Chris Jones

it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I don’t want the NIH to be fucking profitable, I want it to cure cancer and Alzheimer’s

When you strip away humanity

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

new all-time reaction image just dropped

This is a woman speaking before the DISD (Dallas, TX). She is asking the school board to prohibit ICE from going on to school campuses. THIS is a perfect example of how we can be fighting back against this hate filled regime. Our neighbors are NOT our enemies.

A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

I’m so glad to be reminded of Station 11. A tough but fantastic watch that’s perfect for the times we’re entering. A dystopic drama framed by our deep need for the arts. It’s singular.

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Craig Savage Bides His Time to Triumph in WSOP $500 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout Savage picked his spots wisely en route to his maiden bracelet

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#Blutoid

the united states is in gray and the letters ACIP are in front and have pictures of people in lab coats, a baby, vials of vaccines, and hands.

VACCINES:
Former ACIP members warn that the abrupt dismissal of all 17 panel members and replacement w/only 8 appointees could undermine decades of vaccine policy, weaken access to life‑saving immunizations, and erode public trust in U.S. immunization programs. buff.ly/lsqWej8

#medsky #IDsky 🛟😷🧪

This is a moral question a toddler could answer correctly. If you do this, you are absolutely complicit.

I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron “Last year, two mercurial billionaires formed a partnership and vowed to drive the country in a new direction. Donald Trump had the political power...

"I was never a Sauron fan. Did I facilitate Sauron's rise to power by donating most of Isengard’s resources to his reconquest campaign and persuading my legions of Uruk-hai followers to support him? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I agreed with him on everything."

Nuremberg them all.

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my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

A must read 🧵 if you churned your way through the pseudoscience vomit that the New Yorker just published.

YouTube video by What's Wright? With Nick Wright Nick Wright goes SCORCHED EARTH on SGA foul grifting, Timberwolves-Thunder officials | NBA Playoffs

Agreed. Just cynical grifting which cheapens what should be a showcase for two otherwise fun teams youtu.be/q6JgPCftltY?...

Bamboozled again. (but thank you!)

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

It should be a massive scandal that the President of the United States admits on pretty much a daily basis he has no idea what's going on in his administration or why.

Well that kinda sucked.

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.