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Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff” and regenerative biology. Leges sine Moribus vanae. I took the liberty of ironing your homework. www.vaughanlab.com

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Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

09.03.2026 17:21 👍 2038 🔁 816 💬 42 📌 126
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"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

09.03.2026 15:55 👍 7394 🔁 2148 💬 336 📌 133
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

This @postandcourier.bsky.social investigation of the woman accusing Pres Trump and Epstein of sexual assault is excellent. The allegations remain unproven. But the reporters confirmed elements of her story, and blackmail by Epstein illuminates his approach. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

08.03.2026 17:59 👍 841 🔁 297 💬 27 📌 15
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Hey remember when every Team Trump excuse for this proved false and then everyone moved on?

08.03.2026 00:51 👍 1005 🔁 234 💬 19 📌 6

Suggestion for those in university leadership positions: If you’re sooooo upset about being criticized in the student newspaper, maybe that leadership position isn’t for you.

04.03.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

01.03.2026 01:48 👍 5337 🔁 1421 💬 36 📌 42
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Live Updates: U.S. Attacks Iran as Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government

The anti-war president is continuing his campaign of peace I see www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

28.02.2026 12:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The New grant funding seems to be institute-specific because as of today NHLBI has not funded a single new R01 in FY26. Any idea why institutes aren’t operating consistently?

27.02.2026 01:27 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

27.02.2026 00:56 👍 4366 🔁 1798 💬 130 📌 212
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

26.02.2026 01:10 👍 8541 🔁 4246 💬 320 📌 745

This has nothing to do with fraud.

The agents Trump allegedly sent to investigate fraud are shooting protesters and arresting children. His DOJ is gutting the U.S. Attorney’s Office and crippling their ability to prosecute fraud. And every week Trump pardons another fraudster.

25.02.2026 23:33 👍 6408 🔁 2186 💬 296 📌 89
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

24.02.2026 10:11 👍 10200 🔁 5127 💬 335 📌 630
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New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week.

apnews.com/article/tran...

23.02.2026 00:02 👍 1204 🔁 647 💬 52 📌 82
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Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU On December 16, 2025, Dr. Harbans L. Bhardwaj, Dr. Adnan Beker Yousuf, Dr. Vitalis W. Temu, Dr. Maru K. Kering, Dr. Toktam Taghavi, and Dr. Molla Fentie Mengist were abruptly removed from Virginia Sta...

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU!

Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or due process.

Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor shared governance & end to arbitrary dismissals.

21.02.2026 03:34 👍 38 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1

“Stumbled into a little bit of the history” 🫠

19.02.2026 23:31 👍 115 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 0

Waiting to see how long it takes institutions reinstate the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs they shut down, re-hire those they pushed out, and rewrite all the language they rushed to change.

Something tells me it'll likely be a long wait.

19.02.2026 11:47 👍 772 🔁 175 💬 15 📌 4

the president of my alma mater canceled all the diversity scholarships bc of this and I showed up at a fancy event he had in Georgetown and got in his face about it and told him this is how it would end up

pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway

19.02.2026 00:23 👍 2670 🔁 420 💬 3 📌 0

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

19.02.2026 00:51 👍 7043 🔁 1400 💬 33 📌 34
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Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

13.02.2026 12:05 👍 830 🔁 268 💬 32 📌 21

The 15th time I saw this in my feed I finally clocked that he's saying "toilet seat" rather than "toilet tank" or "the back of the toilet" which is not a subtle distinction.

13.02.2026 02:40 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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This headline is dumb. Just because the government no longer recognizes it does not mean they can “erase the finding”

12.02.2026 19:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned.
www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

11.02.2026 15:34 👍 416 🔁 254 💬 22 📌 34

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

09.02.2026 12:42 👍 2184 🔁 976 💬 27 📌 29
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

09.02.2026 01:35 👍 16942 🔁 3741 💬 136 📌 162

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

04.02.2026 16:41 👍 8624 🔁 1570 💬 351 📌 92

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

01.02.2026 20:53 👍 2941 🔁 1164 💬 41 📌 36
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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

26.01.2026 23:40 👍 10478 🔁 3184 💬 1271 📌 3631

The founders wrote the 2nd Amendment for a reason: So you could hold a cool gun while you nod approvingly at what the government is doing.

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