Dr. Happy Chemist

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

I wore one at the event. I don’t wanna get sick! ❤️

I was in there somewhere, wearing a costume. #nokings #nokingssanfrancisco

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people.

We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days.

Covid is not over.

You can infect others before you feel symptomatic.

People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing.

We need to protect each other.

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

YouTube video by WTKR News 3 Thousands of Virginia Beach residents unite for 'No Kings' protest

Big No Kings crowd in Virginia Beach…

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In Chicago, the consensus is "fuck Trump."

YouTube video by SFGate No Kings at Ocean Beach - San Francisco (10/18/2025)

No Kings on the Ocean Beach in San Francisco…

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María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, wins Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Prize committee recognized María Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader in hiding, for keeping “the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has become a symbol of democratic resistance against an increasingly authoritarian regime, even as she has been forced into hiding and barred from holding public office.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

Congrats to Mary Brunkow of #seattle for #immunology discoveries leading to shared #Nobel ...
Congrats to Institute for Systems Biology.
#research #science

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Fall bloom of beautiful yellow cinchweed around Borrego Springs and in Anza Borrego Desert State Park today thanks to lots of monsoonal summer rain. 90° harsh light but great to see. 🌿

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Shiny former-library hardcover copy of BLACK RIVER ORCHARD by Chuck Wendig.

Omg this book has just taken a hard left into a whole new horror and I can’t stop reading

#BlackRiverOrchard @chuckwendig.bsky.social

Thank you for standing up to that orange dictator!!!

After some of the biggest health care cuts in American history, Trump and his Republicans are now promoting one of the biggest health care cost increases in American history.

They can lie to our faces all they want, but that’s what the GOP's government shutdown is all about.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

ICE agents in military gear are now jumping out of unmarked vans to disappear protesters in Portland, OR. Nothing says "AMERICA" like caving in some Grandma's chest for an orange turd.

For what crime? Not being white, SCOTUS rulings.

ICE are secret police.

Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans just shut down the government to push their extreme agenda. They’d rather strip Medicaid, eliminate SNAP benefits, and close rural hospitals than keep our government open.

It’s appalling.

Here in middle age, thinking a lot about how access to enough time off - let alone affordable care - is critical to health outcomes. The number of doctor checkups, followups, prescription pickups, screenings, and blood draws after 40 add up. Add a chronic condition and it feels like a weekly battle

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 peddles the baseless trope that trans folks fuel mass shootings, cherry-picking outliers while ignoring the stark reality: 98% of such killers are cisgender men. A desperate myth to stoke scapegoats amid their patriarchal power grab. #TransRights

Protect trans health care! Protect gender affirming healthcare! #shutthisgovernmentdown #dumptrump #transrights

SUFS will be on the ground!

We'll see you at #ScienceUnderSiege on Thursday 10/2 with the inimitable @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social 👏

A black and white photo of Albert Einstein, around age 25, sitting at a desk. He is a wearing a flannel suit and resting his right arm on the desk. Einstein is looking to the left of the photographer in this posed photo.

The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads: It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Trump’s demented truth social post.

Oh Jesus Fucking Christ. #dumptrump #trump #stupidshit #hepatitas

My opinion on Tylenol causing autism is that they should release the Epstein files.
#StayFocused

So we’re supposed to take medical advice from someone who can’t even pronounce acetaminophen. #dumptrump #stupid

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