Wyatt Yankus
@tyankus.bsky.social
📍DC / Navy veteran who now mostly talks about trains and bike lanes / 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
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The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
TAPPER: 14 Republicans say you're risking undermining critical research by holding up NIH funding
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
VOUGHT: If they were a company, their stock price would in shambles. They in some respects caused the pandemic. You have an entire institute that does nothing more than DEI research at the NIH.
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it
Babe, wake up, a new Ekranoplan just dropped!
Easily my favorite niche Cold War-era weapons system. Exciting to see someone picking up the baton from the Soviets.
What is the U.S. going to do to close this new WIG gap? (They should buy the ShinMaywa US-2 flying boat from Japan, but ofc won’t.)
Easily my favorite niche Cold War-era weapons system. Exciting to see someone picking up the baton from the Soviets.
What is the U.S. going to do to close this new WIG gap? (They should buy the ShinMaywa US-2 flying boat from Japan, but ofc won’t.)
June 30, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Babe, wake up, a new Ekranoplan just dropped!
Easily my favorite niche Cold War-era weapons system. Exciting to see someone picking up the baton from the Soviets.
What is the U.S. going to do to close this new WIG gap? (They should buy the ShinMaywa US-2 flying boat from Japan, but ofc won’t.)
Easily my favorite niche Cold War-era weapons system. Exciting to see someone picking up the baton from the Soviets.
What is the U.S. going to do to close this new WIG gap? (They should buy the ShinMaywa US-2 flying boat from Japan, but ofc won’t.)
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This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
Scenes from today’s @unite4vets.bsky.social rally on the Mall. No kings, no fascistic birthday parades. Let’s just honor the commitments we’ve made as a country to our veterans and servicemembers.
June 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Scenes from today’s @unite4vets.bsky.social rally on the Mall. No kings, no fascistic birthday parades. Let’s just honor the commitments we’ve made as a country to our veterans and servicemembers.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A global hegemon commiting civilizational suicide in order to Own the Libs.
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
May 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A global hegemon commiting civilizational suicide in order to Own the Libs.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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The Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court, arresting judges and mayors, talking about arresting congressmen, denying due process and openly musing about suspending habeus corpus too.
There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.
There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.
May 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court, arresting judges and mayors, talking about arresting congressmen, denying due process and openly musing about suspending habeus corpus too.
There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.
There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.
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Thousands of transgender troops who have served our nation honorably will soon be purged from the military because of their identity. It is shameful that the Supreme Court’s majority won’t even explain why it greenlit this mass act of unconstitutional discrimination. slate.com/news-and-pol...
May 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Thousands of transgender troops who have served our nation honorably will soon be purged from the military because of their identity. It is shameful that the Supreme Court’s majority won’t even explain why it greenlit this mass act of unconstitutional discrimination. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This is what fascism looks like:
Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”
Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”
April 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is what fascism looks like:
Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”
Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”
The 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord is a good day for standing up to a wannabe king
April 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington & Concord is a good day for standing up to a wannabe king
Vance saying you need to repeal laws protecting your LGBTQ to get a trade deal and adding “Of course, fundamentally, America is an Anglo country,” is REALLY saying the quiet part loud.
I’m old enough to remember it being judgmental to call them racist or homophobic, but now they say it for you.
I’m old enough to remember it being judgmental to call them racist or homophobic, but now they say it for you.
Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal
‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but a source close to the administration says his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’
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April 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Vance saying you need to repeal laws protecting your LGBTQ to get a trade deal and adding “Of course, fundamentally, America is an Anglo country,” is REALLY saying the quiet part loud.
I’m old enough to remember it being judgmental to call them racist or homophobic, but now they say it for you.
I’m old enough to remember it being judgmental to call them racist or homophobic, but now they say it for you.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A good Sunday read: on.ft.com/43Jyfn2 How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A century after it was published, F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is more relevant than ever. Sarah Churchwell on the trouble with ‘careless people’
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April 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A good Sunday read: on.ft.com/43Jyfn2 How Gatsby foretold Trump’s America
A fun afternoon volunteering with the Rock Creek Conservancy to help maintain the historic Carter Barron Amphitheater, with the ultimate goal of reopening it in the future as an outdoor music venue for the people of DC. Last photo is a future rendering - would be such a great venue!
April 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A fun afternoon volunteering with the Rock Creek Conservancy to help maintain the historic Carter Barron Amphitheater, with the ultimate goal of reopening it in the future as an outdoor music venue for the people of DC. Last photo is a future rendering - would be such a great venue!
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.
April 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.
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russia’s appetite for peace ☮️ visualized by Emanuele Del Rosso
March 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
russia’s appetite for peace ☮️ visualized by Emanuele Del Rosso
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
@schumer.senate.gov ‘s grand strategy for dealing with Trump
March 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@schumer.senate.gov ‘s grand strategy for dealing with Trump
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House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY!
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution
indivisible.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY!
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil:
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
March 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Strong statement from ACLU on the detention of Mahmoud Khalil:
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
"The federal government is claiming the authority to deport people with deep ties to the US and revoke their green cards for advocating positions that the government opposes."
Mahmoud Khalil is a green card holder. A Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States. He was arrested for First Amendment-protected political speech and is now being deported because of it. His deportation, not his protests, are the real Anti-American activity.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Mahmoud Khalil is a green card holder. A Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States. He was arrested for First Amendment-protected political speech and is now being deported because of it. His deportation, not his protests, are the real Anti-American activity.
This quote from the WWI Memorial hits hard right now. We owe it not just to ourselves and future generations to defend this country’s ideals, but also to those past who died to defend them.
March 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This quote from the WWI Memorial hits hard right now. We owe it not just to ourselves and future generations to defend this country’s ideals, but also to those past who died to defend them.
WaPo Headline: “Trump advances unconventional interpretation of First Amendment, university governance.”
March 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
WaPo Headline: “Trump advances unconventional interpretation of First Amendment, university governance.”