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Anyone know folks who make accessibly, factual short-form content on infectious disease, medicine, and immunity? (I'm talking about things like TikTok and YouTube shorts).
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March 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Does anybody know anything about this? www.cape.co
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French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Trump and Musk are going after Columbia for "antisemitism" and Hopkins for "DEI" and Penn for "trans spts".
Why those issues?
Because this is the start of an authoritarian soft takeover of ALL universities.
Those issues are just politically convenient because they draw some support from Dems. 1/
Why those issues?
Because this is the start of an authoritarian soft takeover of ALL universities.
Those issues are just politically convenient because they draw some support from Dems. 1/
They are coming for every university, if you think you’re safe because it hasn’t been yours yet I don’t know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Trump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to Penn
According to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
www.thedp.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Trump and Musk are going after Columbia for "antisemitism" and Hopkins for "DEI" and Penn for "trans spts".
Why those issues?
Because this is the start of an authoritarian soft takeover of ALL universities.
Those issues are just politically convenient because they draw some support from Dems. 1/
Why those issues?
Because this is the start of an authoritarian soft takeover of ALL universities.
Those issues are just politically convenient because they draw some support from Dems. 1/
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One of the hardest things about being a progressive in 2025 is not realizing that certain people you love would have been Nazis in the 1940s, but that they would have been one of the German citizens who had to be dragged to the concentration camps before they believed the Nazis had been that bad.
March 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
One of the hardest things about being a progressive in 2025 is not realizing that certain people you love would have been Nazis in the 1940s, but that they would have been one of the German citizens who had to be dragged to the concentration camps before they believed the Nazis had been that bad.
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Fascinating that someone as single-mindedly power hungry as Gavin Newsom was incapable of recognizing that he COULD have become an extremely powerful anti-Trump warlord almost instantly if he’d gone hard in that direction.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
California has the strength and size to hit the MAGA freaks hard, but that becomes a lot harder when its governor is a sniveling collaborationist.
I don’t think we have the *time* to just wait for Gavin Newsom to term out at this point.
I don’t think we have the *time* to just wait for Gavin Newsom to term out at this point.
God, I really wish California had a better leader than that feckless meat-puppet right now.
March 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Fascinating that someone as single-mindedly power hungry as Gavin Newsom was incapable of recognizing that he COULD have become an extremely powerful anti-Trump warlord almost instantly if he’d gone hard in that direction.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.
Should be a clear lesson from reconstruction, imo
A frustrating thing is dems are obsessed with restoring norms and to get things sane again it would be required to, likely, not let any republicans in a position to sabotage any fixing of these government entities.
But there is a real risk they will immediately restore “bipartisan balance”.
But there is a real risk they will immediately restore “bipartisan balance”.
Trump fires Democrat FTC Commissioners— Alvaro Bedoya & Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. The FTC is the federal agency in charge of consumer protection and closest thing U.S. has to a privacy protection agency. There are usually 5 commissioners, 2 from opposing party: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/t...
March 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Should be a clear lesson from reconstruction, imo
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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
That is exactly the right take. Advocating for things like Universal Healthcare (aka, everyone getting to benefit from our labor) is critical to regain public trust in our guild.
Without paywall: rdcu.be/ec5uI
Public-health experts should be more political, not less | Nature
Health has always been political, long before Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr took power. Denying this is what’s been killing us. Health has always been political, long before Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr took power. Denying this is what’s been killing us.
rdcu.be
March 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
That is exactly the right take. Advocating for things like Universal Healthcare (aka, everyone getting to benefit from our labor) is critical to regain public trust in our guild.
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1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States.
International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise.
Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions.
The latest from S. Baum.
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International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise.
Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Germany, InterPride Issue LGBTQ Travel Advisories About United States
At least one foreign LGBTQ rights group has already pulled out of WorldPride to “safeguard our trans and nonbinary staff” from persecution by the U.S. government.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States.
International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise.
Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise.
Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
March 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
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republicans are treating blue cities and states like we're conquered territory to be plundered and destroyed. looted. it's an intolerable situation and the idea that any democrats are willing to vote for this is outrageous.
Warner, one of the DMV senators, tells me "the hit on the District is just mean-spirited." Said they asked Republicans if slashing DC's budget was "a mistake, and no, basically, it was a pointed 'screw you.'"
Mentions that police layoffs and a less functional Metro "affect the whole region"
Mentions that police layoffs and a less functional Metro "affect the whole region"
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
republicans are treating blue cities and states like we're conquered territory to be plundered and destroyed. looted. it's an intolerable situation and the idea that any democrats are willing to vote for this is outrageous.
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She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.
March 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.
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serious answer: the sabotage of reconstruction
What do yall think was the nexus event that created this branch in the timeline?
I’m torn between the Cats movie and when people were licking gallons of ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back.
I’m torn between the Cats movie and when people were licking gallons of ice cream in the grocery store and putting it back.
March 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
serious answer: the sabotage of reconstruction
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Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
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Awesome to see my good friend & amazing scientist Jeff Dangl share with Jonathan Jones and Brian Staskawicz the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for their pioneering work on plant disease resistance 🧪1/n
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March 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Awesome to see my good friend & amazing scientist Jeff Dangl share with Jonathan Jones and Brian Staskawicz the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for their pioneering work on plant disease resistance 🧪1/n
wolffund.org.il/jeffery-l-da...
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When the occasion demands the Machiavellianism of a McConnell but all you have to offer is the ‘make nice’ of a Schumer
Like I’ve said before… Disney characters who don’t know they’re trapped in a Tarantino film
Like I’ve said before… Disney characters who don’t know they’re trapped in a Tarantino film
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
When the occasion demands the Machiavellianism of a McConnell but all you have to offer is the ‘make nice’ of a Schumer
Like I’ve said before… Disney characters who don’t know they’re trapped in a Tarantino film
Like I’ve said before… Disney characters who don’t know they’re trapped in a Tarantino film
Note the HHS letterhead.
Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding
NEW letter to Columbia from Trump admin lists demands for “continued financial relationship” with the US government”:
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
—Suspend or expel students for Hamilton Hall protest
—“Time, place, and manner rules”
—Mask ban
—Address “anti-Zionist” discrimination
—Reform admissions
—MORE
March 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Note the HHS letterhead.
Out of genuine historical curiosity, what would happen if someone were to assassinate Chuck Schumer?
March 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Out of genuine historical curiosity, what would happen if someone were to assassinate Chuck Schumer?
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This is 24 hours apart.
Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.
Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is 24 hours apart.
Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.
Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.
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in the united states of america you can choose between the party that wields power even when they haven’t won it and the party that refuses to wield power even when they have
November 14, 2024 at 1:54 AM
in the united states of america you can choose between the party that wields power even when they haven’t won it and the party that refuses to wield power even when they have
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It is time to get creative in torturing US Senators. They presumably go to restaurants, get on planes, go in and out of cars, and other tasks that leave them publicly available. Every minute of that (yes, even with their families) should be the greatest misery anyone has ever known without violence.
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It is time to get creative in torturing US Senators. They presumably go to restaurants, get on planes, go in and out of cars, and other tasks that leave them publicly available. Every minute of that (yes, even with their families) should be the greatest misery anyone has ever known without violence.
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Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
March 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.