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M.D. turned neuroscientist turned corporate stooge turned unemployed. Mostly here to learn and amplify things others should see. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Timeline cleanser 🧽
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the dominant narratives about the labor market over the past couple years has been that it's a "good time to have a job but a bad time to be looking for one." I think that's only half true. A quick 📈🧵: #EconSky #NumbersDay
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 29/09/2026
617 days into his 2nd term, Trump's Department of Transportation has *still* not approved a single new transit project for full funding. The problems I highlighted in March—how this lack of funding only makes projects cost more & delays completion—have only worsened www.urban.org/urban-wire/r...
There have been no approvals for new transit projects in the entire 2nd Trump Administration. This graph, produced in March 2026, remains accurate now, in September 2026.
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Meduza in English @meduza.io · 21/09/2026
United Russia is on track for a record 355 seats in Russia’s State Duma, the Central Election Commission says, giving the ruling party a constitutional majority and topping its previous high of 343 seats in 2016. meduza.io/en/short/202...
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Russia’s ruling United Russia party is set for a record 355 seats in the State Duma — its largest faction ever — Meduza
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026
the worst part about this is that a lot of the damage will be permanent by the time we can turn the research funding back on a lot of folks will have unsurprisingly and not unreasonably decided that they should leave this area of research because it will never be reliable what a huge waste
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What had the most impact on diesel and gasoline prices: Ukraine attacks on Russian refineries, or Trump's attacks on Iran? The answer is extremely clear, and it's number two.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/08/2026
Last thread for #NeutronStarWeek! A collection of articles, visualisations and fun facts showing how awesome neutron stars (and esp. pulsars) are! Let's start with this .... Neutron stars are TINY! ~20km across. Let's zoom in to one hovering over Sydney! 📸 Daniel Wysocki and HanGyeol Suh
Simulated graphic of a neutron star hovering over Earth with Earth's curvature showingSimulated graphic of a neutron star hovering over the coastline of NSW in AustraliaSimulated graphic of a neutron star hovering over the city of Sydney with coastline showingZoomed in simulated graphic of a neutron star hovering over Sydney
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Blood clots form in a fundamentally different way from previously thought, scientists have found, in a discovery they say will have farreaching medical implications for wound care and the treatment of clotting disorders. An international research team investigated the chemical reaction that triggers
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Blood clot discovery upends consensus about how wounds heal
Proteins stack up in layers like sheets of paper to start to form clots, scientists find
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Prices are rising faster than wages.
Line chart titled "Real wages (adjusted for inflation) are falling" showing percent change over the year in average hourly earnings for all private employees in 1982-1984 dollars. Real wages declined 0.18 percent in July 2026, a sharp reversal from consistent positive growth throughout 2024 and most of 2025. After peaking at 1.80 percent growth in March 2025, real wages turned negative in April 2026 and fell to negative 0.80 percent in May before partially recovering. This marks the first sustained period of declining purchasing power for workers since mid-2024, as wage gains have failed to keep pace with inflation.
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
China closes the space gap with US www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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China Closes the Satellite Gap in Space Race With the U.S.
Beijing is chipping away at American space power, giving it the potential to impair rival networks and blunt U.S. military might.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
1/5 Few political operatives carry as much hidden responsibility for global chaos as Vladislav Surkov. He is an architect of modern post-truth politics, turning cynicism into a weapon of mass disorientation while engineering the rise of Vladimir Putin
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026
As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Musk and Trump took a hatchet to the federal government, claiming they would save $2 trillion in taxpayer money. Thousands lost jobs. Even more lost essential services. But the cuts only saved 2% of their original claims. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I love how HR1 (the big beautiful bill) is structured like a series of sequential time bombs set to detonate in 2026, 2027, 2028 and beyond. Next up are the Medicaid work requirements which will add millions more to the uninsured. Then the provider tax changes that will collapse our HCBS system.
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.
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SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On Tuesday, Scientific American was sold by international publisher Springer Nature. Large numbers of staff were immediately laid off, and salaries of remaining workers were cut by as much as 30% SciAm staff had just voted to unionize. We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting.
A poster titled “Scientific American Rally” invites people to a rally on tuesday june 30 at 5pm at 1 new york plaza. it says “show springer nature that science journalism and the people behind it matter!”
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thread. That stupid border wall — by now mostly a monument to Trump — is soaking up more public funds than it did in Trump’s first term. Republicans are cashing in on this desecration of the desert landscape. Gift link via @abtran.bsky.social
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Farr Macro:
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rockland County, NY, gave a $77 million data center tax break to JP Morgan Chase to create exactly one job. On a dollars-per-job basis it appears to be the costliest subsidy in U.S. history, possibly even a world record nysfocus.com/2026/04/20/d...
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This Data Center is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job
No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Any climate plan from the LA mayor should be considered a joke as long as the city remains unwilling to do anything about the fact that most of its residential land is in single-family-only areas where people will inevitably be forced to rely on cars to get around. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has released a new climate change plan for Los Angeles, setting goals for solar energy, EV chargers and water recycling.
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/04/2026
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A 60-year-old grandmother killer whale named Sophia battling in what scientists believe is the first time a single orca was captured on camera killing a great white shark. [📹 NatGeoWILD] Original post
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 15/04/2026
This is my favorite thread today
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Russ Vought hearing is starting now. It's the first time Vought has testified before Congress since his confirmation hearings, so it's the first time Congress will be able to question him about the onslaught of illegal budgetary actions he has undertaken. I'll be posting in this thread.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 15/04/2026
Ohhhhh so Allbirds sold all their IP to someone else and this is a zombie company that got funding to "do AI" and use the name, got it
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Allbirds Signs Definitive Asset Purchase Agreement with American Exchange Group | Allbirds, Inc.
Cancels Upcoming Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Call SAN FRANCISCO, March 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allbirds, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with ...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Articles have started appearing again, featuring expert opinions that the Russian economy has very little time left and that the regime's collapse is rapidly approaching. Let's take a closer look at what is happening with the Russian economy.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15/04/2026
lol, wtf? www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...
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Allbirds announces stunning pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15/04/2026
This isn't being talked about enough: President Trump is hosting a gala at Mar-a-Lago next week for the top 297 holders of his $TRUMP memecoin. Not only is this blatantly corrupt, it's a national security threat.
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Trump’s Meme Coin Rallies as Investors Chase Mar-a-Lago Invites
The price of President Trump’s meme coin surged more than 50% in 24 hours after its official website and X account said the coin’s top 297 holders would be [invited to an exclusive conference and gala...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/04/2026
They tried so hard to make this headline shorter but there just wasn’t a way to do it.
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Blair Paddock @blairpaddock.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW: An indefinite sentence without being convicted of a crime. Under Illinois' Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, men are detained in a southern Illinois prison, with the only way out being to complete treatment. But those inside say they just receive three hours a week. news.wttw.com/2026/04/14/n...
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No Trial. No Guilty Verdict. How Civil Commitment in Illinois Can Mean Decades Behind Bars
Under two different Illinois laws, people charged with sex offenses are subject to indefinite detention. Some people who’ve only been charged with a crime — never convicted or sentenced — can spend th...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
DC panel has (again) BLOCKED Judge Boasberg from investigating possible criminal contempt by DOJ and DHS officials, including Judge Bove, in connection with sending Venezuelans to CECOT against his order. (I can't access full ruling yet.) Panel: Judges Rao (Trump) Walker (Trump) & Childs (Obama)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
James Abbott: NAGA/GISS/LOTI has March 2026 at 1.26C above the 1951-80 baseline. The record warm March over the USA stands out.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 12/04/2026
Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.
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Budapest Pride 2025: A Record Crowd Stands Up for Democracy
This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant afternoon—into a beacon of resistance. Budapest Pride was more than a celebr...
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
they caught this cop being horny on main in the middle of a swat operation lmaooo
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The US is pulling ancient aircraft out of storage after all the losses in Iran. USAF has reactivated retired KC-135 tanker aircraft including a 68-year-old Stratotanker built in 1958, now undergoing maintenance for possible return to service, BILD reports.
Bild headline with image of aircraft
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
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Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”
Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
www.wired.com/story/openai...
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OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/04/2026
"March’s persistent heat was so intense that the continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records ... Not only was it the hottest March on record for the US, but the amount it was above normal beat any other month in history for the Lower 48 states." Probably fine.
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'Climate change is kicking our butts.' March smashes heat records for continental US
March has been the hottest month on record for the continental United States in 132 years, according to federal weather data.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
El Niño is favored to develop this summer, with a 1 in 4 chance of a very strong El Niño by fall, per @noaa.gov forecast released today. This El Niño will add abundant heat to the oceans and atmosphere globally. Stronger El Niño makes impacts to midlatitude (i.e. California) weather more likely.
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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
have something happy for once in your goddamn life www.wonkette.com/p/idaho-bann...
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Idaho Banned Pride Flags. Boise 'Complied.'
Delicious compliance.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
1/ The Iranian Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has published a map showing the 'new' shipping lanes for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. However, what it shows greatly increases the risk of future shipping disasters in the Persian Gulf. ⬇️
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health. Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-p...
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What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy
Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 09/04/2026
Wage growth among higher-income US households is now outpacing lower-earning cohorts by the widest margin in over a decade, according to an analysis by the Bank of America Institute
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US Wage Growth Is Increasingly K-Shaped With Largest Divide Since 2015
Wage growth among higher-income US households is now outpacing lower-earning cohorts by the widest margin in over a decade, according to an analysis by the Bank of America Institute.
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