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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian

Chart: Relative Vaccine Efficacy (Primary End Point).

In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus.

We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.

Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.

It may be repeating the obvious, but Mary Bruce is a first-rate reporter. In the face of a presidential tirade aimed at silencing her, she calmly and professionally demonstrated why a free and independent media remains essential, asking questions that people in power don't want to answer

‘The Great Task Remaining Before Us’: Lincoln’s Vision at Gettysburg On the anniversary of his address, a reminder that democracy requires dedication.

"The wind moves across the ridge, brushing the flags and passing across the graves. And if you stand there long enough, you can almost hear his words carried back through time—not as history, but as instruction." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...

Literally just lectured about this!

In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

DeSantis’s makeover of ‘left-wing’ Florida college has been costly Gov. Ron DeSantis’s makeover of the public honors college has been thorough — and costly, a new report shows.

What's happened at New College shows that rightwingers don't actually mind if colleges do ideological indoctrination—so long as it's their ideology.

But (oh snap!) since the Gleichschaltung, it's dropped from 75th to 135th among national liberal arts colleges. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.

canceledpeople.org

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ICYMI: “.. rivaling or surpassing models hundreds of times its size, even outperforming Chinese rival DeepSeek's famed R1 that went viral at the start of this year ..”

(via @deanbaker13.bsky.social)
venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-ne...

BREAKING: Structural things remain structural, & the thing Trump believes is about trade remains primarily about money & finance

Yale Budget Lab has estimated the cost of the Trump tariff checks "is about twice as large as the total revenue that will be raised by the administration's tariff hikes."

Point is, it's not a dividend, it's borrowing from the future.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/est...

This was last week from @mattyglesias.bsky.social and it seems correct to me.

I can't believe the people are going to argue with him about this one. It is so overwhelmingly incredibly true, true to the extent that arguing against it is genuinely silly. The value of single-family detached outstrips everything else every time.

Yooooooowwwwwch this district court opinion

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

When grades stop meaning anything The UC San Diego math scandal is a warning

One of the most upsetting articles I've read in a long time www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade...

UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...

We are failing a generation of kids.

In the Shameless Hall of Fame, this is up there with voting against the Biden infrastructure bill and then campaigning on the infrastructure projects in your district.

Math education situation in California seems dire

www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade...

Like clockwork. ⏰

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/c...

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Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.

The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.

This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.

Anybody who thinks thousands of agonizing deaths is a fine price to pay for saving a fractional amount of government spending is unworthy of being listened to, let alone being given political power www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...

Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…

#MAHA agenda arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

National Republicans Send Deceptive Text to ‘Confuse and Intimidate’ Missouri Voters Read more here.

The national GOP is so afraid of Missouri voters getting the final say on the gerrymandered congressional map that they sent a mass text claiming petition signatures were "IMPROPERLY COLLECTED" & voters should "withdraw your signature before it’s too late"

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails. Here’s Why. From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths.

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/17/m...