I’d like to un-buy her book.

Nicolas Tenzer@nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Perhaps my Ukrainian friends haven't seen this: today, this French far-right media outlet—which is very sympathetic to russia—is giving a platform to Iuliia Mendel, a former advisor to President Zelenskyy, who has defected to the Kremlin, to smear her own country. Hight treason and disgrace.

Two linked threads. Part 1 🧵👇

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.

There are the organizations that train these people and funnel them to DC, and there are those in DC who *keep hiring them*.

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Holy shit holy shit holy shit This is huge!! They did it!!! They fucking did it!

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d ago

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

The American age is definitely over. What comes after is still not clear.

What the world is learning is that the US now lacks the capability to fight for any other state, and probably will so for many years until it retools its industry and creates a new defense plan. That will never happen while these corrupt clowns run things, so will take a while.

Imagine if each court were presided over by a superintelligent judge who could instantly weigh the facts & relevant case law and reach a decision… Imagine if the entire court system were presided over by a single superintelligent judge who… Can we PLEASE restore Eisenhower era marginal tax rates?

Russell Brandom@russellbrandom.bsky.social · last wk.

A telling passage from Zuck's WSJ op-ed: "Imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today." I'm really not sure this is true!

People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.

Emmett Till would have been 85 today (b. 7/25/1941). The 14-year-old Chicagoan was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Miss. in 1955. His murder & the acquittal of the killers made Till an icon of the civil rights movement. Image: Public domain photo taken by Till’s mother.

If we ever succeed in replacing this regime with a government, every single perpetrator of its crimes should spend years to decades in prison. After being *lawfully* arrested, charged, tried, convicted, and sentenced, of course.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

Until the government is changed the less spent on US defense, the better. It will be wasted or stolen in the meantime.

It is deeply disappointing that Russian combatants are not banned from entering under this package. Such a ban is not only a moral necessity, but a crucial step in helping the EU counter Russian hybrid warfare.

“The use of Scripture is a common method to assert authority and prolong abusive relationships in religious communities, and it can also be a form of spiritual abuse.”

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

The church’s forgive-and-forget approach to handling allegations of child sexual abuse likely only does further harm to the victims. “Forgiveness without accountability is not healing,” said one expert. “And you can’t pray away a crime.”

I cannot possibly stress enough how much, yes, we do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...

Variolation - Wikipedia

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

Time Change xkcd.com/3272/

Arthurian Connector xkcd.com/3274/

The Onion: “Every now and then we throw in a bland, plausibly true headline, just to test whether people are paying attention.”

Lessee, what’s $82m out of $270b? It is, for example, $15.19 out of $50,000.

Kharkiv before the rain 🌧

Yes, this is a fitting term and we should use it To describe a lot more than just the Tates

sirosenbaum.bsky.social@sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 2w ago

the tate bros aren't just rapists, they're believers in rapism

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

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"Caution: Floor slippery when wet"

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tap to pee

I find that reading four consecutive @nytpitchbot.bsky.social posts at the top of my feed immediately after waking and pre-coffee makes real headlines seem fake for several minutes thereafter. Under President Trump, the NIH has purged anyone capable of studying and understanding this phenomenon.

HODGES: We should stop being deterred by threats, and remind Putin that we have thousands of nuclear weapons, too. And every time he threatens to use nuclear weapons, or Medvedev mumbles about nuclear strike against Warsaw, that’s another shipload of ammunition going to Ukraine.

I know folks are shitting (pun intended) on RFK and DOGE for this outbreak, and that's fair, but I also want to give credit to the nameless bureaucrats who are hanging in there and solved the kind of complex public health puzzle that would have been unsolvable for much of human history. Thank you

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 3w ago

Cyclospora Linked to Taylor Farms Lettuce Sent to Taco Bell. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vGiNCl

The modern Republican Party is the most dangerous internal threat to our Republic since the treason of the slaveowners who started the bloodiest war in our history because they wanted to extend the evil of slavery all the way to Tierra del Fuego and the Republican Party of 1860 wanted to stop them.

“Mr. President, we must not ALLOW a Testosterone GAP!!!” 💪 🤡 🤣

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3w ago

The Pentagon is rolling out annual testosterone screenings for service members over 30. @samsteindc.bsky.social and @saletan.bsky.social react to Pete Hegseth's truly bizarre “Cialis commercial” announcement and the administration’s increasingly weird fixation on masculinity.