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See this? This is my shocked face: 🙄

The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.

Okay, Frito-Lay, just because I *can* parse that sentence, that does not imply that I should have been made to parse that sentence 😒

It's the lead poisoning 🤷‍♂️

Wake school board approves Freedom to Read grants. Critics say they promote porn. The grants promoting Banned Books Week events comes as state lawmakers want to make it easier to remove books from school libraries.

The right-wing has now just switched to calling anything they want to suppress "porn." It's all so transparent and dumb.

And they'll keep doing it, keep going after books, purging libraries, banning websites so long as elected officials continue to buckle.

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.

Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Just cruel.

My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.

Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office.

If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.

BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."

HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.

I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.

We told you this was coming

www.advocate.com/politics/ant...

Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...

Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Not satisfied with merely slashing Medicaid

Republicans now want to demolish MEDICARE as well

Which would severely harm seniors and disabled people

Plus bankrupt rural hospitals

Seriously-how many Americans are Trump and MAGA Republicans going to kill so they can give Elon Musk another tax break

Let's be clear about what that means:

Behind closed doors, while their constituents slept, Republicans snuck a new ABORTION BAN into the fine print of an already awful bill. A 🚨 marketplace-wide, nationwide ban on abortion coverage that will impact every. single. state. 🚨

The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.

Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.

I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”

NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.

If you’re looking for something to make your blood boil, try this: “Paying so-called ‘experts’ to deliberate bad ideas for hundreds of hours is exactly the kind of waste that DOGE is eliminating,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Nature in a statement.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.

The US is ceding global leadership to China.

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

🧪⚛️. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

I haaate it 😭

my mother was one this crowd. protested abortion clincs. Against HIV research. "All Jews go to hell" and Pro-Israel. She so badly wanted the rapture to happen. So if she, as a church going christian believed Donald Trump was the anti-christ, she would vote for him for that reason alone. Monsters.

A held onion..log?

One of the thicker onions

Welp: it's Influenza A

Jon Schweppe, the new Senior Policy Advisor to the FTC, advocates for the federal government to seize foreign domains that don't comply with US age-verification antiporn laws.

Given that a wide swath of the right believes that nearly all LGBTQ+ content is "porn," this is especially concerning.

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Increasingly clear that these folks have no understanding of how people live their lives, and this is why they are constantly describing the creepiest shit imaginable and telling you it’s cool.

The only thing they have to sell at this point is surveillance.

buddy if you want some guy from chicago to tell you to hold a sword, i bet someone runs a LARP campaign in hyde park