MostlyHarmless
@paraphrased.bsky.social
Tired, so very tired - but we can't quit.
Humanist, skeptic, scientist.
Deport Elon to Mars 🚀
Democracy stan
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Humanist, skeptic, scientist.
Deport Elon to Mars 🚀
Democracy stan
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MostlyHarmless
@paraphrased.bsky.social
· Nov 25
I keep falling into this logic trap where I think that if we just keep doing something *really well* for a while, then eventually it will stick and we can take a break.
Like flossing. Or exercise.
Or, you know, Democracy.
Unfortunately though, Democracy seems to be very much like flossing.
Like flossing. Or exercise.
Or, you know, Democracy.
Unfortunately though, Democracy seems to be very much like flossing.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts"
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June 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts"
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme
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"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst
That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.
That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.
May 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst
That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.
That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.
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JD Vance cheered on Trump today for gutting oversight of cryptocurrencies, while Trump’s family cashes in with meme coins, NFTs, and stable coin.
They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts!
I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:
They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts!
I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:
May 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
JD Vance cheered on Trump today for gutting oversight of cryptocurrencies, while Trump’s family cashes in with meme coins, NFTs, and stable coin.
They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts!
I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:
They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts!
I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:
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BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
May 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
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Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday.
Report: One in five people in Gaza could starve to death within months
Almost 250,000 are already starving under Israel's blockade, according to the UN.
www.motherjones.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday.
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So is American major media just going to pretend that Donald Trump and his venal band of brigands didn't just spend the last five years of this space-time continuum daily accusing Joe Biden of taking bribes from a foreign country—something Trump just PUBLICLY did to the tune of $400 MILLION DOLLARS?
May 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
So is American major media just going to pretend that Donald Trump and his venal band of brigands didn't just spend the last five years of this space-time continuum daily accusing Joe Biden of taking bribes from a foreign country—something Trump just PUBLICLY did to the tune of $400 MILLION DOLLARS?
Worcester MA police "deescalating a chaotic situation"
Worcester, Mass released a statement saying that their police had nothing to do with it. Those don’t look like ICE officers to me.
May 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Worcester MA police "deescalating a chaotic situation"
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So it’s Friday night and Rumeysa Ozturk is out on bail, Ras Baraka is in Homeland Security custody, and Stephen Miller is casually toying with suspending habeas corpus. Do I have that right?
May 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So it’s Friday night and Rumeysa Ozturk is out on bail, Ras Baraka is in Homeland Security custody, and Stephen Miller is casually toying with suspending habeas corpus. Do I have that right?
Relieved Ozturk is out,
now do Khalil.
And Ras Baraka. And everyone in CECOT.
And then fucking abolish fucking ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
now do Khalil.
And Ras Baraka. And everyone in CECOT.
And then fucking abolish fucking ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
May 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Relieved Ozturk is out,
now do Khalil.
And Ras Baraka. And everyone in CECOT.
And then fucking abolish fucking ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
now do Khalil.
And Ras Baraka. And everyone in CECOT.
And then fucking abolish fucking ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
Abolish ICE
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I think police officers in the US should not be able to masks. If you’re not proud about what you’re doing quit. If you’re ashamed quit. If you have a conscience quit. If you’re afraid your family or friends will leave because what you’re doing is despicable then have the courage to quit!
May 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think police officers in the US should not be able to masks. If you’re not proud about what you’re doing quit. If you’re ashamed quit. If you have a conscience quit. If you’re afraid your family or friends will leave because what you’re doing is despicable then have the courage to quit!
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Basic research matters, even when we don't know what the end results may bring, sometimes decades after it is begun. It makes society better. It saves lives. It makes us healthier, safer.
We owe this confidence to generations of scientists who pushed the boundaries of knowledge, not knowing if their efforts would make a difference. Oliver and Schafer didn’t put calf adrenal extracts into dogs to save my son but because they thought the world should know what adrenal glands do. 20/n
May 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Basic research matters, even when we don't know what the end results may bring, sometimes decades after it is begun. It makes society better. It saves lives. It makes us healthier, safer.
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Abolish ICE
It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers
How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers
How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Human rights nightmares show ‘the crazies’ who wanted to abolish ICE were right | Will Bunch
The nightly parade of horror stories about an American secret police prove the current system is broken beyond repair.
www.inquirer.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Abolish ICE
It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers
How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers
How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him?
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
April 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Rep Eric Swalwell walked out in *shock*—and who could blame him?
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
Every single GOP member on the House Judiciary Committee just voted to let Trump “deport” American citizens.
This is illegal, authoritarian, and unforgivable 🤬
Time to call, write, & protest before the full House votes.
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Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back!
This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.
This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back!
This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.
This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.
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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
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Henry's family is doing a NASA trip giveaway to raise the final set of funds to get him treatment.
Which is INSANE - nobody should be running giveaways to get their kid healthcare.
Rare diseases suck. Donate if you can, spread the word.
And vote for a better future for us all.
Which is INSANE - nobody should be running giveaways to get their kid healthcare.
Rare diseases suck. Donate if you can, spread the word.
And vote for a better future for us all.
Donate to A Treatment for Henry, organized by Mary Saladino
Please scroll down to see our latest updates.
What would you do if you were told when your bab… Mary Saladino needs your support for A Treatment for Henry
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April 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Henry's family is doing a NASA trip giveaway to raise the final set of funds to get him treatment.
Which is INSANE - nobody should be running giveaways to get their kid healthcare.
Rare diseases suck. Donate if you can, spread the word.
And vote for a better future for us all.
Which is INSANE - nobody should be running giveaways to get their kid healthcare.
Rare diseases suck. Donate if you can, spread the word.
And vote for a better future for us all.
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PANTHEON: DOGE “is falling well short of its goal to slash federal spending, reducing at least one major near-term downside risk for the economy.
“.. real-time data .. suggest federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since President Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier.”
“.. real-time data .. suggest federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since President Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier.”
April 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
PANTHEON: DOGE “is falling well short of its goal to slash federal spending, reducing at least one major near-term downside risk for the economy.
“.. real-time data .. suggest federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since President Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier.”
“.. real-time data .. suggest federal spending has been roughly 10% higher since President Trump was inaugurated than in the same period a year earlier.”
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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🚨 Russian forces struck Sumy on Good Friday with a drone, hitting a confectionery workshop making Easter cakes, killing one person and injuring another.
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April 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨 Russian forces struck Sumy on Good Friday with a drone, hitting a confectionery workshop making Easter cakes, killing one person and injuring another.
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