Reposted by L TMr.Badger @sunflowerdbadger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You can't convince the #Argentina #worldcup team aren't all the result of Nazi science run amok @trontasticbunny.bsky.social 011
Reposted by L TMr.Badger @sunflowerdbadger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026People aren't mad at #supergirl cause she's ugly, they're mad she looks like she fucks @trontasticbunny.bsky.social 011
Reposted by L TDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2025It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us. 10067031781
Reposted by L TGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Come join us! We start at 11AM on Tuesday September 16th and end at 11AM on Wednesday September 17th. We have researchers from around the world talking about how their work has revolutionized health and saved millions of lives from HIV/AIDS. end/ 14121
Reposted by L TWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines. 771901377
Reposted by L TDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2025I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.podcasts.apple.comMAHA Is a Bad Answer to a Good QuestionPodcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 08/22/2025 · 1h 22m 481033271
Reposted by L TDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2025They didn't attempt a violent coup because of the left. They aren't destroying US science & academia because of the left. They're not embracing open racism & nazi ideology because of the left. They are adults, making choices, doing things of their own volition, and they bear the responsibility. 152477621
Reposted by L TNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2025“Tl;dr: If the GOP declares war on science, and the Democrats say they’re going to listen to science then science is going to be partisan. If the two parties agree on some aspect of science – or both ignore it entirely – it won’t. Scientists have limited influence, at best, over this process.”scatter.wordpress.compartisans, not scientists, decide if science is partisanLast month, Audra Wolfe wrote a fantastic post about how science is and always has been political. In the post, she analyzes statements from Nature and Scientific American, both of which endorsed J… 1344
Reposted by L TProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2025NEW: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.projects.propublica.orgGutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health AgenciesMore than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform... 501398761
Reposted by L THamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here. 16365522301
Reposted by L TKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025About half of Americans say they've put off healthcare services due to cost barriers, with Millennials most affected by far, per new study by Madaket Health. Percent of age groups who've put off getting care: Millennials: 78% Gen X: 56% Baby Boomers: 30% www.morningstar.com/news/busines...morningstar.comNew Study from Madaket Health Reveals Nearly Half of Americans Delay Healthcare Due to Cost and In-Network Barriers 53787197
Reposted by L TElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/07/2025RFK Jr. is going to end the vaccine program in the United States in order to make money for himself by suing companies that make them. He wants to end the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which means that vaccine manufacturers will stop making vaccines in the U.S. 1/5propublica.orgRFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood ImmunizationThe Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin... 24479272
Reposted by L TProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2025NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system. Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.socialpropublica.orgRFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin... 35636271734
Reposted by L TPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025When people see folks drowning and feel powerless and ill-equipped to save them, they sometimes fight over how to describe the water. It's worth resisting this impulse. 111112290
Reposted by L TThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to 8474071810963
Reposted by L Ts. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/07/2025The wildest thing about If Books Could Kill is that 95% of the time it's a book I've never heard of that's sold 800 billion copies and has fundamentally shaped the society around me. 456848
Reposted by L TBrian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Same as 'Public Health failed by not being nuanced and accommodating during COVID'. Yet many did, in the face of a coordinated series of attacks and a current wholesale rewriting of history on the topic. 1299
Reposted by L TMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Seriously. You know who has *great* messaging? Cancer researchers! Literally curing cancer! Sells itself! Still got fed to the DOGE woodchipper. FEMA and the National Weather Service got fed to the DOGE woodchipper, too. Nobody thought poorly of them until the right did the thing they always do. 181560471
Reposted by L TMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025It is not realistic or sustainable for every single government program to constantly promote itself to the public. The clear villain in the DOGE immiseration campaign is the right. We don't need to play into their attacks by implying that we deserve it. 372492306
Reposted by L TEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...cato.orgThe Misleading Panic over MisinformationPeople can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth. 771693745
Reposted by L TSouth Carolina Blue @wtkrad.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I have tried to sandwich this sobering reality lesson between daily gratitude and humility prayers. How will I behave when we all finally come to the table and talk? 27724171
Reposted by L TAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/06/2025If you're being cited like this by Clarence Thomas to uphold discrimination, you should take a long good look in the mirror and question your choices. Unfortunately, for the Times, this was the intended outcome. 038444
Reposted by L TChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/06/2025If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years. 146126061488
Reposted by L TGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025I am BEGGING y’all. Do NOT use the term “pro vaccine.” Stop letting the Republicans control the narrative. All you doing is invalidating the EXPERTISE of us on the frontlines—doctors, epidemiologists, SCIENTISTS—and putting pseudoscience on the same intellectual level as IDIOTS 310825
Reposted by L TLizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/06/2025You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association. 208128762460
Reposted by L TDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue. 594230305046
Reposted by L TJohn Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025It's so disheartening watching everything I've spent a decade warning people was going to happen, actually happen, and to see how many of them still don't seem to care. 33764681130
Reposted by L TMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025HOW DOES THIS NOT MATTER? The forces at work here are precisely the forces gutting healthcare and passing tariffs and fucking over millions of Americans. Treating it like an inconsequential blip *creates* the situation where it falls out of the news cycle and doesn't inform voters. 101183133
Reposted by L TMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025The core argument of the book is that the US refused to consider economic indicators but the exact opposite is true — and the main reason our response was so bad! Trump was obsessed with keeping the economy going so he never issued a national lockdown order and pushed for reopening far too soon. 518513
Reposted by L Tceej @ceej.online · 04/06/2025unfortunately got addicted to the butthole dryer on japanese toilets. I didn’t know life could be this way 5479334
Reposted by L TThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies 5493356610177
Reposted by L TShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys 261114712526
Reposted by L TKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 22/05/2025Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act." 11820481053
L T @trontasticbunny.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Also one thing that seems to have been forgotten and likely contribute to that messaging at the time: Americans are notorious hoarders and would’ve likely hoarded and sell masks at a high price had the recommendations include masking for all. I will never forget this: www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/t...nytimes.comHe Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them (Published 2020)Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks. 030
Reposted by L TCapt Chris @capt-chris.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Turns out you can get a dishonest man elected as long as you have a dishonest media system to continually push dishonest content to dishonest people. 27842209
Reposted by L TJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/05/2025Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:> 651126273
Reposted by L TAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/ 502151444969
Reposted by L TJulie Ann Nitsch she/her/ma’am @julieannnitsch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025To be a millennial today is to grieve the loss of a future we were promised—one many fought to create, only to realize we will never live to see it. I feel this grief in my body, as if I’ve lost someone. I believed in liberty, justice, freedom… I think I’ve lost me. 5504
Reposted by L TLindsey Rosenthal @eventsforgood.bsky.social · 29/09/2023A reminder with the government shutdown looming that 85% of federal government workers *don't* live in the DC area. Also, according to OPM, federal government workers only make up ~9% of the local working population. These are the workers who will lose their paychecks. 👇🏻 141
Reposted by L TFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/07/2023this image really perfectly summarizes why I prefer BlueSky right now 13847299
Reposted by L TDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/07/2023I feel like my generation experienced Peak Internet and we’re now on a downward trend. Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free. Turns out 2010s were the good old days. 962421499
L T @trontasticbunny.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Is this the new Twitter or is this just the place to gossip about the ongoing of Twitter? 000
L T @trontasticbunny.bsky.social · 04/07/2023Hey bluesky! Help me find all the bunny accounts! I want to flood my feed here with cute buns ❤️🐇 010
