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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Share real incidents, this one is ai slop

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, he's always lied, don't know why people think he's being manipulated in this way. He can have dementia and still be a brazen liar

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 3d

He'd lie about it in any case, but who knows what he actually believes these days

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3d

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 3d

Also there is no house to deny seating reps really. The old house is gone so the new majority decides the new rules

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 4d

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 4d

Big Lebowski movie night

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4d

Today in Judiciary, the MAGA Attorney General falsely accused me of taking money, “not only once but twice,” from “one of Epstein’s closest confidantes.”

She brought it up twice, in response to different questions, so no accident.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, it's a mess. And there's no way for solicited reviewers to suggest alternate suggested reviewers besides emailing the journal directly, which is then (hopefully) forwarded to me the editor. Also, there's no indication that authors can suggest reviewers ??

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 5d

Yes it was, the judge ruled that there was no evidence guard was needed and so that also applied to any guard from any state going to portland

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6d

These individual call-outs of judges by DOJ officials are essentially unprecedented and are best understood as intended to cause threats and violence like this

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

Last week, one of Trump's senior DOJ appointees strongly attacked a South Carolina's judge's voting rights decision. Today her house was burned to the ground by suspected arsonists.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 6d

Last month a SC judge blocked the Trump administration from accessing South Carolinan’s voter info.

Yesterday her beach house exploded in flames.

www.fitsnews.com/2025/10/04/s...

SLED Investigating Alleged Arson Incident At S.C. Judge's Home - FITSNews

Palmetto State circuit court judge Dianne Goodstein had been receiving death threats, sources say...

www.fitsnews.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 6d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

They took down the Klan.

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push

The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.

www.politico.com

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 6d

AND YE SHALL TAKE UP SERPENTS

Young girl in a purple shirt holding a small snake wrapped around her fist

Young girl in shorts and a purple shirt letting a small corn snake crawl up her while she’s sitting down

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 7d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Ryan Martin @ryanamartin.bsky.social · 7d

Avenge us!

Scene from Game 3 of the wildcard series between the Guardians and Tigers.

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