Los Angeles #NoKings
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Chardon, Ohio, population 5242 in 2020 census, had approximately 400 people show up in the rain. #nokings
Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.
Massive crowd of No Kings marchers.
Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings
There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
My quote of the day
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
Empathy, or the lack thereof
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
ICYMI, NIH will be asking soon for each NIH-funded researcher to justify every draw they make (often several times a week) on their grants and every NIH officer and their boss will have to justify their agreeing on these draws.
This is the death of US biomedical research by a thousand cuts
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
AOC slammed Mike Johnson, saying: “You run the government. If you have the votes, then go ahead. If you need Democrats, then you need to negotiate with Democrats. Those are your two options. Blaming someone else because your shoes are untied isn’t one.”
Right idea, wrong people, George.
they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."
-- George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, 9 Sep 2001.
"We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power --
Just your VP quoting Richard Nixon: "The Professors are the Enemy."
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That's right, don't meet your constituents!
Un.real.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Ditto
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
Pubmed online and offline and online again... wait a few hours.
Ditto sites for curated datasets (eg GEO)... wait a few hours.
Study section prelim scores due in 4d but is the study section even going to happen?
Oh yeah, this is the natural definition of 'efficient'.
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
