@joachim123.bsky.social
Scientist, 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize (math and computational methods underlying cryo-EM of biological molecules), fiction writer, photographer, gardener. Climate change, science education, fight of fascism franxfiction.com and joachimfranklab.org
The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.
06.03.2026 17:22 β π 3286 π 682 π¬ 54 π 61Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!
07.03.2026 03:43 β π 88 π 25 π¬ 5 π 292,000 jobs GONE in February. Look at that chart β the red bars only started appearing after January 2025. Biden handed him a booming job market. Trump turned it into a graveyard. This isnβt a headwind. This is self-inflicted economic destruction. #TrumpsJobsSlumpββββββββββββββββ
06.03.2026 19:51 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Like clockwork.
06.03.2026 17:30 β π 20473 π 8112 π¬ 855 π 432See ya and your blanket, LOSERβ¦
05.03.2026 19:58 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0People were marketed a machine to survive a Mad Max style apocalypse but got a machine killing them in suburban America
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Four democrats voted AGAINST a war powers resolution that wouldβve forced Trump to seek congressional approval to continue waging Israelβs war on Iran.
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Jared Golden (ME)
Greg Landsman (OH)
Juan Vargas (CA)
The resolution failed 219-212.
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Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
04.03.2026 19:13 β π 28189 π 7522 π¬ 1132 π 680AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They donβt know why they got into this war. Theyβre talking about a hundred different reasons, and they donβt know how theyβre getting out.
04.03.2026 23:36 β π 16119 π 4484 π¬ 383 π 164Only the best people....
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A more complete set of voices in a companion piece.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...
AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time heβs done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.
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You've got to watch this! Kristi Noem gave $143 million contract to a friend. The company was just created 8 days before she gave them all this money. She has no idea where the company is headquartered and it goes back to a political operative. Corrupt.
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Jayapal: DHS is supposed to be protecting our residents. You have actually turned the United States government against its own residents. Yours is a case of failed leadership secretary, you need to resign, be fired, or be impeached.
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NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
Karoline Leavitt told us the US State Department was helping Americans stranded in the Middle East.
She lied.
One Texas woman in Dubai called the State Department hotline, was scolded for being scared and then hung up on.
This administration is *full* of incompetent, rude people.
Navel Gazing of the new "Patriots"
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Lawmakers call on Columbia, NYPD to release video footage in ICE arrest of student
Columbia University sends alerts w/photos of individuals who steal packages, so why aren't they providing footage of ICE thugs who illegally terrorize their students?
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Nancy Mace moves that the Oversight Committee subpoena Pam Bondi to testify about the Epstein investigation
04.03.2026 15:53 β π 1645 π 352 π¬ 91 π 31Screenshot of an X post by journalist Jonathan Karl quoting a message heard when calling the State Department emergency number, advising Americans not to rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. Below is a video still of Karl speaking in a newsroom.
Rubioβs State Department had all this time to prepare but failed to consider what the impact would be. Just like what happened with USAID when they gutted it overnight. Criminal incompetence.
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Magnificent prescient writing!
She has no sense of self, no sense of humanity, no ethics, no sense of government's responsibilities. She is thoroughly empty, just reflexively spitting White House-prepared counterattacks when questions are put to her. Trump has surrounded himself with empty shells
βplease do not rely on the US government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time. there are currently no United States evacuation points.β β the recorded message you hear when you call the Office of Overseas Citizens Services hotline.
I'm not making this up. if you're an American stranded in the Middle East and you call the State Department help line, you get a recorded message pretty much telling you to go fuck yourself. thank you for your attention to my extremely angry post about it. link is here: bit.ly/409JSAA
04.03.2026 16:53 β π 1452 π 509 π¬ 88 π 27MTG realizes she can make more money fighting Trump than supporting him.
03.03.2026 18:16 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Brandon Straka: Iβm at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.
Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.
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