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The Supreme Court is slowly committing political harakiri. By this, I mean that it is slowly destroying the the legal and constitutional framework of the United States, and thus its own political power. 🧵
A problem that needs a real solution
www.vox.com/policy/47078...
www.vox.com/policy/47078...
Traditional gender roles won’t get men what they want
Men’s search for meaning is everyone’s problem.
www.vox.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A problem that needs a real solution
www.vox.com/policy/47078...
www.vox.com/policy/47078...
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A 2023 survey from IPSOS of people in 30 countries found that 70 percent of respondents thought the world was becoming more violent and dangerous. But recently updated data from the World Bank looks at the picture from a global perspective and finds something astonishing.
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A 2023 survey from IPSOS of people in 30 countries found that 70 percent of respondents thought the world was becoming more violent and dangerous. But recently updated data from the World Bank looks at the picture from a global perspective and finds something astonishing.
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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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I would be super-wary of an A.I. tool that claims to restore Latin inscriptions from fragments. It can only predict the most likely words, but humans don't always write the expected. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI for Latin inscriptions supplies missing text and predicts date and location
An artificial-intelligence tool helps historians to interpret Latin inscriptions by assigning a date and location and suggesting text for missing parts.
www.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I would be super-wary of an A.I. tool that claims to restore Latin inscriptions from fragments. It can only predict the most likely words, but humans don't always write the expected. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"A BOMBSHELL book." — Daily Mail.
Today is the release day for the audiobook of "Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean," read by @danielhenningla.bsky.social! Get it wherever you buy your audiobooks or direct from the publisher. tantor.com/jimmy-jason-...
Today is the release day for the audiobook of "Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean," read by @danielhenningla.bsky.social! Get it wherever you buy your audiobooks or direct from the publisher. tantor.com/jimmy-jason-...
July 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"A BOMBSHELL book." — Daily Mail.
Today is the release day for the audiobook of "Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean," read by @danielhenningla.bsky.social! Get it wherever you buy your audiobooks or direct from the publisher. tantor.com/jimmy-jason-...
Today is the release day for the audiobook of "Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean," read by @danielhenningla.bsky.social! Get it wherever you buy your audiobooks or direct from the publisher. tantor.com/jimmy-jason-...
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Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
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Our Founders would rebel against Trump. Today’s Substack. Check it out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
The Founders Are on Our Side
Happy Fourth of July to All!
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Our Founders would rebel against Trump. Today’s Substack. Check it out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments - POLITICO
So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.
So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.
Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments
The New York senator was criticized for not defending the NYC mayoral candidate in a combative radio interview.
www.politico.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments - POLITICO
So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.
So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.
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Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.
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This is true. Safety-net hospitals in both rural and urban areas are already stretched thin, in part because of the exhaustion and attrition of healthcare workers after COVID. If outpatient Medicaid collapses, the deluge in unreimbursed ER visits and admissions will drown the system.
Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”
July 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is true. Safety-net hospitals in both rural and urban areas are already stretched thin, in part because of the exhaustion and attrition of healthcare workers after COVID. If outpatient Medicaid collapses, the deluge in unreimbursed ER visits and admissions will drown the system.
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"Maybe someday the Court will be presented with cases that don’t allow it to sidestep the enormously consequential legal and constitutional depredations....And maybe, if and when that time comes, the justices will show some independence and backbone."
Ignoring Substance, SCOTUS Permits Lawlessness
. . . and hands Trump dangerous victories.
www.thebulwark.com
June 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Maybe someday the Court will be presented with cases that don’t allow it to sidestep the enormously consequential legal and constitutional depredations....And maybe, if and when that time comes, the justices will show some independence and backbone."
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"Missouri voters passed Medicaid expansion through a ballot initiative. Lawmakers delayed it for a year. That delay wasn’t just bureaucratic. It was ideological. The same political opposition continues to influence how care is distributed or withheld..."
missouriindependent.com/2025/06/30/c...
missouriindependent.com/2025/06/30/c...
Coverage without care: What Medicaid expansion missed in Missouri • Missouri Independent
Missouri must tie Medicaid dollars to access, staffing and infrastructure. Otherwise, expansion remains a policy in name, not in practice.
missouriindependent.com
June 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Missouri voters passed Medicaid expansion through a ballot initiative. Lawmakers delayed it for a year. That delay wasn’t just bureaucratic. It was ideological. The same political opposition continues to influence how care is distributed or withheld..."
missouriindependent.com/2025/06/30/c...
missouriindependent.com/2025/06/30/c...
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NEW: @russchoma.bsky.social found another Trump conflict-of-interest. His realty firm is trying to sell a $12 million residence owned by Roche, the pharma giant w/ lots of interests in DC. If it sells, Trump's firm could pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Pharma giant Roche hires Trump to sell swanky condo
The drug company has spent millions lobbying in DC. Now it's turning to the president's realty firm for help offloading a $12 million residence.
www.motherjones.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
NEW: @russchoma.bsky.social found another Trump conflict-of-interest. His realty firm is trying to sell a $12 million residence owned by Roche, the pharma giant w/ lots of interests in DC. If it sells, Trump's firm could pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Hide the ketchup bottles... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Intercepted call of Iranian officials downplays damage of U.S. attack
The officials were heard saying Trump’s strike on Iran proved less devastating than expected. The administration calls the intelligence insignificant.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Hide the ketchup bottles... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?
June 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?
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The budget is a statement of values. The budget is policy. This budget is awful.
June 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The budget is a statement of values. The budget is policy. This budget is awful.
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She is fabulous. One of best Senate Ds
Baldwin: I remember my cross-examination of Secretary Kennedy from HHS, and he said, “We will have radical transparency.” But what they’ve actually had is radical opaqueness. They never answer a letter. They never answer a question.
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
It’s one of the ways that democracy begins to degrade—
June 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
She is fabulous. One of best Senate Ds
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Smart move by Newsom. 1) Fox is vulnerable after the Dominion settlement and he chose the right number. 2) with Trump, Musk & the bad faith right weaponizing defamation and libel laws to attack their critics, it’s time liberals and leftists fight (legal) fire with fire. Sue ‘em.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has filed a $787 million lawsuit against Fox News — accusing Jesse Watters of defamation by falsely claiming that Newsom lied about a phone call with Trump during the Los Angeles protests.
June 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Smart move by Newsom. 1) Fox is vulnerable after the Dominion settlement and he chose the right number. 2) with Trump, Musk & the bad faith right weaponizing defamation and libel laws to attack their critics, it’s time liberals and leftists fight (legal) fire with fire. Sue ‘em.
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So many media people lost their minds over 'censorship' when the Biden admin. asked social media companies to not platform Covid disinfo.
Where are they now when the current president says he plans to force reporters to disclose their sources? Crickets.
Where are they now when the current president says he plans to force reporters to disclose their sources? Crickets.
Trump Suggests He'll Pressure CNN, NYT Reporters On Iran
Trump suggested reporters could be pressured into giving up sources on recent stories about the military strike on Iran — and the sources could be prosecuted.
www.mediaite.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
So many media people lost their minds over 'censorship' when the Biden admin. asked social media companies to not platform Covid disinfo.
Where are they now when the current president says he plans to force reporters to disclose their sources? Crickets.
Where are they now when the current president says he plans to force reporters to disclose their sources? Crickets.
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It's early here in Iowa. Folks are making coffee, getting ready to head to work.
Meanwhile in Washington, Joni Ernst is getting ready to head to the Capitol – and vote to screw over Iowa families.
Meanwhile in Washington, Joni Ernst is getting ready to head to the Capitol – and vote to screw over Iowa families.
June 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's early here in Iowa. Folks are making coffee, getting ready to head to work.
Meanwhile in Washington, Joni Ernst is getting ready to head to the Capitol – and vote to screw over Iowa families.
Meanwhile in Washington, Joni Ernst is getting ready to head to the Capitol – and vote to screw over Iowa families.
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