Em Gray, PhD

It’s time for the White House to start wearing adult diapers. Poor them.

Apparently the White House needs incontinence diapers: “A senior White House official said: “We are declaring a war on leakers.””

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Saw The Wild Robot on a flight. Thanks for perpetuating misguided stereotypes about animals. It’s thanks to these that people put baby bison in their car to “save” them from the cold. If you like the idea of wild robots, please read “a psalm for the wild built” by Becky Chambers instead.

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Thanks for another good laugh, Elon. I realize hundreds of flights were disrupted, and untold amounts of trash and pollution have been added to the region, but at this point I’ll just enjoy the comedic angle.

It’s absolutely hilarious to witness how stupid these sheeple are.

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

I’ll have a canadiano please 🥰

Fb is how I follow friends that live far away, but there’s too much bs filling my feed to make it healthy anymore. Somehow I was “following” Trump again this morning after never following the bastard in the first place and unfollowing him twice already! Propaganda!

Really, NY Times? He stood up and spoke out against the farce that is taking over American politics, he rose up against fascism. What happened last night was not a dramatic gesture.

Rep Al Green after being removed from Trump speech: "I'll accept the punishment. It's worth it to let people know that there's some of us who are going to stand up" against Trump and his anti-American agenda. And Green added Trump is convicted felon! This is what courage looks like!

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:

“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."

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Polish Cold War hero Walesa writes to Trump expressing 'horror' at Zelenskiy spat Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing "horror" at his argument with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

What Lesh Walesa wrote to trump is powerful. www.reuters.com/world/polish...

Full list of attendees at London Summit:
NATO SecGen
Denmark PM
Sweden PM
Germany Chancellor
Norway PM
Czech PM
Turkey FM
Spain PM
Denmark PM
EU Com & Coun President
Canada PM
Italy PM
Poland PM
Romania Interim President
Finland President
France President
UK PM
Ukraine President Zelenskyy

#NotUS

Make Measles Great Again

CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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Finally, some public leadership from a university president. More, please. Where are the leaders of the largest R1 research institutions most dependent on federal dollars?

Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out.

This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.

Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

As a scholar of American institutions, I ask in genuine bemusement and with sincerity--under exactly what fucking authority are Elon Musk and his young adult hoodlums roving around Washington, DC and gaining access to secret & sensitive government data and systems?

Constitutional crisis

I asked RFK Jr. a simple question:

Note to self - avoid guano for indoor use.

Great advice! I was also told to dress in such a way that everyone seeing you knows you’re the job candidate. As a biologist used to jeans and flannel shirt, I definitely needed practice feeling ok in a pantsuit 😂