Bryan K Devil
@bryankdevil.bsky.social
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so...
Vaccine stock piles can transform how we respond to outbreaks on infectious disease. These days Ebola Zaire vaccines are deployed within days of a new outbreak being detected. Great to see this partnership strive to do same for Nipah virus www-expresspharma-in.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.expr...
CEPI, University of Oxford and Serum Institute to establish investigational Nipah virus vaccine reserve - Express Pharma
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"you can only call them fascists when you're no longer allowed to call them fascists" is a take, i guess
If I want to be caught up, I have to take on less and also not live under fascism
NEW: “In the end, Abbott’s brief is not a serious legal document. It’s an entirely political one.“ Wherein I answer your burning questions about several niche areas of Texas state law—and tell you how I really feel about Greg Abbott’s no good, very bad brief. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-le...
Our term recap - big themes, roses & thorns, and … yikes. crooked.com/podcast/a-te...
a cartoon cat is making a face and saying `` yes , i 'm sassy '' in front of a mirror .
Alt: a cartoon cat is making a face and saying `` yes , i 'm sassy '' in front of a mirror .
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When Teddy Roosevelt was called disloyal for criticizing Wilson’s conduct of WWI, he said “to announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · last yr.Pretty bizarres, seeing as how they spent that last four years worrying about WW3 rather than getting behind the President (Biden) on Ukraine.
The only King(s) I acknowledge
Drew Dietsch@drewdietsch.bsky.social · last yr.The only king I'll acknowledge
If you're watching what is happening in the US, and you're not filled with a sense of hope, you're watching the wrong content. The propaganda is working on you. Stop giving away your power. Stop indulging Doomerism. Now is the time where the American people show the fascists who we are.
@mgroy.bsky.social · last yr.Seriously. I have more hope now than ever! America is awake and fighting back. The Regime is losing their asses in court. The lies are obvious. And approval ratings are in the shitter. And the marines aren’t happy about this one little bit. Stay peaceful and relentless and we got this! 100%!
just a reminder when you see all the marines sleeping on the sidewalks of downtown LA, unhoused people are still people, please treat them with respect and dignity thank you
Abandoning faith in the law is a necessary condition for despotism. Faith alone won’t protect institutions, but defeatism will certainly hasten their demise.
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
Newark Airport under the Trump administration: Come for the near-death flight experiences and delays; stay for the diseases
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · last yr.Anyone who was in Newark Airport's Terminal B between 12:30-4 p.m. Monday may have been exposed to measles, according to the New Jersey health department.
I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it
No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race. And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress. Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.
Joe Morelle@morelle.house.gov · last yr.Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis. It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
The reality is that the U.S. government is ALREADY remarkably transparent and has a ton of oversight over the work it does, and people have been working for years to make it more efficient. But that story isn't going to get clicks, so government bashing is the norm and the DOGE bros bought it all.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2y agoInteresting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
Alito and Thomas are absolute shitbags
Steven Mazie@stevenmazie.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent
Who knew DEI was necessary to prevent the sharing of military plans in signal chats with private citizens??
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2y agoBecause one time wasn’t enough: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB. By @peard33.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
Omg this. Democrats must stop nodding along to the “waste, fraud, and abuse” lines. The govt works. If you want it to work even better, you hire more people and give them better tech. You INVEST in the services. You don’t starve them. You don’t attack the workforce and call them lazy.
So Sayeth Black Lord:@jmood88.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd Democrats have humored Republican attacks on government for so long that they have to do the “we agree that changes need to be made, but” thing whenever they do speak out against what’s happening