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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.
October 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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Regrettably relevant research today
Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Regrettably relevant research today
Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Disguised Repression: Targeting Opponents with Nonpolitical Crimes to Undermine Dissent
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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We've got an authoritarian in the Oval Office, Republican legislators leaving our most vulnerable communities out to dry, and Jack’s all for it.
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We've got an authoritarian in the Oval Office, Republican legislators leaving our most vulnerable communities out to dry, and Jack’s all for it.
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Not true. We have a growing number of brand meds. The only reason we don’t have all brand meds is because the big PBMs threaten to reduce sales of the brand’s meds if they work with us.
They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
Unfortunately Cuban can only work his magic on generic drugs. Patent holders control the pricing of their own drugs.
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Not true. We have a growing number of brand meds. The only reason we don’t have all brand meds is because the big PBMs threaten to reduce sales of the brand’s meds if they work with us.
They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.
Government spending, n.
1. Expenditures that pay for public goods that are not naturally provided by the free market.
2. Tax cuts.
1. Expenditures that pay for public goods that are not naturally provided by the free market.
2. Tax cuts.
May 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Government spending, n.
1. Expenditures that pay for public goods that are not naturally provided by the free market.
2. Tax cuts.
1. Expenditures that pay for public goods that are not naturally provided by the free market.
2. Tax cuts.
Protect, vt.
1. Shield from harm; prevent reduction of value or fitness
2. Extract value from, disregarding certain harms.
1. Shield from harm; prevent reduction of value or fitness
2. Extract value from, disregarding certain harms.
May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Protect, vt.
1. Shield from harm; prevent reduction of value or fitness
2. Extract value from, disregarding certain harms.
1. Shield from harm; prevent reduction of value or fitness
2. Extract value from, disregarding certain harms.
Give hazards a chance to kill. Might as well tear up sidewalks and have people walk in the streets.
More life and death decisions being made to give tax breaks to billionaires. wgme.com/news/local/m... @altacadia.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @altfws.altgov.info
Mainers speak out against Coast Guard plan to remove buoys from coastline
The U.S. Coast Guard is proposing a wide-reaching plan to remove or alter hundreds of navigational markers along the New England coast.
wgme.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Give hazards a chance to kill. Might as well tear up sidewalks and have people walk in the streets.
Great work on designing remotes, and very accessible explanation of the process. "Align".
Key takeaway: "When you make a product more inclusive, you make a better product for everyone." Watch Grayson Byrd's full talk on Hardware Accessibility: https://uxdx.com/session/designing-for-hardware-accessibility-at-comcast1/ #UXDX #InclusiveDesign [8/8]
Designing for Hardware Accessibility at Comcast by Grayson Byrd, Associate Creative Director, Comcast | UXDX USA
Watch the talk and read the transcript of the Designing for Hardware Accessibility at Comcast by Grayson Byrd, Associate Creative Director, Comcast | UXDX USA talk.
uxdx.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Great work on designing remotes, and very accessible explanation of the process. "Align".
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Several nights of higher migration are queuing up, starting tonight. Tell friends, family, coworkers, etc about this amazing phenomenon and how they can help these birds with a simple flip of a switch!
www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa...
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #spring #migration
www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa...
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #spring #migration
April 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Several nights of higher migration are queuing up, starting tonight. Tell friends, family, coworkers, etc about this amazing phenomenon and how they can help these birds with a simple flip of a switch!
www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa...
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #spring #migration
www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa...
#LightsOutForBirds
#birds #spring #migration
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Tariff rate = deficit / imports
April 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Tariff rate = deficit / imports
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I am so beyond disgusted at the incompetence, the cover up, and the lack of concern for our national security by everyone in that Signal chain.
Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.
Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.
March 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I am so beyond disgusted at the incompetence, the cover up, and the lack of concern for our national security by everyone in that Signal chain.
Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.
Pete Hegseth should be fired immediately.
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We're sorry we couldn't make it, of course—but you're going to want to hear @waldo.net tell this story. (The presentation starts about 8 minutes in at www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm9.... Short version: *How* government pursues software modernization matters.)
March 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
We're sorry we couldn't make it, of course—but you're going to want to hear @waldo.net tell this story. (The presentation starts about 8 minutes in at www.youtube.com/watch?v=olm9.... Short version: *How* government pursues software modernization matters.)
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Honestly: From the 2013 failure of healthcare.gov to today, the government *almost* learned how to build software. We were close. Then a bunch of white men in suits swooped in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.
Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.
March 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Honestly: From the 2013 failure of healthcare.gov to today, the government *almost* learned how to build software. We were close. Then a bunch of white men in suits swooped in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.
Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.
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Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case.
Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942
Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*.
#LawSky #Skystorians
Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942
Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*.
#LawSky #Skystorians
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case.
Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942
Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*.
#LawSky #Skystorians
Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942
Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*.
#LawSky #Skystorians
@xianlandia.com I'm surprised to no longer see the Organization Name field in the Tax Exempt Organization search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos/
apps.irs.gov
March 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
@xianlandia.com I'm surprised to no longer see the Organization Name field in the Tax Exempt Organization search at apps.irs.gov/app/eos/
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Just some of the full book of 18F work that got interrupted when they pulled the plug on us: 18f.org/projects/
Projects interrupted
For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...
18f.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Just some of the full book of 18F work that got interrupted when they pulled the plug on us: 18f.org/projects/
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Today, along with 75+ partners, we sent a letter to @govmurphy.bsky.social asking him to conditionally veto A5116/S4142.
This ballot design bill allows for the creation of a ballot that can be used to influence voters, threatening the foundation of our democracy. Read more ⬇️⬇️
This ballot design bill allows for the creation of a ballot that can be used to influence voters, threatening the foundation of our democracy. Read more ⬇️⬇️
February 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Today, along with 75+ partners, we sent a letter to @govmurphy.bsky.social asking him to conditionally veto A5116/S4142.
This ballot design bill allows for the creation of a ballot that can be used to influence voters, threatening the foundation of our democracy. Read more ⬇️⬇️
This ballot design bill allows for the creation of a ballot that can be used to influence voters, threatening the foundation of our democracy. Read more ⬇️⬇️
What the government needs (design of better ways of delivering value for the public) is what 18f.org does. Or did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F
March 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
What the government needs (design of better ways of delivering value for the public) is what 18f.org does. Or did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F
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NEW: Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics to remake the government have become the key sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics are a sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown
Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democratic appropriator, urged Republicans to help stop Trump from usurping Congress’ spending powers and not to “follow Elon towards a shutdown.”
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NEW: Trump and Musk's slash-and-burn tactics to remake the government have become the key sticking point in talks to prevent a shutdown
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Dems are demanding language to make admin spend Congress-directed money.
Republicans say that’s a red line.
Deadline: March 14
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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New Jersey #DontCutOurMedicaid
#CD2 Van Drew 202) 225-6572
#CD4 Smith (202) 225-3765
#CD7 Kean (202) 225-5361
#DemVoice1
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#CD2 Van Drew 202) 225-6572
#CD4 Smith (202) 225-3765
#CD7 Kean (202) 225-5361
#DemVoice1
bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New Jersey #DontCutOurMedicaid
#CD2 Van Drew 202) 225-6572
#CD4 Smith (202) 225-3765
#CD7 Kean (202) 225-5361
#DemVoice1
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#CD2 Van Drew 202) 225-6572
#CD4 Smith (202) 225-3765
#CD7 Kean (202) 225-5361
#DemVoice1
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Anyway, here's a map from our 1st Edition (1768).
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Anyway, here's a map from our 1st Edition (1768).