Jason Hertel

Here's your comments as a jpg, so they can fit in a Bluesky post😄 (gracias to the NPR Marketplace transcripts).

16.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 38    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

09.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 48956    🔁 12510    💬 1140    📌 439

Question from John Arnold on Twitter: What happens when the executive branch just ignores a judicial injunction, because that’s the inevitable endgame here. US Marshalls [sic] are supposed to enforce contempt of court orders but they’re under the executive branch. How is this going to play out?

This, notably from a Meta board member, is where all of this ends. The only question is how quickly we get there. But his question — and the unknown that follows — is real.

10.02.2025 03:07 — 👍 1565    🔁 361    💬 84    📌 29

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

07.02.2025 22:22 — 👍 12225    🔁 3802    💬 683    📌 235

Republicans in Congress mostly shrug as Musk and DOGE set sights on spending Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.

Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the administration to suspend spending that they've already approved.

05.02.2025 14:09 — 👍 1122    🔁 276    💬 140    📌 41

Ha! Hot take, but accurate.

29.01.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What happened to the theory “We all do better when we all do better”? Now it is the “Billionaires become trillionaires when the have nots have nothing”.

I miss hoping (pretending?) we cared about all folks.

29.01.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0