Kel Munger

“Schrödinger’s Christian” is such a brilliant way to put it! 🧵👇🏻

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Did Shapiro ever apologize for the anti-Muslim stuff he wrote when he was in college?

We're really gonna miss the rule of law when it's gone. Just like we're really gonna miss media outlets that employ fact checkers when they're all put out of business. And just like we're really going to miss reality-based civil servants, universities, libraries, public schools, food inspectors...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

Did Team MAHA have AI help write its report? Some citations don’t exist; others don’t say what the paper claims. No comment yet from Kennedy & co…

www.notus.org/health-scien...

Rich people can spend $1 million to buy their way out of prison? That's so cool, esp. for people with a spare $1 million.

Town Hall Erupts After GOP Congressman Admits To Not Knowing What He Voted For Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) said he’ll push senators to strip out the bill’s attack on federal courts.

Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) admitted to his constituents that he wasn’t familiar with part of the massive tax-and-spending cut legislation - “aimed at preventing federal courts from blocking power grabs by the Trump administration” - he voted for last week.

Emil Bove cannot become a federal judge This is a line that cannot be crossed. Also: Monday was a holiday, but the Trump administration has already racked up a lot of losses in court this week.

Emil Bove cannot become a federal judge.

At Law Dork:

Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine The Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu.

From @npr.org: Trump Admin canceled its #birdflu vaccine deal with #Moderna.

@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social expressed disappointment but shared it was "unsurprising given the politically-motivated, evidence-free rhetoric that tries to paint mRNA vaccines as being dangerous."

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I’ve told the story many times. Now @katemasur.bsky.social and I have filed it in federal court: Free Black Americans were first to recognize BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP in the US. When denied it, they fought to secure it. They show us what the 14th Amendment meant and what it meant to live without it.

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

When I started teaching, what shocked me wasn't the level of oversight—it was that there was none.

Universities hire experts and then leave them alone to do their jobs.

Administrators who are not experts in a given area usually (and wisely) recognize they are not qualified to evaluate.

yes we know, that's the problem

Folks, if you want to help protect science funding in this country, today is a really good day to call your US House Representative. A budget bill, likely filled with massive cuts, is going to the floor for a vote as soon as today.

So I guess it was literally possible to sleep all the way through the entire TikTok ban huh.

COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat

"The COVID-19 pandemic, as best as we can tell, took more than 20 million lives, cost $16 trillion, kept 1.6 billion children out of school, and pushed some 130 million people into poverty. And it’s not over"
www.science.org/content/arti...

Almost nobody alive today fully grasps just how deeply the business right hated the New Deal. One utility exec I study spent the rest of his life referring to Hoover as "the last President of the Republic" and FDR as "totalitarian". It completely rewired corp. conservatism

🧵. This is why ProPublica is so important. This is how real journalism works. It’s not about clicks and engagement; it’s about getting the facts right.

During an allergic response, some immune cells digest others Mast cells lure and trap other immune cells during allergic reactions, using their compounds to increase inflammation in a process dubbed nexocytosis

As the person who sent this article to me said: WE GOT THE BASTARDS ON FILM www.sciencenews.org/article/some...

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

But he’s going to look out for the little guy, right? Right?

Oh, really? Gosh, Mr. Representative, if that’s true of you, YOU NEED TO RESIGN.

In his 1792 tract “The Rights of Man, Part 2,” Thomas Paine proposed a graduated tax in which the top marginal tax rate would be 100%. He pegged that top income at £20,000 per year. That would be roughly $4 million in today’s money.

I remember that one time a group of righteously angry pharmacists and kick-ass librarians in Iowa - along with a scrappy ass data scapper - informed Iowa about COVID19, testing, infection rates, etc. That's mutual aid. And that network still exists.

Fifty. Six. Percent. Increase. In. The deaths. Of. Pregnant. People.

Precipitous decline in Common Tern population at the long-term population study in NW Germany due to avian influenza. While grim to see (even more so for those studying), this exceptional study system at least gives many opportunities to understand causes, consequences & response to this epidemic

A recurrent feature of bigotry is claiming that disfavored people are somehow superhuman, making them inherently dangerous and uncontrollable