Tim
@timdg.bsky.social
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To the end of my days, I will not understand why industries that rely on this research are not losing their minds
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?”
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.”
It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
June 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
To the end of my days, I will not understand why industries that rely on this research are not losing their minds
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Pope Leo to Italian Bishops: “Artificial intelligence…and social media are profoundly transforming our perception and our experience of life. In this scenario, human dignity risks becoming diminished or forgotten, substituted by functions, automatism, simulations.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
June 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Pope Leo to Italian Bishops: “Artificial intelligence…and social media are profoundly transforming our perception and our experience of life. In this scenario, human dignity risks becoming diminished or forgotten, substituted by functions, automatism, simulations.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
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We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.
The Survival of Democracy Depends on Our Willingness to Fight
Justice Riggs is right. We should not have to fight for democracy. But the reality is that we must.
www.democracydocket.com
May 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.
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MUST WATCH: She came out with her girlfriend. They took her high school diploma.
This is bigger than one school—it’s a system built to silence.
F*ck Around & Find Out is the playbook for fighting back.
Read it. Share it. Use it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
This is bigger than one school—it’s a system built to silence.
F*ck Around & Find Out is the playbook for fighting back.
Read it. Share it. Use it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
May 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
MUST WATCH: She came out with her girlfriend. They took her high school diploma.
This is bigger than one school—it’s a system built to silence.
F*ck Around & Find Out is the playbook for fighting back.
Read it. Share it. Use it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
This is bigger than one school—it’s a system built to silence.
F*ck Around & Find Out is the playbook for fighting back.
Read it. Share it. Use it: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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The problem with all these ‘hearing spectacles’ is that those being questioned face no real consequences for feigned ignorance or outright refusal to answer. If the Democrats don’t start enforcing accountability for such obstruction, the whole thing risks becoming an increasingly tedious farce.
May 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The problem with all these ‘hearing spectacles’ is that those being questioned face no real consequences for feigned ignorance or outright refusal to answer. If the Democrats don’t start enforcing accountability for such obstruction, the whole thing risks becoming an increasingly tedious farce.
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Twelve years (and 2.1 billion views) ago, when my brother and I decided that we could make videos that could maybe help people in their high school and college educations and then give them away for free, no one was there to tell us we were crazy, and I am very glad for that...🧵
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Twelve years (and 2.1 billion views) ago, when my brother and I decided that we could make videos that could maybe help people in their high school and college educations and then give them away for free, no one was there to tell us we were crazy, and I am very glad for that...🧵
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Dear America,
Have you had enough yet?
I have.
Have you had enough yet?
I have.
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Dear America,
Have you had enough yet?
I have.
Have you had enough yet?
I have.
Excellent book by @maklelan.bsky.social
Great overview of critical points where the dogma of Christianity often reigns victorious over the data that is actually in the Bible. A very approachable text that can serve as an amazing starting point to go deeper into the cultural context of the Bible.
Great overview of critical points where the dogma of Christianity often reigns victorious over the data that is actually in the Bible. A very approachable text that can serve as an amazing starting point to go deeper into the cultural context of the Bible.
May 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Excellent book by @maklelan.bsky.social
Great overview of critical points where the dogma of Christianity often reigns victorious over the data that is actually in the Bible. A very approachable text that can serve as an amazing starting point to go deeper into the cultural context of the Bible.
Great overview of critical points where the dogma of Christianity often reigns victorious over the data that is actually in the Bible. A very approachable text that can serve as an amazing starting point to go deeper into the cultural context of the Bible.
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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"The fact that the U.S. federal government is squawking in one loud, highly irritating voice… that it would like to obliterate the national sovereignty of our longtime friend and ally to the north is in and of itself a scandal."
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The fact that the U.S. federal government is squawking in one loud, highly irritating voice… that it would like to obliterate the national sovereignty of our longtime friend and ally to the north is in and of itself a scandal."
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear some evil.
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People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid
Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.
dailyprogress.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
People trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van.
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
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An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records
The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
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It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
www.propublica.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
But at least AI is going to make everyone smarter, right? Right?!?
April 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
But at least AI is going to make everyone smarter, right? Right?!?
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Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
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Poet and farmer Wendell Berry's gorgeous case for delight as a countercultural force of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/17/w...
The Measure of a Rich Life: Wendell Berry on the Key to Mirth Under Hardship and Delight as a Force of Resistance to Consumerism
“The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom… is always poised upon the …
www.themarginalian.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Poet and farmer Wendell Berry's gorgeous case for delight as a countercultural force of resistance www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/17/w...
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.
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AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it
April 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it