From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

The importance of basic research
“no one wants to see taxpayers’ monies being misspent. But world-changing discoveries often occur unexpectedly and are built on years…decades — of fundamental research that expanded our knowledge of the world”
🧪 #Research #Scicomm

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fiorello La Guardia.

Jimmy Kimmel must have known this might happen. It didn’t stop him. - The Boston Globe The "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host hasn't been shy about criticizing the Trump administration.

I disagree strongly with @chrisvognar.bsky.social in the Globe. He had no way of knowing what would happen. His words were relatively mild. He didn't celebrate anything. Comedians have never been treated this way. He criticizes Emperor Nero often and harshly. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/a...

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writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

The Wage Gap Between CEOs And Workers Is Widening—And This Popular Company Is The Biggest Offender The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.

And so Feds REALLY shouldn’t be doing local cop work. Again, not an insult. But fed LE work, whatever the mission, isn’t local police work. Not even close. It’s important & has its place. But local issues ain’t it. Same with the military. There is a reason it’s not done.

The Feds are hugely important in solving fed + local crimes, and in prosecuting these crimes. Can’t overstate how important local US Attorney/FBI/ATF offices are for working with locals on gun crimes. But feds cosplaying as cops in camo isn’t police work. It’s anti police work.

Not an insult, but feds aren’t cops. If you’re not responding to 911 calls, you’re not a cop. You are ‘law enforcement’, which for the feds ranges from security guard-plus to FBI/DEA/ATF etc. Lots of fed law enforcement is security guard-plus. I know, I was one & now I’m a cop

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

James Madison:

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

Putin is already demonstrating his mind games.

Making the President of the United States wait on a plane waiting for him.

This is a power play that Trump doesn't even realize.

This car ride with just Trump and Putin is a massive fuck up on Trump.

Putin 2
Trump 0

More shiny outrage to distract from Epstein.

The Trump regime is way out of bounds and must be reined in. Voters, we know our mission: Insist on free and fair elections, then vote the complicit GOP out of office.

The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t).

I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

SEC chair attended Don Jr.’s party before SEC granted Don Jr.-backed gun company approval to go public - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Donald Trump Jr. launched a new public company called GrabAGun which has pitched itself as the “Amazon of guns.”

Hear us out: Maybe the chair of the SEC shouldn't have gone to a party at Don Jr.'s private club before the SEC greenlit public trading of a Don Jr.-backed gun company.

And maybe Don Jr. shouldn't be capitalizing on his father's political power.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israel-Gaza war live: anger grows over Israeli far-right minister praying at al-Aqsa mosque Itamar Ben-Gvir attended holy site in breach of ‘status quo’ arrangements with Muslim authorities

"Saudi Arabia has joined condemnations of far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to al-Aqsa mosque today.

The minister of national security travelled to the holy site and prayed there with a reported group of 1,250 people. Police were pictured alongside Ben-Gvir."

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”

(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

World Food Program said this week that the crisis in Gaza has reached “astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.”

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.

A lesson on how to write a headline.

Image from X saying basically, "Your neighbor is your family."

Since this is making the rounds. Just.... no. After Jesus says, "Love your Neighbor," someone asks, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus responds with the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in which he tells the audience that the ethnic group they hate the most are their neighbors. ⚓ #ActuallyReadTheBible