Manan Sharma
@msharma.bsky.social
Food microbiologist, agricultural water sustainability, One Health, good lyrics, Tom Petty and ❤️Breakers forever, Go Gators. Hope the High Road…all views my own.
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there was a running gag on the Upright Citizens Brigade series where in the UCBverse everyone hated astronauts, an easy joke for an fill-in-the-blank moment because in the real world they're thought of as the coolest motherfuckers walking around anyway good luck babe picking a fight with Mark Kelly
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
there was a running gag on the Upright Citizens Brigade series where in the UCBverse everyone hated astronauts, an easy joke for an fill-in-the-blank moment because in the real world they're thought of as the coolest motherfuckers walking around anyway good luck babe picking a fight with Mark Kelly
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(1) this is correct
(2) very grateful to have been trained by a guy who both got this theory right *and* generated a lot of work for empiricists
(2) very grateful to have been trained by a guy who both got this theory right *and* generated a lot of work for empiricists
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
(1) this is correct
(2) very grateful to have been trained by a guy who both got this theory right *and* generated a lot of work for empiricists
(2) very grateful to have been trained by a guy who both got this theory right *and* generated a lot of work for empiricists
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Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy
After I wrote this “status interview” piece on Tuesday, I heard from...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Post-Trump Reform Requires Reinvigorating American Democracy talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/post-...
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Stopped in the Rockwell museum in western Mass a few years ago. Surprisingly great.
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Stopped in the Rockwell museum in western Mass a few years ago. Surprisingly great.
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In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead
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I love @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's proposal from years ago that we should jack up politician salaries but also they get a 100% marginal tax rate on everything they make above those salaries after they're no longer in office.
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I love @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's proposal from years ago that we should jack up politician salaries but also they get a 100% marginal tax rate on everything they make above those salaries after they're no longer in office.
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Using the shadow docket, the Supreme Court has anticipated the first meeting of the College Football Playoff selection committee and published its own ranking and bracket.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Using the shadow docket, the Supreme Court has anticipated the first meeting of the College Football Playoff selection committee and published its own ranking and bracket.
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Enjoying a green salad? Our favorite lunch comes to us due to the hard-working Farm workers who are laboring in Lamont, CA, harvesting the fresh lettuce we enjoy. #WeFeedYou
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Enjoying a green salad? Our favorite lunch comes to us due to the hard-working Farm workers who are laboring in Lamont, CA, harvesting the fresh lettuce we enjoy. #WeFeedYou
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Welcome to the resistance, director of the Eisenhower library in Kansas who would not let the president steal a historic sword
BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.
Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword
The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.
www.kcur.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Welcome to the resistance, director of the Eisenhower library in Kansas who would not let the president steal a historic sword
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It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.
Crypto's $245 million campaign finance operation filled airwaves with ads not about crypto
The crypto sector emerged as a top donor this election cycle, but the ads it funded weren't about digital currencies.
www.cnbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.
Wash your hands, cook your food to temperature, store your food at appropriate temperature An excellent report from the true, brave professionals at the CDC on foodborne outbreaks over a decade in the U.S. But mainly, outstanding work by professional govt scientists.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Contributing Factors of Foodborne Illness ...
This report describes contributing factors to foodborne illness outbreaks during 2014–2022.
www.cdc.gov
September 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Wash your hands, cook your food to temperature, store your food at appropriate temperature An excellent report from the true, brave professionals at the CDC on foodborne outbreaks over a decade in the U.S. But mainly, outstanding work by professional govt scientists.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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A movie like BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID would be essentially impossible to film right now because they don't make movie stars like that anymore. It's not a complex role, but there's not an actor alive who could play it. RIP Robert Redford.
September 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A movie like BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID would be essentially impossible to film right now because they don't make movie stars like that anymore. It's not a complex role, but there's not an actor alive who could play it. RIP Robert Redford.
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If I live for awhile, I’ll have to write on the towering power of normalization in times of danger.
So fast.
So strong.
So dangerous.
We’re watching it in action.
So fast.
So strong.
So dangerous.
We’re watching it in action.
We’re barely months into this and we’ve just completely normalized the domestic deployment of the military in America’s largest cities for no reason at all. Something that would have been a national scandal, if not immediately ended, any presidency from Truman to Obama. All for One Special Boy 🤷♂️🤦♂️
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.”
— Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967.
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— Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address as CA Governor, Jan. 5, 1967.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
August 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If I live for awhile, I’ll have to write on the towering power of normalization in times of danger.
So fast.
So strong.
So dangerous.
We’re watching it in action.
So fast.
So strong.
So dangerous.
We’re watching it in action.
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It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
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Thread 🧵 time: I was in dc in recent days for a hot second during the Trump military operation, and I got a drink with a very close, very smart friend who I’ve clashed with before on dc crime. He’s a good guy, we just disagree somewhat on these issues. And we are having a very reasonable convo…
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thread 🧵 time: I was in dc in recent days for a hot second during the Trump military operation, and I got a drink with a very close, very smart friend who I’ve clashed with before on dc crime. He’s a good guy, we just disagree somewhat on these issues. And we are having a very reasonable convo…
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Far-left leaning professors have the right to free speech. Or we used to.
Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."
July 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Far-left leaning professors have the right to free speech. Or we used to.
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really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
I wrote about venture capitalist Shaun Maguire, his accusations that Zohran Mamdani is a "secret Islamist," and his emergence as a leading right wing voice in the tech industry.
www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
www.businessinsider.com/shaun-maguir...
The metamorphosis of Sequoia's Shaun Maguire: 'Never back down.'
Shaun Maguire's posts about Zohran Mamdani shocked many. Not the people who know him.
www.businessinsider.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
really interesting that we don’t have a cultural panic about group think and intellectual homogeneity among the most powerful money men in the country. all the more interesting when a bunch of them have clearly lost their mind.
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it would not take much, if any, work for them to learn literally anything about the actual experience of a classroom for the vast majority of students in american higher ed
July 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
it would not take much, if any, work for them to learn literally anything about the actual experience of a classroom for the vast majority of students in american higher ed
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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Genuine question and we would be happy to hear answes
Has Bill Ackman done ANYTHING useful, or does he think he’s a genius because he ran a PR campaign against Herbalife and bought and killed JC Penney?
Seriously: what constructive contribution to our society has Ackman made?
Seriously: what constructive contribution to our society has Ackman made?
July 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Genuine question and we would be happy to hear answes
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"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
July 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
If you are interested in food safety and are not a member of the Intentional Association for Food Protection @iafp.bsky.social, consider the benefit below.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If you are interested in food safety and are not a member of the Intentional Association for Food Protection @iafp.bsky.social, consider the benefit below.
It’s the best value in 1) food safety ✔️💰 and 2) scientific association membership! 🧪🦠🔬
It’s the best value in 1) food safety ✔️💰 and 2) scientific association membership! 🧪🦠🔬
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"Luis" has picked cherries for 12 years. He says things get harder every year as the pay is not increasing. Plus there are seasons seasons where the fruit is not good. However he is skilled at this work, so he keeps on doing it to feed his family. #WeFeedYou
July 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Luis" has picked cherries for 12 years. He says things get harder every year as the pay is not increasing. Plus there are seasons seasons where the fruit is not good. However he is skilled at this work, so he keeps on doing it to feed his family. #WeFeedYou
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the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!
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Rublev played at his absolute peak today and lost in four sets to an Alcaraz who I’m pretty sure was watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force inside his head for most of the match
Carlos Alcaraz won today at Wimbledon to make his 12th grand slam quarterfinal. He hasn't lost on grass in 18 matches, and he hasn't lost at all in 22, since April 20. He has 75 match wins in majors in 87 tries, matching a Johnny Mac/Borg record. He is 3 wins from his 6th Slam. He turned 22 in May.
July 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Rublev played at his absolute peak today and lost in four sets to an Alcaraz who I’m pretty sure was watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force inside his head for most of the match