Tom Murphy 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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PhD student in the Ho Lab at Columbia med center ~structural biology of plasmodia parasites~
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People who DoorDash in nyc hate being alive. Go for a walk man
Brown is NOT on the list. They pick and choose their PR battles but threw trans students under the bus the first chance they got.
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The hatred of Greta Thunberg by a virulent core of middle-aged white men is a crystallisation of social media misogyny in general: It’s jealously combined with an inability to tolerate (or even understand) a woman in the public eye whose existence is defined by anything other than her sexuality.
The same reason the left loves a cranky old transphobe like Norman finklestein who, like Contrapoints, believes in prioritizing ceasefire over revolutionary antizionism, but he doesn’t get 10% of the hate she did because he’s the cisgender court jew of the tankie left
Why are you jumping to associate a gay guy with STIs
I rly care about santos being on real housewives so.. I think this is a win for the divas
Part of the reason MAGA is ok with the destruction of healthcare is a lot of them can only afford to see the “$999 online course ‘Doctor’” because the bare minimum of health coverage is out of reach for so many.

Universal Healthcare needs to be a Democratic Party north start in 2026.
🧪Also Kennedy says:
“Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy."

We are being gaslighted.

Via Nisha Patel on IG
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Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral reverse transcriptases, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Emergency rally against Fenway Health's capitulation to Trump today at 4:00.

The institutions that are supposed to protect us cannot toss aside Transgender people to protect LGB people.

We are all in this together.
Friends!

We’ll see you today for this emergency rally outside Fenway Health.

Join us to protest their shameful decision to abandon Trans Youth!
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1/10 Genome maintenance by telomerase is a fundamental process in nearly all eukaryotes. But where does it come from?

Today, we report the discovery of telomerase homologs in a family of antiviral RTs, revealing an unexpected evolutionary origin in bacteria.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Antiviral reverse transcriptases reveal the evolutionary origin of telomerase
Defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) employ diverse and distinctive mechanisms of cDNA synthesis to protect bacteria against viral infection. However, much of DRT family diversity remains ...
www.biorxiv.org
Having grown up being terrorized by Opus Dei adjacent fanatics this is very very promising news, right on Leo
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
For every one of these parent-astroturfed disgraces there’s 1000 pro-trans demonstrations by students in support of their trans peers and we should never forget that
Some rando on the subway platform handed me a literal fistful of Zohran buttons is this that “class consciousness” Marx was talking about?
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All the more reason to support trans and gay journalists like @erininthemorning.com
Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet.

Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.
Breaking: NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff
NBC News has fired journalists who reported on Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.
www.advocate.com
But we will tell our stories and we will keep us safe
Also “people across the dem-left will fight and resist and unify” Trump is in power and this has not happened, this is just flatly wrong and reeks of projecting your country’s political problems onto ours. The Democrats nationally are much more pro-trans than Labour.
Ok you are just massively overestimating how bad newsom’s California is for transgender people. Cali is one of the best states in the country for trans people and newsom’s lack of willingness to sure up those defenses are in now way comparable to the GOP’s full spectrum attack on trans liberties
Oh they’re enabling it? So where are the communist militias? Cause the only militias, “revolutionary resistance” I see are white nationalists. Are fighting them? Do you have tanks and divisions? Are you a real threat to fascists are you sitting politics and posting online? Pathetic.
Funny cause I rly don’t think Kamala would’ve cancelled PEPFAR and killed >100k people out of spite