Jennie Erin Smith

Calling super smart women of color stupid, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is sort of a right wing staple move. Was a Kirk specialty.

Languages are a bitch.

I’ll remember these points next time my neighbors start up with the whole instrument of God thing

We need to listen, yes, to the Pope

What you're seeing in Florida will be what hits the federal level in a year or two. Don't look away or write it off as Florida. This is THE blueprint.

McCarthyism was good, actually, is the new historical story.

Trump and Colombian President Trade Digital Attacks Over Boat Strikes

I'm not a fan of Petro, I think he's a blowhard, but he does seem to be the one leader in all Latin America taking anything resembling a stand against the US torturing and killing its poorest citizens for fun?

do you follow @martinkuz.bsky.social

But shows they have no limits to what they will support.

What’s the FL event

whatever it is that title is fantastic

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

And lot of Latinos don’t have Spanish surnames ask the current president of Mexico, the ex president of Argentina, or the richest families in El Salvador

Yeah good point

MAGA are heavily represented among American expats in Colombia and have been for some time, believe it or not. They spend their days whoring, trading crypto and and complaining online about long lines at immigration and everyone cheating them. And 🇨🇴 gives them visas.

Because being cruel without any purpose is the Leitmotif of Trump 2.0.

"Supporters of eugenics, the powerful early 20th-century movement for improving human heredity, often attacked that era's dramatic improvements in public health and medicine for preserving the lives of people they considered hereditarily unfit" Am J Public Health. 1997 Nov;87(11):1767–1772.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Pitchbot level

Perfume scientists tweak cells into having ‘sense of smell’ A study could transform the lab study of olfaction—and may challenge a Nobel-winning hypothesis

So great to see @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social on the neuroscience beat at @science.org!
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

This is the way

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so touching and so deserved

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

"What does a clinical trial, especially a very long-lasting one, in this case, literally for generations...what does it owe to its participants?" The question runs through the heart of @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social's book, Valley of Forgetting. Health Storytelling Q&A w/ @marynmck.bsky.social

That’s why it is important to have steady protest presence in these places, just reminding people they’re not crazy for thinking it

Would be nice if they were contiguous

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Nah he knows none of this is true but that his base is eager to believe it

She’s not that smart to begin with

Have to assume the idea is to shrink govt further