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when are we as a nation going to have a serious conversation about whatever is happening in ohio

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

TIL how easy it is to make mashed potatoes from scratch if you boil the heck outta them, and use the food processor to mash/whip them. This is a game changer. 😂 Old dog, and all that... 😆

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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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🌍 #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora is back! Join an international panel discussing how we can build research capacity, strengthen collaborations, and grow scientific networks across the diaspora. 🗓️July 29 | ⏰ 1:30–3 PM ET

that is amazing, that Mitch is still missing, his constituency don't have representation, the Senate Approp. committee is stalled without him, and yet, no one from among his voters or the news or ... can just freaking SHOW UP where he is to SEE if he is actually alive and capable of doing his job.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

It stuns me that this information remains as background, when in fact IT IS THE STORY, even above The Plunder by The Convicted Felon.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

The “dead people are voting” people are awfully quiet about how there might be a dead person in Congress. How could you possibly not know whether Mitch McConnell is dead or alive?

Apparently using exclamation marks to soften a message, including emojis, and thinking about how an email may be read by its recipient, is emotional labor? I thought that was just my communication style... 😂 Doesn't everyone think about the mind of the recipient? (I can't claim to do it well!)

So we have used Google maps so long we don't have actual maps, and I know I have gotten worse at learning and remembering where things are. But Gemini is really good at organizing my thoughts and helping me lay basic points, so -- I don't like where this is going!! 😞

I'm appreciating the message from the Pride Drag Race a few weeks ago!

Our A/C was out of commish for a week and we hoofed it to a hotel rather than try to live/cook/work in an 80+ deg F house. Back home, nomadic no longer, yay! How the folks in France and Spain and others in those heat domes in Europe are surviving, I don't know!! (Thousands don't, unfortunately.)

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

Truth Without Reconciliation

Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

Yes. He’s dead. So are Americans and hard working immigrants because of the actions of an administration this dead man wholeheartedly supported. Those are facts. And because he’s dead, it doesn’t change the truth about how he lived.

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Join us Monday @2PM to send a clear message to Congress: Protect our science infrastructure from partisan interference. Peer review, not politics, should guide scientific research. Slashing funding for science that does not conform to Trump’s ideological agenda will harm ALL Americans.

OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning

OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...

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There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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Here's why you may not know that: 64% of Memphis residents are Black. There are other reasons, but mostly that.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w ago

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

Trump officials came to Ohio in June to highlight investigations of people suspected of cheating Medicaid out of tens of millions, but they didn't mention corporations accused of up-charging the state’s system by a quarter-billion dollars in a single year ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/f...

Feds, Ohio Republicans focus on individual cases of Medicaid fraud, but what about corporations? • Ohio Capital Journal

The Trump administration and Ohio Republicans say they're fighting Medicaid fraud. But they never mentioned corporate contractors.

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Back in college we said if we all got politically involved we could work our way up the corridors of power and actually make a difference. Phil's actually done it!! Go Phil!!! philforcolorado.com

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As your Governor, Phil will continue to take on the challenges Coloradans are facing because we have so much important work to do to help make people’s lives better.

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Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68

Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court

After legal challenges succeeded, Trump administration shifts from dismantling agencies to centralizing OMB control over research funding.

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This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

Malaclypse the Middle@malaclypse.bsky.social · 4w ago

Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:

Imagine: by law, instituting a network of universities that sit technically within but separate from the public universities, focused on politically biased content, and requiring all students to take classes in these new "Conservative Safe Spaces." Don't need to imagine it--Ohio is doing it.

Columbus Underground@colsunderground.bsky.social · 4w ago

A new law might change how the “Conservative Safe Spaces” mandated at Ohio colleges operate: columbusunderground.com/new-law-woul...

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW