Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025What is your definition of a dignified life? I commonly hear this phrase often amongst people when discussing this but have not seen a concrete definition. 210
Reposted by LightningAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism” 6865389715543
Reposted by LightningRichard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 07/06/2025And one way to reduce such exposure ..... #CRBox w/ Clean Air Delivery rates greater than nearly all commercial HEPA air cleaners (both at high flow) for wildfire particles @ 1/3rd to 1/7th the initial cost and generally lower filter replacement cost. IT;s not rocket science, folks, and it works! 5251107
Reposted by LightningJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/06/20251/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized. 601173476052
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Chris Tucker in that movie was hysterical. One of my favoritesmedia.tenor.coma woman with red hair is holding a id card and saying multi-pass .ALT: a woman with red hair is holding a id card and saying multi-pass . 000
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025What's something that you changed your mind on that you didn't think you would change? 000
Reposted by LightningCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.theguardian.comLawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrestedRuth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago 438147488722
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025A little flu? Did you read anything or are you just trolling? These people didn't recover for many weeks...NOT A FEW DAYS 020
Reposted by LightningProPublica @propublica.org · 17/05/2025After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66 23135761417
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Well, if they have to use their bunker life, it probably won't be good for anyone else that doesn't have them... 010
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025What percentage of funds were allocated towards it as a percentage of all research? 010
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Do the cost of storing 80 million watts. Including the rate it can be discharged and replenished 310
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I never understood what makes something so good that you have to wait 15-25 minutes for it 010
Reposted by LightningSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath. 667215054564
Reposted by Lightningian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14/04/2025bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record 22599903948
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I am a huge proponent of science but fraud in research isn't a good look memory.georgetown.edu/news/allegat...memory.georgetown.eduAllegations of fraud in Alzheimer's disease research- death of the amyloid hypothesis? - Memory Disorders ProgramR. Scott Turner, PhD, MD Recent reports of fraud in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research have raised major concerns. Some of the figures in a highly-cited paper (using animal models of AD) published in N... 100
Reposted by LightningCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2025When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”michiganadvance.comICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan AdvanceThe leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi... 24438761491
Reposted by LightningGerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025War hero schools a chickenhawk. 13085971114504
Reposted by LightningAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?" 18464250913435
Reposted by LightningMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We found the voter fraud!!!!! 709231166172
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Do you have a link to the paper? I'd like to take a look at it. 000
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025We don't need anymore old people who lack the will to fight for what the people who voted for him to be in power. He is no Bernie Sanders. He will lose. Commented on here to see if I am correct. 000
Reposted by LightningSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do? 9295393310117
Reposted by LightningAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥 9736361814389
Reposted by LightningCory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up. 1045813485219967
Reposted by LightningKatherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 30/03/2025“The study shows that putting the smartphone away may not be sufficient to reduce disruption and procrastination, or increase focus. The problem is not rooted within the device itself, but in the habits and routines that we have developed with our devices.”neurosciencenews.comWhy Simply Putting Away Your Phone Won’t Help You Focus - Neuroscience NewsA new study reveals that placing your smartphone out of reach doesn’t significantly reduce distraction or boost productivity. 04916
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Did you pound the pork? What sort of spices did you use? 000
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025In what way? What makes it good? I'll take Chris Cornell over that everyday of the week and twice on Sunday 100
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025"Later on Friday, a federal appeals court greenlit, for now, the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency. 3 judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals were unanimous in the decision, which notes that the courts COULD ultimately decide to REVERSE the agency’s unwinding but WON’T AT THIS TIME 000
Reposted by LightningChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025You see they're bringing MERIT back to government. www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...defensenews.comHegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role inside the PentagonPhil Hegseth’s publicly available resume includes founding his own podcast production company and working on social media and podcasts. 1247153324263
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I'm not sure what this means but it sounds exciting 020
Reposted by LightningRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered. 65673853910378
Reposted by LightningEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved 5940141640
Reposted by LightningMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA 708319688473
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I don't even want to like this tweet because it's so horrible and sad. This is so fucked up I'm lost for words. What do you do at that point? 010
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I respectfully disagree. I am thankful that I can have a conversation and learn a different viewpoint even though I disagree. Thanks for the conversation otherwise. Be well 😃 200
Lightning @lightningg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025"The price of payment " Does that not mean a transaction? And doesn't a transaction involve a buyer and a seller? 200
