the feds do. (I've been a public school teacher and designed my own curricula so I know this firsthand.)

You don't have a leg to stand on regarding "narrative building" when your argument is that a single Canadian journal article proves that the Dept. of Education has been indoctrinating children. Never mind that this belies a complete ignorance of what the DOE does!

Wow, this is an impressive bit of stretching, but perhaps the most obvious way in which your claim is bullshit is that no one associated with the article works for the Dept of Ed and the primary author is Canadian (CI itself is associated with U of Toronto). Just say you hate queer people already.

I am interviewing @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social tomorrow @sxsw in Austin. Please add some questions below you want me to ask her!

I'm not sure why we are pretending this has anything to do with "DEI" anymore. There is a systematic effort to purge any acknowledgement that race or racism or gender or misogyny EXIST

this is the culmination of a 50 year right wing war on journalism, education, science, facts, and informed consensus

Leaving aside the absurdity of politicians instructing literal doctors on what is and isn’t an abortion, the nefarious endgame here is to divorce abortion from healthcare. They want to make abortion something distinct, devious, and shameful.

Also, if it is about being fair. Studies show that the %2.3 of the population have some sort of physical advantages in different sports. Means they will have natural advantages over other athletes, but no one seems to really care about that. And trans people are about less than %1 of the population.

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

I think my biggest problem with the "debate" over whether Democrats should abandon trans people is how divorced from reality it is. Republicans are banning gender-affirming care because they think kids are being rushed into surgeries. THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

Republicans are passing bathroom bills because they think men are pretending to be women so they can commit sexual assault. THEY AREN'T. Republicans are banning trans athletes because they think boys are pretending to be girls to win competitions. THEY AREN'T.

Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST. When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.

Yes.

BREAKING: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has reneged on their commitment to host the @sciencewriters.org annual conference and withdrew their entire financial support. The National Association of Science Writers is now looking for a new venue, sponsors, and partners.

Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome x.com/repalgreen/s...

WTAF?! Remember when these two HAGS yelled at Biden during his SOTU? Himes can go to hell!

We are 10 years into the Trump era, we watched a speech in which Trump castigated Dems as 'radical left lunatics' & used a racist jibe against a Dem senator, & Democratic Congressman Jim Himes voted to censure Al Green because of the importance of 'decorum' & 'civility. Really? Really?? SHEESH.

Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.