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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

As a former foreign sub award recipient I can safely say the grant had a LOT of financial oversight (so much paperwork!). What we do with population-based data in Sweden isn’t easy to do (or possible in many cases) in the US. Plus the data don’t cost much! this is really stupid.

Text on dumpster reads "Empty when full"

Sunday Sillies: Schroedinger's Dumpster edition

Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Who wants to set the over/under on when the first tariffs get walked back? I’m going to place it at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Trump will announce he’s extracted some incredible concessions, like China is discontinuing its DEI program or something.

The US stock market has lost over $2 trillion in the last 20 minutes.

Nice, nice. Nice.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

The Trump administration just texted me all of its plans to destroy the country. You can read all about it in my new book, which will appear in February 2029.

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT THE FUCK, CHUCK?

More explicit threatening of allies in violation of our obligations under God knows how many treaties and rules.

ou can make all the ableist bullshit jokes that he's sundowning (at 2PM in the afternoon), because you fail to understand what's actually happening here.

This really is serious, he's actually trying to destabilize and seize Canada.

Santa Clarita diet

When they took this from us something broke

THIS. “Vaccines cause autism” is untrue, but also implies that having an autistic kid is worse than your kid dying.

In every lawyer’s career, you have work and clients you may not believe in. But when that work involves abandoning the rule of law - you have crossed the line and no longer serve your profession or ethics

Things are really bad when Mike Pence is fighting the good fight.
Really bad.

The founding truth of America is we have no king. The founding truth of America is under comprehensive attack, and it deserves a defense from everyone loyal to the constitution.

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- If you want to avoid plane crashes, don't fire FAA staff

- If you want to avoid outbreaks, don't fire CDC & EIS staff

- If you want to excel in science, don't fire NIH & NSF staff

- If you want to protect the environment, don't fire EPA staff

- If you want drug safety, don't fire FDA staff

me in 2077: what people forget is that there were a half dozen plane crashes each month before the Great AI Plane Skyfall of 2025

grandson: wow so everybody thought AI was going to fix all of that?

me: haha what? oh. no. not even kind of. No

Maybe I went to a farm and sniffed up some avian flu in my sneaky cat nose. How would you even know?

Not like they’re tracking that stuff for farm workers, who are literally such important people for us all

During my residency training in South India in the 90s, I never saw measles or whooping cough

Do you why?

Because of high vaccine coverage

In 2025, we simply should not be seeing these vaccine preventable diseases. Period.

I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days. What they are doing is gutting programs they don’t like according to Project 2025. They haven’t done any analysis and don’t even know the functions of the departments they are cutting.

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall.

That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

Uganda’s Ebola Sudan outbreak appears stable

No transmission has been found outside of a single chain, and eight patients in treatment are stable.

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Manhattan’s U.S. attorney resigned just days after being ordered to drop the corruption case against New York City’s mayor. So did the two men who led the unit in DC to which DOJ sought to transfer the case. This is what public integrity looks like.