@epbwrisci.bsky.social
Scientist, aspiring writer; Natural habitats: coastlines, rivers, mountains.
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Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
Um, this is insane. Apparently interdiction is less convenient than murder.
This is criminal. Arrest and prosecute. Extra-judicial killings are abhorrent to the rule of law.
Rubio video of strike on Venezuelan ship:
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Um, this is insane. Apparently interdiction is less convenient than murder.
The last four words of the posters intro to this article are spot on.
A good read about a terrible person Russ Vought.
Russ Vought and the Paperwork Revolution
Forget rally rants—this architect of Project 2025 is dismantling democracy through HR forms and executive orders.
open.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The last four words of the posters intro to this article are spot on.
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The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans.
And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
September 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans.
And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich.
Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
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What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
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Science is entirely built on trust in expert consensus. Even slightly outside their own expertise, scientiss rely on this kind of trust for all conceptual and experimental progress.
The democracy claim isn't even worth rebutting it's so absurd.
The democracy claim isn't even worth rebutting it's so absurd.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Science is entirely built on trust in expert consensus. Even slightly outside their own expertise, scientiss rely on this kind of trust for all conceptual and experimental progress.
The democracy claim isn't even worth rebutting it's so absurd.
The democracy claim isn't even worth rebutting it's so absurd.
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Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
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Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”
July 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”
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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
July 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.
That’s why Trump is attacking the Dept. of Education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.
It's fascism.
Teen Vogue has been doing solid journalism through it all. Of course Bezos wants to break it.
Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
July 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Teen Vogue has been doing solid journalism through it all. Of course Bezos wants to break it.
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Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.
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Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.
Repost if you agree.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department’s response to the Texas floods in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” disputing a New York Times report that FEMA failed to answer thousands of disaster assistance calls.
July 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended her department’s response to the Texas floods in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” disputing a New York Times report that FEMA failed to answer thousands of disaster assistance calls.
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From my dad.
"It looks like I'm going to lose my prescription drug coverage and have to start paying a medicare premium. My diabetes drug lists for $1000/month. With the premium and benefits cut from my Medicare another five hundred a month besides the thousand. Kicks in right after the midterms"
"It looks like I'm going to lose my prescription drug coverage and have to start paying a medicare premium. My diabetes drug lists for $1000/month. With the premium and benefits cut from my Medicare another five hundred a month besides the thousand. Kicks in right after the midterms"
July 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
From my dad.
"It looks like I'm going to lose my prescription drug coverage and have to start paying a medicare premium. My diabetes drug lists for $1000/month. With the premium and benefits cut from my Medicare another five hundred a month besides the thousand. Kicks in right after the midterms"
"It looks like I'm going to lose my prescription drug coverage and have to start paying a medicare premium. My diabetes drug lists for $1000/month. With the premium and benefits cut from my Medicare another five hundred a month besides the thousand. Kicks in right after the midterms"
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He would have been a fifth grader if he hadn’t been left back
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
He would have been a fifth grader if he hadn’t been left back
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The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
July 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
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As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...
cpaess.ucar.edu
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
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Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
Support Sea Grant Funding – Sea Grant Association
sga.seagrant.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sea Grant, a program of NOAA which funds coastal research, education, and community outreach - is unfortunately a target for the current administration's draconian reductions in science funding. Sign a letter of support for Sea Grant here: sga.seagrant.org/letters-of-s...
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Before anyone says anything about whether there were flood warnings in Texas, read this.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Catastrophic Flooding In Texas - Were There Warnings?
Deadly flooding in the flash flood alley of Texas is raising questions about warnings. Here's a preliminary (but not conslusive) analysis.
www.forbes.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Before anyone says anything about whether there were flood warnings in Texas, read this.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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happy confederate officers were not, in fact, tactical geniuses and instead were absolute bozos who got their shit wrecked day
July 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
happy confederate officers were not, in fact, tactical geniuses and instead were absolute bozos who got their shit wrecked day
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Excellent piece from @zoeschlanger.bsky.social on what Schlanger aptly calls the "miserable cascade of losses for the American hurricane-safety apparatus." Quoted: @drkimwood.bsky.social, @michaelrlowry.bsky.social, @franklinjamesl.bsky.social + Andy Hazelton.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
www.theatlantic.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Excellent piece from @zoeschlanger.bsky.social on what Schlanger aptly calls the "miserable cascade of losses for the American hurricane-safety apparatus." Quoted: @drkimwood.bsky.social, @michaelrlowry.bsky.social, @franklinjamesl.bsky.social + Andy Hazelton.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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