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@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark.
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
June 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
@msnbc.com reporter at the 1:15 mark.
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
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Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
jamanetwork.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.”
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In the US alone.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Nope! More large vehicles to fuck up the roads
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
June 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nope! More large vehicles to fuck up the roads
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
Notice how the birdsong is louder than the crowd
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Instead, the Army's 250th birthday been hijacked and eclipsed by a megalomaniac. And that genuinely sucks, in ways that maybe hadn't entirely registered until right now. It's not fair
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Instead, the Army's 250th birthday been hijacked and eclipsed by a megalomaniac. And that genuinely sucks, in ways that maybe hadn't entirely registered until right now. It's not fair
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And there's been bravery worth celebrating. There's been heroism and camaraderie in the Army even as our politicians sent us into shit situations for shit reasons
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
And there's been bravery worth celebrating. There's been heroism and camaraderie in the Army even as our politicians sent us into shit situations for shit reasons
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The Army has traditions worth celebrating
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Army has traditions worth celebrating
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
We have spent decades fighting garbage wars that leveled countries and killed at least a million. That's on the politicians. People mostly join the Army to escape a bad situation, go to college, and/or because they believe in the goodness of America
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I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought
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Moving forward, there are already other - and better and, hey, transparent - initiatives as it comes to sharing critical data: NCBI, of course, which should be used by _all_ tax-payer funded research, but also @pathoplexus.org, which should become the replacement for GISAID - and I'm sure it will.
May 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Moving forward, there are already other - and better and, hey, transparent - initiatives as it comes to sharing critical data: NCBI, of course, which should be used by _all_ tax-payer funded research, but also @pathoplexus.org, which should become the replacement for GISAID - and I'm sure it will.
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You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
May 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
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Glad that both sides of the aisle could come together and agree on the Corruption Is Good Act.
Crypto Dems are fools. Trump's corruption will get worse and when the bill is revealed to be toothless they'll say "but what could we have done?" The industry they've enriched will donate heavily against them.
Enormous blame is leadership's - Schumer, Minority Leader & Gillibrand, DSCC Chair.
Enormous blame is leadership's - Schumer, Minority Leader & Gillibrand, DSCC Chair.
May 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Glad that both sides of the aisle could come together and agree on the Corruption Is Good Act.
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NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
May 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers
LLMs don't "experience" their training in the way that a creature does, they don't have"memories" of it. So there's no particular reason to believe what they say about it.
“xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right” says so much about the current moment we live in
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
LLMs don't "experience" their training in the way that a creature does, they don't have"memories" of it. So there's no particular reason to believe what they say about it.
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Honestly this is just incredible content.
May 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Honestly this is just incredible content.
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Pretty clearly what happened here is news orgs didn’t hit this very hard 10d ago because they thought the WH was offering some sort of gang intelligence analysis by superimposing text on the man’s tattoos, but that’s not what it was to Trump. bsky.app/profile/esgh...
I had to upload the clip here because it's frankly insane. Possibly the most insane trump clip yet. His brain is pudding
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Pretty clearly what happened here is news orgs didn’t hit this very hard 10d ago because they thought the WH was offering some sort of gang intelligence analysis by superimposing text on the man’s tattoos, but that’s not what it was to Trump. bsky.app/profile/esgh...
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I have a joke about writing centers, but first I'd like to get a sense of the assignment. Did your instructor provide a rubric or a set of guidelines? Your voice pops in this first paragraph and I can tell just how much you care about writing-based comedy. As a reader--
I have a joke about nature writing, but first let me take you down the rutted track, past the bramble hedge, to a place on the edge of something, a liminal locus where, one drab day far gone, I found not just the wren, the brimstone, the cerulean float of forget-me-not, but a version of myself.
I have a joke about comedy writing, but I'm not allowed to start telling it to you for about a year while it goes through several departments, gets signed off eight times and a name's been attached
April 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I have a joke about writing centers, but first I'd like to get a sense of the assignment. Did your instructor provide a rubric or a set of guidelines? Your voice pops in this first paragraph and I can tell just how much you care about writing-based comedy. As a reader--
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It’s an awful case in a lot of ways, holding that the Fugitive Slave Act precluded a PA law protecting black residents from being taken out of the state into slavery.
But it established the principle that states and local magistrates don’t have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
But it established the principle that states and local magistrates don’t have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
April 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s an awful case in a lot of ways, holding that the Fugitive Slave Act precluded a PA law protecting black residents from being taken out of the state into slavery.
But it established the principle that states and local magistrates don’t have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
But it established the principle that states and local magistrates don’t have to cooperate with federal law enforcement.
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This is a very significant development — for these cases, for the AEA implementation efforts more generally, for Sauer’s credibility at SCOTUS, and for the administration’s legal standing before the courts.
Solicitor General John Sauer told SCOTUS the Trump admin "has agreed not to remove pursuant the AEA those AEA detainees who do file habeas claims" as a key to his argument that SCOTUS should end its current order blocking removals.
On Wednesday, an ICE official contradicted that.
On Wednesday, an ICE official contradicted that.
ICE contradicts DOJ filing at SCOTUS that a pending habeas case blocks AEA removal
DOJ argued the Trump administration would not remove people under the AEA while a habeas petition is pending. An ICE official has stated there are multiple exceptions.
www.lawdork.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is a very significant development — for these cases, for the AEA implementation efforts more generally, for Sauer’s credibility at SCOTUS, and for the administration’s legal standing before the courts.
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Glad to see the Fourth Circuit is reading Professor Vladeck.
Pretty sure that this is the first time a “One First” post has been cited in a judicial opinion—here, in Judge Thacker’s concurrence in the Fourth Circuit’s denial of the government’s stay request in Abrego García:
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Glad to see the Fourth Circuit is reading Professor Vladeck.
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The fundamental epistemology of the far-right is "I'm ignorant of this basic fact that is widely known, assume my ignorance means they're trying to hide something from me, and that they're trying to hide this from me means it's all a conspiracy."
Discovering that an East Coast bus company is run by a Chinese American is like discovering that a pizza joint is owned by an Italian. (If Laura spots a protester eating pizza, maybe she'll add the mafia to her story.)
April 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The fundamental epistemology of the far-right is "I'm ignorant of this basic fact that is widely known, assume my ignorance means they're trying to hide something from me, and that they're trying to hide this from me means it's all a conspiracy."