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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 they’ve turned against vaccines for the same reason they’ve turned against weather forecasting & broadband access & childcare tax credits: it’s an area where government investment has an obvious benefit for the public and thus must be eliminated to reduce trust in government’s abilities.

06.08.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 1930    πŸ” 485    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Lmao

06.08.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 606    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 6

i’m only sad his ass kicking wasn’t politically motivated

06.08.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

This is why narratives like β€œwoke” groups forced politicians into β€œridiculous” 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€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been saying from the start that these little DOGE demons didn’t appear to be factoring in β€œyou will have to walk around in public and no one is paying for your private security” to their evil schemes

being ostentatiously and outrageously evil has consequences for one’s public life

05.08.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 588    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 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 fuckin’ 15 year old

06.08.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1041    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Self-termination is most likely’: 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

β€œHistory is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. β€œIt is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”

05.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 9

Tired: Wrong side of the train tracks

Wired: Wrong side of the sugarcane fields

05.08.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians β€œI like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a β€œblack snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

05.08.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1544    πŸ” 673    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Look, we’re 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€” πŸ‘ 852    πŸ” 191    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 19

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

05.08.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8299    πŸ” 2679    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 15389    πŸ” 5952    πŸ’¬ 490    πŸ“Œ 261

They LITERALLY want dead women to have to carry fetuses to term but live babies to die of preventable illnesses. That’s a GOAL of theirs, not a side effect.

05.08.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 989    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 3

Our boys will be boys, your boys will be men before they can get a learner’s permit.

05.08.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They need to be understood and indulged because these kids need discipline and correcting violence.

05.08.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

i continue to think that β€œfamily annihilator” is a useful frame for the trump administration futurism.com/white-house-...

05.08.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2493    πŸ” 726    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 71

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€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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