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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 4:48 AM
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.
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Last year Microsoft made $88 billion (that's billion, with a B) in profit on $245B in revenue. That's a 36% profit margin. The idea that they have to put 9000 people out of work in order to improve profitability is absolutely ghoulish. This is not a struggling company, they're swimming in profit.
Microsoft Makes Deep Job Cuts Across Xbox Division, Cancels Games
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
www.bloomberg.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Last year Microsoft made $88 billion (that's billion, with a B) in profit on $245B in revenue. That's a 36% profit margin. The idea that they have to put 9000 people out of work in order to improve profitability is absolutely ghoulish. This is not a struggling company, they're swimming in profit.
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"Law Enforcement" should have to carry malpractice insurance just like doctors. Stop using taxpayer money for this shit.
"There's still no clear answer as to how the state will afford to pay thousands of people who said they were abused while under state care."
Idk you could start by making the cops and COs and prosecutors and judges pony up a few million, each
Idk you could start by making the cops and COs and prosecutors and judges pony up a few million, each
July 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Law Enforcement" should have to carry malpractice insurance just like doctors. Stop using taxpayer money for this shit.
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‘Attacking the future of the party while Republicans strip every poor person of Medicaid in the middle of the night,’ by way of example, is not acceptable leadership. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
‘Attacking the future of the party while Republicans strip every poor person of Medicaid in the middle of the night,’ by way of example, is not acceptable leadership. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward.
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Allowing immigration agents to identify people using face recognition technology, which is notoriously biased and unreliable, is a recipe for disaster.
Congress must put an end to this dangerous practice.
Congress must put an end to this dangerous practice.
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Allowing immigration agents to identify people using face recognition technology, which is notoriously biased and unreliable, is a recipe for disaster.
Congress must put an end to this dangerous practice.
Congress must put an end to this dangerous practice.
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If you donate to @katmabu.bsky.social before tomorrow night you will be helping make merch of Kat flipping off a transphobe a reality. As of yesterday they were halfway to their goal. Let's make this happen people
If we hit our goal ($50k to go!) by Sunday night, we’ll make merch of me flipping off a transphobe.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you donate to @katmabu.bsky.social before tomorrow night you will be helping make merch of Kat flipping off a transphobe a reality. As of yesterday they were halfway to their goal. Let's make this happen people
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The fucking replies to this are infuriating.
I fucking hate these people demanding Democrats do impossible shit to correct their own goddamned mistakes.
I fucking hate these people demanding Democrats do impossible shit to correct their own goddamned mistakes.
BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor
Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill
So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor
We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it
Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill
So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor
We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it
June 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The fucking replies to this are infuriating.
I fucking hate these people demanding Democrats do impossible shit to correct their own goddamned mistakes.
I fucking hate these people demanding Democrats do impossible shit to correct their own goddamned mistakes.
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The First Amendment exists for a reason.
The government can't take over a university to impose their ideology.
The government can't take over a university to impose their ideology.
With stakes high, White House pushes negotiations with Harvard
Harvard has been racking up wins in court as the Trump administration has frozen research funding and sought to block admissions of international students.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The First Amendment exists for a reason.
The government can't take over a university to impose their ideology.
The government can't take over a university to impose their ideology.
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All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight
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The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
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As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
As big as the Mamdani win is, Landers ascent is in some ways even more significant for the national Democratic Party.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
Most Dem electeds know that they don't have what Zohran has. But most can at least imagine themselves as a Lander.
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Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all.
This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.
Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.
This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.
Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.
June 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all.
This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.
Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.
This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.
Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.
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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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see this is that bullshit I'm talking about. we keep seeing this pattern play out:
- district court judge orders Trump administration to follow the law
- Trump n em then ask Supreme Court to let em keep breaking the law
- Supreme Court then grants that request
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- district court judge orders Trump administration to follow the law
- Trump n em then ask Supreme Court to let em keep breaking the law
- Supreme Court then grants that request
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
June 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
see this is that bullshit I'm talking about. we keep seeing this pattern play out:
- district court judge orders Trump administration to follow the law
- Trump n em then ask Supreme Court to let em keep breaking the law
- Supreme Court then grants that request
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
- district court judge orders Trump administration to follow the law
- Trump n em then ask Supreme Court to let em keep breaking the law
- Supreme Court then grants that request
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
June 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.
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Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
GAO confirms ICE deported U.S. citizens due to systemic failures — and the agency still doesn’t know how many more it’s wrongly targeting
migrantinsider.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens
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you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday
You’d think even pro war pundits would have learned their lesson at this point but no www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
U.S. Officials Concede They Don’t Know Whereabouts of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday
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“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
June 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?
You’re kidding.
You’re kidding.
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Hard not to believe that the current moment will not completely poison many people's ability to trust the US government for a long time. No-one really believes that the masked men dishing out the kind of violence will ever face any sort of accountability.
“family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
June 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hard not to believe that the current moment will not completely poison many people's ability to trust the US government for a long time. No-one really believes that the masked men dishing out the kind of violence will ever face any sort of accountability.
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It's pretty striking how the entire mainstream media is behind the strikes in total opposition to actual public opinion, and on top of that, covering them as if they are overwhelmingly popular.
You know it's a winning issue when independents are in line with Democrats and Republicans are in another universe.
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's pretty striking how the entire mainstream media is behind the strikes in total opposition to actual public opinion, and on top of that, covering them as if they are overwhelmingly popular.
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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
June 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.