Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Ithaca Falls today. Each waterfall in the area is more beautiful than the next. Goodness. #Exploring #NewYork

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

This is what it’s come to.

Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Steve is losing his marbles

Seems as good a time as any to re-share the "OpenLists" collection - an openly accessible set of lists of available resources in / for Cognitive Neuroscience!

Includes open M/EEG & iEEG datasets & open software / analysis tools, and resources for DSP, Python, git, etc:

openlists.github.io

What Bondi and Pirro are learning is that trying to sell the same sh*t to a judge that you've been shoveling to idiot MAGAs who know nothing about criminal justice simply will not fly

In the justice system we say that the *most important skill for a person to have* is to know "what a case is worth"

The book is being delivered around the world 🌎 🧪
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A light brown bunny sits on a blue blanket with white patterns, with green bushes in the background.

A quarter of shaggy scarlet cup mushrooms grows like frosted glass chalices from a buried stick, spiky white eyelashes grow all around their rims, and moist soil fills in a dark background. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

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Happy June Solstice!

It happens in an instant for everyone on our planet.

Precisely, the June Solstice 2025 will happen today, 21 June, at 02:42 UTC.

Animation credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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The June Solstice marks the

🔭 🧪 #Science #Astronomy

Ducks eating watermelon: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

Missy the green eyed bobtail cat peering directly at the camera.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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A family of bitter oysterling mushrooms grow off the side of a very decayed log, their caps and gills burst over each other like a wave breaking on a jetty. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.

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