Eric Bottorff

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

"Currently, chemical toxicity as an environmental issue receives just a fraction of the funding that is devoted to climate change, a disproportionality that Macpherson says should change."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

#BoycottMicrosoft

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

If they don't fight back against this shit, it's going to spread rapidly across higher education. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Wildfire smoke be like

J Street head says he’s now convinced Israel committing genocide in Gaza Jeremy Ben-Ami explains he has been 'persuaded rationally' by legal and scholarly arguments, stresses that though he won't use term himself, he won't argue against it either

"Days after rejecting the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the liberal Zionist advocacy and lobby group J Street, has said he has been “persuaded” that he was wrong."

admitting you were wrong is good

www.timesofisrael.com/j-street-hea...

I have worn my Fuck Ice Tshirt that I purchased from @moxiest.art twice and both time people have stopped me or given me the approving head nod. Wear good propaganda messages on your body.

The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress:
—cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)]
—more than 15 infectious diseases
—autoimmune diseases
—rare disease for genome editing

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Live stream of Trump’s economic policy.

youtu.be/vAnJw_vOjGw

Trump admin pulls funding for new mRNA vaccines — Axios Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that the government is pulling $500 million in funding to develop new mRNA vaccines in order to focus on

Trying to kill us with idiocy. apple.news/ANnNbdVt3QL2...

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work?
The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize.
And they've saved literally millions of lives already.

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

I would assume I’m not the only cystic fibrosis patient who has come to really hate summertime.

Putting aside the cruelty, this is economic insanity. And, again, we’re meant to be hosting a fucking World Cup next year.

This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…

Effective tariff rates continue spiking—customs duties averaged 9% across all imports in June, a figure more than quadruple the pre-Trump norm.

Keep in mind that this understates the economic impacts of tariffs because tariffed goods make up a smaller % of overall imports now

Video shows Israeli forces firing at Palestinians in Gaza who were gathered near an aid distribution site at the Netzarim Corridor.

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

I’m sure this will have no negative knock-on effects. 👀

A graph of year on year change in us construction employment

Job growth in the US construction industry continues to slow—the sector has added only 88k jobs total over the last year, the lowest since early COVID and lower than any point from 2013-2019

The residential sector has even *lost* 22k jobs since last year

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash."

www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

My best friend who watches Maddow just called to tell me that she landed the plane and plainly stated that the US is currently being ruled by a consolidating authoritarian regime. Not that it is 'descending into' etc etc but that it is here. Maybe this will move more liberals to say the same.

Nebraska, everyone.

This is the energy we need in the world right now.

Context for gerrymandering debate

“How responsive/congruent is state policy with state public opinion” is one of the most studied poli sci questions

Red & blue states both passed more 'extreme' policy in recent decades. Blue state policy shifts were aligned with state opinion. Red states’ weren’t

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.

Oh FUCK OFF theintercept.com/2025/08/02/s...

“On June 15, 1992, [Dan] Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error.” — @wikipedia.org

Deporting immigrants kills native jobs too As Trump and his ICE Sturmabteilung troop stormingly about the country deporting people, there’s an important fact that’s being overlooked: deporting undocumented workers destroys domestic jo…

"In other words, for every 1,000 immigrants who lose their jobs, almost 800 natives will as well."

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