iHeartScience
@iheartscience.bsky.social
adjunct chemistry professor, wife, mom, lampworking enthusiast, late diagnosis autism
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Who knows. For years I thought, "*Now* will they finally say 'enough'?"
Is this finally the big—as some have so aptly put it—jailbreak?
Let us hope and pray that it is. But let's not hold our breath.
Is this finally the big—as some have so aptly put it—jailbreak?
Let us hope and pray that it is. But let's not hold our breath.
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Who knows. For years I thought, "*Now* will they finally say 'enough'?"
Is this finally the big—as some have so aptly put it—jailbreak?
Let us hope and pray that it is. But let's not hold our breath.
Is this finally the big—as some have so aptly put it—jailbreak?
Let us hope and pray that it is. But let's not hold our breath.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Jesse Watters is straight up lying to his audience about the Epstein emails and hoping his viewers too dull and/or indoctrinated to notice
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Jesse Watters is straight up lying to his audience about the Epstein emails and hoping his viewers too dull and/or indoctrinated to notice
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The Israeli government identified the deceased hostage whose remains were handed over by Hamas on Thursday as Manny Godard, 73, an Israeli resident of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
Israel identifies deceased hostage returned by Hamas as Manny Godard | CNN
The Israeli government identified the deceased hostage whose remains were handed over by Hamas on Thursday as Manny Godard, 73, a resident of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
www.cnn.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Israeli government identified the deceased hostage whose remains were handed over by Hamas on Thursday as Manny Godard, 73, an Israeli resident of a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
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Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?
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2:43 am in Kyiv.
The awful attack continues.
I don’t want to repeat the same words.
I’ll write to you in the morning –
I hope it comes.
The awful attack continues.
I don’t want to repeat the same words.
I’ll write to you in the morning –
I hope it comes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
2:43 am in Kyiv.
The awful attack continues.
I don’t want to repeat the same words.
I’ll write to you in the morning –
I hope it comes.
The awful attack continues.
I don’t want to repeat the same words.
I’ll write to you in the morning –
I hope it comes.
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What if national journalists had the courage to say this plainly.
"It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What if national journalists had the courage to say this plainly.
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Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pete Hegseth announces Operation Southern Spear.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
There doesn’t seem to be reporting yet on what this means. But I assume it’s not good.
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It’s very loud in Kyiv.
Explosions.
Missiles and drones.
I don’t know what else to say.
Explosions.
Missiles and drones.
I don’t know what else to say.
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It’s very loud in Kyiv.
Explosions.
Missiles and drones.
I don’t know what else to say.
Explosions.
Missiles and drones.
I don’t know what else to say.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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👀 Could it be that the Epstein Files Transparency Act will actually pass both houses of Congress?
Sen. John Kennedy on Epstein: "I just don't think this issue is gonna go away until it's addressed and answered to the American people's satisfaction. And I may end up with a Sombrero on my head for saying that, but that's the way I see it."
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
👀 Could it be that the Epstein Files Transparency Act will actually pass both houses of Congress?
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California: Approved by voters.
Texas: Not approved by voters.
If the DOJ is suing California and not Texas as well, I think they have a problem before I even read the court documents.
Texas: Not approved by voters.
If the DOJ is suing California and not Texas as well, I think they have a problem before I even read the court documents.
Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress
The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
California: Approved by voters.
Texas: Not approved by voters.
If the DOJ is suing California and not Texas as well, I think they have a problem before I even read the court documents.
Texas: Not approved by voters.
If the DOJ is suing California and not Texas as well, I think they have a problem before I even read the court documents.
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Now in the courtroom of District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago for the start of a scheduled status hearing in the class action accusing federal immigration agents of abusing press, clergy and the public in the Chicago area.
Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.
Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.
Ellis sets a status hearing for 3 pm next Thursday, Nov. 13.
More issues to be covered then, including how to handle possible court order violations plaintiffs have already raised.
More issues to be covered then, including how to handle possible court order violations plaintiffs have already raised.
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Now in the courtroom of District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago for the start of a scheduled status hearing in the class action accusing federal immigration agents of abusing press, clergy and the public in the Chicago area.
Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.
Ellis entered an injunction order limiting feds' use of force last week.
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In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
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If that's Giuffre's name under the redaction bar, then prove it. Remove the redaction. You've already told us it's Giuffre, so you wouldn't be doing anything illegal. So reveal it. Or can't you? Because it's not her?
CNN: The emails that were released don't raise any Qs for you?
GIMENEZ: Not right now, no
C: The email where Epstein says to Maxwell that Trump spent hours at his house w/someone whose name is redacted who Republicans are saying is Virginia Giuffre?
G: Right. And she said Trump did nothing wrong
GIMENEZ: Not right now, no
C: The email where Epstein says to Maxwell that Trump spent hours at his house w/someone whose name is redacted who Republicans are saying is Virginia Giuffre?
G: Right. And she said Trump did nothing wrong
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If that's Giuffre's name under the redaction bar, then prove it. Remove the redaction. You've already told us it's Giuffre, so you wouldn't be doing anything illegal. So reveal it. Or can't you? Because it's not her?
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He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.
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This is the smartest thing I've read in ages. By the end I was practically cheering. Every word.
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity.
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social.
blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is the smartest thing I've read in ages. By the end I was practically cheering. Every word.
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These Epstein emails make at least one thing abundantly clear:
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
These Epstein emails make at least one thing abundantly clear:
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
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BREAKING: The Justice Department sues to block California’s new congressional map, joining a fight that could shape control of the House in 2026.
Justice Department sues to block California US House map in clash that could tip control of Congress
The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
BREAKING: The Justice Department sues to block California’s new congressional map, joining a fight that could shape control of the House in 2026.
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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Victory (still a cat) reacting to fresh grass –
just like many people react to the free content I share 🙈
We rarely value what comes for free.
Don’t argue. It’s true.
just like many people react to the free content I share 🙈
We rarely value what comes for free.
Don’t argue. It’s true.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Victory (still a cat) reacting to fresh grass –
just like many people react to the free content I share 🙈
We rarely value what comes for free.
Don’t argue. It’s true.
just like many people react to the free content I share 🙈
We rarely value what comes for free.
Don’t argue. It’s true.
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You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
Brooke Rollins: "SNAP is a broken program. SNAP is full of corruption. We found 186,000 dead people."
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You really gotta follow up on an underspecified claim like “we found 186k dead people.”
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.
People die every day, and the government is always going to be some amount behind in working out the administrative consequences, but that doesn’t mean the deceased’s EBT accounts were somehow used for fraud.