Pilk
@pilkun.bsky.social
Oofuri enjoyer and scientist 🧬🔬 bioinformatics and proteins. Occasionally talk US politics.
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Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.
Here's a better view of the now-deleted photo showing Trump with Epstein and Trump with a group of young girls.
The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.
The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.
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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.
Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.
Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.
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Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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It is an incredible testament to our strength that in the face of a relentless political onslaught designed to push transgender people from public life, more and more of us are finding the courage to be ourselves. Every living trans person is a Republican policy failure.
August 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It is an incredible testament to our strength that in the face of a relentless political onslaught designed to push transgender people from public life, more and more of us are finding the courage to be ourselves. Every living trans person is a Republican policy failure.
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the most notable thing about the Politico/Mamdani/Jeffries piece imo is the framing that Mamdani lost somehow.
Mamdani is a rising star with broad and enthusiastic support. Jeffries needs him a lot more than he needs Jeffries, even if Jeffries doesn’t get that.
Mamdani is a rising star with broad and enthusiastic support. Jeffries needs him a lot more than he needs Jeffries, even if Jeffries doesn’t get that.
July 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
the most notable thing about the Politico/Mamdani/Jeffries piece imo is the framing that Mamdani lost somehow.
Mamdani is a rising star with broad and enthusiastic support. Jeffries needs him a lot more than he needs Jeffries, even if Jeffries doesn’t get that.
Mamdani is a rising star with broad and enthusiastic support. Jeffries needs him a lot more than he needs Jeffries, even if Jeffries doesn’t get that.
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Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16 million, clearing way for multibillion-dollar merger
The king demands tribute.
buff.ly
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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“If you’re explaining, you’re losing" — Ronald Reagan
June 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing" — Ronald Reagan
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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Officially Announces Candidacy for Ranking Member of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett officially announced that she is running to serve as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
crockett.house.gov
June 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee.
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment.
Read my full letter to my colleagues here:
crockett.house.gov/media/press-...
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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
BREAKING: The FDA has officially announced they will be banning artificial dyes in the food supply by the end of 2026
This includes Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3
This includes Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3
April 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
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Haha. Good one. You still should resign.
April 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Haha. Good one. You still should resign.
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Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.
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Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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There's a world where Dems won the House 218-217 in November and Rs now have a working majority bc Grijalva and Turner died.
Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.
Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.
Fitting the "gerontocracy is all of our problems" theme of the moment, the margin between elected republicans and democrats in the house is razor thin, but deaths and hospitalizations among the democrats artificially increase the GOP margin and will until those seats can be filled by younger reps.
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There's a world where Dems won the House 218-217 in November and Rs now have a working majority bc Grijalva and Turner died.
Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.
Sorry to be unsentimental but I just don't respect people who run for office in their 70s after cancer diagnoses. Move on. Spend time with your family.
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Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.
April 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Karoline Leavitt is a liar, propagandist & accomplice to a criminal regime. “There is never going to be a world in which [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] is going to live a peaceful life in MD because he is a foreign terrorist & MS-13 gang member,” she said w/o evidence about a man who's committed no crime.
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In case you're not a scientist, anyone promising we "will know" the cause of autism in September is committing scientific fraud. You cannot know the outcome of a study before it is conducted unless you are fabricating data. We might say "high confidence", but never "will".
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In case you're not a scientist, anyone promising we "will know" the cause of autism in September is committing scientific fraud. You cannot know the outcome of a study before it is conducted unless you are fabricating data. We might say "high confidence", but never "will".
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I'm pretty bored by the meta "messaging" conversation, but the Dem leadership has a tendency of writing "clever" lines that have no blood in them.
So much of the current AOC appeal is that she says stuff that cuts through and isn't cute.
So much of the current AOC appeal is that she says stuff that cuts through and isn't cute.
i swear to god it's like he lives on another planet
History will remember April 9, 2025 as America’s actual liberation day—the day that President Trump backed down from his ridiculous tariff fiasco.
April 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm pretty bored by the meta "messaging" conversation, but the Dem leadership has a tendency of writing "clever" lines that have no blood in them.
So much of the current AOC appeal is that she says stuff that cuts through and isn't cute.
So much of the current AOC appeal is that she says stuff that cuts through and isn't cute.
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we're going to need a nuremberg trials for the people responsible for this
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
we're going to need a nuremberg trials for the people responsible for this
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There will be nonstop subpoenas. And you’re getting the first one.
Musk: Losing this judge race has good chance of causing Republicans to lose control of the house. You lose control of the house, there will be nonstop impeachment hearings and subpoenas
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
There will be nonstop subpoenas. And you’re getting the first one.
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Breaking WaPo:
Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Breaking WaPo:
Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Members of Trump's National Security Council, including national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by WaPo and interviews with three U.S. officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Coyote vs Acme has been acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for distribution!
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
March 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Coyote vs Acme has been acquired by Ketchup Entertainment for distribution!
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
The film stars Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor and Tone Bell.
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I am NOT saying that someone should strap Zuck in a Clockwork Orange chair and make him watch 100 hours of AI slop from his products.
But I am not not saying that.
But I am not not saying that.
March 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I am NOT saying that someone should strap Zuck in a Clockwork Orange chair and make him watch 100 hours of AI slop from his products.
But I am not not saying that.
But I am not not saying that.