Bastille Bish
@bastillebish.bsky.social
Nurse in a red state. Pro-science. Pro-kids. Anti-dipshits.
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When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers.
The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet
The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet
Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
December 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers.
The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet
The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet
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My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.
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Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.
New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have
ysph.yale.edu
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Let's pull the number up to the top: $75 billion per year
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
That's the economic cost of taking Nobel prize-winning, life saving technology and chucking it in the trash as a vice signal
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In 2025, America saw the highest number of measles cases in over 30 years. That’s just a preview of what’s to come as RFK Jr continues his rollback of vaccine guidance.
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In 2025, America saw the highest number of measles cases in over 30 years. That’s just a preview of what’s to come as RFK Jr continues his rollback of vaccine guidance.
It’s also a story about the conservative embrace of incompetence.
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s also a story about the conservative embrace of incompetence.
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Look, I’m an AI hater, but isn’t it time to at least consider letting LLMs replace human university administrators?
December 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Look, I’m an AI hater, but isn’t it time to at least consider letting LLMs replace human university administrators?
As a nurse I also recommend the AAP childhood vaccine schedule. 😎
As a doctor I recommend the AAP childhood vaccine schedule. 😎
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
As a nurse I also recommend the AAP childhood vaccine schedule. 😎
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i think it’s more helpful to think about the vaccine rec news like it’s a step in a project instead of an immediate crisis. they are chipping away at the foundation for vaccine access. but many states/coalitions will fight. remember, drops in vaccination rates are inherently slow (years to decades)
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
i think it’s more helpful to think about the vaccine rec news like it’s a step in a project instead of an immediate crisis. they are chipping away at the foundation for vaccine access. but many states/coalitions will fight. remember, drops in vaccination rates are inherently slow (years to decades)
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Pediatric brain cancer research: cut.
Faster chemical safety testing: cut.
Training doctors to treat addiction: cut.
Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. buff.ly/cx6x1Ho
Faster chemical safety testing: cut.
Training doctors to treat addiction: cut.
Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. buff.ly/cx6x1Ho
‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
US science lost a great deal in 2025, including tens of billions of dollars of federal funding, entire research agencies and programs, and a generation of researchers.
theconversation.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Pediatric brain cancer research: cut.
Faster chemical safety testing: cut.
Training doctors to treat addiction: cut.
Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. buff.ly/cx6x1Ho
Faster chemical safety testing: cut.
Training doctors to treat addiction: cut.
Six scientists spoke about the devastating impact of 2025’s federal science funding cuts on their work, on their colleagues and on society. buff.ly/cx6x1Ho
Thinking I might go for a tour of duty to the peds ICU or ED for next 10 years, stuff’s about to get real interesting with vaccine rollbacks.
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thinking I might go for a tour of duty to the peds ICU or ED for next 10 years, stuff’s about to get real interesting with vaccine rollbacks.
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This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
December 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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You don't do single arm trials when you know the treatment already benefits people. This is Tuskegee 2.0. We should be equally angry with University of Southern Denmark for allowing this garbage to happen. #statssky #publichealthsky
Notice of Award of a Single Source Unsolicited Grant To Fund University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the award of approximately $1,600,000 over a five-year period, in resp...
www.federalregister.gov
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
You don't do single arm trials when you know the treatment already benefits people. This is Tuskegee 2.0. We should be equally angry with University of Southern Denmark for allowing this garbage to happen. #statssky #publichealthsky
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
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Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Out of 102 episodes globally in which a trend toward autocracy was reversed over the past century, the vast majority led to restored or even increased levels of democracy.
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
doi.org/10.1080/1351...
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No. It’s a great time to be a violent criminal in America. Our most sophisticated law enforcement agencies are busy hunting landscapers & housekeepers.
Is there any precedent in modern history for a mass shooting occurring in a public setting with 10+ casualties and the perpetrator not being apprehended? It's really hard to fathom.
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
No. It’s a great time to be a violent criminal in America. Our most sophisticated law enforcement agencies are busy hunting landscapers & housekeepers.
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Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting").
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
And this will drive him *crazy*.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Hegseth. Patel. Bongino. And now Bhattacharya ("too busy podcasting").
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
When you hire people based on their social media profiles, you get.... content creators.
But we need DOD, the FBI, and the NIH to *work*.
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We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We were dead and now we're the hottest country in the world, the first country—quite frankly the only country—where a box of breakfast cereal costs $11. We're saying Merry Christmas, and also the r-slur, and we're getting back to saying "gay" so it means "stupid" again. Grown-ups are doing it now,
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"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
www.dailytarheel.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.
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I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm told that HHS has just terminated all funding agreements with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
Here's a letter HHS sent canceling one of the grants, relating to work on birth defects. Canceled because the project "emphasizes equity, diversity, and inclusion as key foundational components"
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seems like this is a country with high Hep B prevalence. Is the US funding a study that will likely hurt children in a poor African country to try and somehow justify its unscientific US-based policy its implementing on Hep b vaccine?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746078/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746078/
Hepatitis B and C in the adult population of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau: a cross-sectional survey - PubMed
In Guinea-Bissau initiatives to implement treatment and widespread testing are needed to reach the WHO 2030 goals.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
seems like this is a country with high Hep B prevalence. Is the US funding a study that will likely hurt children in a poor African country to try and somehow justify its unscientific US-based policy its implementing on Hep b vaccine?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746078/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746078/
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This is pretty much everything the vandals accuse federal science funders of doing wrong: money to foreign scientists for a fundamentally unethical experiment on children
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is pretty much everything the vandals accuse federal science funders of doing wrong: money to foreign scientists for a fundamentally unethical experiment on children