Austen Rachlis

timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."

Experimental philosophy

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

2 images from hackers as characters converse. "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." "Zero Cool crashed 1.507 systems in one day, biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times August 10, 1988"

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

He resigned the governor’s office in disgrace and currently holds no office.

Where is he going to propose this little law? A Panera on Long Island?

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Generational public health sabotage

I… will never forgive y’all.

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.


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I also sing "A Blessing on our house, Archie Cat, Archie Cat; Such a good cat is she, Archie Cat, Archie Cat" to the tune of "The Dream" from Fiddler.

NYC is serious danger of ruining a fine tradition of only choosing the worst mayor

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Voters want somebody who's got that dog in them. They see that in Trump, old & stupid as he is. They will never see it in the kind of candidate James Carville thinks ought to win.

The Modern Ambulance Podcast Episode · American Innovations · S22 E1 · 42m

Finally catching up with The Pitt and was thrilled when they did a storyline around the Freedom House Ambulance Service. Wrote one of my favorite podcast scripts I've written about Freedom House:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

My most recent Business Wars!

My very first episode of Business Wars!

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I re-upped my MMR in 2019 due to a titer test saying I had faded immunity and I did get 2 shots, FWIW.

DO YOU NEED A MEASLES BOOSTER?

Measles outbreaks in parts of Texas and New Mexico are raising deeply serious concerns about the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. Measles is, in fact, one of the world’s most contagious diseases.

Please, carefully read the gift article below…

Alabama: Medicaid
Alaska : DenaliCare
Arizona: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
Arkansas: Health Care
California: Medi-Cal
Colorado: Health First Colorado
Connecticut: HuskyHealth, Husky C (for aged, blind or disabled persons)
Delaware: Diamond State Health Plan (Plus)

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

This is incredible news and I wish I could be happy about it instead of furious that funding for research like this is getting cut off.

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

Guess we'll be engaging in some vaccine tourism this year. WTAF.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

These people are complete and utter ghouls.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

Senators should be fined if they either a) don't have voicemail set up (like @padilla.senate.gov) or b) let their voicemail boxes sit filled up (like @schiff.senate.gov). Our representatives should be obligated to make it as easy as possible for their constituents to reach them.

Apparently there’s a “kickoff” meeting between the DOGE people and Department of Labor management planned for tomorrow at 4pm ET.

Unrelatedly, the Frances Perkins Building that houses the Dept of Labor is located at 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20210.