Ken Gilmore
@kengilmore.bsky.social
Australian medical doctor fascinated by evolutionary biology, ancient Near Eastern studies, Syro-Palestinian archaeology, biblical studies and vintage electronics. Eclectic is not a dirty word. He/his.
Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the 1990s, said during an episode that aired Sunday. Least surprising news ever.
Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others
A former director of the National Institutes of Health—who resigned in February—told CBS’s 60 Minutes that working at the agency became “untenable” after President Donald Trump started his second term...
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Turns out contemporary conservatives hate all of science. Being ignorant is now a tribal identity marker for them.
Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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In the least surprising news of the day the Trump regime fakes evidence to justify their treatment of a person.
Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social · last yr.Trump fabricates a photo of Mr. Garcia with MS-13 tattoo on his hand. This is NOT a real image. Trump and his regime fabricated it. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCISM regimes do. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...
That moment when you find sceptical figures you once respected think “woke ideology” is a far bigger threat to science than the right wing extremists in the Trump Administration.
The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD
YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic
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I went crazy ages ago, and now I just watch the train run off the bridge for the dark side of the moon.
Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · last yr.It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane
Not a few Christian Nationalists have been vocal in calling for the repealing of the 19th Amendment. This is one way to achieve something like that. Gotta stop those handmaidens voting.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
Making the Chinese look like the good guys and adults in the room isn’t hard when you’re dealing with couch boy, admittedly.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.Think about how much of an entitled prick you’d have to be to think calling other human beings “peasants” when you’re the Vice President is an ok thing to do. The world’s worst diplomat strikes again. Also: we don’t borrow money from them. That is nonsense.
Exactly. Remember, he’s a corrupt stupid conman and convicted felon. There’s no Machiavellian plans here. He’s just behaving like he always has in the business world.
Rick@rickylongthread.bsky.social · last yr.Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.
Now that those tariffs have been reversed or paused, are we now back in the emasculated free-trade wilderness? Curious minds want to know.
The more she lies the smaller her nose gets and the larger her cross grows. It’s like an inverse Pinocchio of the far right.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last yr.It's almost impossible to imagine, after the first Trump administration, but do we have the stupidest, lying Press Secretary in history?
The gestapo allusions can be taken as given.
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last yr.“Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
I have no problems with the research as such but we’re not resurrecting dead species. They’re gone forever and misleading hype like this is irritating.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · last yr.This is not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf with some fairly minor genetic modification to exhibit a few (presumed) dire wolf traits. Similarly, this woolly mouse is not a mammoth. It's a genetically modified mouse exhibiting a mammoth trait.
Away from the political madness; nice short article on respected archaeologist of 1st-10th century CE Palestine / Israel Jodi Magness.
The Archaeologist’s World: Jodi Magness and Her Ancient Discoveries - The Local Reporter
As the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2002, Jodi Magness has established herself as a preeminent author...
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Exactly. Who would come to the U.S. to build a scientific career when future Republican regimes could deport your postdocs and grad students or just make them disappear?
Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social · last yr.I am increasingly convinced that there is no coming back from any of this, that whatever happens in future elections, the United States is never going to go back to being the country it once was. It is certainly not the country I came to 30 years ago.
I’m quite happy for all of them to be cancelled forever, which is a shame because the Blind Watchmaker still remains my favourite evolutionary biology book.
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last yr.Dozens of "scientists and scholars"—including Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, and Jordan Peterson—are contributing essays to a right-wing publisher's book about "the war on science." The focus? DEI and cancel culture. Not Republicans. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-...
Just waiting for the Trumpenführer’s American Jewish supporters to condemn this unreservedly. Any time now.
Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Charlie Kirk lies again. It’s all he can do.
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · last yr.Nice try.
The pathetic trigger control underlines the fact these are cruel morons cosplaying a government.
One third of America is fundamentally broken. It can only be outvoted and outlived.
Kylie Cheung@kylietcheung.bsky.social · last yr.this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from
Tired of the Trumpenführer’s belligerent idiocy? How about a reminder about looming food insecurity?
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · last yr.Whistleblowing memo by anonymous food industry execs in the UK via @insidetrackuk.bsky.social Link to full memo and media coverage here. It’s addressed to investors in the hopes they use their influence to demand action insidetrack.org.uk/foodmemo
That last paragraph needs to be branded on the foreheads of every pearl-clutching conservative who whines about drugs but dies absolutely nothing to address the root causes of the problem.
Pah! Who needs turnips? Any competent cook can make a meal without food.
Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · last yr.you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
This is about as dystopian as your authoritarian regime can get. When the courts fail to uphold due process, anyone can be disappeared.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last yr.The government is snatching people off the streets and shipping them to foreign prisons from which, the government claims, they can never be extracted. All with no due process. It’s as bad as it gets. And this court is again avoiding the reality of what’s happening at all costs.
Brainworm Jr has reached the “precious bodily fluids” level of insanity.
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · last yr.(AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. apnews.com/article/fluo...
As a rule, there’s always good reading in any banned book list. I’ve now got more titles to add to the to-read list, courtesy of the pig-ignorant fascists driving the U.S. into the ground.