@thomsec.bsky.social
Geographer. Happiness, climate change, human rights. “What appears to be coming at you is really coming from you.”
Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines.
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
12.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 2940 🔁 1196 💬 62 📌 23Sergeant Schultz ass MFer
12.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 45 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Good to know the attorney general didn't commit about a hundred crimes yesterday in front of Congress, I guess.
12.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 70 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0BREAKING: A judge rules Pete Hegseth violated Sen. Mark Kelly’s First Amendment rights by moving to strip him of his retired military rank for reminding troops to refuse illegal orders.
The judge called the defense secretary’s actions a threat to “the constitutional liberties of military retirees.”
under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
12.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 2821 🔁 755 💬 69 📌 39A reminder that one thing that allowed Darwin to focus on science was a large team of servants that catered to his every need.
12.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 88 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 1Punishing climate alarm didn’t just “appeal” to Pielke Jr and “analysts” at The Breakthrough Institute.
They *actively collaborated* to establish the narrative that we have already “avoided the worst case climate scenario.”
This propaganda was then amplified by the right-wing & centrist press.
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Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles
12.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 9124 🔁 1402 💬 279 📌 95This is an incredible photo.
12.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 3606 🔁 669 💬 83 📌 15“...he was having similar discussions with Joscha Bach, an AI researcher. In one exchange, Bach told Epstein that Black children in the United States “have slower cognitive development” and “are slower at learning high-level concepts.””
Why are people shocked everyone we don’t embrace this field?
this is a fascinating piece because it shows what Ruemmler - clearly the source here, probably through an intermediary - thinks is exculpatory and it's real Chinese official 'well I *have* to go to the brothel for work' stuff. which is to say, both true, corrupt, and revealing.
12.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 105 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 4What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.
09.02.2026 21:17 — 👍 2214 🔁 610 💬 15 📌 9
The Big Brother state. Pam Bondi is revealed to have ordered the monitoring of members of Congress who are examining the Epstein files. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
12.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 41 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 2easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
12.02.2026 02:26 — 👍 8804 🔁 2335 💬 115 📌 67
Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of January 2026. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies, except the Antarctic.
Quite a large temperature anomaly contrast between the poles in January, with colder anomalies in the Antarctic and significantly warmer anomalies in the Arctic.
Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 baseline.
You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me!
It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/
The plate carriers they wear are for propaganda purposes. No one’s shooting at these uniformed cowards. They’re the ones shooting, gassing & pepper-spraying unarmed people.
12.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 217 🔁 45 💬 8 📌 1
Dessin de Andy Singer en 2 cases: 1ère case: If you kill someone with a gun, it's a "murder" - You'll do 20 years to life for this. 2ème case: If you kill someone with a car, it's an "accident" - It's ok, you didn't see him.
Encore et toujours, ce dessin de #andysinger est d'une tragique actualité...
11.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Upsetting flatware continued
11.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 54 🔁 15 💬 7 📌 3
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
Ope! This is the most Minnesota thing that ever existed.
11.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 159 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 1Harold and Maude is another film that probably couldn't be made these days, but it's a classic for a reason. youtu.be/0ZzNlA9uZ0g?...
11.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
11.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 3543 🔁 940 💬 6 📌 25Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."
11.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 23284 🔁 7123 💬 804 📌 388
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
11.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 11168 🔁 6491 💬 269 📌 628Lord. Apparently Bondi turns on the water works 😭💦
11.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1"A 2023 study found that in the early years of the fracking boom, Tarrant County — the home of Fort Worth — had 60% more children born with serious birth defects than would have been expected for its population."
This story is bonkers and deserves a read. Especially if you're in/around Dallas.
my mom died of metastatic colorectal cancer at 59. she died of it because she lost insurance & couldn’t afford colonoscopies or other screening to detect it early. when she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 10 years. she made it 2.
this should never happen to anyone in a supposedly great country.
