Dr. G

YES. And this is the same reaction I have to Trump’s tone, probably not coincidentally. Neither are normal ways that people to talk to other people. Both are sociopathically designed for manipulation.

* enshittification intensifies *

I think the feet of clay are really in the framers not being able to imagine that all three branches of government would simultaneously be captured

After 40+ years of demonization of educators by the right (lazy union teachers, lefty college professors, etc) and therefore countless school and campus stochastic terror shootings we gotta find a way to move this needle or this will be just another day another shooting. Op eds don’t seem to do it.

It’s not yours to “give”, motherfucker

Former surgeon general: The CDC shooting must be a wakeup call “When influential figures amplify falsehoods, they legitimize the anger that leads to violence,” writes former Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

Powerful op-ed in STAT

www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

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Based on professional experiences and my lab's research, I think there are three interlocking things we need to fix the information ecosystem in public health. Currently, none of them are happening.

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I was in the Pfizer clinical trial, first time I have ever volunteered myself for medical research

A clip from Jack El-Hai’s book about the psychiatrist who interviewed Nazi leadership after the war. Highlighted is a line by the psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, stating “I am quite certain that there are people even in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the American public if they could gain control of the other half.”

This line by Douglas Kelley, the chief psychiatrist at Nuremberg during the trials, and interviewer of folks like Goering, has stuck with me ever since I read it.

I just checked in on one of my former students who works at CDC. I am so mad on their behalf. We need to hold the GOP to account but also let’s acknowledge that they have pointed stochastic terror at teachers FOR DECADES with predictable results and hold them to account for all of it.

Per ProPublica, RFK Jr and Russell Vought have gone out of their way to demonize the CDC and federal workforce.

Vought, on video: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.” Also, he expressed his desire that they be “increasingly viewed as the villains.”

Again, stochastic terrorism.

We’re all going to be living in the board game Dead of Winter. Good thing Sparky’s got a sniper rifle.

It’s like golf, the poors aren’t meant to understand it or access it. But it’s a very powerful network.

I couldn’t stomach singing cute lil songs about “my guy” in the frat we were all supposed to date “he hits me with a belt, but I love him so” and bailed the fuck outta rush.

This koolaid is a fine 2025 vintage, crisp and refreshing. Won’t you join us in a glass, good sirs? And here is a keg of koolaid and some solo cups so your class can have a party.

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

I developed mRNA vaccines. RFK Jr is endangering US public health Katalin Karikó says the health secretary’s decision to pull research funding for the technology is akin to ‘dropping a bomb on the US’

The US government has dropped a “bomb on themselves” by pulling $500 million in funding for developing mRNA vaccines, the Nobel-prize winning scientist behind the technology has warned

Remember that what’s being done to Federal agencies you depend on is not a well thought out cost saving — it’s like a bunch of frat bros smashing up a historic building (that you, the public, at least notionally own) and smearing shit on the walls for funsies

The newspapers are not making a big deal of this today. This is a big deal. Someone shot into a Federal building repeatedly, fueled by misinformation and politics. It should be front page news across the country.

“there are a dozen or so trans kids playing high school sports, this is not an issue that affects you and its time we start asking why the guy who has repeatedly bragged about being sexually attracted to children wants to look at your kids genitals” is an entirely true thing you can say!

And the second option is going to work about as well as it worked for Columbia U

I am turning 57 this year and the calculation is about how research that we wanted to do (infectious disease/vaccination policy adjacent) will now probably just never be possible to do before I retire.

Solar plus battery costs are supposedly dropping fast and I don’t think they can stop us from getting personal systems installed, we just won’t get a credit. Hopefully it stays accessible enough that people in that situation can get a little balcony unit or something.

I’m glad I managed to get my super discounted non-Musky EV before this happened but entirely pissed off for the planet

Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

Longer posts soon on recent exec orders that threaten the vitality of America's research capacity, but wanted to step back and highlight the release of in-depth analyses that directly confront the economic impacts of administration decisions building on viz at scienceimpacts.org

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The GOP’s philosophy seems to be “please have more babies so we can kill them before they’re 5”.

I haven’t heard a word about that until now. Our mainstream media probably doesn’t even know, they aren’t exactly big followers of jnternational news.

Ohhh this explains a lot

A lot a lot