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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11h

If I were a hostile power attempting to weaken the largest superpower in the world, actions like this would be effective.

You have to ask yourself, why do this?

What is the goal?

BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12h

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

www.cdc.gov

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 12h

UPDATE‼️The Hill reports at least 4,100 employees fired today as Russell Vought and Trump devastate our government agencies and slash the federal workforce.

thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve lived in Hermosa in Chicago nearly my entire life. It’s an 80+% Latino community. There are no words for what we’re experiencing right now. I can’t stress this enough—

My home, my people are being psychologically terrorized
People are going missing
People are terrified

Don’t forget about us.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 21h

Thank you for saying that 👏 There is an intentional tendency of anti-science folks to parrot science practices without the meaning. Invoking a (supposedly) better science practice is useless; they will parrot it back to you to defend what they do.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 22h

A lot of scientists sense the bullshit production machine happening in the admin and reach for terms like “p-hacking” or arguing they’re doing science wrong. This is remarkably misguided and just pays them the liars dividend. 🧵

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 22h

I think this is a dangerous framing because all he has to do is preregister a confounded analysis and it crops out as “confirmatory”.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 23h

Wow! I just downloaded one and ordered the other... I feel these are the books I always wanted someone to write!

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely appalled that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone woke and has been awarded to a peaceful person. The prize should go to someone with the following qualifications:

-Calls their own citizens animals and scum.
-Uses unmarked vans to kidnap families.
-Human manifestation of pure hatred.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 1d

PTSD is about stress but also MEMORY, and it cannot be fully understood outside of how memories are encoded, consolidated, modified, and retrieved. My amazing colleagues and I have just published a framework on how memory neuroscience helps us understand (and treat) PTSD

doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

Redirecting

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying. @davidgilbert.bsky.social spoke to Rutgers professor Mark Bray, who wrote a book about antifa and is now being deluged by death threats.

Bray and his family tried to flee for Europe this weekend. Their tickets were mysteriously canceled right before they boarded the plane.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d

MORE OF THIS PLEASE.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 2d

The Florida Man headline to end all Florida Man headlines www.latimes.com/california/s...

Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades.

www.latimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 3d

Thank you!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 3d

A recent Nature paper has introduced Centaur, a LLAMA-based LLM that surpasses any cognitive models in predicting human behavior. Is this the ultimate unified theory of cognition? In this preprint, my colleagues and I expressed our doubts. Let us know what you think! arxiv.org/abs/2510.03311

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science

We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter cla...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 4d

🎯!!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is lying. Go figure

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

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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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 4d

This is my wife’s cousin and she is a truly AMAZING person who was doing critically important work until the Trump administration f—ed everything up.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

On top of ripping away Americans' health care, Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

Federal workers like this one, who told me her story after being needlessly fired earlier this year, deserve so much better.

Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 5d

Holy cow

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.

Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.

He's now charged with murder.