"You're 30 trill cells trying to maintain homeostasis, & that's not easy. No wonder it's difficult to be blessed & cursed with consciousness. It's easy to forget that you're a mammal, because you're so busy having consciousness, but you're a mammal, OK? So give yourself a little slack." - John Green

Maybe firing all the competent FBI agents that were deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump was a bad idea.

This goes in the same category of Marco Rubio giving the middle finger to the visual impaired via font choice. But I also wonder if Trump comes off as even dumber when translated into American Sign Language. Pity the poor translators that have to try to make sense of his rambling.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

Gonna be interesting to see how many infectious disease programs fill today; last year 50.8% of programs filled What will be the impact of an HHS secretary/FDA leadership openly hostile to the field? The impact of a decimated public health system? The fact that salaries are lower than most others?🤔

"You become where you spend your time." -- Scott Galloway

Olivia Nuzzi WTF.

The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the professionalism and dignity of the United States military. They’re an insult to every American who ever sacrificed to do the right thing.

The scene at the end of The Black Hole where the crazy Nemo-ish scientist and his scary robot Maximillian are in hell freaked me out when I was a kid.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Martin Kulldorff's positions on Covid could best be summarized as "Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne."

Remind me the primary purpose of Universities? Apparently it’s to have a winning football team, cost be damned 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

The CDC has been overrun by quacks, grifters, and eugenicists. It's now operating as an anti-CDC; nothing coming out of it can be trusted. We need to establish some sort of Shadow CDC to continue the original CDC's mission and counter the harmful effects of the Corrupted CDC.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

"I worked as a journalist in Egypt and I was persecuted and detained and tortured. My experienced at the Butler County jail was more traumatizing than my detection in Egypt... Immigrants will be the first target. After that, they will target any opposition." -- Ayman Solimon

Best case scenario is we all die of bird flu and get it over with.

In the last week, Donald Trump has called for the murder of Congressional Democrats and threatened to unilaterally declare an invasion of Venezuela. If Congressional Republicans followed the Constitution, both of these would be removable offenses. But, they’re loyal to Trump, not the constitution.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

What I’m trying to figure out is when administrators claim that actually grants are a financial loss for the university because of the associated costs … then why are y’all doing this

I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

one of my most oddball views as an engineer prof is that it's okay to think that the way people build or use a technology is bad, even if the details of the tech are pretty cool, and it's also okay (good, even!) to opt out of using or contributing to harmful tech weirdly contentious view 🤷‍♂️

"Science and scientists are under assault... While scientists often see the result of such attacks on science and scientific institutions through loss of funding or jobs, they are sometimes naive about the underlying forces behind such attacks, weakening their ability to fight back."

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

It angers me that the National guard are deployed in DC for no good reason but were never deployed on Jan 6 2021, when an angry mob of thousands stormed the capitol and called for hanging the VP and killing other members of congress

Abandoning partners guarantees fewer allies in future conflicts. Why should anyone help U.S. troops next time if the message is: “Work with us, risk your life, and we’ll throw you under the bus later”?

These Afghans weren’t random civilians. They were: • vetted, • trained, • screened repeatedly, • and trusted enough to work alongside U.S. forces in combat zones. Treating them like potential terrorists now is not just morally bankrupt — it’s strategically stupid

1/ Collective punishment of tens of thousands of vetted Afghan partners won’t prevent radicalization. But it will guarantee fewer allies, more enemies, and higher risks for U.S. troops the next time we deploy. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Neither Montana nor California have legalized in-app gambling and the fact that those two very different states agree on this should be a signal to everywhere else.

Had Trump not ignored a week-old court order to withdraw the troops from DC, no one would have been shot and all the members of the WV guard would have been home sor Thanksgiving. I honor her service, but I also won't forget Trump's hand in this.

20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.

Don't fall for it. Trump has been waiting for an excuse for a military dictatorship. It took only a few hours for President Donald Trump to turn what he called “an act of evil, and an act of terror” into a full-blown argument for an even more intense crackdown on immigration.

Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind. They've got to go.

The new reality is that our international scholars should not be traveling by plane, unless it's to move to another country with the intention of not returning to U.S.

You have to ask, why was Witkoff chosen for this critically important role of special envoy to Putin? He had no diplomatic or foreign policy experience. No education on those subjects. So of all people, why him? I think what we all surmised is clear - Putin wanted Witkoff.

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

Masked agents knocking on doors, demanding that residents show IDs, and urging them to snitch on neighbors, while buses wait nearby to disappear people is full-fledged Nazi behavior.

That sound you heard was every GOP elected official with a lick of sense absolutely SHITTING themselves thinking about the visual of Mark Kelly back in uniform before a military court as Whiskey Pete's handpicked chucklefucks try to railroad him on bogus charges.

He was traveling from Oklahoma to DC, not even an international trip

This administration lies so much they’re now doing pre-crime PR for illegal orders that haven’t even happened yet.

Spot on analysis of Mamdani's meeting with Trump.

Dr. Oz said if we want to keep healthcare costs down, we should just get healthier. Why didn’t we think of that before? 🤔 MAHA is a sham.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

Tierra Walker had a complicated pregnancy she wanted to terminate in the first trimester. None of the >90 physicians who cared for her were willing to provide the care she needed due to Texas’s abortion ban, and she died at home, with her 14 yo son having to do CPR. This is pro-death, not pro-life.