Diana Hunt (she/her)
@dkathunt.bsky.social
Scientist, photographer, runner, hiker, lover of books, film, musicals/plays, New Zealand and the great outdoors.
Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...
Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.
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He was talking about banning the shipping of abortion pills—which would be a nightmare! But now the Trump administration has an out, because they can just put out a release saying OF COURSE we won't pass a national ban. And just like that, they don't have to answer for what Blanche really said
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
The fact that these people have the nerve to open their mouths to talk about “protecting women and girls” while doing shit like this… whew!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h agoMike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature
Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...
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To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.
ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d agotrans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
I actually think that the confusion over this question—the mistaken idea that perverts and preachers have opposing projects—is responsible for a lot of the stagnated and remedial quality of sexual politics discourses.
Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · yesterdayThere’s no contradiction between this kind of pornographic misogyny and puritanical misogyny of the old Christian right. Both use sexuality to enact men’s domination over women. That one sect forces sex and the other prohibits it is largely a matter of taste.
FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
BIG: Kansas just rejected a ballot measure that would have required state Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by the governor — dealing another setback to Republicans trying to overturn a decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
It's almost like lawmakers don't want to represent their constituents...
Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 2d agoTomorrow’s ballot in Missouri includes a GOP-backed proposal that would kill the popular initiative process that allows voters to use referendums to enact the policies that lawmakers refuse to act on: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...
These troops -- who are generally very friendly and have no say in what they've been assigned to do -- are walking around in circles all day, around the perimeters of parks, up and down neighborhood streets, with hardly anything to do.
NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in tax dollars, according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.
Something telling: Blanche said the DOJ is working so the "Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state"—making clear they never saw Dobbs as giving abortion 'back to the states', but a tool to ban abortion nationwide
This is why people don’t report domestic abuse. The cops love to say “This is a family fight” and “there are 2 sides to every story” until the abused party winds up dead.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d agoPeople still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.
Humanity is NOT prepared for the permafrost melting We are so fucked
Klimaatcommunicatie 💚@klimaatcom.bsky.social · 3d agoVoor de eerste keer is er een temperatuur gemeten van 100° F / 38° C boven de poolcirkel ...
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
This is way too familiar. I grieve for every person who knows what that kinda fear feels like.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide
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For only 250k you too can have a photocopy of a report that says the way to save your University is to do more computers and business and get rid of all arts and humanities. Also invest in lots of surveillance tech.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
"Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back." - perfect again from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d agoNew article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
"Young people grow up longing to be a brand because it looks like job security. But there is no security in being post-human. Brands are for cattle, and that’s what the elite want: self-branding cattle, self-selecting fresh meat." Sarah Kendzior with another great article.
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d agoNew article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Why yes I warned of it a decade ago (and more) but alas was dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist" which is liberal code for "people who read history and draw obvious conclusions" bsky.app/profile/sara...
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d agoWe're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
Fauci doesn’t kill people. Men who physically abuse their wives do.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoSen. Moreno claims Fauci "killed seniors" and calls him a "smug SOB"
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
