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Activist and scientific consultant for Downwinders in Utah. Degrees in Chemistry (BS), Biochemistry (M.Phil) and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D). So can do anything, but somehow strangely unemployable. Love living by the Wasatch mountains. Wikipedia editor.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/02/2026
American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever
webcomic and comic

“I want things to be different”

*smash*

“oh no”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🧵How Putin Pulled Off The Greatest Intelligence Operation in History: Putin's Small Investments Have Yielded Large Returns This is a story about the best investment anyone’s ever made—anytime, anywhere. Not a company. Not a weapon. Not a technology. An idea. open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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How Putin Pulled Off The Greatest Intelligence Operation in History
Putin's Small Investments Have Yielded Large Returns
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/01/2026
ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.
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How to Legally Protect People in Your Home from ICE | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
zero self-awareness
Kyle Rittenhouse tweeting a picture of Charlie Kirk’s killer. Kyle says with zero irony “The face of a coward. Pure evil.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
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Busy skiing for now @jdcallahan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I like my starting word. Wordle 1,628 2/6 🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Busy skiing for now @jdcallahan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
LMAO!
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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This was published one year ago. Everything is, sadly, true today.
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Ahh- good times
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I’d expect a 1000 more retweets on this post from the liberals so adamantly against free speech restrictions…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2025
jesus christ
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It is here. McCarthyism 2.0. Wrongthink now gets you on a list that is openly trying to liaison with the government (which has already said it will be doing similar work in the weeks to come). The list referenced below now exceeds 100,000 people. People on the list are already getting death threats.
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Betty💪 @bettyhumpter25.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Here ya go Greg
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Busy skiing for now @jdcallahan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I made it happen. Wordle 1,537 3/6 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/07/2025
I wrote about this, with an appropriate shoutout. www.pbump.net/o/americans-...
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Americans are impressively bad at understanding crime trends
(National Archives) Please get ready to witness a truly ridiculous measure of public opinion. I don't want to oversell it, but I do want you to know that, when I saw it, I exclaimed out loud, and so I...
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 28/07/2025
Scientists have been mobilizing like they hadn’t since the Vietnam War era. This cultural shift may have been catalyzed by the first Trump presidency but is made urgent by the ongoing need for climate justice.
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Politics and science can mix - High Country News
The time for trying to remain neutral has passed.
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Lauren Rinaldi @laurenrinaldi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Release the files! Review the files! There are no files! Move on from the files! They exist but they’re fake files! Only losers care about the files! So what if Trump is in the files! Shit, WSJ called. Russiagate! New files! BLOCK THE FILES!!! >>You Are Here<< www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
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Johnson shuts door on House vote before September on releasing Epstein files | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday said he does not plan to allow votes on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House’s final week in Washington before a weekslong recess, despite inten...
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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 18/07/2025
I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
floating around group chats I am on the periphery of
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Today in 1962, the US conducted the semi-underground SEDAN nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. The blast from the 104-kiloton device, buried ~635' underground, threw 12,000,000 tons of rock and dirt into the air, 8,000,000 tons of which fell outside the crater from a cloud that rose 12,000' high.
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The Sedan Test - Nuclear dust storm!
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck: that at the dawn of the electricity-guzzling era of artificial intelligence, the U.S. president and his party have decided to engage in one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm imaginable.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
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Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
These last few months have been the Trump administration getting their pieces into position. All of this has been the prologue It is about to not be the prologue anymore
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
um www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Marcia McNutt has been saying that the US is doing a huge experiment with China as the control. The global scientific community will still produce knowledge. But not being in the lead has bad implications for US flourishing. My column: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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America is ceding the lead in creating the future
The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to ...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A meme in which a blue Europe with a face and a red China with a face staring is disbelief at a grey America with a face stabbing itself with two knives.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is the same kind of flippant giddiness about wanton death and destruction that you see on Russian TV programs about Ukraine.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪
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Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA
The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency
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Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Trump didn’t campaign on this and Americans sure as shit don’t want it.
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Wanda @itswanda.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Sound familiar? Global attacks on science are coordinated. "Scientific activities in Argentina have ground to a halt… Research funding has completely stopped, a physicist told Nature. “It hasn’t been fulfilled” even for research contracts that had already been approved and were in progress.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2025
something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
RFK Jr. says he met with Argentina’s president Javier Milei and it sounds like they want to make a fascist alternative to the World Health Organization.
Secretary Kennedy on X: I had a wonderful meeting with Argentine President @JMilei about our nations' mutual withdrawal from the WHO and the creation of an alternative international health system based on gold-standard science and free from totalitarian impulses, corruption, and political control.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It's not: We didn't handle public communication during covid all that well It's: FREE COUNTRIES DON'T PROHIBIT ACCESS TO VACCINES ON IDEOLOGICAL BASIS It's not: Well food dyes aren't great It's: FREE COUNTRIES DON'T BAN WHOLE AREAS OF RESEARCH
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.
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Busy skiing for now @jdcallahan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I would probably be more on-board about all the hand-wringing over Biden's dementia as president if I wasn't alive for Reagan's 2nd term in office where his Alzheimer's was blindingly obvious and the GOP spent zero time worrying about it.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is good. And it's hopeful.
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Kevin BOObacha (he/him) @choubacha.com · 11/05/2025
Comic:

First pane: blobby person looks at room and says “I want things to be different”

Second pane: smashes everything with baseball bat

Third pane: looks around at smashed broken room and says “oh no”
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Trump Is Dumb @trumpisdumb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
👇👇 Yup. 👇👇
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