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U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

Personality cults are the crabs of human social organization. We just keep endlessly producing them, regardless of the context.

48% yes, 19% no, 32% don't know for proportional representation. That's with very little public campaign for PR so far.

Tracks similar results we found a couple of years ago polling various reforms in Wyoming. It's not some wonky thing only nerds get. The concept is intuitive and naturally popular.

Well if you didn't make the state a single district you would still have gerrymandering opportunity

Each state would be one district

@hueyli.bsky.social has been beating the drum on this recently, I hope he sees these numbers

Wow! That's a lot higher support level than I expected. And that 32%"don't know" means there's a high ceiling

In light of current gerrymandering efforts by several states, would you support a national change to move to making each state its own congressional district that sends to Congress representatives proportional to the vote for that party within that state?

YouTube video by PBS Should U.S. Territories Be States? | Civics Made Easy

Territories should be given the offer to become states or to become independent countries

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Concentration camps for the homeless

One year ago

We should judge a political philosophy by total net value it offers to add if implemented. If your ideology offers benefits for the few, if it requires scapegoating, if it reduces the bounty for all, then your beliefs are garbage.

this is the moderate position

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Election 2025 - CA Prop 50 I never say this, but this time your vote matters.

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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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Have you ever been lost in a video game level, wandering empty halls, until you know you're going the right way because you finally run into enemies? Because you don't know what to do without conflict? Well some people live their real lives that way

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

Trump is now calling up National Guard troops from states to send them into other states.

He’s trying to send California troops into Oregon & Texas troops into Illinois.

This is illegal & threatens to tear apart our country even further.

He is trying to provoke a civil war.

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

ACS data is far from perfect, but I think it helps illustrate the reality that most "vacant" units are short-term vacancies related to either typical housing market churn, special / seasonal use cases, repairs, etc

70% of vacant units have been empty for less than 1 year

The sub-categories of this "other vacancy" category that most closely approximate a long-term, chronically vacated unit together comprise about 1.4 million units (or 1% of all "vacant" units nationwide)

But keep in mind that many of these are not in good condition

The backlash to Trump's immigration agenda has impacted broader attitudes about the value of immigration in America apnorc.org/projects/abo...

Or even if they're real people, how do you know they are even in America?

What I mean is, you may be right there are accounts calling for civil war online, and you may be right there's more each day, but how can you tell those are real people and not Russian bots?

How can you tell when the calls for civil war online could easily be coming from bots controlled by America's adversaries? Social media is swimming in propaganda attempting to meme its way into our cultural discussions.

he was instrumental in getting trump to pardon war criminals during trump’s first term and is participating in war crimes at the moment. i bet if you pushed him just a little bit he’d tell you that his much vaunted “warrior mindset” just means a willingness to kill civilians