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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 9h

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.

I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.

Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

This is a huge scandal, one of the worst in modern law enforcement and something that is astoundingly unconstitutional and illegal.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 1d

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 1d

Fil's practice went through this discussion about 15 years ago. They ended up having only a couple of families leave. Everyone else that was demanding long discussions about internet antivax drivel ended up vaccinating rather than leave once "they saw how serious the dr were about vaccination"

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 1d

200 should be small enough for idt

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 1d

(With apologies to Randall Munroe)

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

We call it wacky cake in my fam. Didn't know there was a vanilla version.

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 2d

Happening now! Welcome to Black In Micro Week Day 1: Tune in for Dr. Marian Johnson-Thompson's keynote address at #BlackinMicro 2025. Don't miss out - register now and login to attend at linktr.ee/BlackInMicro.

As always, support BMA by donating at tinyurl.com/GiveBiM. All links in bio!

A flyer with a dark blue and black gradient background, with faint microbes decorating it. It announces the Black in Micro Week 2025 Keynote Speaker, Dr Marian Johnson-Thompson, that will take place at 12 PM (EST), October 14. Talk title: "“The Persistent Journey of Black Microbiologists: Where We Have Been and Where We Must Go”. The blurb states that the talk with cover the stories of Black pioneer contributors and also provide a foundation for discussion on how important it is to attract, retain and develop successful strategies for future Black Microbiologists. Dr. Johnson-Thompson is a microbiologist, biomedical researcher, educator and administrator. She also serves on ASM’s Center for the History of Microbiology and ASM (CHOMA) Committee and ensures that contributions of Black Microbiologists are addressed and included in ASM’s archives.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

I think we need to teach basically the same thing, but our evaluations will have to change. No one can edit code if they don't know how to write code. So even if genai can spit out passable early code, that doesn't teach why and how to decide what tests to run and the code to do it.

Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

You preaching. Me choir.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

Saving god and budwiser in the same breath. My evangelical family should react negatively to the whole statement but who knows, maybe now they're pro beer

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

Taken after algebra 1, so most kids should take it.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

Fyi my kid's school has reduced geometry to a single semester class to make room for stats/probability.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 2d

They're probably buying them from the company as "x concentration" mixes and may actually not know this info.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4d

By cancelling solar and wind permits, the Trump administration is taking billions of dollars out of your pocket and putting it into the pockets of gas utilities.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 5d

I think he's into 7 mountain theocracy so probably believes he'll be able to reconstitute the "good" functions of govt filled with fellow dominionist.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 5d

Is that true for Voight et.al. too? I feel like the unitary executive theory dudes want the whole country not just smaller fiefdoms. A bunch of tech oligarchs want fiefdoms.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 5d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kendra Maas, PhD @dnakendra.bsky.social · 5d

They believe they are rich enough that it is cheaper for them to privately do what government does than to pay taxes. I think most of them are wrong but we will suffer first and they'll get lower taxes at least for a while.

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