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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him
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Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review
Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.
www.bostonreview.net
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)
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the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here
October 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here
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Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Hard to overstate how transformative Jane Goodall was as a scientist.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
She took the best of the scientific method--empirical observation--and used it to push back on existing scientific orthodoxies.
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"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
When Moderation Becomes Appeasement
If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.
www.thebulwark.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
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Holy shit I’d forgotten about this, but man, what a great and damning point.
There’s no universe where JD Vance’s vetting materials are not newsworthy but a fucking college application is.
July 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Holy shit I’d forgotten about this, but man, what a great and damning point.
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Me: It's unwise to be charmed by politicians and you should never treat them like fictional characters you root for uncynically.
Also me: What if Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander were both mayor and had Bert & Ernie beds in Gracie Mansion?
Also me: What if Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander were both mayor and had Bert & Ernie beds in Gracie Mansion?
A beautiful afternoon to bike with @bradlander.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Me: It's unwise to be charmed by politicians and you should never treat them like fictional characters you root for uncynically.
Also me: What if Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander were both mayor and had Bert & Ernie beds in Gracie Mansion?
Also me: What if Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander were both mayor and had Bert & Ernie beds in Gracie Mansion?
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I think this is what is most enraging about the damage they're doing not just to US alliances & partnerships, but to the federal govt, science & universities.
They are vandalizing, defacing and destroying public goods that were the product of collective effort and sacrifice & belong to all of us.
They are vandalizing, defacing and destroying public goods that were the product of collective effort and sacrifice & belong to all of us.
Yes, the cavalier disregard for assets collectively built up through intergenerational labor and in this case joint sacrifice reminds me of the Obama-era controversy over "You didn't build that." But at least they didn't go out and tear up the roads out of pique.
March 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I think this is what is most enraging about the damage they're doing not just to US alliances & partnerships, but to the federal govt, science & universities.
They are vandalizing, defacing and destroying public goods that were the product of collective effort and sacrifice & belong to all of us.
They are vandalizing, defacing and destroying public goods that were the product of collective effort and sacrifice & belong to all of us.
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PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video
PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…
www.pbs.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.
Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations
www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky
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The post-COVID era is answering the question “What if an entire nation had PTSD for the same reason and very nearly none of its citizens were capable of acknowledging it, let alone being treated for it.”
The country is in a really bad mood right now and people want to hurt someone else to make them feel better.
Why did people want this? Why?
January 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The post-COVID era is answering the question “What if an entire nation had PTSD for the same reason and very nearly none of its citizens were capable of acknowledging it, let alone being treated for it.”
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More from inside NIH:
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
More from inside NIH:
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.
That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
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This is what happens when you play political games with science funding. We lose knowledge and talent and research programs in progress. It harms all of us.
Yes. My husband is an NIH-funded scientist studying infectious diseases such as whooping cough, covid, & influenza. The current grant funding his salary runs out of money this summer; a delay in grant reviews means he won’t get a new grant funded before then. He’ll lose his job.
January 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is what happens when you play political games with science funding. We lose knowledge and talent and research programs in progress. It harms all of us.
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All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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December 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky.
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A lot of history today in @hcrichardson.bsky.social Substack. If you don’t know, learn about Frances Perkins contributions to our society and thank your lucky stars she excelled.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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December 16, 2024
Today, President Joe Biden designated a new national monument in honor of Frances Perkins, secretary of labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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December 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM
A lot of history today in @hcrichardson.bsky.social Substack. If you don’t know, learn about Frances Perkins contributions to our society and thank your lucky stars she excelled.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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We’re about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether they’ll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.
November 13, 2024 at 11:01 PM
We’re about to find out whether there are any patriots among Republican Senators, or whether they’ll make excuses for the foreign-backed demolition of our Republic that is now plainly underway.