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Published: May 5, 2026 01:17

Tired: worrying about catching hantavirus after reading something on the internets whipped up by grifters and alarmists. Wired: worrying about the destruction of infectious disease and pandemic preparedness research and programming by Russell Vought and…

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Published: May 4, 2026 13:20

Really massive work by @robertdownen.bsky.social and his colleagues at @texasmonthly.bsky.social. The Southern Baptist Convention and the GOP have been joined at the hip for years. We know about Trump and Epstein, now SBC has its own skeletons to deal…

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Published: May 3, 2026 18:32

"Perfect democracy, I've come to believe, may not in fact exist and never will, but that doesn't mean we can't make progress toward it, or that what there is of it can't disappear.” 1/

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Published: May 1, 2026 16:02

May Day at Yale 1970. "During the Black Panther trials in New Haven 50 years ago this summer, a remarkable group of leaders helped calm a boisterous crowd of protesters." https://www.americanheritage.com/how-may-day-protests-stayed-peaceful

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Published: May 1, 2026 12:21

Thanks to @stevevladeck.bsky.social for the inspiration. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 1, 2026 11:57

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jay-bhattacharya-nasem/

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Published: April 30, 2026 21:45

"[T]he paradox of repression: rather than quelling dissent, it can inspire ordinary people to take extraordinary risks in the pursuit of justice." https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/transformative-power-anger-under-authoritarian-repression

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Published: April 30, 2026 21:35

It has begun. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 30, 2026 21:34

Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch have been preparing for this moment for decades. They do not care what anyone thinks of or how history will remember them. This has always been about power, consolidating it in the hands of a few. For…

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Published: April 29, 2026 21:51

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Published: April 28, 2026 21:42

This is just Soviet style show trial garbage. This Administration is so twisted and vindictive. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/niaid-david-morens-indicted-covid-19-pandemic-anthony-fauci/

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Published: April 28, 2026 12:39

To borrow from the Rocky Horror Show, Russell Vought is a "satanic mechanic," in his evil but technically proficient destruction of science in America. Take that to you church Russ and smoke it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 28, 2026 10:35

I wonder who the culprit is here? Hmmm. Who could be undermining and destroying America's scientific infrastructure? Wait, is it...me?--really folks, take a certain kind of dissociation and compartmentalization to misrecognize your own handiwork in this…

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Published: April 27, 2026 09:26

This discussion with @joshuasweitz.bsky.social and @samwang.bsky.social should be excellent! https://www.princeton.edu/events/2026/joshua-weitz-university-maryland-and-sam-wang-princeton-neuroscience-institute-dialogue

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Published: April 26, 2026 21:14

Thank you @espiers.bsky.social. This isn’t even journalism anymore. It’s become a thoughtless reflex. It doesn’t require thinking but to simply recycle a stock notion again and again. And this is what they get paid to do. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: April 26, 2026 18:07

Just listen to this short post by @jamellebouie.net on the destruction of #USAID by #ElonMusk. Hundreds of thousands have died, millions-mostly black & brown people-more will die due to the white supremacist vision of this man. Bouie says it so directly,…

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Published: April 25, 2026 16:39

Apropos of my 🧵 on @nationalacademies.org, capitulation comes from the top as Marcia McNutt suggests avoiding topics like vaccines or climate at this moment. Such a coward and a disgrace. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 25, 2026 15:51

Because @nationalacademies.org decided to bend the knee and host a session with Jay Bhattacharya and some of his fellow travelers, they tarnished a meeting on the important topic of scientific integrity even before it began. 1/

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Published: April 25, 2026 12:51

The blame goes to #MarcoRubio, #ElonMusk, #RussellVought, #JDVance and #DonaldTrump. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 25, 2026 10:51

@carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social strike again. thebullshitmachines.com https://thebullshitmachines.com/

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Published: April 24, 2026 13:04

I wish I could say, may they never live this down, but sadly, they were tourists passing through public health and biomedical research, and so are long gone now, with all of us having to clean up the mess. Frances Lee and Steven Macedo held the door open…

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Published: April 24, 2026 12:40

Bingo. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 24, 2026 10:30

Ah @kenwhite.bsky.social, you mean Frances Lee and Steven Macedo at @princeton.edu who made him the hero of their book "In COVID's Wake," which was then praised by the @WSJ and the @economist.com among others? (They then wrote an endorsment for him for…