Reposted by Nailits Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 13hThe fascists are now raiding congresswoman Ilhan Omar's house. I hope you understand they 100% will fabricate evidence in an attempt to ruin her life. These are vile demented unscrupulous cretins. They all belong in prison. 2333384
Reposted by Nailits David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 14hCorporate Media has two choices here: either cover this immigration raid on Rep Omar as if it were a normal action within the rule-of-law OR call it out as an insane attack by Trump on his political enemies. Yet even @huffpost.com is choosing collaboration in this article. 913946
Reposted by Nailits Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14hIt's very significant that the raid against Omar was conducted by HSI. That means that whatever justified the warrant isn't related to corruption or misconduct. They're specifically looking for evidence that she committed immigration fraud so they can denaturalize and deport her. 8244109
Reposted by Nailits Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14hPaperwork her late father filled out decades ago when she was a child?!? 47453118
Reposted by Nailits Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14hoff the fucking rails. a rogue government.apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter. 15861281502
Reposted by Nailits Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15hI want one (1) Democrat to pick a fight with Musk. Come on. COME ON. 227352
Reposted by Nailits Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14hReally unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner 251608388
Reposted by Nailits Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15hA racist billionaire with a pedophile-enabling robot is bankrolling the gop and the democrats won’t say anything about it 331161326
Reposted by Nailits Kathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 15hText messages say #Colorado voters' 'ballot request is in.' No request is needed Don't click the link in the text – it's from an Elon Musk conservative political action committee designed to collect information from voters. www.9news.com/article/news...9news.com 15284253
Reposted by Nailits emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14hElon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...edition.cnn.comElon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN PoliticsElection officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk. 1541873966
Reposted by Nailits Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 131192387
Reposted by Nailits Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear. 221830510
Reposted by Nailits Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026* there is no bright side here. The lack of concern for the job losses - which will not just be among the laptop classes, and shrinking of access to education - which will hit the least privileged hardest, resulting from a *Labour* govt's policies is dispiriting, to use the mildest possible term 2286
Reposted by Nailits Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts. muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2026/10/07/j...muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.comJust how much of Future Nottingham 2 was written by vastly overpaid consultants?PA Consulting misled a government department, threatened the press, and over-charged the NHS up to £2,500 a day. So why is a PA consultant listed as the author of the Future Nottingham 2 business c… 36337
Reposted by Nailits Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 11/10/2026As I said the first time this study was proposed, this is unconscionable and would absolutely not fly in any wealthy nation. Medical experimentation on babies (withhold a lifesaving medical intervention just to see what happens) does not magically become okay if they happen to be poor African babies 9450197
Reposted by Nailits MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/10/2026The fire will help restore blueberry patches and help the old growth red pine regenerate. It also makes the land itself more resilient to a changing climate. Clearing out built-up fuel lowers the risk of severe wildfire, and the forest stores carbon as it recovers.mprnews.orgIndigenous fire practice returns to Minnesota Point after 180 yearsFond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and partners conducted a cultural prescribed burn in Duluth on Thursday. The burn follows an intense wildfire season in northeast Minnesota. 26219
Reposted by Nailits Climate News Now @climatenewsnow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026From Indigenous Loss, a Potent Legal Argument on Climate. In an interview, human rights lawyer Julian Aguon explores how climate change is undermining the cultural traditions of Indigenous peoples. e360.yale.edu/features/jul...e360.yale.eduFrom Indigenous Loss, a Potent Legal Argument on ClimateIn an interview, human rights lawyer Julian Aguon explores how climate change is undermining the cultural traditions of Indigenous peoples. He is citing these injuries in legal actions, including in… 044
Reposted by Nailits Truthdig @truthdig.com · 09/10/2026Indigenous communities are confronting mounting climate threats even as inadequate funding, scant legal recognition, and little support for self-governance limit their ability to respond.truthdig.comAs Climate Disasters Multiply, Indigenous Governance Offers a Way ForwardIndigenous communities are confronting mounting climate threats even as inadequate funding, scant legal recognition, and little support for self-governance limit their ability to respond. 045
Nailits @nalits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No its only happening because of anti vax right wing racist hacks thats why. 010
Reposted by Nailits Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. 24551178
Reposted by Nailits Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/10/2026In addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/unex...mondoweiss.netUnexploded ordnances left by Israel in Gaza pose a constant danger to PalestiniansIn addition to the unrelenting bombardment, Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of losing their lives and limbs through the unexploded ordnances that the Israeli army leaves behind. 03020
Reposted by Nailits Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/10/2026Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...mondoweiss.netIsrael is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identityNearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of… 34939
Reposted by Nailits Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Voting in local elections including for school boards really matters. Kudos to progressives who run for election. 316637
Reposted by Nailits Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Imagine thinking that the Nobel Committee lost credibility because they didn't give their prestigious award to a delusional 80-year-old pedophile yelling about ending 8 wars while dropping bombs on schools in Iran. 24731166
Reposted by Nailits Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026With more and more websites going down, whether overwhelmed by bot traffic or starved of ad revenue, it is time for scholarly referencing guidelines for citing a website to include an archived version, just as Wikipedia has long recommended en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #metascienceen.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:Archiving a source - Wikipedia 2239
Reposted by Nailits Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"We hide our executions for the same reason we hide those we kill in war and the slaughter of animals; we want the glory of war…the taste of blood, but we recoil from the raw truth of our violence. Now we would broadcast the brutality at the core of the American project to the world." #giftArticlewapo.stColumn | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executionsAs most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned. 074
Nailits @nalits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Zionism is genocidal racism. Isreal is the new nazi Germany. 010
Reposted by Nailits Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 09/10/2026"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."theguardian.comHow do human beings explain taking part in genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look | Omer BartovIt’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable 8354183
Reposted by Nailits Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026“They like it because it’s the same kind of video game brutality that they like in every other context.”motherjones.comPete Hegseth wants to livestream a snuff filmThe defense secretary plans to telecast the military’s first firing squad execution since 1945. 2120359
Reposted by Nailits Hanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We studied the evolution of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium and its influence on genetic architecture with genetic drift. We found that the Bulmer effect is population size and demography dependent. For nerds: genetic architecture follows from solving PDEs. 15423
Reposted by Nailits Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 09/10/2026It's not "apolitical" or "heterodox truth seeking" or "free inquiry" to quietly sit back and let your field air the same racist and eugenic pseudoscientific bullshit that these clowns have been chasing for 150ish years. It exposes you as an uncritical mark who can be counted on to not take out trash 1295
Reposted by Nailits Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026But this also a great demonstration of how for-profit publishers and high-volume publishing culture provide avenues for these groups to keep producing work to appear legitimate. If they don’t publish in Todd Shackelford’s little fiefdom journals it’s these useless encyclopedias 0254
Reposted by Nailits Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120223573
Reposted by Nailits Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Vanderbilt sub-report on Music Studies is out. TLDR: it is utter garbage. The long-awaited evidence of our “deterioration in scholarly standards” is...: "the shift from...central areas of music scholarship [Western art music] to the more peripheral areas". www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s... 1514733
Reposted by Nailits jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Also important here is that Rindermann is the one scientific racist with some influence on Belgian politics. Our main conservative psychologist / school policy pundit (Wouter Duyck) uses Rindermann's work in the senate and in neoliberal thinktank reports. www.senate.be/actueel/home...senate.be 3219
Reposted by Nailits Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s really in everyone’s best interest for evolutionary psychology to better police its disciplinary boundaries and better integrate with contemporary evolutionary theory and methods. This Science Wars hold-over behavior just creates a refuge for this cadre of charlatans to fester 15212
Nailits @nalits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Check out Sasha Gusev and Kevin Bird. Both geneticists have written on this matter. 000
Reposted by Nailits Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The performative logic of a public execution is the same as the images of boat-strikes in the Caribbean - state violence as pure spectacle. It is the strategy of a government that rules through coercion rather than consent. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comFort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan. 35818
Reposted by Nailits Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:wired.comICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal ArrestsBrenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court. 201359626
Reposted by Nailits Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I suppose it's impossible for the local government to arrest the people involved. 031
Reposted by Nailits mbltc.bsky.social @mbltc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There is absolutely no clinical equipoise to justify the study, which will only lead to morbidity and mortality for those who do not receive the vaccine. Crimes against humanity. RFK Junior belongs in jail.  05320
Reposted by Nailits Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study 831464694
Reposted by Nailits Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me. 3289129
Reposted by Nailits e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not 172429723
Reposted by Nailits Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"When the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than Ever" The AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised – we need to get organised enough to resist. From @graceblakeley.substack.com for @zeteo.uk:zeteo.ukWhen the AI Bubble Bursts, Big Tech Will Be Scarier Than EverThe AI bust will be a crucial moment in the history of capitalism. Big tech is organised enough to benefit from the concentration of power that will follow – we need to get organised enough to resist. 29842217
Reposted by Nailits Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Gas prices will go down because the president looks tough on Iran” is something a baby might conclude after watching an action movie. It’s also evidently policy of the biggest and most consequential government ever. 420013
Reposted by Nailits Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026The Trump administration is having its own lawyers face off in court against *other administration lawyers* in cases representing unaccompanied migrant children. Sound like a conflict of interest? motherjones.comTrump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kidsPutting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney. 1015761
Reposted by Nailits Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is obscene. Destroying something so precious for shitty memes? Just sickening. 026683
