Jules Shur (she/her)

Jules Shur (she/her)

@jasuhr.bsky.social

57 Followers 54 Following 5 Posts Joined Dec 2024
6 months ago
RFK Jr. fired the CDC director, tore up vaccine contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and put anti-vaxxers in charge of public health.  He’s telling parents to fight measles with vitamin A and cod liver oil like it’s 1825.  If you feel like your kids are less safe you’re right.  This is what happens when loyalty gets the job over competence.

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr.
www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

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6 months ago

A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response.

Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.

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6 months ago
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Since men have done such a shit job of running this country for the first 250 years, I suggest letting women run it for the next 250 years. At the end of their tenure we can decide who’s better at this.

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Trump isn’t just remodeling the White House. He’s rebranding America. The president’s tacky aesthetic is a window into his quest to become the single most enduring symbol of America.

"His true desire, it seems, wasn’t to simply become the president of the United States, but to become the single most enduring representation of America itself."

www.vox.com/politics/459...

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8 months ago

What???

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After Her Grants Got Cut, This Researcher Is Suing The NIH Katie Edwards has lost millions of dollars in grant money, bringing her research to a standstill. She’s taking the fight to court.

At least hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants have been lost since January. This scientist, who studies violence against marginalized communities, is now suing the NIH.

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8 months ago
There are simple unintentional falsehoods that cause no harm.  And there are little white lies that seem harmless but sometimes cause unintentional damage.  Then there are the blatant, devastating lies that kill people.  This is one of those lies.

RFK Jr. the polio vaccine “killed far more people” than the polio virus itself.

@greenhousemd.bsky.social

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8 months ago

Get the fuck out of my town you creeps

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8 months ago

Wish we could have been there but joined the Chicago protest....just a tad bigger lol

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9 months ago

Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing.

#ProudBlue

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9 months ago
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When Trump returned to office in January, Ohio’s largest food bank was already slammed. Then he cut its funding reut.rs/45HxMm3

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9 months ago

Sounds like the administration might be tempted to simply blame every disaster on DOGE. Not so fast, guys. Who handed that group the keys to *everything* in the first place?

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9 months ago
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Videos from Elizabeth Warren about 4 disastrous bombs in the big beautiful bill (links below) in comments…

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9 months ago
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We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

Who is Leonard Leo?

He's a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office. But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.

By @andykroll.bsky.social‬
(Published Oct. 2023)

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9 months ago
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The Fall Of The Broman Empire Donald VS. Elon 2025

REJOICE IN THE LAMENTATIONS OF THINE ENEMIES!!!
May they all destroy each other and rot in hell!
SMITE!!!

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Oh, no biggie, just the President of the United States having a chuckle over D Day, suggesting that it was not a good day for Germany.

Merz corrected him— actually, no, D-Day marks the LIBERATION of Germany from Nazi dictatorship. A good day.

Sir, for the love of goddesses, READ A HISTORY BOOK.

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9 months ago
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June 5, 2025 Today the U.S.

June 5, 2025

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9 months ago

the word y’all looking for is:

#testerical

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9 months ago

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz.

The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.

But there was a slight hitch.

It hallucinated the size of those deals.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

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I hate my X!
Big, beautiful breakup—Trump-Elon bromance explodes into insults, threats
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U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.

This might be the most foolish decision by a government since the acceptance of the Trojan horse. 🤦🏻‍♀️
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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9 months ago
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Meeting With South African Leader Turns Contentious Over False Genocide Claims

The meeting didn't magically "turn contentious" and it was Trump who made the "false genocide claims," rhetoric that is part of the playbook of the racist right. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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9 months ago

If you’re still up at 1AM tonight after the Timberwolves game, you can tune into C-SPAN to watch an important hearing on the GOP tax scam bill. GOP leaders chose the dead of night, because their bill would take away health care from nearly 14 million Americans.

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9 months ago
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Klinefelter syndrome - Wikipedia

Klinefelter syndrome can come from more than two X chromosomes. There are other intersex biological possibilities. And XYY aneuploidies.

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10 months ago
Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

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