matt riva

A publicly-funded study of the venomous saliva of the Gila monster is exactly the kind of silly sounding basic science John McCain and Tom Coburn used to rail about in the Senate, but it changed the course of medicine pretty substantially in the last 20y. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This is like saying “there were signs the suspect was a big game hunter, they played a catch-and-release called Pokémon Go”

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Photo by Jessica McMaster of a subscriber picking up her newspaper from the Marion County Record office

This is very sweet: The Marion County Record has a long table with labeled issues laid out for subscribers who like to stop by the office to pick up their copies. According to Jessica McMaster (who took this photo), this nice woman also dropped off off flowers on Monday in memory of Joan Meyer.

I have a pet theory that people hesitate because they think it's like health insurance when you make a claim (five layers of bureaucracy looking to deny you) when actually home and renters insurance really pays out in moments of need seamlessly and without hassle.

Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel because he knows Weiss will protect Hunter. Readers added context Marsha Blackburn was one of 34 Republican Senators that specifically requested David Weiss be extended special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Biden investigation. cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/upl...

Gotta say, this might be one of the funniest Community Notes burns ever.

new twitter is great because you'll see accounts go viral with "jeffrey epistein didnt hang himself, it was the vaccine" and they get ad revenue while news stations are like "sorry API won't let us do up to the minute updates on tornado warnings"

Yeah man we don’t really have a concrete rationale beyond hours and hours of saved commutes and money spent on commuting, this is very esoteric data that really only affects like 81 people anyway

Whole foods front signage with the w cut off by a construction awning

Also, on the topic of my mom, she was incredibly excited to show me that this awning had cut off the W, causing the sign to say HOLE FOODS

New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters A landmark $13 million settlement with the City of New York is the latest in a string of legal wins for protesters who were helped by a video-analysis tool that smashes the “bad apple” myth.

no but between this and the unchecked overtime, please tell me why again NYPD deserves the overinflated budget Adams keeps pushing

Regents have final say on tenure decisions. Given their lack of expertise, they typically defer to faculty recommendations, which are based on month-long review of research, and solicit outside letters from national experts. Tenure reviews come after a hire is made. But here, Regents signaled they would block a hire prior to any review, usurping a basic faculty role. Regents very clearly did not use any defensible due process standards in evaluating McElroy, which is standard with faculty hires. No tenure file was assembled. Instead, the candidate was judged, negatively, for working at the New York Times, and at University of Texas-Austin, because they are perceived as liberal institutions. Right wing media sources mattered more than the candidate’s actual record. The Regents also explicitly engaged in classic viewpoint discrimination: they they opposed McElroy because they viewed her as liberal, and they wanted someone who would promote “conservative values.”

Here are the four things that Texas A&M Regents did that ensured they would have to pay a big settlement once the details became known. And if McElroy had not gone to the Texas Tribune, the details might never have become known. https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-academic-freedom-in

tbh going through my t*****r follows in reverse chron order really made me miss the 2012 days

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