Reposted by Gradually DecomposingHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan. 1243180374
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingSean Kitchen @seankitchen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025NEW: Pennsylvania Working Families Party is calling for a primary challenge against US Sen. John Fetterman and is looking to recruit potential 2028 primary candidates. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...keystonenewsroom.comProgressive organization calls for primary challenge to FettermanA major organization launched an effort to train and recruit potential primary candidates for the commonwealth’s 2028 US Senate primary against John Fetterman. 1522158
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 19/11/2025And if there is video of mango Mussolini raping a 10 year old Massie and most of the rest of usual right wing loons will whatabout us to death with Burisma, the laptop, etc. 010
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Since when did he care about public opinion on his votes? 000
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I'm more than a bit sick of the media seemingly normalizing what is obviously a move to the middle with some future political office in mind. 010
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingBeth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Between the end of February & mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease & brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found.apnews.comNIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report saysA new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts. 26041
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingLisa Bee (she/her) @leebee4life.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is. 33142433312
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 18/11/2025action.consumerreports.org/nb_20251117_...action.consumerreports.orgHold Meta accountable for fraudulent adsFacebook exposes users to 11 scam ads a day 000
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them. 329204602408
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢 414446
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025As academics we need to get a lot better at calling out the bullshit and bullshitters from our own institutions. When a Hopkins Professor of Medicine can point to the words of the Harvard Dean of Public Health to support their BS, it's hard for people to disregard that. 710528
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here? 17965695019241
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I wonder why we don't hear a mass call for the house to impeach Kennedy. I realize who's in charge there but people could start screaming for it. 000
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Kulldorff points out that low rates of COVID-19 vaccination are a reflection of a lack of trust in vaccination, as though this is a tragic accident he spectated rather than something he played an active role in 517434
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Given the position the GOP is taking regarding the social safety net it would almost seem like they don't expect to have to face another election. 000
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Ironically, in the 1920s Stephen Miller's grandparents, Jewish immigrants who settled in central Pennsylvania where they created the inter-generational wealth that helped fund Miller's lifestyle, were attacked with this exact same rhetoric from the immigration restrictionists of their day, the KKK. 431815431
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States. If I’m flying I’m masking. 491013114
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025“Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary”. Been saying this for months now.independent.co.ukJames Carville warns RFK Jr’s vaccine plan will have fatal consequences for AmericansRFK Jr. recently purged all 17 member of CDC vaccine advisory panel, replacing them with members experts say are critical of vaccines 2233975
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 21/06/2025www.eesi.org/papers/view/...eesi.orgFact Sheet | Proposals to Reduce Fossil Fuel Subsidies (January 2024) | White Papers | EESIThis fact sheet discusses attempts to alter fossil fuel subsidies, including measures in the Biden-Harris Administration’s FY 2024 budget request. 000
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingLee Johnson for US Senate @handle.invalid · 03/06/2025Lindsey Graham’s had decades to fix healthcare. Instead, he tried to repeal it. I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it. 321395254
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/06/2025“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @wavynews10.bsky.social.wavy.com 719966
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one. 19956591549
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.restoredcdc.orgCenters for Disease Control and Prevention 437326958274
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingHealth Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025No, COVID vaccines aren't causing AIDS In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all. My new piece with @immunologic.org open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...open.substack.comCOVID-19 Vaccines Aren’t Causing AIDSThe truth behind a new preprint from a team at Yale 120034
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingKatelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 28/02/2025New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back: 1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions 111135
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingMichael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is a very unusual pattern for COVID. I'm really curious as to what is driving it. 1916732
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/01/2025In *this* household we’re celebrating Tinsel’s 4th anniversary. I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump. 81726404686
Reposted by Gradually Decomposingderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...pasadenahumane.org 13094134216
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingShannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people. www.watchduty.orgwatchduty.orgWatch Duty - Wildfire Maps & AlertsWatch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time. 291809705
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingDanielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024In our study we showed how angry neutrophils are massively entering the brain after #COVID infection, which is associated with Blood-Brain-Barrier disruption & Neuroinflammation. The photo below shows neutrophils infected with SARS-CoV-2. More data coming! www.cell.com/cell-reports... #NeuroCovid 29357125
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingNatalie Wright, Ph.D. @coereba.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If you are sick & have to be out & about, especially in a crowded indoor space or on public transit or an airplane, please don’t be an asshole. Wear a damn mask. The amount of coughing, snorting, & sneezing coming from all directions on the last flight was gross. I was one of only 2 people masked. 1359
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals. 604326165675
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 24/11/2024That or their respective Gods will either save the day or beam them up. 000
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 24/11/202424 November 1903 | A Czech Jew, Robert Glück, was born in Prague. He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive. 1449789
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingBess Kalb @bessbell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Since Nancy Mace is in the news, I'll post the one thing that was enjoyable about my time on Twitter: 12664081248
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024And just like that, they no longer care how much your groceries cost. 512189763273
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The truth is, none of us really know what the next four years will look like. It’s incredibly difficult to predict what happens next. It does not feel good. 2593439813916
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'm old enough to remember when Joe was a congressional rep with Newt Gingrich. All part of the devolution of the GOP from the southern strategy to Trump. 011
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingJR @janewantstorejoin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Just shared this, Carole. It's an urgent, and terrifying, read. Thank you for keeping our eyes open and for hammering the point that there IS such a thing as truth and "do not obey in advance"🙏 010912
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Some thoughts: 1. Many, many Secs of HHS (including Biden’s) are lawyers 1a. But almost all have had executive experience, including most w/experience overseeing some aspect of a state health system 2. No secretaries of HHS are perfect 2b. But to my knowledge none have been labeled as … 1027381
Reposted by Gradually DecomposingMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Health leads the list of things people worry about. These concerns are all ameliorated with functioning public health systems & partnerships. 15211
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 15/11/2024One turning point was 2010 when the so-called tea party managed to elect people to our legislatures. Supercharging ignorance. 000
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Except for those of us that won't live long enough to see a recovery. 190
Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Here is the link to the entire article. thetransom.com/p/matt-gaetz...thetransom.comMatt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns ThatCrush Some Viagra And Pour The Red Bull In Your Veins 010
