Wizardgradstudent

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

A 1 month chart of the DOW falling off a freaking cliff

thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this

One of these things is not like the others

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am.

#IncompetentKrasnov

The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it.

“Got polio? Me neither! I ❤️vaccines”

I love this photo that @melissabender.bsky.social captured of me at the #standupforscience rally yesterday in NYC. I wonder if I could make this my official faculty photo lol @jackiantonovich.bsky.social @kimberlywheiman.bsky.social @archaeoscape.bsky.social @sarahruncie.bsky.social

Quick little health-related thread:

There are measles outbreaks happening in the US & Canada because of pockets of very low vaccination rates.

I wondered if maybe I might need an update to my vaccines. I got them in the usual way as a kid, but sometimes immunity doesn’t last. So I asked my doctor.

 “ Without facts, we're really just in the dark with regard to what the consequences of our actions are ... science really gives us a way to move forward and build that prosperous future that I think we all want to see.” —Mike Wong

In today's episode, we check in on the Stand Up for Science rallies that spread to 32 cities.

Listen here 🎧:

buff.ly/YgplAQ4

NO KINGS LIVE HERE.

I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.

Not sure if this is the millennial experience but every time I have gotten big increases, promotions or generally made away for myself this country has fucked me.

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Fuck trump, fuck vance, fuck the maga dipshits who support this disgusting administration. Just absolutely abhorrent watching what is happening.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

Bart: "This is the most ashamed I've been to be American" Homer: "The most ashamed *so far*!"

Like, I dunno folks, slavery and stealing land from natives was also pretty bad.