Csilla Gal

It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers.

Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.

River otter comedy troupe...

(video by Curtis C)

a fox is running in the snow with a globe in the background ALT: a fox is running in the snow with a globe in the background

The same, but with less intensity. 😊

Third, in the case of COVID-19, Greenhalgh et al. (2021) demonstrate that the exclusion and dismissal of heterodox scientists in the UK led to flawed health policies that prioritized randomized clinical trials over evidence of airborne transmission from physicists and engineers. This highlights how orthodox experts can become toxic when they reject interdisciplinarity due to hubris and overconfidence (Maclean et al., 2021).

🧵(1/2): Essential new paper: "Toxic experts in longevity business: A multilevel relational framing of emergence"

Draws on multiple examples, including the way medical pseudoexperts botched the pandemic.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#medsky #scisky #standupforscience #longCOVID #cdnpoli

See how climate change is accelerating The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

"The last 11 years have been the warmest years on record; according to an analysis by Berkeley Earth if we assume a constant rate of warming since the 1970s, the last three years have a less than 1-in-100 chance of occurring solely due to natural variability."

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Rep. Delia Ramirez has been an incredible leader during these dark times.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

This is disastrous and evil. Spread the word. Call your members of Congress, even if you don't live in these states.

But I agree, EU personnel don't do lavish appearances because of public backlash.

Both are present: the spending of public money and resources as well as getting favors from rich friends for some other favors in return. The latter exists across the EU. This is how valuable information is traded in certain circles.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

We caught Prime Minister Viktor Orbán red-handed boarding an oligarch’s private jet – English The plane is tied to Mária Schmidt, a long-time Fidesz ally whose organizations regularly receive massive amounts of public funds.

Not so unheard/unthinkable in the EU. 🙃
english.atlatszo.hu/2025/08/29/w...

An observation I've been thinking about:

Around 2020, we were told that US political & corporate elites had been gripped by "wokeness" & thus become obsessed with climate change & diversity. This wokeness was alleged to be so severe & monomaniacal that it threatened the entire culture & economy.

Hang it in the Louvre

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Sudan Archives performing “Nont For Sale” at Thalia Hall in Chicago IL on 2/05/26. #crizzvidz #SudanArchives #ThaliaHallChicago

Yeah @marenmorris.bsky.social gets it

also *why are these girls around* Megan? why are they *on the fucking island* or at the parties? maybe they were taken there in some way? trafficked, as it were?

Sick of this!

This NYT piece never mentions the most important detail of the hearing.

THESE PEOPLE ARE UNLAWFULLY being held--and many are unlawfully being snatched in the first place.

The reason there's such a caseload is bc ICE is kidnapping people illegally.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs:

“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters

and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public."
www.propublica.org/article/chic...

YouTube video by Chicago Sun-Times Marimar Martinez speaks with WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times reporters about getting shot 5 times by ICE.

NEW: The @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org have published a 12-minute excerpt of our interview with Marimar Martinez, in which she describes being shot by Border Patrol in Chicago.

You can find it here: youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...

💫 Book and discussion both greatly recommended! 💫