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Josh Rosenau

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Science belongs in politics. Nature-poker, cephalopods fan, conservationist, climate hawk, evolution fan. PTA dad. he/him Build parks and community! City council member in Lake Forest Park, WA since 2026 joshforlfp.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 6h
"Seven former Cornell students are accused of sexually assaulting another student who says she was incapacitated. Messages allegedly inviting other frat members were sent to a group chat during the assault. Everyone is talking about the seven. I keep thinking about the others." buff.ly/z7yWbR2
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 50m
It’s so frustrating, and having been in the trenches on fights over evolution and climate science in classrooms, it’s the same arguments there too. But I have allies who know the rhetoric and how these same folks twist science, but somehow have gone along on the antitrans arguments.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2h
Who could have imagined that the exact same sort of trumped up anti-science attacks on gender affirming care could be used against doctors and parents for vaccinating kids? Oh right, me.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 1h
At some point before I got to KU’s museum mammal department, a squirrel researcher had some prairie dogs or something he had trapped get loose on campus and it became a whole big campus-wide search because they were trapped in an an area where plague is endemic. AFAIK no one even got sick.
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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4h
chat is this good
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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 1h
Must be something for Tyson to have the ear of a cabinet secretary. Among others.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 3h
That is the reasonable inference from claiming they “can’t cast a free and fair ballot.” You’ve been offered examples of how voting works in prisons that allow it, and the safeguards that can be offered for the physical act of voting to ensure that the decision they make is translated to the ballot.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 3h
She and Taniel both responded to your claim about whether voting in prison can be “free and fair,” arguing (with evidence) that people in prisons do have agency and independence as voters. That’s a direct response to the claim you’re making.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 3h
uh buddy? She corrected a factual error you made and offered a counterargument to another point. No one is turning to dust.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 3h
Is it a floor wax, too?
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 4h
Probably obvious, but the sparks will be between incumbent conservative Dem Walen and challenger Forsythe.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 4h
Gonna predict this will get spicy.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 4h
Vaccines.gov is still down, in case you're wondering. And yes, flu season has started in the western part of the country.
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Vaccines.gov helps you find nearby pharmacies in the United States.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5h
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. - Version with ALT text! Thank you @virginiaopossum.bsky.social for the help!
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 16h
There are parents with delayed sleep phases, too.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You took our 24-hour Walmarts, and we said nothing. You took our 24-hour IHOPs, and we said nothing. Late-night T service? We said nothing. Being able to order takeout after 9 p.m? Nothing. Now is the hour we fight back. But not before 10 a.m. 11 on weekends.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 16h
1: A $10k bribe produced a $900 million payout. That’s amazing ROI. 2: That grift payoff is about 1% of the cost to ending world hunger. But we can’t do that, no no no. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 21h
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
so they still haven’t managed to dox Jane Doe which is good, but odd she went to the frat party because she was friends with someone in the frat you’d think someone would have let her identity slip unless of course they did this often enough that they don’t know which girl it was
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
Like, yes, higher ed should teach people how to think, but and one should be open minded about new ideas. But as they say, not so open your brain falls out. And if your method for teaching how to think leads people to adopt disproven beliefs…
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Anton Chigurh Rule Quote
Alt: Anton Chigurh Rule Quote: If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
During the “intelligent design” creationism trial in Dover, PA, evolutionary biologist Ken Miller derided the call for “teach the controversy” as a form of “academic affirmative action.” Rob Pennock has commented on ID’s postmodern/post-truth rhetoric. That’s the movement at hand here.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
This would be a staggering win. Also still a baker’s dozen shy of the margin to impeach and remove anyone, even Vought, Hegseth or RFK. Things have to be so bad a dozen+ Republican Senators flip on those votes. That’s expectation setting but also the task ahead in the campaign to oust these goons.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47.
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most of the responses fit a standard playbook we've seen from industries looking to suppress negative scientific findings, like tobacco, oil and gas, and car manufacturers: withhold key data points, call into question standard scientific practices, sow division by highlighting single studies, etc.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
IIRC @volts.wtf did a riff on it for Grist or Vox back in the day about how it’s the best kids series.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 04/10/2026
This should be an entire impeachment trial on its own. The destruction of NSF through impoundment, office shuffles, etc. is obliterating 70 years of bipartisan efforts that turned us into a global scientific superpower and thus a technological and economic superpower.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 03/10/2026
I TAKE THIS PERSONALLY
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage
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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/10/2026
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely.
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Here's why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu
Experts say now is an ideal time to get a flu shot, before influenza starts spreading widely. It's also a good time for vulnerable people to get vaccinated against another winter risk, RSV, and to get up to date on protection against COVID-19.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 02/10/2026
I got my updated COVID shot like the weekend they came out and my flu shot yesterday. It’s gonna be a bad flu season and you don’t want it.
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Tech 4 Housing @tech4housing.org · 02/10/2026
Will the news outlets that ran headlines about KCRHA losing $13M (most of which has since been found) be publishing about Seattle Police Department’s unauthorized $13M expenditure?
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David Mislin @davidmislin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve long assumed that the difference between federal/state office has kept KS Democrats running for senate from assembling the coalitions that have elected Sibelius, Kelly, etc. Adam Hamilton seems determined to make that coalition materialize in a federal race.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please contribute to the Adam Hamilton campaign in IA. hamiltonforkansas.com
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 02/10/2026
Lemme just post another stellar quote: "Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh, was there conflict when people previously wanted civil rights extended to include them?
Screenshot of article which reads: As the electorate has grown 
to include men of color, women, and the poor, it has become more plural-
istic. Contemporary America, for all its flaws, has grown to be a diverse 
democracy that continually manages a vast array of opinions, identities, 
and cultures. That pluralism is a central reason for the vibrancy and in-
novation of American cultural, intellectual, and political power.
But each of these steps was the result of political and cultural con-
flict. As every new group of Americans was enfranchised, a powerful 
political movement opposed it. This opposition was often violent, com-
ing both from the state and from individual citizens who believed that 
the ascendant group needed to be put back in its place. Much of this vio-
lence endures today. When marginalized groups have spoken out (often 
in a nonviolent manner) against the violence perpetrated against them, 
they have often incurred further anger and violence.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
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licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And after that he dug in his heels and set his jaw and rubber-stamped everything Trump wanted for the next 1000 months
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kansas has 4 former, living GOP governors. Two have now endorsed Adam Hamilton, the Dem, for Senate. Mike Hayden just penned this oped in the Kansas City Star this morning; Adam Graves had done the same last month.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 02/10/2026
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” — Carl Sagan Would I engage with Bozo’s banana cream pie?
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