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Scientist, Husband, Cat and Dog father "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all." -Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial 1925
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · Nov 24
It is worth adding that a huge part of the federal research budget goes through the NIH (under HHS), so Kennedy could do as much if not more damage to science than Elmo. The "pause on infectious disease" is potentially the most deadly sentence ever uttered, especially given recent history.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 1h
To Cheney.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 1d
I vote "burn it with fire," especially after OpenAI researchers determined that hallucinations are basically inevitable.

Plus, at least in the US, political weapons already in use against higher ed are legion.
two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
ALT: two knights are standing in the woods and one of them is saying i 've had worse .
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d
Trump Gets a Golden Crown in South Korea While SNAP Cutoff Causes Panic in U.S.

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Trump Gets a Golden Crown in South Korea While SNAP Cutoff Causes Panic in U.S. | The Daily Show
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Thomas @thomasfuchs.at · 6d
Software in 2025
Tuba girls meme: users getting blasted with “AI”
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 6d
The power...
a power plant with smoke coming out of the chimneys
ALT: a power plant with smoke coming out of the chimneys
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 6d
Respect the classics
sesame street count von count is wearing a black hat and making a face .
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 7d
...The greatest nations are defined by how they treat their weakest inhabitants...

#NoHate #NoRacism #StrongerTogether

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 8d
I deleted my first post as too vile, although I believe Luntz warrants the worst our language has to offer. Prof, please just ask your coauthor about Luntz. Any public thoughts, @michaelemann.bsky.social ?
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 8d
That's not even what RFKs psychotic ACIP recommended for the MMR. He should be in a home. Or the Hague.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 9d
July 31st, local Costco, with trees and the lot up by early September.

It's a shame the Council of Nicea didn't steal the Summer Solstice instead of the Equinox for Easter. We could just split the year down the middle and be done with the holiday creep.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 9d
Both the Ellison reference and the further decline of the-artist-formerly-known-as-Twitter make me happy.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 10d
How does Douthat type with his head so far up there?
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 10d
Wouldn't have expected any better from a Tr*mp endorsee.

Hopefully, he gets the L for a third time.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 11d
"levels?" Plural?
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 11d
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13d
“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries.
Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...
We Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino
Thinking like a dissident movement.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 13d
Absolutely. If I build an unpermitted SHED, the town will tear it down and bill me for the labor.

I expect at least the same from DC.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 14d
"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse.
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 14d
I want that as a campaign promise. His presence is obliterated. Entirely.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 14d
For those interested, you can visit the channel page, click more after the bio, then you can report the user for impersonation of the real channel:
www.youtube.com/@officialgeo...

Whether youtube will act on a viewer complaint, I don't know.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 14d
Here is another scumbag for the lawyer's collection: www.youtube.com/@CarlinMind
I had the good fortune to see the real thing once in NJ, and this sh*t is deeply offensive.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 15d
Crohn's at 28. Good luck paying for a lifetime of biologic drugs from an HSA.
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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 15d
Having spent years at a place famously described by locals as "a football team with a school," I wholeheartedly agree.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16d
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 17d
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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