I don’t want to use “DEI” as a pejorative in calling out ridiculous hires on the right, this term frankly deserves rest and care.

We can do just fine calling it “corruption” because that’s what it is.

Gavin Newsom’s skeets about Charlie Kirk

Ffs do not nominate this man for anything ever again

Gavin is grandstanding on Twitter while punishing trans and houseless Californians. This is what he’d be doing if he wanted to really fight.

I’d like an ICE agent to explain how putting monetary value on taking a human being from one place to another by force is not human trafficking.

Quick action by one Texas summer camp leads to timely evacuations ahead of deadly flood One local summer camp in the path of the disastrous flooding in central Texas was able to avoid any loss of life by closely monitoring weather reports.

"The decision to leave added to the mounting accounts of how camps & residents in the area say they were left to make their own decisions in the absence of warnings or notifications from the county."

This is the result of allowing American hyper-individualism to influence how we govern—it's deadly.

So Texas officials are blaming the National Weather Service for the lack of warning and resulting death toll from the flooding and not the massive cuts from the government to the National Weather Service that impacted their ability to give more advanced and detailed warning.

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

The violence referred to:

1. Someone driving into marchers in VA,
2. Someone driving into marchers in SF,
3. Threat to legislators planning to march in Austin,
4. Hours before, the assassination of the former MN speaker (a Dem), her husband, and shooting of a Dem state senator and his wife.

There's a lot to unpack here. But the "why do people in the developed world die from chronic diseases at higher rates than in poorer countries" is because we survive long enough to die from chronic rather than infectious disease. This is epidemiology 101. It's not a mystery.

Report: Canada's Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa defaced over Gaza war ***

This is what we're talking about when we say it's antisemitic to conflate all Jews everywhere with the actions of the Israeli govt.

Defacing a memorial to the 1/3 of world Jewry that Hitler slaughtered won't free Palestine, but it does tell me a lot about you.

🎁🔗 www.haaretz.com/world-news/2...

Very cool that a verified Twitter account apparently claiming to rep DHS has gotten thousands of retweets of its claim of civil war after sharing a stock photo of bricks. bsky.app/profile/roth...

i don’t know what to say about the images coming out of LA right now. but in case you need it, here’s a reminder that out in the streets, only water goes in your eyes. flush with water. take your clothes off when you get home & take a cool shower, wash yourself with dish soap a few times. godspeed.

Any bias we currently have, AI will scale it. That's it.

At BASELINE, Black applicants are denied mortgages at a rate 80% higher than white applicants. Outsourcing approvals to AI will WIDEN the gap, especially for Black women who get the worst deals in home loans. This is #TheDoubleTax.

Agree with this.

(Having lived in China for four years, and been based in Asia for nearly a decade since the 1980s.)

And it's not just "world cop." It's "overall leader"—via universities, openness to outside people and ideas, info-flow, flawed-but-better-than-nothing advocacy of rules, etc.

You cannot blame "formatting" for completely fabricated sources. What a joke.

This is a senior Justice Department official.

Who is in charge of pardons.

And also in charge of investigating the “politicization” of the Justice Department.

The administration has literally defunded the LEOs investigating serious crimes so those officers can go after random migrants instead.

In which the gender binary is ordained by biology, God, or both but also collapses if you enjoy some gazpacho on a warm day

There are 2 types of people in this world:
1) those who LOVE the Merlin Bird ID app, and 2) those who are about to fall in love with it thanks to @corinanewsome.bsky.social. 🧪

Which one are you? 🤭

YouTube video by 99% Invisible Invisible Women

Curious about why "Women's Health" needs explicit focus in clinical research?

Because most historical clinical trials are composed of ONLY men because the (male) scientists thought women's hormones would "mess up" the data.

We encourage reading the book, but this is a nice intro.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if a US exchange student in a foreign country (say, Turkey?) was imprisoned for six weeks because they wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper it would be a huge domestic story and an international incident.

Destroying NIOSH without congressional approval is illegal. It is also stealing from you. You pay taxes to the federal gov with the expectation that it will provide services to you including making sure workplaces are safe. That is the purpose of NIOSH. And RFKJ just fired 90% of the staff.

Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.

!! The humanitarian closure will continue, and only later, after the start of operational activity and the widespread evacuation of residents to the south, will a humanitarian plan be implemented

So Israel has announced their plan for a further attack on Gaza and included is the fact that they intend to force everyone out of the North and no aid will enter until everyone complies.

International law is a joke.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.

Despite knowing the people on the search warrant weren't there, the ICE arrest team STILL took this family's phones, laptops, and life savings — and refused to leave a BUSINESS CARD so they could ask to get it back!

This stuff is sadly not unique to ICE; it happens with regular police raids too.

HOW do you manage to look so amazing in that situation?

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.

Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.

HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.

99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.

Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.