"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat."
Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
Long Covid predicted to cost OECD Economies $135 billion a year
Our current approach of repeat infections is not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!”
IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?”
TRUMP: “Deal.”
FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”
Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
This is Sharif University in Tehran, after the US destroyed it overnight.
It is (was) Iran's top university & amongst the world’s best for civil engineering. It was also home to many anti-regime, student protestors.
The academic base of Iran is being exterminated.
War crimes. Terrorism.
The terrorists that attacked Iran have just bombed one of the most elite scientific institutions in the Middle East, Iran’s Sharif University of Technology in the heart of Tehran. Not a military target, they are repeatedly going after schools and medical facilities just like in Palestine.
We are an evil and stupid society.
Purging the leaders of the US military that refuse to do the alcoholic fascist's war crimes is probably not a good sign for the future of this war.
Think of the dumbest people you know and then realize they're all controlling multi-ton machines that kill a million people a year.
Uh-huh
I'm really feeling Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox these days.
Poster hanging on the wall. It is long and tall and says the moon is far away and shows a to scale diagram of the earth and moon
This art in our house is particularly apt today
Liftoff!
Been in the lab, creatively. Booked an exhibition coming up this July (details to come). Making work to stay sane.
Which Ted Lasso player do you think would put their gold medal around Kash Patel's neck and party with him at the Olympics like Dylan Larkin did?
When I start drinking coffee and get the urge to post Kafka quotes.
The #5 pick in the NBA Draft a couple years ago Jaden Ivey was cut by the Bulls for his anti-LGBTQ comments while he's having mental health issues. I'll say it for the millionth time - no one hates gay people more than closeted Christians. That's why they think it's a choice.
It's like the US is a family and we're having guests over for the World Cup. I really hope the world notices every appliance is broken, the wiring has short-circuited, there's racist cult paraphernalia subtly on the walls, and there are family members chained in the basement.
Iranian football players laid backpacks on a football pitch in Turkey to pay tribute to the children killed in a US-Israeli strike on Minab elementary school last month.
The tribute came ahead of a friendly match against Nigeria.
"Housing shortages are regressive, hurting low-income tenants most, while areas that have added the most homes have not just seen improved affordability, but when rents have fallen, low-income tenants have reaped the largest rent declines." www.metroabundance.org/adding-more-...
"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.
I wish everyone would address him as Public Servant Donald Trump. I genuinely think it would eat him alive to be forced to see his position as one in servitude to the American people.
This is why I keep pitching Octopus Jeopardy, a 100% all-octopus spinoff. Everyone tells me it’s a terrible idea but I think it has legs.
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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...
I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
A jury found eight of the defendants guilty of terrorism charges for simply being present and wearing black at the protest.
Beating the dumbest kid in class isn't that difficult.
Leading Report on Twitter writes: "BREAKING: U.S. Army is increasing the maximum enlistment age from 34 to 42."
Here are 5 menswear outfits to make recruitment officers think you're 43 🧵
I remember years ago when this guy was posting videos about pathetic, evil old Germans that lived out miserable lives because they became Nazis. Now that there is an actual private SS police force he's silent. He gave up trying to fight authoritarianism in the US and just buried his head in the sand
