Nur Shahir, PhD

Ohhhh I should really post more of my knitting work on here 👀

Oooooohhhhhh what are you planning on making 👀

Everything about this story is a perfect distillation of the moment.

This is analogous to someone coming up to you, stabbing MULTIPLE KNIVES INTO YOU, leaving them in you, then coming back going "I just realized that stabbing people is actually bad!!" and expecting you to forgive them.
NO, I WILL NOT I HAVE MULTIPLE KNIVES STILL IN ME!! I AM ACTUALLY QUITE ANGRY!!

Ditto for journalism. Science (outside the most investable) and media need a reset on how the survive the whims of an administration or wealthy owners

Major Combat Operation III

Glad, she is feeling sorry - but it also means Craig shouldn't be anywhere near the U.S. Senate. Minnesota has much better option in @peggyflanagan.bsky.social who will do @smith.senate.gov proud.

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Tickets are now on sale for this conference!

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Flyer for ASM DC Branch Meeting April 10th at Howard University

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This did SO MUCH more harm than good.

Literally taught folks to systematically devalue fun.

Now folks are miserable and bored.

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

I think it is absolutely scandalous that in just one year of an HHS under the leadership RFK.Jr the US has lost its Measles elimination status and is now on track to do same for perinatally acquired Hepatitis B. These are huge public health wins that took years to accomplish.

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is everyone on glue

Second child?!! This is not the first time?!??

Tweet from Ryan Grim: "Understand what Neera is arguing for here: she thinks that no Democratic candidate should appear on any podcast where a host has flirted with conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk and Israel. I don't think she understands how many podcasts that includes. And if you make the opposite argument, and say no, actually, tens of millions of people love those shows, Democrats should be on them, she says I'm "defending anti-semitic conspiracy podcasters." The good news is that this stuff doesn't work anymore. Save your breath, nobody cares."

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

Scott Galloway has been wrong about a lot of things for a long time

How and why I moved from a Bluesky server to a Blacksky server - gregpak.net Since Twitter turned into a fascist hellhole under Elon Musk, Bluesky has become my favorite social media site. But Bluesky has its own issues, primarily cen...

Here's how and why I did it.

gregpak.net/2025/11/13/h...

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites There’s now an official “Share to Mastodon” widget.

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites

The healthiest way to deal with it is probably not to indulge the innocence but to say "you absolutely knew this was who they were, you just didn't want to think about it". Anything else feels like gaslighting.

About those “stupid rules of engagement“:

www.britannica.com/event/Geneva...

Precision warfare....that hits a school 😐

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, is cloaked in secrecy.

ProPublica has sued the U.S. Department of Education
W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

"If this event contributed anything, it simply made the ongoing death more obvious and less deniable for me personally. I consider the events of the last week a kind of death rattle of the old republic, the outward expression of a body that has thrown in the towel."

Don't skip the intro.

Even the chumps who *helped Trump's corrupt goons write their AI policies giving handouts to the big corporations* have figured out that they killed constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Whoops! Wonder if they're going to do anything about it other than ... post on Substack.