Gallifrey Stands
@drgallifreystands.bsky.social
Scientist, policy wonk, member of the Rebel Alliance. Expecting to need this forum to outwit the Visigoths, oligarchs, & authoritarians for the next few years. Can't believe we are going to have to do this again. #WaitingforTheDoctor
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If you follow me at all, I hope I've made clear that the problems we face in combating authoritarianism and winning elections rhyme:
1. Purposely broken media/journalism/brains, which leads to
2. A massive Democratic brand problem
I think we now see what confronting those twin crises looks like.
1. Purposely broken media/journalism/brains, which leads to
2. A massive Democratic brand problem
I think we now see what confronting those twin crises looks like.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you follow me at all, I hope I've made clear that the problems we face in combating authoritarianism and winning elections rhyme:
1. Purposely broken media/journalism/brains, which leads to
2. A massive Democratic brand problem
I think we now see what confronting those twin crises looks like.
1. Purposely broken media/journalism/brains, which leads to
2. A massive Democratic brand problem
I think we now see what confronting those twin crises looks like.
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This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
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The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.
Trump Axes Biden-Era Plan To Compensate Passengers For Flight Disruptions
The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Biden administration sought to create a streamlined refund system free of hoops for passengers who experienced canceled or significantly changed flights.
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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Yesterday, the Financial Times revealed that $900 million mysteriously vanished from U.S. IMF reserves and reappeared in Argentina’s account, just in time for President Javier Milei to pay his IMF bill. Today, that same Argentina gets a tariff break. Mary Geddry
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Yesterday, the Financial Times revealed that $900 million mysteriously vanished from U.S. IMF reserves and reappeared in Argentina’s account, just in time for President Javier Milei to pay his IMF bill. Today, that same Argentina gets a tariff break. Mary Geddry
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
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Hiring your friends to run a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign funded by taxpayer dollars is incredibly corrupt.
They shouldn't be spending your money like this.
They shouldn't be spending your money like this.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hiring your friends to run a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign funded by taxpayer dollars is incredibly corrupt.
They shouldn't be spending your money like this.
They shouldn't be spending your money like this.
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This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change
The possible trajectories are better than a decade ago, but still indicate significant global warming.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
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🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
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Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage.
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Remember when Trump insisted that there were riots on the streets of Portland? It's because Fox News deliberately spliced footage of the 2020 riots into contemporary footage.
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
It's kinda funny, but the fact that the most powerful man in the world can be so easily manipulated is a bit 😬
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If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
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Really starting to make sense why Mike Johnson and Republicans skipped work for 40+ days
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Really starting to make sense why Mike Johnson and Republicans skipped work for 40+ days
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So Trump and Epstein spent Thanksgiving together. In 2017. When Trump was president.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
So Trump and Epstein spent Thanksgiving together. In 2017. When Trump was president.
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One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island
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Certainly looks like Epstein was working with the Russians to influence (read: blackmail / influence / coax) Trump to do Moscow’s bidding.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Certainly looks like Epstein was working with the Russians to influence (read: blackmail / influence / coax) Trump to do Moscow’s bidding.
Not necessarily rich but certainly a sign of someone with an overinflated sense of their importance.
emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Not necessarily rich but certainly a sign of someone with an overinflated sense of their importance.
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Trump's EPA set up a system whereby corporate polluters could be relieved of the burden of meeting air-quality regulations. How? By, uh, asking.
Sure enough, lots of them have asked, with devastating consequences for air quality. New report:
Sure enough, lots of them have asked, with devastating consequences for air quality. New report:
envirodatagov.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's EPA set up a system whereby corporate polluters could be relieved of the burden of meeting air-quality regulations. How? By, uh, asking.
Sure enough, lots of them have asked, with devastating consequences for air quality. New report:
Sure enough, lots of them have asked, with devastating consequences for air quality. New report:
I have gotten fairly close to the upper end of the food chain and discovered that everyone up there who thinks they’re super important cannot be bothered with punctuation or complete sentences because their time is just too precious to waste it on either clarity or grammar. 🧐
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I have gotten fairly close to the upper end of the food chain and discovered that everyone up there who thinks they’re super important cannot be bothered with punctuation or complete sentences because their time is just too precious to waste it on either clarity or grammar. 🧐