God bless these people.

hey #rstats folks - puremoe v1.0.3 on CRAN

PubMed retrieval - abstracts, full-text, citations, entity annotations, MeSH terms

search_pubmed() → get_records()

pmid_to_ftp() for quick full-text retrieval

nothing too crazy

github.com/jaytimm/pure...
#bioinformatics #llm #openscience #datascience

The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!

Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

This is insane

Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Contact Congress today!

100 cosponsors and 30k letters sent to Congress for impeaching Noem in a week is something special.

But we aren’t even close to the finish line, so let’s keep pushing!

For Some, Trump’s Mask Is Finally Slipping European leaders have given up pretending the president is someone he’s not. Maybe some American voters will, too.

It’s worth spelling out one of the great delusions of the Trump era that has been definitively unmasked by the Davos Debacle. And the Europeans are the ones who definitely get it. Can we all open our eyes too?

New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rdmmhF

Hey #RStats and #PoliticalScience folks — update on a resource I've maintained:

American political data & R guide:

Presidential results 1864-2024
Senate/House composition since 1920s
Historical margins & ideology scores
Fully reproducible

github.com/jaytimm/amer...
#OpenData #DataViz #Elections

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Withdrawing from Europe Would Be a Strategic Blunder Yet it’s one even some experts seem intent on making.

U.S. troops in Europe are not a Cold War vestige. They anchor transatlantic cooperation, respond to crises on three continents, enable cyber and missile defense, and reinforce the strategic trust. @markhertling.bsky.social on the dangerous idea to withdraw from Europe:

California Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social on the GOP’s Texas redistricting scheme: It’s a five-alarm fire.

Hillary notices how radical @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s policies are

Trust us, @HillaryClinton — this one is the tip of the iceberg

Who's son is harry enten?

WATCH — @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “We want a fair playing field… The game has changed when Trump calls and says Texas needs to find him 5 more seats…. It is a 5-alarm fire for democracy.”

Israel is starving Gaza | Editorial ***

Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

As they try to whitewash the reputation of Trump’s hail mary Ghislaine Maxwell…

The White House has decided to clam up. Starting now, anything and everything that is spoken about the Epstein case must be cleared by the WH first. In other words, "SHUT UP! STOP talking about it!!"

That won't work, either.

Why? Because WE are going to hammer "EPSTEIN!" every day..all day long.

When a Gaza cease-fire is signed, Israelis will have to face just how much we lost the war | Opinion ***

"A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms."
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Hi all, I'm (name here) and I live in a ruby-red county in northcentral PA. I've always had an interest in politics, and I did some support work with our county Democrats in 2017/2018, but the idea of running for office myself is terrifying to me. But the idea of sitting back and watching our democracy crumble and our institutions fail is even scarier. So I'm interested in using my communication, public speaking, research, and organizational skills to run for a city council seat in the near future. Glad to meet you all! 5

Whenever I’m feeling despair, I check the @runforsomething.net community - our new online space for potential candidates to get the training the need. These are the people who will get us out of this mess.

WATCH — @peterbeinart.bsky.social : “Why did it take this long? We are profoundly complicit. The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons responsible for those children starving to death in Gaza… if Israel disagrees, let CNN’s cameras in.”

"We're literally conducting an amazing science experiment, which is if you replaced the top of the government of the world's big hyperpower with a gang of chimpanzees from a local circus, how bad could it go?" Mike Murphy talks the long-term costs of incompetence with @timmiller.bsky.social

Noticing a theme here.

This Is the Most Panicked Republicans Have Been in Years It’s a political base problem few are willing to admit.

"Republicans are imploding over Jeffrey Epstein, and the evidence is hard to miss. The panic among GOP lawmakers is unlike anything I’ve seen in a decade of reporting on Congress."

The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

Yes, 'South Park' Went There -- And It's Glorious 'South Park' Season 27 premiere depicts President Trump as a con man with a micropenis who's in bed with Satan, and takes on parent company Paramount.

While most in media and entertainment are cowering in their boots, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brought the DGAF energy we need to 'South Park.'

Alan Sepinwall on the outrageous season premiere.

They’re not even hiding it

Tulsi Gabbard is using a White House press briefing to accuse Hillary Clinton of using tranquilizers. Dystopian stuff.

BREAKING: Oversight Democrats just passed a motion in subcommittee to subpoena the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Total vote was 8-2 in favor (all Democrats voted in favor, 3 Rs for and 2 Rs against)

I just held a rally in Plano, TX — a red part of the state — and 1,000 people showed up.

Many said it was their first political rally ever.

There’s something happening in Texas…