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The Visionary of Trump 2.0 Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.

1/3 🎉🎺 Announcement: the winner of the Russell Vought Neologism Contest! 🎉🎺

Congratulations to @queerexplorer.bsky.social with their brilliant entry:

Vought (verb)
The act of vomiting and voiding your bowels at the same time.
“I was on the toilet with a bowl in my lap, voughting for two hours.”

DNA probe links Japan’s otter-themed cafes to poaching hotspots in Thailand A glut of social media videos featuring captive Asian small-clawed otters in the mid-2000s led to what wildlife trade experts term “the pet otter boom.” Demand for the species exploded, placing…

A new genetic study links otters found in exotic animal cafes in Japan with wild populations in well-known poaching hotspots in southern Thailand.

The new DNA evidence of a wildlife trade route between Thailand and Japan backs up calls from experts for stricter monitoring of wildlife exports.

"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”

Exclusive | This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Jonathan Stewart was badly shaken by a recent close call in airspace around Newark, N.J. “I don’t want to be responsible for killing 400 people,” he said in an interview.

WSJ exclusive:

This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out.

Manager at Newark says his agency is understaffed, stressed out, experienced equipment failures that forced him to record flight info with pen and paper

www.wsj.com/business/air...

We’re Just Human Incubators to Them Thirty-year-old Adriana Smith, who is brain-dead, has been kept on a ventilator for months due to Georgia’s abortion ban.

"While the law makes exceptions when the pregnant person’s life is in danger, Smith’s case falls in a legal gray area: She is brain-dead, which means her life is no longer considered at risk, and her doctors claim they are legally required to keep her body on life support."

After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earl...

BREAKING: U.K. officials are voicing safety concerns about SpaceX’s plans to fly its Starship rocket over British territories in the Caribbean, where debris fell after two of the company’s rockets exploded, according to documents reviewed by @propublica.org. www.propublica.org/article/spac...

The state of Georgia is using the body of a brain-dead woman as an incubator. Because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died, and their abortion ban is from about 6 weeks, they are sustaining her on life support, without input from her family, until 32 weeks of gestation. A true dystopian nightmare.

CDC to cut one employee for each it is recalling from layoffs The agency returned around 300 staff and plans to soon cut an additional 300 in response.

After RFKJ fired >90% of staff at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health he then assured congress that he's rehiring them. What he didn't mention is that for every person re-hired, someone else at CDC is getting fired "as soon as legally possible"

www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

She should already be going through impeachment proceedings for even saying this. Our institutions are a joke.

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

So dangerous to create a personalist regime where no coherent policy is ever made and anyone who contradicts the leader is forced out. The governance of modern societies depends on planning and information flow.

A graphic featuring a photo of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking into a microphone, wearing a gray pinstripe suit and blue tie. The image includes a quote in bold white text: “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.” Beneath the quote, it says: “HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., May 14, 2025.” The bottom left corner displays the We the Builders logo. The graphic is framed by a gold border on a dark background.

RFK Jr: “My vaccine opinions are irrelevant.”
Also RFK Jr: Implements policies that delay life-saving vaccines.
When misinformation leads health policy, kids die.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4jSQN9n

We may finally know what happened to the missing water on Mars | BBC Science Focus Magazine A new study may have uncovered the long-lost water on Mars – and, simultaneously a fresh lead in the search for life.

New seismological measurements from Mars reveal a possible underground ocean of water that fits neatly with calculations of the 'missing water' that vanished 4bn yrs ago. 🧪

This water would be liquid, rather than ice, which is particularly exciting.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/liquid-...

Occurred to me the defense-tech bros naming their companies after Lord of the Rings weapons and such are the sort who think Tolkien should have had Boromir succeed in taking the Ring and then go kick ass in Mordor.

(i.e., missed the whole point)

Helping the U.S. gets you banned, being white gets you a welcome mat. Got it.

If South Africa is a sovereign nation, how are we able to send our own planes we paid for to transport white Afrikaners to the U.S., but simultaneously unable to send a plane to return Abrego Garcia et al?

A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred recently in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), but none have been reported from the east...

...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...

This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.

Best we listen up.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in germ theory, so him hopping into a sewage-filled creek reminds me of Immanuel Pfeiffer.

He’s the anti-vaxxer who in 1902 went right ahead and took his unvaccinated self to a smallpox ward and lo and behold became very ill with smallpox.

RFK Jr. goes swimming in DC’s Rock Creek despite NPS guidance on bacteria Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took a swim in Washington, D.C.’s Rock Creek despite warnings about high bacterial levels, drawing attention to his unconventional views on health polic…

RFK Jr. took his kids and grandkids for a swim in the bacteria-infested Rock Creek last weekend, despite warnings not to swim or even wade there.

#PublicHealthMalpractice even with his family.

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Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority

It's hard to adequately describe how scary it is to watch mainstream political journalists barely push back against a sitting U.S. president accepting a $400M plane from a foreign government that would literally be designated as an emergency command-and-control center during a nuclear war.

I would assume that most are very, very excited that the constraints have been removed. This is why they became agents. To bust heads and impose their will.

When the executive starts talking about suspending habeas corpus and arresting elected opposition legislators, it is time to consider the warning period over and begin making serious plans for how one will respond to authoritarianism in the absence of rule of law.

Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident "There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.

The Trump administration is threatening to arrest Congress members who were performing their oversight duties. Targeting elected officials for opposing the president's agenda is straight out of authoritarian playbooks.

We won't allow Trump and DHS to intimidate us into submission.

The GOP draft tax bill says that it will allow rich families to pass up to $30 million tax-free to their heirs, but that number is actually $300 million or more for anyone with good lawyers (which prob. is everyone who has $300 million).

It's really just one simple trick. Here's how it works.

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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”