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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
Lysenkoism 2.0 continues: Podcast Jay wants to turn NIH into the “research arm” of MAHA
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the "research arm of MAHA" and a "central driver of the MAHA agenda." Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Folks we love a protest that gives ya more than a week's notice and has a larger online footprint and organizing infrastructure than a black and white image reposted to r/AnarchoCommunism twice a day
Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two.

RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊
March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC

Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)
January 28, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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The date for the next No Kings Day is set.

But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26.

Buried in the bill-
Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr.

Russel Vought is behind this.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging.
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
erictopol.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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There I fixed it
January 21, 2026 at 5:21 AM
your tax dollars at work
🙃

This FB post is public.
January 17, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Latest post from Dr. Ginexi on NOFO guidance, "reductions in burden," and subsequent confusion at #NIH.
When Everything Changes at Once: Making Sense of Institutional Overload
NIH Office of Extramural Research is Implementing a Plan for “Administrative Burden Reduction”
substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Chris Murphy: "Let's talk about what's at stake here. The president is spending every single day thinking about invading Greenland, managing the Venezuelan economy, building a ballroom. He's not thinking about the American people at all."
January 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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BREAKING: Hundreds gathered at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach to form a human banner reading “It Was Murder 🇺🇸 ICE Out,
January 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
QFT
In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.
January 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Danceable, which is good because we need to dance right now

youtu.be/mrV8kK5t0V8
Bruno Mars - I Just Might [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by Bruno Mars
youtu.be
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Bikini Bottom Day (a Spongebob: The Musical song written by Jonathan Coulton) is being used for a dance trend so... you know we "convinced" Jonathan, Drew, Paul and Storm to give it a try 😅
#spongebob #spongebobthemusical
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.

They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.

Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I wish I could laugh at this
January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
This is such a loss. 😞
Sad day in the U.S.

On Monday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut itself down.

Defunded by Congress with fears (and rightly so) that the Trump administration would pervert the organization to further undermine free media...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye
Better nothing than a MAGA mouthpiece.
www.publicnotice.co
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
What in the actual fuck
Trump: “Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, & thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to ‘drop him like a dog’ when things got too HOT … Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!”
December 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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TV Network Refuses To Air ‘Miracle On 34th Street’ For Outdated Depictions Of Hope, Joy https://theonion.com/tv-network-refuses-to-air-miracle-on-34th-street-for-1848159248/
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
We don't though.
The Constitution's "wall of separation" between Church & State was a phrase coined in 1802 by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Convention presenting his views on the relationship between religion and the role of the state in the new nation. #ChristianNationalism
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Christmas with Charlie
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Just the fact that they are giving him this level of cognitive testing says something
“Not easy.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM