people died for birthright citizenship. i get that it’s more fun to be a pundit when your team has the white house and you get to brag to friends about visiting the oval office; but what i’m wondering is if maybe that’s actually not a good reason to throw away something we fought a civil war to win?

Landman is laundering wacky facebook memes trashing clean energy into your living room. William Robert should be ashamed of himself. bsky.app/profile/cost...

One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers

ME{from upstairs}: Honey, I'm gonna take a Bublé bath WIFE: You mean a bubble bath, dear ME: Uh...right MICHAEL BUBLÉ: Are you getting in or what?

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

NEW: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

If you want a little inspiration, look at the quotes and replies to this post. ❤️👍💪

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution. Commentary ↓

I want to believe this is just a tidal pool...But some other part of me believes we’re past that point. That this report is worthless, that no one will ever read it, that these will be the last words I ever write. That somewhere far remote someone or something else is seeing me. - SR book

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

This is how my local paper in the swing state of Nevada covered it: Huge picture, AP story with nary a hint that this was weird or corrupt. As low as Trump’s approval ratings are, they’d be much lower if he didn’t have the help of large swaths of the media

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

Are you one of the 38% of U.S. households with a gas or propane stove? If so, spend the $50 needed to get an induction stove! New study: "if you use a gas stove, you’re often breathing as much nitrogen dioxide pollution indoors from your stove as you are from all outdoor sources combined.”

I've become deeply radicalized against gambling. It's just getting more evil the longer it's allowed to fester unregulated

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Oh my goodness bidding has reached £600 that’s fantastic 🙌🏻🩷🙌🏻🩷🙌🏻🩷

Again, Trump is less than a year into his second presidency. There are no signs the economy is getting better, health care premiums are about to double or triple for 24 million people, he is unpopular ON IMMIGRATION now. At a certain point, presidential popularity hits a point of no return.

Bravo everyone who enabled this. Take a bow.

It’s unbelievable that the dystopias of fiction were all too optimistic in how deep America would go

Do I know anyone on here who might be able to get me a digital image of a page (or a few) of a manuscript in the Library of Ahmed III (in Istanbul)? The library doesn’t appear to have digitized much (or any) of the collection? 🗃️

Science is what America did best for 8 decades, causing the US economy to dominate world markets and utterly transform the world’s understanding of itself. All that has come to a senseless and “shattering” end. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

The bonus #TransitDog of the day is this very good small dog in a pink flowered jacket.

Sabrina Carpenter's post yesterday calling the White House video "evil and disgusting" is in record-setting ratio territory: 1.3 million likes (20x more than WH's), 177,000 reposts, 83 million views

I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3

The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform

from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored

Social cohesion can’t endure without some sort of penalty — opprobrium, shame, what have you — attaching to baldfaced, unrepentant lying.

This goes for Jared Polis and all the other politicians that decided portray RFK as anything other than a danger to society, too

We must never forget: it wasn’t just the kooky Great Barrington Declaration dudes who promoted RFK Jr & his anti-vaxx BS—it was also some magazines, like The New Yorker, which celebrated him as a “maverick” who would take on “the establishment” RFK Jr’s hype men will have dead kids as their legacy

"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."

One proposed strategy to promote a youthful immune system and human healthspan is to rejuvenate our thymus gland. Can we learn from this exceptional (and peculiar looking) vertebrate that can do this? science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"a non-partisan USPS is foundational to democracy. politicizing it is an attack on voting. we cannot have free and fair elections if one party controls the mail. this is a coup." there, i did it for you. just repeat that.

The CDC vaccine advisory panel move to end hepatitis b shot recommendations at birth. These recommendations have been in place since 1991 and have prevented a lot of death and disability. Vaccines save lives. Anti vaxx grift ends them. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

but Olivia Nuzzi was too in love

ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected. The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.

THEY DID THIS TO A MOTHER AND HER CHILD

brb getting a PhD in this topic

I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read. Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.

As Vinay transformed from a critical voice in medicine to whatever he is today, it was his amplification of Hoeg that made it clear we were no longer allies when it came to the importance of evidence. All benefit-of-the-doubt evaporated then. She is an ignorant crank and he is a terrible hypocrite.

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

I think we should celebrate any time these fascist fucks feel even an iota of shame