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I’m not a physicist but I play one on my podcast, The New Quantum Era. I talk with researchers working on quantum computing, which is just as mind-blowing as you might think. He/him https://www.newquantumera.com/

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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

12.10.2025 18:20 — 👍 14790    🔁 2617    💬 283    📌 75

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

12.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 4820    🔁 975    💬 34    📌 33
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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

12.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 23753    🔁 6629    💬 763    📌 700

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

12.10.2025 03:25 — 👍 2023    🔁 284    💬 61    📌 19

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

11.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 3447    🔁 1566    💬 91    📌 115
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

12.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 14840    🔁 7347    💬 645    📌 850

RFK Jr fired 1000 people from the CDC late last night.

He wiped out entire teams that investigate disease outbreaks, infectious disease responses, data collection, and more.

Yes, this should aIarm you!!!!

12.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 745    🔁 367    💬 61    📌 22
Since subsidies became more generous in 2021, overall enrollment has more than tripled in six red states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia.

Since subsidies became more generous in 2021, overall enrollment has more than tripled in six red states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia.

Interesting phrasing here. Subsidies did not magically “become more generous.” The American Rescue Plan of 2021, which every Republican in Congress voted against, expanded these subsidies thanks to Congressional Democrats and President Biden, who signed it into law.

11.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 162    🔁 53    💬 5    📌 4

‼️This is important! Take the time to learn the basic facts. I like to the present them in the form of a question then provide the answer when they invariably don’t know. Pointing out that the GOP universally opposed all these things that red states now like can be eye-opening.

11.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

That makes sense - boomers enshrined the late 60s/early 70s as the platonic ideal of every aspect of culture. Good thing for you they have, as a group, demonstrated their ability to behave extremely Normal at all times while online.

11.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People are so WEIRD about music and musicians!! I’m afraid as you get closer to the present day people are just going to get weirder.

11.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

11.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 5629    🔁 1643    💬 154    📌 54
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Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

It's official:

-2025 is now a more threatening year for the survival of the republic than 1968.

-John Roberts will now go down in history as a worse chief justice than Roger "Dred Scott" Taney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

11.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 708    🔁 257    💬 27    📌 6

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

10.10.2025 21:22 — 👍 14191    🔁 5806    💬 590    📌 225
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And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

10.10.2025 18:40 — 👍 13609    🔁 3764    💬 383    📌 91

Chicago residents are now following ICE vehicles, honking horns and shouting warnings before raids begin. This is what community defense looks like. 💪

09.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 685    🔁 172    💬 13    📌 5

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

10.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 879    🔁 247    💬 3    📌 0

Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump

10.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 2106    🔁 277    💬 120    📌 8

Trump, a vocal war crimes enthusiast for more than a decade, is mad he didn’t get the nobel so his aides are gonna spend all day humiliating themselves in competition over who can kiss his ass better

10.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 1152    🔁 164    💬 21    📌 7

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

10.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 4126    🔁 1334    💬 24    📌 0
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

10.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 13099    🔁 3326    💬 309    📌 172
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Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

10.10.2025 03:28 — 👍 3087    🔁 847    💬 193    📌 66
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

10.10.2025 01:23 — 👍 10920    🔁 3181    💬 96    📌 233
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Indicting your political enemies because they’re your enemies, not because they’ve committed crimes, is unAmerican.

09.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 15827    🔁 3748    💬 646    📌 157

Ridiculous, laughable assholes. Flushing our nation’s credibility down the drain.

09.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They should create a new Nobel prize for shitty stupid jerk criminal and he could win that hands down.

09.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

09.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 538    🔁 124    💬 25    📌 9
NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats" subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

09.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 11484    🔁 2795    💬 493    📌 231
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20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

09.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 13874    🔁 5490    💬 692    📌 367

@sebastian is following 20 prominent accounts