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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mean Girl Bluffs Her Way Through Book Report
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My uber driver was a korean/french/mayan guy from Tijuana who taught spanish and french at Woodrow Wilson High in El Sereno for 30 years and sold me a poetry on the bus book he wrote.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is how we do it
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10/10/2026
Correct. Vought and Bhattacharya want to do to NIH what they have gotten further with at NSF- turn it into a slush fund for their political preferences. But peer review is popular, and it is required by law. So they are slowly chipping away at peer review process in an effort to break it.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He is well prepared for a lawn business. His main output for years has been manure.
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Nate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I didn't have "World Famous Pedophile Donald Trump being a whiney bitch over everyone dead naming the Gulf Of Mexico, Lake Ontario, and Artificial Intelligence" on my "Ever In My Lifetime BINGO Card," but here we are...
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And now Trump wants to fund Putin's war effort to hit more Ukrainian civilian targets.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And don’t forget it
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
guy's not fucking around
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Alman Kido (Sean Bean) - Buckle Up
ALT: Alman Kido (Sean Bean) - Buckle Up
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Just Another Mike @mwmarshall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt: "Were you or were you not the pirate captain of the Black Pearl" Jack Smith: "Sir I believe that was Jack Sparrow"
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From a discussion of updating a department website...
A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/09/2026
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
WASHINGTON—Marveling at how his American counterpart’s grasp of the difficult language had progressed, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told reporters Thursday that he was deeply impressed with how much Pres...
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
damn straight –– good to see Congress responding quickly bare teeth if/when necessary
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Americans have one of the proudest scientific heritages to draw upon. The founding fathers were keenly aware of the necessity of the freedom to think, the freedom to reason, & the freedom to create. These rights are broadly covered under the First Amendment.” ❤️ this idea: a 1A right to science
Americans have one of the proudest scientific heritages to draw upon. The founding fathers were keenly aware of the necessity of the freedom to think, the freedom to reason, and the freedom to create. These rights are broadly covered under the First Amendment to our
constitution.

We have built on these rights with a federal system of grantmaking, an investment in the best minds in America.
The NIH represents the crowning achievement of this national meritocratic effort to trust the American system to
create American science.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Show me ***anything*** that demonstrates underperformance by NIH extramural research as it has been administered for decades, whether one or another political party was in charge You can’t because we delivered more than anyone else — Nobels, patents, cures, industry, workforce
Traditionally, the N.I.H. selects projects based on expert review of their scientific merit. But Mr. Trump has sought through a series of recent directives in his second term to bring that process under political review, arguing in part that the government has been funding “woke” liberal priorities.
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ᑎᗩTᑌᖇᗩᒪ, ᒪIKE ᐯEᖇᑎOᑎ @naturallikevernon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump died and got buried at Mar-Lago. A man went to the airport and said, "I need a ticket to go piss on Trump's grave." The agent said, "Yes, sir. Here's a ticket to Los Angeles." The guy said, "Los Angeles?! But Trump's buried in Florida!" The agent said, "Yes, sir, but the back of the line..."
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 19/09/2026
When you're comfortable with being yourself around others..
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Economist Justin Wolfers reacts to Treasury Secretary Bessent’s increasingly provocative public posture: “It feels like testosterone poisoning. It feels like someone fell down an internet rabbit hole...The Treasury Secretary’s words are and should be among the most powerful things in the world.”
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Hooray for Paddy Pumpkinhead!!! @paddydoublems.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finished. There were times I was laughing, saying "oh my god" to some of the moments and times when my head would spin at the government bureaucracy that was laid on some of the characters in the story. Time to take a few hours break before I start the next book. #Booksky
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some humor? 😂 Or maybe kinda true? 😱 inpreparation.substack.com/p/nih-simpli...
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NIH Simplifies Grant Scoring To 👍 🤷‍♂️ 😂
BETHESDA, MD—The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would replace its 50-year-old numerical scoring system with a streamlined three-emoji format, in which grant applications will ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dolly Parton‘s version of Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens’) Peace Train with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Dolly produced the @cbsnews.com TV special, which aired in 1996, to promote her album, Treasures. Yusuf Islam talks about why he wrote Peace Train.
youtu.be
Peace Train/Isitimela Sokuthula: Dolly Parton (feat. Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton HD
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Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
dolly parton new yorker cover
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Tangerine Twit Troll @tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Who knew the Canadians could play the same game?
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Insights from inside NIH on the proposal to hide scores and instead bin applications into broad score categories. Please read and comment on the RFI. 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-... Link to RFI: rfi.grants.nih.gov?s=6a2b1c22c3...
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NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review
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it's an uncivil war @lucyksy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wish more people understood that they don't know, know a famous person.
My 7 year old heard me say that DP died and got very sad.  I was surprised she knew the name.
You know DP?  I don't know know her. But she sent me books.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In 1890, Henri Poincaré proved the non-existence of the uniform first integral of the three-body problem and the sensitive dependence to initial conditions of its trajectories. Yet, stable solutions to it do exist and these are some of them. Original post
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026
“Here, beneath my humble shirt, lies the future of hyperintelligent AI integration.” — Mark Zuckerberg
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‘Behold, Meta’s New AI,’ Says Mark Zuckerberg Covering Nipples In Tinfoil
MENLO PARK, CA—Providing an internal update on his latest breakthrough in the smart technology sector, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg reportedly invited employees to behold the company’s “new AI” Monday...
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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The Tex Ramone Chainsaw Massacre🎃 @texramone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In other words: come to a politically driven conclusion first and then cherry-pick evidence and data to back it up. That’s not how science works
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djhoc.bsky.social @djhoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Also…the proposal is to hide the scores from the very scientists who produce the scores! It is insane…we who produce the scores already /know/ the scores. The only purpose of hiding them is to give political cover for funding grants on political grounds
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djhoc.bsky.social @djhoc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is insanely obvious that grants to be funded from the top bin would be chosen on political grounds
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration admitted that they targeted our state’s energy grants for political reasons.
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Trump administration admits cancellation of Maryland energy grants was political
Department of Energy attorneys admitted in recent court filings that it cancelled grants, including over $80 million for Maryland projects, based on how states voted in the 2024 presidential election.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/08/2026
“This custom, state-of-the-art service container is covered in beautiful 24-karat gold and outfitted with the latest security and antimissile technology,” Donald Trump said as he showed off the luxury catering truck, which reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers $900 million.
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Trump Unveils New 250-Foot Gilded Catering Container For Presidential Travel
WASHINGTON—Touting the new vessel as an investment that could discreetly transport the nation’s chief executive for years to come, President Donald Trump unveiled Tuesday a new 250-foot gilded caterin...
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Rachel Widome @rwidome.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"...when K. Malik asserted that institute directors retain the delegated authority 4 final funding decisions, his statement was technically true but profoundly incomplete. The director’s authority exists on paper, but it is now entirely conditional on a non-objection from HHS political appointees."
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