It’s important we don’t over-interpret or misinterpret these results. The margin for Protasiewicz in 2023 in the wake of Dobbs was nearly identical to this one, and with roughly the same increase in # of voters for both D and R from ‘23 to now. There is momentum though, and we must use it.

Yes, let’s make the government “more efficient” and “eliminate waste” by defunding the parts of it that make everyone’s lives materially better and use that money to pay for an incompetent man-child’s space fantasy of colonizing an uninhabitable wasteland. Fantastic idea. 🤡

My suspicion is that this is all an attempt to try and fully privatize biomedical research. People should be asking themselves why big pharma has been so quiet while this has all unfolded. It will backfire spectacularly for obvious reasons though. And it’ll be Americans that will ultimately suffer

Spent a significant amount of time at my desk crafting personalized messages to send to my reps in PA (Sen. Fetterman especially). And also reflecting on whether there is a future for me in academia (or what’s left of it after 4 years). Yeah, being a postdoc right now is not great 🙃