Mike the Mad Biologist and Kalanick Professor of Vibe Physics

In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all. Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times. Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up.

And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

message comes off as “if you do something harmful to one of our maga appointees, we will retaliate with federal presence to look tough & make life tedious (also because we’re pretty scared)”

The Beating of Big Balls: D.C., Crime, and DOGE (and Bad Jokes) In case you missed it, early Sunday morning (3am or so), DOGE techbro and all-around asshole Edward “Big Balls” Coristine got his ass beat trying to stop a carjacking. According to some…

Would just like to add that the two known assailants are from Hyattsville, MD, so D.C. is getting dinged because of a bunch of Marylanders.

Pouring one out for my former colleagues who are stuck patrolling DC instead of chasing terrorists and white-collar criminals because a 19-year-old who goes by "Big Balls" got his ass kicked by fellow teenagers

I have no idea what this is supposed to accomplish. I’m guessing they’re going to be stationed in places where most crimes *don’t* happen. Like Trump et alia give a shit about Bellevue or Congress Heights

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This is a dumb stunt. Any DC visitor notices the city is already patrolled by dozens of federal agencies—Park PD, Capitol PD, Smithsonian PD, US Mint PS, Bureau of Engraving and Printing PD, US Secret Uniformed officers, FBI Police, Amtrak PD, and more, plus fed drug, VC, and fugitive task forces.

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Ranking Member Lofgren Calls Trump Out for Corrupt Executive Order Requiring Political Appointees to Approve Federal Grants | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

“This Executive Order is nothing short of obscene," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). "In what world does Donald Trump think that Americans want political appointees – who, need I remind the President, are unelected bureaucrats – making decisions on what science gets funded?”

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Speaking with The Free Press' Bari Weiss, the union boss said Sanders "doesn't talk to me anymore."

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*things like this; not just for this case obviously

If we ever do get to detrumpify the government, we’ll have to find out who exactly wanted this done.

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An Ex-GOP Official Just Did The Unthinkable — And Trump Won't Be Happy Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced on Tuesday that he has left the GOP and officially joined the Democratic Party.

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan announced on Tuesday that he has left the GOP and officially joined the Democratic Party.

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The vibes, understandably, are very bad today.

Importantly, this poll has GOP favorability at -11 and Dem favorability at -33, but Dems +5 in the generic ballot.

Ignore every stupid take on Dem party approval.

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We need a political movement in America whose platform is countering scam, spam, and corruption. Going after fraud, outlawing spam, ending money in politics, ending cheater practices like gerrymandering, dismantling Citizen’s United, identifying and shaming hype men and Wall Street cons.

In today's NIH news: Today, I learned that I have to write a final progress reports for 2 R01s that *still* have 2 years of funding to go. Why? Because NIH TERMINATED the grants and then RE-AWARDED two years of funding as multi-year grants. More paperwork for literally no reason.

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Again, the Congress has the power to reclaim its Article I powers and tell this OMB troll to pound sand.

I strongly suspect that among other things, the EO requiring Trump political appointees to review grants is a strategy to funnel NIH funding to red states while starving blue states of research money.

Remember that very recently, a bunch of Republican Senators complained about NIH cuts.

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"A substantial portion of many Federal grants for university-led research goes not to scientific project applicants or groundbreaking research, but to university facilities and administrative costs. "

another lie. the costs are the costs OF DOING THE FUCKING RESEARCH FOR THE FEDERAL GRANT.

Ridiculous.

Notice how "Gold Standard Science" is missing from Section 2's definitions, so Trump's commissars can define it however they wish

Something like 75% of Discourse about The Democrats would probably be considerably less toxic if people would specify *specific Democrats and their partisans*.

Further thought suggests that it's like a lot of the Project 2025 program: How do they find all the people necessary to carry this out? What offices would they be organizationally located in? How many of them would there be? Who do they report to?
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