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RFK Jr.: "We are losing scientists, researchers, and technology..."

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

I never realized I had so much in common with astronauts

If I hold the power button a few seconds too long, Gemini pops up and I hiss at it.

Dame Judi Dench! 🤣☠️

I literally yelled “oh my god” loud enough to scare my dog when the reveal happened

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy.

Are you seeing that message in media?

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

I just hope this doesn't turn into a Hearing as a Service business model.

Even Dolores Umbridge had more coherence in her arguments than the current head of the NIH.

Shoveling snow in NYC is one of the surprisingly pleasant parts of living here. All the neighbors are out and everyone is way more cheerful than you'd expect given the manual labor we're all forced into by nature.

Me: I should download this app so I can borrow audiobooks from the library

Google Play: YOUR E-STORE ACCOUNT IS NOW YOUR GAMER PROFILE! HERE'S YOUR GAMER TAG!

Me: Where's the skip button

Google: SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF THIS NEWS ABOUT FUTURE TRACKING OF YOUR GAMING ACHIEVEMENTS

Me: just why

2006
ACROBAT READER: Here's your PDF to view!
Me: Great!

2016
ADOBE READER: I'll help you sign those documents!
Me: That's helpful.

2026
READER DC: WE HAVE CLOUD STORAGE
Me:
DC: LOOK AT MY AI TOOLS
DC: RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AGAIN
DC: SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL
Me: i just want to read a paper

Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

A Trump administration official said Moderna might have more luck with its vaccine application if it resubmitted with a little “humility”

Does that sound like the “gold-standard science” RFK Jr. promised?

Or a mob boss threat?

www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Putting students on a preordained academic/professional track before they are ten years old reads more like a YA dystopian novel than any serious policy for a free society.

I didn't even pick my current professional path until graduate school.

Growing up in Texas, I've seen the "left" label stuck on science since at least the 90s. I remember HS classmates wanting to go into "molecular biology but not evolutionary" for their college majors.

Chemical engineering seniors denied CO2 as a greenhouse gas even though they knew its IR spectrum.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

After all his writing on "Manufacturing Consent," there's something darkly ironic about Chomsky glomming onto a propaganda fairy tale like this

It really was a wildly successful political project to re-define “elitism” as “listening to professors and researchers” and not “agreeing with whatever drug addled wealthy lunatic perverts say”

Abolish. ice. 💔

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.

If this is a comment addressed to the public from our government officials, why did Nature Medicine elect to eschew open access and keep this commentary behind its paywall?

If this is not an article whose distribution is in the public interest, then why did Nature Medicine publish it at all?

Jay is very comfortable with lying.

It's not "merit" to cut fellows on a diversity grant when they were scored against the same payline as the parent grant. It's discrimination.

DEI was an answer to popular protests, coming from the people. Today's anti-DEI is top-down from the rich and powerful.