Hs anyone found this gem of a tweet? The one about the “32-year-old man with no underlying health conditions that was offered a Covid vaccine early because of a blunder at his GP surgery which recorded him as being 6.2cm tall, giving him an astonishing body mass index (BMI) of 28,000.”
An image of Bernal hill from Van Ness Avenue with a red arrow point to a nearly invisible sign that says “Stand Up for Science SF”
Today is National #StandUpforScience day. Here is my failed contribution. You have to zoom way the $&@#% in.
A ship loaded with red and green shipping containers, docked at the port of Oakland. If you zoom in you can see that the red shipping containers were deliberately placed to spell the name “Renee”.
Zoom in to the back of this ship docked at the port of Oakland. Someone spelled “renee” using shipping containers! Not the first time. Last time I saw this ship it spelled “Jason”. Anyone else see this? #renee #bayarea
SF lit up by the sunset visible behind tree branches.
My weekly urban hike.
View of downtown San Francisco with Bernal rock in the foreground. The rock is painted with a yellow crown (white outline) crossed out in red.
“Fewer speakers, bigger stars, speeches that aren’t laundry lists.” Amen.
There was almost a riot there at the beginning. While organizers/speakers were droning on the crowd was yelling, “March, March, MARCH!!!
This is, of course, the dynamic that bedevils the Dem/left coalition more broadly.
But you know what could help in a rally setting? Fewer speakers, bigger stars, speeches that aren’t laundry lists.
Have you never protested? No Kings would be a wonderful first experience. You will find out the following: you are not alone, there are lots of awesome people in America and people can actually be supportive. It will recharge your faith in humanity.
You will want to repeat the action.
#resist
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
DO POLITICAL PROTESTS MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT* ANDREAS MADESTAM DANIEL SHOAG STAN VEUGER DAVID YANAGIZAWA-DROTT Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the move-ment, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also af-fected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences. JEL Code: D72.
Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.
@steveinskeep.bsky.social On this morning’s broadcast, you and Ms. Leavitt seemed to make contradictory statements about when the ACA subsidies were set to expire. Who’s right? And if Ms. Leavitt misled, why didn’t you push back? Without pushback, I was left wondering if she was right.
The mission is clear. ❌👑
#stopmaga #stopmagazis #stopwhitesupremacy #nokings #October18
Commit to NONVIOLENT action. DO NOT ENGAGE with detractors at events. Turn away & ignore. Or find a Peacekeeper (in yellow vests). Do NOT bring weapons of any kind to our events.
RSVP mobilize.us/s/4enw8F
Journalists at the Pentagon now must pledge not to report anything that hasn’t been approved by Pete Hegseth.
The only way to protect our rights from Trump’s regime is to exercise our rights. Join the largest peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
It has a sad ending though.
“But in May the Trump administration terminated billions of dollars of funding to Harvard, including the grant that supported the pelvis research.”
“We are all wondering what would have come next had we not lost this funding,” Dr. Capellini said.
It's time for a GENERAL STRIKE to halt the gears of injustice and overthrow the white nationalist patriarchy.
We need ~10.3M more signed strike cards to reach effectiveness.
Working in the US?
📢 Sign yours today! 📢
Not working in the US?
♻️ Please repost ♻️
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Toilet paper hanging from the overheard MUNI wires. People crowding the streets of the Castro wearing cloth masks celebrating the Biden Harris win.
Nov. 7, 2020. Easy to find.
"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes:
Forgot the Alt text: This is a photo of a sketch of Trump in black ink (Trumps head is on the body of a Grasshopper?). Above it, it says, “NO REYES” in red blocky type. To the left is a sketch of the back side of a caballero with a shirt that says, “Ningún ser humano es ilegal en tierras robados”
Thank you!!!
What’s this about? “The majority of C. elegans start their lives as males, then switch to females” ?!?!?!
CA voters - contact your State Rep - One of the best reasons to work towards SB829 - getting a CA alternative to NIH - Akilah Weber Pierson’s bill is the cancellation of NIH grants that investigate LGBTQ health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...
Love it!
Hey. Just an FYI. You need to update all of your “select all that apply” type questions. They are formatted so that you can only “choose one”
Whatever it takes.
An image of an excerpt from the New Yorker that contains a quote from Shapiro when he was at UCSC. Shapiro made his remarks to the Wall Street Journal. The quote is in the post.
A quote from Shapiro in an excerpt from the recent New Yorker about the creation of the dire wolf. “There is no point in bringing the dodo back. Their eggs will be eaten the same way that made them go extinct the first time.” Makes me think we also can’t just go back to a Biden-like presidency.
What a beautiful tribute. So sorry for your loss. 💔
