Jeanthejust
@jeanthejust.bsky.social
Anti-fascist curmudgeon: likes cats, Austen, mysteries, SF, history, recovery, d&d, earthquakes, volcanoes, art. She/her. ND. Mostly harmless. Owned by Saul the house panther. I block unkind people w/o compunction. Married.
Ultimately, this move will almost certainly be rejected by the courts, as it clearly fits the key standard for illegal administrative actions.
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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I have to ask this question. How does an 18 yr old black athlete die on the 4th of July while boating with 4 white boys in Mississippi? The Autopsy personnel remove his throat & lungs so no one else sees that evidence. And a grand jury says..." No foul play"? #NolanWells
Lots of love for Mamdani pointing out how important it is for progressives and socialists to reclaim the mantle of efficient government from the right. Seattle’s own @mayor.seattle.gov has been saying similar things. And she’s giving a budget speech later today that might just make similar points:
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JD Vance is using AI to kick hundreds of thousands of people off health insurance. These are AI death panels.
Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
Ceramic wall plates made by the Linthorpe Art Pottery, Midddlesbrough, 1880s, on display in the Museum of Hartlepool. The pottery only existed for 12 years, but in that time it built up a considerable reputation. It closed in 1890 after a local bank collapse led to the bankruptcy of its owner.
Millionaire athletes asking poorer fans to gamble for betting site paydays, is pretty 2026 America. 🇺🇸
I decided to share my health journey with GLP-1s because I thought it might make a difference for others. I don't take for granted that we now have tools to help us live healthier lives — and I hope sharing encourages people to explore their options.
Gov. Pritzker opens up about his 80-pound weight loss, use of GLP-1 — ‘I think it’s what I need to succeed’
More than two years into his weight loss journey, Gov. JB Pritzker says he wants to talk about it, largely in part because he knows millions of Americans are suffering from obesity-related health cond...
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Yes, we're exhausted, enraged and beyond ready for this shit show to end. Every day the rip in the fabric of reality continues to tear; it's like living in a never ending episode of the Twilight Zone.
This is the way. I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
We are back from our brief vacation, and have been thoroughly scolded for 24 hours, and now we have the happiest cat in the eorld.
With the backlash to Flock, cities are moving to Axon cameras. But what exactly are they doing with them? 404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs, @josephcox.bsky.social explains. You can too: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
Tragic: Former Fox News producer unalives herself after being unable to get justice against accused rapist, ex-Fox anchor Ed Henry and the network. RIP Jennifer Eckhart.
Former Fox News producer Jennifer Eckhart dies by suicide at 36
Jennifer Eckhart, 36, was found at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, on Saturday, with TMZ subsequently reporting that she had taken her own life.
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Precisely. My husband and son are not sexists. If you asked them if they were feminists they would be puzzled because they would have to think for a minute about why one would be anything else. We pretty much don't associate with sexists because they are creeps.
Grumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪@brian770.bsky.social · yesterday
They’re about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · yesterdayBrooke Rollins: If beef is too expensive, you can eat chicken, eggs, other great sources of protein.
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
MS NOW, CNN & Politico announced they will sue the White House today for banning them, legend 1st and 5th amendment violations.
As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
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ICE-Gestapo killers shot and injured a DoorDash delivery driver in Texas whilst he was doing his job. I’ll say it again, they aren’t agents, they are terrorists.