Reposted by LeekJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth. 448191505010
Reposted by LeekMichael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity. 10934310011997
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025“I know #Avowed just dropped, but it’s so good. I have some feedback—like character hair options and a few small bugs—but overall, solid 8.5/10! 🔥 000
Reposted by LeekEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵sanaria.comA Single-Dose Breakthrough: PfSPZ-LARC Vaccines Offer Transformative Protection Against Malaria – Sanaria 427153772802
Reposted by Leekmakena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/wired.comDozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours BlitzSome affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division]. 472135096789
Reposted by LeekPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The Wayans Family will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards’ Hall of Famedeadline.comWayans Family To Be Inducted Into NAACP Image Awards’ Hall Of FameThe NAACP said Thursday that the Wayans family will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame. 452902478
Reposted by LeekAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉 359718810341139
Reposted by LeekMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/01/2025We are ready to help pave a path for lower medication and healthcare costs for taxpayers journals.lww.com/fpmrs/fullte...journals.lww.comThe Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Effect on... : Urogynecologyimated $1.29 billion reduction in 2020 costs if they replaced the Medicare prices. Objectives We sought to investigate the savings for all drugs commonly used in urogynecology. Study Design We r... 1356460747168
Reposted by LeekTrish Dukes @trishdukes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship 4102191810252
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Work pulling me left and right cannot wait for my week off next weekmedia.tenor.coma cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to each other on a wooden floorALT: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick standing next to each other on a wooden floor 010
Reposted by LeekJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025New EOs today re: the military - Reinstate a ban on transgender service members (15-16K) - Reinstate those who refused to take the COVID vaccine (FYI, they were already reinstated) - Gut DEI programs - Implement a missile defense system for America (The Iron Dumb) 1532756688
Reposted by Leek✨Shut Up B!tch, I know someone who likes it ✨ @shannasince87.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Tuskegee Airmen Legacy By the time the 332nd flew its last combat mission on April 26, 1945, two weeks before the German surrender, the Tuskegee Airmen had flown more than 15,000 individual sorties over two years in combat. (Them white men could never have won without them) 12925
Reposted by LeekMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025The reality is that these positions are more important than Sec of Defense because they will do all the work and define all strategies. He won't freelance decisions. @schumer.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov What do you have planned ? 812149903084
Reposted by LeekIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 25/01/2025If you work in the federal government (particularly civil rights at DOJ) or state or local agencies that get federal funding, and have info about new anti-DEI and anti-civil rights mandates, please reach out to me on signal at nhannahjones.67. 172359785
Reposted by LeekPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025“An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas has become the largest in recorded history in the United States”cjonline.comKansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded historyKansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s. 45854312689
Reposted by LeekTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends. 6646380412517
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 25/01/2025That’s why I put them off for so long…a blessing and a curse 😭 000
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 25/01/2025It’s a wrap for Target and Walmart. Costco was always better anyway 🤷🏾♂️ 010
Reposted by LeekChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.ukFar-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week 1842251216980
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Newsom was ready for the hand games the orange peel likes to play 😂 000
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Let’s see if we can get it to around 45 to 50 cents on the dollar 010
Reposted by LeekBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025"Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar"wsj.comExclusive | Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X LoansBanks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. 1531245154
Reposted by LeekBri Hall 👽 SmartistaBeauty @brihall.bsky.social · 24/01/2025THREAD: Since censorship has gotten so bad on the other apps. Sharing global protests and media coverage from our election 613758
Reposted by LeekMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/01/2025One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time. No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient. www.propublica.org/article/the-...propublica.orgThe Myth of Drug Expiration DatesHospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. 1463300955013
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Ridiculous and when the economy starts to suffer he’ll tell his supporters it’s Biden’s fault as he cuts more departments smfh 140
Reposted by LeekChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/01/2025The Trump administration took a sledgehammer to DEI efforts, ordering federal agencies to dismantle DEI offices. A Tuesday memo demands all DEI staff be placed on leave by Wednesday and plans for permanent cuts finalized by January 31, gutting DEI across the government. 166777363
Reposted by LeekAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis. 1144474459825
Reposted by LeekPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Here’s the list of the 78 Biden-era executive orders that have been reversed by Trump.whitehouse.govInitial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White HouseBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as 61948522
Reposted by LeekDr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The Executive Order on Native Ed, which included Tribal Colleges, has been rescinded in the first sweep. This took SO much time, energy, effort, simply to bring to fruition. I gotta’ take a minute. 🤬 32516179
Reposted by LeekCorey 🤬 Reynolds @coreyreynoldsla.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Black Americans watching everyone else finally get scared:media.tenor.coman elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face .ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in a crowd of people and making a sad face . 612336617
Reposted by LeekRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I’ll never forgive anyone who voted for this blatant white supremacy. 381050246
Reposted by LeekBoo5 @boy-5.bsky.social · 20/01/2025They take like 30 shots, and Malaria medicine is no joke. If you’re too much of a snow flake to get the covid shot then you’re too much of a snowflake to defend a country 031
Leek @leektrill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025FYI TikTok is being censored on the U.S. side sooooo this is where we are at with information in 2025. 010
Reposted by LeekCongresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/01/2025As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice. 611215665490