mushuuuu.bsky.social
@mushuuuu.bsky.social
scientist upset with how things are going
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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🎵 … and heaven knows I’m miserable now 🎵
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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Democrats should run on the fact that their opposition is literally killing Americans and destroying the country.

It’s not hyperbole. That’s the message they should be blasting out to media every day.

They are killing Americans and destroying the country. They hate our freedom. They hate democracy
January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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Whether it’s Democrats putting their pronouns in email signatures or Republicans shooting and killing unarmed drivers, both sides have taken actions that the other side finds threatening.
January 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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What really drives U.S. foreign policy?

Listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say 20 years ago.
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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the person who published this is about to run CBS
I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?
October 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This absolute banger
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.
July 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.
June 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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thinking again about this 2018 cover
June 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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$160 billion in new spending on building jails, hiring more ICE 'agents' to carry out kidnappings & flying people to torture prisons.

For comparison, the 2024 NIH budget, which funds essentially all US medical research, was $47.1 billion.

Funding racism instead of research.
June 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

#science #savescience #stat
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I just can’t
June 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.
June 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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This is a good read about why endowments are not necessarily the solution to the elimination of these grants.
No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding
How Endowments Actually Work
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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i am not trolling when i say this, and i don’t think it’s controversial to believe: ceo is probably the most ai-replaceable job, given human CEO’s track records as of late along with how expensive they are.
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Texas Bans Being Different Around Children
theonion.com/texas-b...
May 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.
May 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"Let them see space" -- Gayle King
April 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM