Tom Reid
@tomreid.bsky.social
Retired scientist; inexpert musician and photographer
Detroit native, now in Chicago
Detroit native, now in Chicago
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Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago
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#SayTheirNames
Wounded: Jose Andres Bordones-Molina
On life support: Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez
Dead: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
What the Trump regime desperately wanted to keep secret about the Dallas ICE shooting, and why
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
Wounded: Jose Andres Bordones-Molina
On life support: Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez
Dead: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
What the Trump regime desperately wanted to keep secret about the Dallas ICE shooting, and why
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting
The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.
www.inquirer.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
#SayTheirNames
Wounded: Jose Andres Bordones-Molina
On life support: Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez
Dead: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
What the Trump regime desperately wanted to keep secret about the Dallas ICE shooting, and why
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
Wounded: Jose Andres Bordones-Molina
On life support: Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez
Dead: Norlan Guzman-Fuentes
What the Trump regime desperately wanted to keep secret about the Dallas ICE shooting, and why
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
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George Packer has a must-read analysis of our current state of "soft" authoritarianism, where rights are diminished rather than abolished, and for most of us most of time life still seems, personally, pretty normal.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America’s Zombie Democracy
Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.
www.theatlantic.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
George Packer has a must-read analysis of our current state of "soft" authoritarianism, where rights are diminished rather than abolished, and for most of us most of time life still seems, personally, pretty normal.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Last time I felt similarly sick to my stomach was Jan. 6.
September 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Last time I felt similarly sick to my stomach was Jan. 6.
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I like a cool, sunny spring day as much as anyone, but it’s May 31 and I’ve had about enough of this shit.
May 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I like a cool, sunny spring day as much as anyone, but it’s May 31 and I’ve had about enough of this shit.
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By putting the world’s richest man, who is also an attention magnet, in charge of making unpopular cuts to things like Headstart, food safety, and cancer research, Donald Trump made a big mistake. Here are some thoughts on how Democrats can make him pay. www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-to-mak...
How to Make the GOP Pay a Price for DOGE
Trump made a huge mistake by putting Musk in charge of implementing deeply unpopular policy
www.messageboxnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
By putting the world’s richest man, who is also an attention magnet, in charge of making unpopular cuts to things like Headstart, food safety, and cancer research, Donald Trump made a big mistake. Here are some thoughts on how Democrats can make him pay. www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-to-mak...
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"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4hR6ux0
February 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"… it is the words and actions of all members of the scientific community … that form the collective voice of science …," writes @holdenthorp.bsky.social in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4hR6ux0
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“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
scim.ag
February 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
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A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
"This is a moment to unite."
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
"This is a moment to unite."
February 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
"This is a moment to unite."
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
"This is a moment to unite."
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This is admittedly in part self-serving but if you value the work individual journalists are doing at The Post but are nervous about the paper institutionally, it's important to send signals — shares, clicks, comments — in support of the work you like instead of only criticizing what you don't.
January 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is admittedly in part self-serving but if you value the work individual journalists are doing at The Post but are nervous about the paper institutionally, it's important to send signals — shares, clicks, comments — in support of the work you like instead of only criticizing what you don't.
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My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote.
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
How Trump “Won”
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority
www.weekendreading.net
January 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My new deep dive on how Trump “won” the popular vote.
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
I put “won” in quotes because it wasn’t his win, but Harris’s loss. The results were not a “swing right” embracing Trump/MAGA, but a vote of no confidence in Democrats (and in our system as a whole).
www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...
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my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 79
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 79