Brian Wasik

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

ten years ago, I started this company with the promise of building a cheap, sustainable launch system to deliver commercial payloads into upper orbit. that company failed. so today we are pivoting our fleet of one-way shuttles to tap into an underserved market: customers eager to die in space

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict in history that saw more deaths in combat than deaths by disease.

Realistically, if you were sent to war any time before WW1, you were more likely to shit yourself to death than die at the hands of the enemy.

‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general’s $100k teaching job at UF The university was eager to hire the newly minted attorney general, but didn’t announce his teaching job until the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times began asking questions.

Florida's attorney general, who spends his time targeting companies for stuff like “radical LGBTQ+ activism,” is getting paid $100K a year as a Univ of Fla adjunct to teach a 2 hour/week law class.

His salary is 8X higher than what the median adjunct earns.

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Dems going after trans people this week should be ashamed of themselves Be skeptical of those proposing instant solutions — especially when they involve making vulnerable people even more vulnerable.

* taps sign *

It wasn’t so long ago that CNN sat down for a serious conversation with these guys. One of them is Pete Hegseth’s pastor.

Pretending these assholes are still ‘fringe’ is a dangerous mistake

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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

"There is surprisingly no empirical support for the fact that loneliness is increasing, let alone spreading at epidemic rates."

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RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

and yes, the author, former Reagan Budget Director David Stockman, has--unsurprisingly--been indicted for fraud (www.sec.gov/news/press/2...)

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.

First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

YouTube video by C-SPAN's American History TV Jesse Jackson 1988 Convention Speech

'Keep hope alive'
Rest in power, Rev. Jackson

'If an issue is morally right, it will eventually be political.'

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Hollywood Reporter headline, 'Shia LaBeouf's Mardi Gras Bar Crowl: "He's Terrorizing the City"'

'Many people don't know Shia LaBeouf is French for, "that guy probably has crumbs in his bed."' - Nick Kroll

I think about that joke every time his name is mentioned.

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration.

even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

I was initially not the biggest fan of Spanberger but it turns out she has the heart of a world class hater and that is 100% the kind of energy we need right now

Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis at least $203 million, city officials say Minneapolis officials have released an estimated tab on what Operation Metro Surge has cost city residents so far.

So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.

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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
-NYT ethical guidelines

Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole.

The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

"Here we apply phage immunoprecipitation sequencing to investigate the effects of demographic factors—including 108 lifestyle and health-related variables—and genetic variation on antibody reactivity to over 97,000 viral peptides in 1,212 healthy adults."

You did wat
My god its beautiful

Demographic and genetic factors shape the epitope specificity of the human antibody repertoire against viruses @natimmunol.nature.com #Olin #QuintanaMurci @institutpasteur.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
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Interesting fact from Mike Coston’s blog: Today domestic cats are the most commonly reported mammal with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in the U.S., except for dairy cows.

President James Garfield

"Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen."

Garfield devoted a significant portion of his inaugural to the Civil Rights of freed slaves.

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Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency allows SARS-CoV-2 to adapt more easily to a new host species. Mouse-adapted beta and omicron variants from this work maintained their unique tropisms and pathogenic characteristics allowing exciting comparative studies.
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