In addition to being cruel, Republicans are also unbelievably stupid.

They plan to make America "healthy" by murdering everyone who isn't. Voila! Can't have sickness once you kill the sick.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

“The US has provided no evidence that any of the vessels were involved in drug trafficking, and legal experts and rights groups say the attacks amount to extrajudicial killings as they apparently target civilians who do not pose any immediate threat.”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Access journalism helped sink us into fascism. It's not going to get us out.

“Maximum lethality” I guess is what Hegseth wanted, so…

No need for any advanced biowarfare viruses or experimental shit. America's leaders are so monumentally stupid, so block-headedly ignorant, that they will actively help Iran conduct an unimaginative, entry-level biowarfare campaign to kill American soldiers.

Oh, they're going to make this EASY easy for Iran. Just figure out how to get a little bit of flu into U.S. military bases.

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon The vaccine candidate is the furthest any shot has gotten since the last one was pulled in 2002. Scientists are testing other ways to block infection.

Y'all I'm IN THIS STUDY!!!

Really I'm in it! I haven't been unblinded and I still don't know what I got but there's ME! Just a tiny little data point.

www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

Seems like there’s only one natural way for a feud of this kind to end.

Wasps move in on ant-plant partnership, disrupting a 10‑million‑year mutualism An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and other institutions has uncovered surpr...

Those meddlesome wasps.

I'm far too tired after ranking my own children for the week to even begin doing the students, too

Tim Apple is so unmemorable as a person, I thought they'd just Dred Pirate Roberts that job. There's always going to be a Tim Apple.

Had a minor car accident this afternoon, rear-ended at an intersection by a driver who wasn’t paying attention.

I’m fine, but am going to refrain from posting for a bit. Nothing good will come of posting while feeling this rattled.

That is not the issue. Those outlets are operating at a loss, subsidized by oligarchs, for the purpose of propaganda; my not giving them money doesn’t affect them.

No, most of those outlets really have shifted. They have. WashPo used to endorse candidates, for example.

Getting control of Infowars is fine and all, but when we've lost CBS, TikTok, Twitter, CNN, WashPo and every previously mainstream outlet to the regime-aligned fascists it feels... small.

Black cybertruck with a giant American flag sticker on the bed cover, with other stickers for Goodwrench, Burger King, and Infowars

Dude's gonna scratch his truck frantically trying to remove the Infowars sticker

I would say this is less ideological and more organized criminal. The goal is to leverage the threat of environmental enforcement so that polluters will have to pay the mob boss. Either way, there's no more science involved, and we all get poisoned by people paying the Trump regime.

The attacks on science by this administration have been relentless.

We are moving towards a fascist system where scientists now have political minders who are appointed to deny science which does not fit this administration’s political ideology.

He used a better spell-checker than a school shooter, I’ll give him that, but there’s not much different otherwise.

He wants everyone to go fight and die in wars for him, because he's special? Fucking lol.

A concise intepretation of that Palantir manifesto, it's a poem from the perspective of a guy begging to be guillotined.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Constant norovirus infection has done things to the brains of cuise line crews, is my theory

I think some of it was timing- Germany surrendered months earlier and the bombs weren't ready- and some of it was just racism.

Graham

A male hooded merganser with its bill tucked in

If you want ducks, I got ducks.

This guy ducks

I guess we're duckposting now