Dr Sian Gramates

National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

Striking a boat full of unarmed civilians is murder. The first strike was murder. The followup strike was also murder.

We're not at war. It's not a "war crime". Everyone involved, including the POTUS, SecDef, the Admiral who relayed it and the person who pressed the button needs to be on trial.

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...

Vaxed people less likely to die of anything over 4 years than unvaxxed "we observed a 25% lower standardized incidence of all-cause death in vaccinated individuals compared with unvaccinated ones. A 74% lower risk was observed for hospital mortality due to COVID-19" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?

Northwestern NSF grant terminations leave researchers stuck Although Northwestern struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding, National Science Foundation grants terminated in accordance with executive orders remain unchange...

Important for people to know the $75 mil payout from Northwestern to the government didn't turn on canceled grants that broaden participation in stem, physics, promote diversity etc... what this communicates about uni priorities is clear: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...

Communism

DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards A memo obtained by NPR shows the Justice Department is telling inspectors to stop evaluating prisons using standards designed to protect trans and other LGBTQ community members from sexual violence.

"The standards designed to protect inmates from sexual violence were developed after years of bipartisan work. They were created in response to overwhelming data, anecdotal evidence and a landmark Human Rights Watch report that showed sexual violence was, and continues to be, a serious problem"

Politico management genuinely tried to argue that because AI is crafted by coders, not journalists, it shouldn't be held to any sort of journalistic ethical standards, despite being widely adapted (poorly) to do, you know, journalism

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.

Reading Tim Curry's memoir, Vagabond, and during the chapter about how The Rocky Horror Show came about, he mentions that the show's publicist used to bring her six year old son to watch rehersals, her son being Alexander Siddig. Dr. Bashir witnessed the birth of Dr. Frank-N-Furter!

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Keith Ellison, Minnesota's Attorney General, speaks out.

‘Vibe shift’ as New Yorkers force ICE to back down Protesters on offense instead of defense

"New Yorkers of all stripes, across all creeds, are not going to allow a rogue, lawless, violent and horrific agency to continue to mess with their neighbors." www.headsupnews.org/p/vibe-shift...

Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”

95% of MN Somalis are US citizens. 58% were born in the US. The only reason to target this community with immigration agents is for the sake of racial profiling and harassment - which the US supreme court says is legal now.
www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

He helped build the anti-vaccine movement. RFK Jr. just hired him. Neither a physician nor a scientist, new CDC senior adviser Mark Blaxill claims without evidence that every child who takes vaccines is in some way injured.

This is the self-proclaimed CDC critic who is currently presenting. He is not a scientist or doctor. His only credentials for presenting at ACIP is being crazy enough to hang with RFK.

www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

Dr. Amy Middleman, a vaccine expert, asks for the qualifications and expertise of radical anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Nevinson and radical anti-vaxxer and Harvard MBA Blaxill.

Malone’s response: They are now working for the CDC.

My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.

Liaison member Dr. Amy Middleman is on the line now, correcting a serious misrepresentation of her own study that was presented earlier.

Pointing out that presenters are not actually trained or knowledgable on the topics they’ve presented. Asks pointedly what their day jobs are.

hey on the plus side we live in a country too corrupt to pass even a baseline modern privacy law, and we just completely lobotomized our already barely-functioning regulators

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

ACIP co-chair and rabid anti-vaxxer Robert Malone keeps silencing ACIP members Meissner and Hibbeln because they are DEMANDING evidence of the false claims being made by radical anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Nevinson and radical anti-vaxxer and Harvard MBA Blaxill.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. ™ A @SenBillCassidy X.com Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers. He is presenting as if an expert on childhood vaccines. The ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children. cdc.gov/acip/downloads...

Chairman of Senate’s health committee with his sharpest words yet as CDC’s vaccine advisers meeting gets underway.

The question is what does Cassidy do now, beyond issue rebukes.

It is an acceptable risk that some people who don’t “deserve” it accidentally get help, if it means everyone who needs it is guaranteed to get help.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat glares at the camera from where she’s sitting in a blue IKEA bag. There are blue and aqua t-shirts crumpled in the bag, and a small brown mousie toy is in front of her, on a blue shirt.

I’ve finally found out why there’s always a mousie toy in my laundry bag. This little laundry goblin fished one out from under the shelf beside her and dropped it in front of her, while sitting in the bag.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

This is very cool -- three Amazon buildings in downtown Seattle are heated this way -- but you can't do it with the bloated, gigantic 1GW data centers they're trying to build these days. Gotta break them into smaller pieces.

I’ll be swearing Johnson in every language, in every day of the week.

What a callous fuckwad.

Exactly. There are a LOT of bad interviewers out there who like to make potential employees jump through weird hoops and the sooner people realize that this is a co-equal process where everyone in the process needs to approach it in good faith, the better.

Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.

"There’s no need for dog whistles anymore. The government of the United States now openly stands for bigotry. It’s not just closing our borders; it’s targeting Americans."

@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's threat to denaturalize American citizens: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l