US health agency to wind down mRNA vaccine development
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday it would wind down mRNA vaccine development activities under its biomedical research unit.
I think theyβve turned against vaccines for the same reason theyβve turned against weather forecasting & broadband access & childcare tax credits: itβs an area where government investment has an obvious benefit for the public and thus must be eliminated to reduce trust in governmentβs abilities.
06.08.2025 00:34 β π 288 π 89 π¬ 10 π 8
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
06.08.2025 00:42 β π 1930 π 485 π¬ 33 π 39
Almost everyone actually fucking hates science because it's decidedly not a neutral tool that you can wield to arbitrary ends. Science is a *value set* that conflicts with almost all other value sets. It does not comply or compromise, because truth is ruthlessly invasive and imperialistic.
06.08.2025 03:30 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
It drives me mad that people speak of "science & technology" as if they were the same thing, when they're so completely different.
Technology is pragmatic and gives you capacities.
Science is idealistic and aggressively rips open your skull to invasively change your basic models and values.
06.08.2025 03:26 β π 35 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Lmao
06.08.2025 02:11 β π 606 π 60 π¬ 9 π 6
iβm only sad his ass kicking wasnβt politically motivated
06.08.2025 01:24 β π 56 π 5 π¬ 2 π 2
This is why narratives like βwokeβ groups forced politicians into βridiculousβ language deserves some pushback without any proof because it feeds into this very idea of Black governance as an absurdity.
06.08.2025 00:25 β π 159 π 16 π¬ 1 π 0
Imagine telling future history students that in 2025 the president wanted to do The Troubles in DC because a Republican got beaten up by a girl, they'd just assume it was some weird metaphor
06.08.2025 01:08 β π 53 π 7 π¬ 3 π 0
Iβve been saying from the start that these little DOGE demons didnβt appear to be factoring in βyou will have to walk around in public and no one is paying for your private securityβ to their evil schemes
being ostentatiously and outrageously evil has consequences for oneβs public life
05.08.2025 23:04 β π 588 π 78 π¬ 26 π 9
imagine being a 19 year old man and having both the president and the wealthiest man in the world claim you fought off a dozen men and then like two hours later it becoming public knowledge you got your shit wrecked by a fuckinβ 15 year old
06.08.2025 01:02 β π 1041 π 236 π¬ 29 π 17
There's something very unsettling about the most horrifying strain of MAGA being the one that horseshoed itself from progressivism into an alliance with fascism.
This granola crunch shit used to be *very* left-coded. Now it's ripping up the medical and public health foundations of our civilization.
06.08.2025 00:18 β π 299 π 34 π¬ 9 π 10
Bouie makes an excellent point here too that this is where we see RFK Jr.'s eugenicism clearly. Vaccines are not needed because those with good genes will survive, while those who are weaker will be culled.
05.08.2025 23:40 β π 48 π 13 π¬ 2 π 0
βSelf-termination is most likelyβ: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
βHistory is best told as a story of organised crime,β Kemp says. βIt is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.β
05.08.2025 23:48 β π 115 π 33 π¬ 5 π 9
Tired: Wrong side of the train tracks
Wired: Wrong side of the sugarcane fields
05.08.2025 22:42 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians
βI like to call it 'structured' racism.β
Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a βblack snowβ falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. Theyβre only allowed when itβs blowing into poor, majority black areas.
05.08.2025 22:40 β π 1544 π 673 π¬ 37 π 42
This is the game theoretic correct answer. Costs for bad behavior are insurance against future bad behavior. In the language of deterrence specifically, impoverishing and neutering the Republican power centers is deterrence by denial as well. Can't fund candidates if your ass is broke and in jail.
05.08.2025 23:39 β π 115 π 32 π¬ 1 π 1
Look, weβre not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power?
Revenge is very much something that we can do.
05.08.2025 23:15 β π 852 π 191 π¬ 43 π 19
Weβve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and itβs being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isnβt even nihilism, itβs outright worship of death and human suffering.
05.08.2025 23:09 β π 8299 π 2679 π¬ 46 π 141
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
05.08.2025 22:54 β π 15389 π 5952 π¬ 490 π 261
They LITERALLY want dead women to have to carry fetuses to term but live babies to die of preventable illnesses. Thatβs a GOAL of theirs, not a side effect.
05.08.2025 23:26 β π 989 π 201 π¬ 14 π 3
Our boys will be boys, your boys will be men before they can get a learnerβs permit.
05.08.2025 20:59 β π 56 π 10 π¬ 1 π 0
They need to be understood and indulged because these kids need discipline and correcting violence.
05.08.2025 20:55 β π 29 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
This is why the DOGE kids and loneliness crisis exist, they have to be perpetually innocent and young because these kids are guilty and adultified.
05.08.2025 20:53 β π 57 π 10 π¬ 2 π 0
Trump I was on the merits not as bad as Reagan or Dubya or Nixon until Jan 6th, but Trump II is like, easily in WOAT territory and its only 7 month in
05.08.2025 19:29 β π 34 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0
The fundamental refusal of liberals to in anyway seriously engage with the idea that there shouldn't be police, shouldn't be nations, shouldn't be borders, shouldn't be states... always inevitably empowers fascists. Liberals sweat so fucking hard going, "well you're a nazi but..."
05.08.2025 21:02 β π 31 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Every time a liberal interviews a fascist and they talk about "woke" or try to define it, they literally just ramble off a set of plumbline anarchist arguments and values (which they disparage with just a scoffing tone).
It's so maddening. Literally just fucking name "anarchism" and respond to us.
05.08.2025 21:00 β π 36 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
We're living in a darkening age of epistemological neoliberalism...by which I mean that each consumer of knowledge is left entirely up to their own devices to try to figure out which bits of data are reliable & which ones are not. All of the institutions which used to help us do that work are dying.
05.08.2025 19:54 β π 175 π 42 π¬ 8 π 4
This cultural feeling is consistently anti-human in its vision of humanity, nihilistic and apocalyptic in its vision of the future, obssessed with wielding power to transform the world in its own image, unconcerned with either facticity or wellbeing of anyone and everyone
05.08.2025 19:00 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
There is a widespread cultural feeling, a new social epistemology, that privileges the imagination over the senses, the act of projective make-believe over being responsible to listening to the world, the realm of ideas over actual people and experiences.
05.08.2025 18:58 β π 21 π 4 π¬ 2 π 1
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