Joy Hanna-Blais
@joyehb.bsky.social
Scientist, teacher, Mama, lover of the sea and the beach and the rocky intertidal zone, Coast Guard brat, trans-inclusive feminist, pro-democracy, increasingly gay.
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The only good part of this moment is that campaigns will no longer pretend like these fucking bozo nonstories matter at all. The "You can't kill me, I'm already dead" energy has a kind of propulsive magic to it. Having nothing to lose and being right is a cheat code and a force field.
July 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The only good part of this moment is that campaigns will no longer pretend like these fucking bozo nonstories matter at all. The "You can't kill me, I'm already dead" energy has a kind of propulsive magic to it. Having nothing to lose and being right is a cheat code and a force field.
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this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
make them shut down the hotline
use all your best Borg jokes
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the way she managed to slide "alligator lives matter" into her call for genocide, a racism turducken
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the way she managed to slide "alligator lives matter" into her call for genocide, a racism turducken
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1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
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While it is still early, universities are starting to post jobs for the fall academic market.
Over the past two weeks, more than half of the new jobs posted to the American Political Science Association website have been from non-US universities.
👀😬
Over the past two weeks, more than half of the new jobs posted to the American Political Science Association website have been from non-US universities.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While it is still early, universities are starting to post jobs for the fall academic market.
Over the past two weeks, more than half of the new jobs posted to the American Political Science Association website have been from non-US universities.
👀😬
Over the past two weeks, more than half of the new jobs posted to the American Political Science Association website have been from non-US universities.
👀😬
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A truly moving & brave statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark:
"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔
"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔
June 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
A truly moving & brave statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark:
"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔
"The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." 💔😔
I love this for them.
LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.
June 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I love this for them.
I weep. And rage.
This was promising research for a vaccine that would encompass the class of coronaviruses. The NIG grants for vax development are cancelled taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A trivalent protein-based pan-Betacoronavirus vaccine elicits cross-neutralizing antibodies against a panel of coronavirus pseudoviruses - npj Vaccines
npj Vaccines - A trivalent protein-based pan-Betacoronavirus vaccine elicits cross-neutralizing antibodies against a panel of coronavirus pseudoviruses
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I weep. And rage.
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TRUMP PARDONS JEAN VALJEAN BEFORE THE INTERMISSION; RUINS SHOW
Trump to attend 'Les Misérables' premiere as protests continue across the country
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attend-les-miserables-premiere-protests-continue-country-rcna212323
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attend-les-miserables-premiere-protests-continue-country-rcna212323
Trump to attend 'Les Misérables' premiere as protests continue across the country
The musical, a Trump favorite, has also provided anthems for protesters around the world.
www.nbcnews.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
TRUMP PARDONS JEAN VALJEAN BEFORE THE INTERMISSION; RUINS SHOW
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
It is still startling (while also heartening) to me that Americans are forming mutual defense compacts against our own government.
Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.
April 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It is still startling (while also heartening) to me that Americans are forming mutual defense compacts against our own government.
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The proper reply to such letters is...
"Your inquiry is noted. We decline to engage in politically motivated theatrics disguised as oversight."
"Your inquiry is noted. We decline to engage in politically motivated theatrics disguised as oversight."
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The proper reply to such letters is...
"Your inquiry is noted. We decline to engage in politically motivated theatrics disguised as oversight."
"Your inquiry is noted. We decline to engage in politically motivated theatrics disguised as oversight."
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There is plenty to criticize about the FDA but keeping annual food safety related deaths to under 6,000 cases in a nation of 340 million people is *fucking astonishing*
I’ve lived in a relatively developed country that also lacked basic food regulation (China) and you get sick on a very regular basis.
April 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There is plenty to criticize about the FDA but keeping annual food safety related deaths to under 6,000 cases in a nation of 340 million people is *fucking astonishing*
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If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group
www.ohchr.org
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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Burn it all down
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
michiganadvance.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Burn it all down
It's a dealth cult.
But here's what I don't understand. If everyone is too poor to buy anything much (or are enslaved), and tons of people die for lack of medicine and healthcare and housing and food, who the fuck will make the rich rich anymore and just how will that work?
But here's what I don't understand. If everyone is too poor to buy anything much (or are enslaved), and tons of people die for lack of medicine and healthcare and housing and food, who the fuck will make the rich rich anymore and just how will that work?
From WH pool: Trump is considering tariffs on pharmaceuticals
April 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It's a dealth cult.
But here's what I don't understand. If everyone is too poor to buy anything much (or are enslaved), and tons of people die for lack of medicine and healthcare and housing and food, who the fuck will make the rich rich anymore and just how will that work?
But here's what I don't understand. If everyone is too poor to buy anything much (or are enslaved), and tons of people die for lack of medicine and healthcare and housing and food, who the fuck will make the rich rich anymore and just how will that work?
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And in the end, they even sacrificed their claim to “state’s rights” for which they enslaved, seceded, fought, segregated, assaulted and murdered, and in the name of which they degraded themselves, their families and their region.
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
And in the end, they even sacrificed their claim to “state’s rights” for which they enslaved, seceded, fought, segregated, assaulted and murdered, and in the name of which they degraded themselves, their families and their region.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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protect your hope. protect your joy. protect your love. if anyone gives you any shit whatsoever about not paying enough attention to the permacrisis, send them to me and I will explain that the only way through is to work to keep our and each others' lives worth living.
April 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
protect your hope. protect your joy. protect your love. if anyone gives you any shit whatsoever about not paying enough attention to the permacrisis, send them to me and I will explain that the only way through is to work to keep our and each others' lives worth living.