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Re: scientists.

Yes. Absolutely yes.

You must be very sheltered to have only been exposed to non-douchebag scientists. Dr. Mengele ring any bells? There are plenty of others of varying degrees of vileness.

Not believing in a religion's dogma isn't the same as not believing in the religion's deity/deities. All Abrahamic religions believe in the same God without believing in each other's religions based on that deity.

And they are someone who has already politicized X.

Lindbergh and the Nazis.

A Republican named Charles Lindbergh worked with Hitler and the Nazis in the 1930s. The GOP is the enemy of the people.

Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.

Does he know how at risk of extinction both monarch butterflies and bees are?

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

Trump Says He Will Meet With Putin in Alaska Next Week

Trump has invited Putin to Alaska, and plans to give him a chunk of Ukraine
You can share the heck out of this without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.

As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.

One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

I have it a lot more often lately. It's especially tough when I have insomnia, like right now, and am tired all day, too, as a result.

Does anyone else ever feel like they just want to go home, even though they are already at home?

Maybe it's just feeling the need to escape and be safe somewhere without stress.

But I really just want to be wherever that is and have everything be alright.

Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape To Fill Brett Kavanaugh's Court Seat She's weakened protections for sexual assault survivors and has argued that women can avoid date rape by staying sober.

Before becoming a judge, Rao also denounced “special treatment for minority students” and called the fight for LGBTQ rights a “trendy political movement.”

Every Senate Republican voted to confirm her. www.huffpost.com/entry/neomi-...

Senate Advances Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape Neomi Rao, up for a lifetime federal court seat, also has a record of weakening protections for sexual assault survivors.

Some BG on Rao, who once blamed women for date rape:

“A good way to avoid a potential date rape is to stay reasonably sober," she wrote, and if a woman drinks to the point where she can't choose if she wants sex, “getting to that point was part of her choice.” www.huffpost.com/entry/neomi-...

Fun fact but a lot of state rape laws have “voluntary intoxication” loopholes, where a victim being too intoxicated to consent isn’t legally cognizable as rape if she ingested alcohol or drugs voluntarily. In effect, intoxication only nullifies consent in these states if the victim is roofied.

He should sue for defamation.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Now that Trump has unleashed federal law enforcement on the streets of DC, I'm reupping this new reporting on where all this seems to be going:

The Redistricting Mess Shows How Our Election System Doesn’t Work With our winner-take-all elections, the ideal of a ‘fair’ map is impossible. Proportional representation is the only answer.

We're now in a redistricting arms race. Dems are properly fighting back.
But the endgame lets mapmakers pick lawmakers and render elections irrelevant.
Yet the problem is not the mapmakers; it's the maps.
The debacle reflects the urgent need for proportional representation.
From me:

Opinion | The op-ed that got Stephen Moore his Fed nomination is based on two major falsehoods Thou shalt not take Paul Volcker's name in vain.

He's a moron & a pathological liar who masquerades as an economist. At best he cherry-picks data. At worst he makes it up entirely. (See one example, below)
No one should report whatever garbage he's turned into visual aids as bearing any resemblance to reality
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

ICYMI: Lina Khan wrote at @nytopinion.nytimes.com about our campaign's connection to small businesses and why we need to fight the concentrated economic power that too often suffocates them.

It's not just good for a thriving local economy — it's good politics too.

Thank you @margaretcho.bsky.social for stepping up and speaking out to a certain Asian guy who played Superman, who is of Japanese descent.

You will never be white!!

You’ll always be a Wong to them and never belong.

Dean Tanaka aka Dean Cain, you’re a dumbass.

After the DOGE purge, reality is setting in. It turns out, workers are actually needed. The FAA just announced plans to hire at least 8,900 air traffic controllers. The National Weather Service is bringing on hundreds of new staff, just months after losing more than 500 people.

A convicted felon says will meet with an indicted for war criminal to discuss the invasion the UN declared illegal.

It's not a "peace summit", it's a criminal conspiracy.

In other words: we are paying for the tariffs

U.S. Air Force to deny retirement pay for transgender troops being separated from service An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that “although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions t...

The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Ford paid $800 million in tariff costs over 3 months, despite building most of its cars in America That should put an end to the Trump administration's talking point about how there is no tariff for products built in the U.S.

reason.com/2025/08/05/f...

The one in the yellow skirt wins.

MAGA Is Being Conned: Trump's Tariffs Are Just Taxes by Another Name Why the president's tariffs won't deliver the 'golden age' he promises.

"MAGA Is Being Conned: Trump's Tariffs Are Just Taxes by Another Name"

For Zeteo, John Harwood on why the president's tariffs won't deliver the 'golden age' he promises: