Well, That Was Gross

I don’t understand Japanese, but I’m starting to think this movie isn’t really about a guinea pig.

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 10, Episode 11

Norway’s $1.9 Trillion Wealth Fund Sells Off Israeli Assets Norway’s $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund has divested from 11 Israeli companies and is terminating all contracts with external managers in Israel following public outcry over its investments linke...

Norway’s $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund has divested from 11 Israeli companies and is terminating all contracts with external managers in Israel following public outcry over its investments linked to the war in Gaza.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A failure of US education is that we do a poor job teaching people about science as a process (& how to make basic evaluations of junk science).

Trust in expert consensus is good.

Expert consensus can & should change when there's more information.

This is exactly how science is supposed to work.

💉 Childhood immunisation rates drop in Michigan

A new study found that from 2017–2023, routine childhood and adolescent immunisations declined, especially in lower-income, higher-uninsured counties.

🔗 doi.org/10.1542/peds...

#SciComm 🧪 #Vaccines

And the confirmation that this is now the new “normal” in DC.. first.

It has begun

Fed law enforcement making random traffic stops near Howard University

C: Sawyer Hackett

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

the left did their part during Biden's presidency - they weren't the ones gumming up the works, everything that didn't pass was because of Manchin or Sinema

now, in the face of open fascism, a little party solidarity is the absolute least they should expect

For the idiots who said the orange felon would never be allowed to become a Dictator in the US, take a look at him literally seizing total control of Washington DC despite no legitimate reason other than to consolidate power and militarize the area he’s in just because he can.

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984

In Memory of an All-Girl Band https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483163

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

I just watched State of Seige about the 1970 US-backed Uraguayan police state and it’s incredibly evocative of how things might look very soon.

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RW butterfly effect but it starts with opposing bike lanes and ends with genocide.

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My understanding of radical behaviorism leads to me to the unavoidable conclusion that I cannot but be connected in all I have ever done or will do or think to everything around me. Kind of a puppet on the strings of the universe.

The thing that will ultimately doom me is that I do actually believe that this world was made a common treasury for everyone to share. I still struggle to articulate or understand what that entails, but there's some kinda core belief of that form which I can't shake.

Trinidad is just at the end of the H Street corridor and pretty cater corner to Capitol Hill so it’s where a lot of working class Black people are in physical proximity to affluent white people and areas zoned for “improvement”

Where does a radical behavioral understanding fit into modern political worldviews? Power Ownership Property relations Privilege Work Learning Achievement Crime Advantage Capability Incentive Structure Equality Opportunity Welfare

This is a question I haven't been able to get my head around and have never really seen writing on. #bcba

i'm basically approaching 2026/28 as the Left's United 93 election. if we don't try to take the plane back they're gonna crash it, and a lot of the stuff you have taken for granted for basically your entire life (e.g. the civil rights acts) will go away.

if that's not enough to convince em....

Rooftop Burrito Snipers

A very sad looking oversized teddy bear in a jaunty scarf, alone, leaning against a dumpster in an unutterably depressing tableau

Oh here. I took a selfie

I believe the technical term for this is “busting a capicola in that cop’s ass.”

Nothing like genocide among friends to really bring out the moral flimsiness of liberalism.