ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)

Y’all, yes, he’s definitely ignorant & delusional but ALSO quite obviously hard of hearing. “oh I’ll be looking into that” or “X will make a decision on that” def broadcasts lack of understanding but I can’t chalk 100% of that up to cognitive disarray when he clearly can’t hear reporter ?’s clearly

I'm so excited to be hiring my first postdoc! If you love retinal biology and developing new therapeutics to cure blindness, please apply! Thank you to the @brightfocus.bsky.social for supporting my research and enabling me to grow my research team! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

It’s an intolerable abomination imo

“Considering”? Such a will o’ the wisp, that guy. No telling where he’ll turn up

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Screenshot of a 404 page(from following the link in the OP) on Fox News website that reads “something has gone wrong…”. “It seems yoh clicked on a bad link and stumbled on a 404 page” Below this is a search box, and below that the message “here’s what you might be looking for” above a ball cap with a Christian cross on the side and a stylized American flag shaped like the continental US above the word “FREEDOM”. The hat is sitting on a wooden surface with a woodsy fall background. This is 100% not what I was looking for.

Uuuhhhh

The center at Duke that I'm fortunate to lead studies the effects of aid cuts; we recently summarized key lessons from our research at www.brookings.edu/articles/nav...

One key conclusion: sudden, poorly planned donor exits, like the one @jamellebouie.net describes, cause disease resurgence & death

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Noem’s agenda for the trip has not been announced.

Sen. Wyden had a blunt response: “Kristi Noem is cosplaying as a public official. In reality, she’s been sent by Trump to incite violence."

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/kristi-noem-visiting-portland-today-city-officials-confirm.html

Passive aggressive level 100 this is how we roll in the PNW 🤣 Protesters in Portland are going ice fishing with donuts as bait on fishing polls, holding dance offs in front of ICE barricades in goofy costumes and just being incredibly annoying to ICE there's no violence from protesters whatsoever.

"The disbelief that Trump could rise in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait; it’s a confession."

They pay the ER less for treating pregnant people because it doesn’t cost much to say “there’s not much we can legally do for you until your fetus dies and you yourself are at death’s door. Please wait in the parking lot”

Sweet Californians, send those ballots back ASAP, so the volunteers don't need to bother with you. TikTok video by LOLGOP

If you're a California voter, please vote YES ON 50 and send that ballot back ASAP so the volunteers don't waste any time on you. And maybe volunteer if you have the time.

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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek denounces president’s attempts to send National Guard to Portland Kotek told OPB's "Think Out Loud" that there is "not a factual need" for National Guard troops in Portland.

The governor spoke with OPB's "Think Out Loud" yesterday about recent events in Portland, where the president wants to deploy National Guard troops. Whether Trump has that authority now rests in the courts. In Kotek's view, it is unlawful and "the rule of law has to hold.”

Something to think of as you watch all the Nobel Prize announcements to a variety of American immigrant scientists

Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) on AI art theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar...

Eleven percent is too many. No evidence Tylenol causes autism. Pregnant women with untreated fever have a higher risk of miscarriage and other serious complications

Number of whale sightings off Cornwall 'gone through the roof' A wildlife charity says rising numbers of humpback whales is "one of the greatest recovery stories".

A bit of good news for you all. Humpback whales almost extinct in 1960s ->down to ~150 individuals.
Today -> 250,000!
Huge success. There is hope.

Number of whale sightings off Cornwall 'gone through the roof' - BBC News share.google/ZA48GdNwuuCd...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

"Many mental health professionals and patient advocates say treating this as First Amendment speech could set a precedent under which any counseling is claimed to be free speech and no longer subject to professional standards, even if it's dangerous or inappropriate."

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’ A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids.

There are now a shocking *60,000* people in a Facebook group dedicated to an unproven autism treatment being pushed by the Trump administration.

That's just one of many disturbing details in this must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

Nice interview with Oregon’s hardworking AG @agdanrayfield.bsky.social here

I have!

Retinas, man. I never get tired of looking at them—from any species

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans talk a big game about toning down political violence. But last week I called for a vote on my bill that would have given all Americans, including judges and other elected officials like this necessary privacy protections to stay safe. Republicans blocked it.