stephon in nm here

😲 well, shit.

As well she should. Cowcats can't run government worth a damn.

(based on my own experience with my own whiny-butt cowcat, anyway)

Video is almost certainly real. From colleagues in Russia:

💥

To underscore this further, we were able to generate vaccines to SARSCoV2 so quickly thanks to years of work optimizing mRNA delivery. The pandemic showed us how successful the method could be, & the years since have expanded the targets to cancer, influenza, HIV & more. Throwing it away is madness.

Comedy gold, I'm telling you

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.

RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

Comic. PERSON 1 [to person with white hat]: It’s so weird reading these 18th Century scholars argue about minor Biblical details. It’s like they’re an online fandom or something—They’ve developed this whole elaborate canon. [caption] It’s fun when a word’s usage goes full circle and, by analogy, lands back on its original meaning.

Canon

xkcd.com/3123/

😂😂👍❤️

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Oh, FFS.

The brain worm needs to step up and just complete the task so this prick goes away forever.

What a waste of oxygen.

Okay. You gotta read this one, even if you're not into football.

I have a tissue ready for you when you need it. And you're gonna need it.

I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.

Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:

My quote of the day

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

I don't think they care, so long as their addle-pated Dear Leader is hurting "the right people" as well.

Also, they have the cognitive skills of a slug, generally, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

in my guesstimation of talking to hundreds of trans people of all genders who desire HRT, about ~75% of us report, within a few WEEKS of our first doses, our minds calming and becoming a habitable place for us for the first time in our lives

this is what we are defending

it is life or death

American Statistical Association Executive Director Ron Wasserstein:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

Absolutely 💯 this

NBC article: "'Absolute betrayal': Former Labor Department officials react to Trump's firing of labor statistics boss. Laura Strickler and Nnamdi Egwuonwu Two former Department of Labor officials condemned Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following the release of a revised jobs reportg today that suggested a slow down in hiring. Trump accused McEntarfer, without evidence, of manipulating the hiring data to make him look bad. Former Biden Labor Secretary Julie Su told NBC News that McEntarfer's termination suggests Trump "hates facts." "Donald Trump hates facts, so he blames truth tellers. But he can’t hide from the terrible damage that his chaotic and ego driven mess of an economic agenda is causing," Su said. “This president does not believe in independent agencies. He believes that everybody should do his bidding, and that, you know, facts don’t matter, and people who do their jobs, can be mistreated at every turn," she added, noting that reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are typically prepared by "expert career staff," she added. Former Labor Department spokesperson Egan Reich, who also worked in the Biden administration, called the firing "an absolute betrayal of every single person at BLS, now and throughout its existence, whose integrity" and forthrightness created the kind of stable business environment that earned a lot of people tremendous amounts of money.”

"Donald Trump hates facts, so he blames truth tellers. But he can’t hide from the terrible damage that his chaotic and ego driven mess of an economic agenda is causing." - @juliesulabor.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...

You’re either against gender hierarchy (patriarchy) or you’re for it, and if you’re against it you have to be pro trans rights. Being anti-trans rights is always just sparkling patriarchy.

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

Am glad -- and thankful --to see NM is one of the plaintiffs in this lawsuit.

Important background 🧵regarding why firing the head of the BLS is such a catastrophic decision by The Felon.

TL;DR: once you undermine the integrity of public data, the downstream effects are going to be extremely unpleasant.

Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Rigged,’ Fires Labor Official

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling.
I can’t say that anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Dem electeds would never stand for the idea that they should exercise their power to its fullest extent on behalf of anyone, let alone the people who elected them.

I just want to flag something so it doesn't get lost. It looks plausible that the Hegseth brothers are trying to push military leaders further on involving military in domestic law enforcement.

Two experts I spoke with read the memo that way. There may be a bigger story here to get.