SR Long
@srlong.bsky.social
Avid reader, statistically literate scientist and horrified public health enthusiast. Pro-education and politically aware. Over-educated, feisty feminist, occasional artist and cranky lace knitter. Gardener who fights with squirrels. AussieMom.
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My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires.
When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo with a bow tie
media.tenor.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires.
When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Oh look, it's Elmo's World--but in hell.
This is really embarrassing. Trump grabbed some giant blown-up chart to explain how great he thinks the economy is, clearly has no idea what the chart says, and just shows it off to the press like an idiot. Imagine if Joe Biden did this. The guy has no clue what's going on around him.
August 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Oh look, it's Elmo's World--but in hell.
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“The shooter was either sick or believed he was sick, and blamed his illness on COVID vaccine — which is why he was targeting the CDC.”
August 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“The shooter was either sick or believed he was sick, and blamed his illness on COVID vaccine — which is why he was targeting the CDC.”
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Fascism - rule by dictator
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified
America has produced a most unique system of government
A theofascoligkakracy
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified
America has produced a most unique system of government
A theofascoligkakracy
August 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fascism - rule by dictator
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified
America has produced a most unique system of government
A theofascoligkakracy
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified
America has produced a most unique system of government
A theofascoligkakracy
Points for honesty or maybe style, I guess? There's really no quiet part now, is there?
Mullin blocking Gallego resolution calling for release of the Epstein files: What we’re simply trying to do is give [Trump] cover
July 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Points for honesty or maybe style, I guess? There's really no quiet part now, is there?
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Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American.
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March 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American.
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Time Travel? Wow. That IS efficient.
*scratches head*
HMMM: So the administration reveals in a new court filing (ordered by Judge Bates) that Amy Gleason was actually hired by HHS as an "expert/consultant" on March 4, just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.
March 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Time Travel? Wow. That IS efficient.
This isn't even "deportation" extralegal or otherwise, so much as it's looking a heckuva lot like HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 😒
"Zero Idleness Program." It's like an offshored convict leasing system with an Orwellian shout out to "work will make you free" to boot.
March 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This isn't even "deportation" extralegal or otherwise, so much as it's looking a heckuva lot like HUMAN TRAFFICKING. 😒
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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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March 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.
I've been asking this, too. I want to listen to people whose predictions about reality are CORRECT instead, because they are the ones who have useful insights. Miss me with the pandering and patronizing feel-good crap, legacy media.
Another person who warned us all was @walkerbragman.bsky.social
Why wasn’t his writing like this published in major newspapers?
Why didn’t more people know what this was about?
www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/04/24/c...
Why wasn’t his writing like this published in major newspapers?
Why didn’t more people know what this was about?
www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/04/24/c...
Covid Contrarian Doctor Scores Big With Far-Right Funding - EXPOSEDbyCMD
Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya just won a major prize from one of the most powerful right-wing foundations in America.
www.exposedbycmd.org
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I've been asking this, too. I want to listen to people whose predictions about reality are CORRECT instead, because they are the ones who have useful insights. Miss me with the pandering and patronizing feel-good crap, legacy media.
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All that’s going on now is what I meant when I said this in 2019.
February 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
All that’s going on now is what I meant when I said this in 2019.
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A pretty key effort to break resistance. The key here is that if you're going to defend the rights of people in the nat sec world you need lawyers who themselves have clearances and thus can dig into the facts the legal questions turn on. that's what this is about. I'm not saying Mark won't be ...
1/My statement on learning through news reports that my #securityclearance has just been revoked.
February 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A pretty key effort to break resistance. The key here is that if you're going to defend the rights of people in the nat sec world you need lawyers who themselves have clearances and thus can dig into the facts the legal questions turn on. that's what this is about. I'm not saying Mark won't be ...
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Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???
This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
Trump team preps list of banned staffers
The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.
www.politico.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???
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They want to destroy the universities because they believe that it's the universities that are turning kids away from far-right reactionary cultural preferences. Thus they want the universities either indoctrinating young people into far-right beliefs, or they want them gone.
February 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
They want to destroy the universities because they believe that it's the universities that are turning kids away from far-right reactionary cultural preferences. Thus they want the universities either indoctrinating young people into far-right beliefs, or they want them gone.
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"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"
Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%
Unsure: 19%
YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106
Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%
Unsure: 19%
YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106
February 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"The United States is in a constitutional crisis"
Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%
Unsure: 19%
YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106
Agree: 54%
Disagree: 27%
Unsure: 19%
YouGov / Feb 6, 2025 / n=1106
This is starting to feel like 1917; Russian in complexity, only the HeritageF zealots are actually Nazis, and they're thinking that the FedSoc faction are 🍬🍑🚼 who don't have RealGuts. Strange times to be a peasant, I will say that.
Literally one of the most -basic- constitutional law cases, the Youngstown case, involves the Supreme Court telling the President that he could not order his Secretary of Commerce to seize steel mills during a strike when the U.S. was at war. 🙄
February 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is starting to feel like 1917; Russian in complexity, only the HeritageF zealots are actually Nazis, and they're thinking that the FedSoc faction are 🍬🍑🚼 who don't have RealGuts. Strange times to be a peasant, I will say that.
Same. It's DEEPLY unfortunate, but MMWR is not going to serve as any kind of genuine digest of need-to-know in this regime.
Editing scientific content for political purity is turning MMWR into a compromised propaganda organ.
And why are the propaganda squads at CDC replacing specifically H5N1 bird flu studies?
I’ve got some pretty serious fascism- and flu-related concerns about this.
And why are the propaganda squads at CDC replacing specifically H5N1 bird flu studies?
I’ve got some pretty serious fascism- and flu-related concerns about this.
What happened to CDC's bird flu studies and why did they publish about wildfires instead?
Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy"
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
Sources tell us Trump officials are now wielding unprecedented control over agency's flagship scientific journal
"The MMWR has lost its autonomy"
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...
February 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Same. It's DEEPLY unfortunate, but MMWR is not going to serve as any kind of genuine digest of need-to-know in this regime.
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I’ve been an REI customer (co-op member) for ten years, so I guess “email the REI Board to tell them how I feel about their signing off on Burgum” is another thing to add to tomorrow’s to do list (also they should allow their stores to unionize)
www.eenews.net/articles/out...
www.eenews.net/articles/out...
February 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I’ve been an REI customer (co-op member) for ten years, so I guess “email the REI Board to tell them how I feel about their signing off on Burgum” is another thing to add to tomorrow’s to do list (also they should allow their stores to unionize)
www.eenews.net/articles/out...
www.eenews.net/articles/out...
Almost as though the REAL problem was education and scholarship all along, yk?
I don’t have anything smart to say about this except it’s very scary to watch federal funding for science get switched off AND it’s very weird institutionally given how for years the line to humanities “why can’t you pay for yourselves like the grant-funded disciplines”
February 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Almost as though the REAL problem was education and scholarship all along, yk?
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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
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Republicans reveal the real reasons they love Trump as FOTUS.
He is pro-financial crime,
This IS Project 2025.
He is pro-financial crime,
This IS Project 2025.
February 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Republicans reveal the real reasons they love Trump as FOTUS.
He is pro-financial crime,
This IS Project 2025.
He is pro-financial crime,
This IS Project 2025.
So let me get this straight-- Peter Thiel is Musk's staffing agency? The world's creepiest tech high priest, who collects a certain "type" as his extra special friends--? (Musk and Vance are BOTH his type, btw).
Worst remake of Sleepers ever.
Worst remake of Sleepers ever.
SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
wrd.cm
February 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So let me get this straight-- Peter Thiel is Musk's staffing agency? The world's creepiest tech high priest, who collects a certain "type" as his extra special friends--? (Musk and Vance are BOTH his type, btw).
Worst remake of Sleepers ever.
Worst remake of Sleepers ever.
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Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.
February 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.