I’m not a physicist but I play one on my podcast, The New Quantum Era. I talk with researchers working on quantum computing, which is just as mind-blowing as you might think. He/him https://www.newquantumera.com/
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"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."
Austin out in the streets for Labor Day, marcing to the Texas State Capitol
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
In case you are wondering what is going on today at WaPo and Democracy Docket.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Trump recently ordered the Department of the Interior to halt work on a huge wind farm. 1,000 union workers had already completed 80% of the project. Now they're fired. He made sure the oil and gas billionaires got their tax breaks, though. Happy Labor Day, I guess.
Women's basketball comes to us from the good alternate universe.
Famous last words.
absolutely loathsome that we live in a country where an article like this has to be written
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
No candidate interviewing for medical school who, upon expressing RFK jr's views, would ever be accepted. They'd be laughed right out of the room. And yet this man runs the HHS – including the CDC, NIH, ACF, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA? WTAF?! Remove RFK jr for dereliction of duty. Immediately.
And expected.
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
Gonna sound obvious but in retrospect the right's half-century-long campaign to convince the public that the government doesn't actually do a ton of useful stuff was among the most successful PR campaigns ever
What. A. World.
I hope we'll see such orders signed by every official with the power to sign them. This isn't radical or even liberal; it's 101, it's like saying the king can't house his soldiers in people's homes.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On why the media is suddenly covering Epstein: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
These words by Michael Schwalbe counter any notion that academic freedom is a niche or quaint concern.
Thank you, Trump voters.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
ICE just released updated detention statistics. As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
A key aspect of fascism is the declaration of some people as not people.
⚡️Update: 1 killed, 6 injured, including child, in Zaporizhzhia amid large-scale Russian attack. One person has been killed and another six people injured, including a child, in a Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
AMOC collapse will make refugees of us all. And it could happen in our lifetimes. We use this precious, fleeting moment to fight for a sustainable, resilient, compassionate world. Or we end up with no world at all.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Phillip: The final point from my conservative friends at the table. Since when are conservatives cheerleading for tax increases? Since when is it okay for one man to decide that every person in the United States has to pay a higher tax, and he never has to go through congress to do it?
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
Jeffrey Epstein. There have been more inhumane orders, actions & quotes this month by The Felon. Media lost interest in Epstein. WHERE ARE THE PRESS CONF QUESTIONS? Where’s the follow-up on the drawing on the b-day card & strategic signature? Bondi’s files? All else. He’ll skate away again?
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Under his eye, indeed.
RFK Jr. must be fired.
yet another fascinating discussion. Alexandre began his scientific career as a masters' student in 1998 at the Universite de Sherbrooke, inspired by an article written by a future Nobel Prize winner that said that quantum computers would be impossible to build!
Thousands of Mike Johnson's own constituents are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage following the passage of a budget bill he pushed for. And it’s all so he could help bankroll more tax cuts for corporations and the super-rich. Don’t let him forget.
RFK Jr.'s #2 is stepping in as acting CDC director. You need to call your Congress people now and demand hearings until RFK is forced out. They're politically weak for another 48-72 hours, then they'll do unbelievable damage in the next month. Show me that you called and I will give you a reward 👇
serious l i t e r a l Nazi shit
Let’s say this again. Read this carefully, line-by-line, so you don’t forget. Gender affirming care is not harmful to patients. In fact, it’s actually shown to REDUCE rates of suicide in transgender people by up to 70%.
Robert Kennedy asked a journal to retract a paper that demonstrated that the aluminium in vaccines causes no harm. The journal refused (eg no autism). The demand was an attack on science. Scientists have to accept results even if they go against their ideas or prejudices.
hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today
Ex-Israeli minister Danny Ayalon: "This is where Hamas is." Me: "Danny, where is the Israeli military headquarters?" Ayalon: "Tel Aviv." Me: "It's in the heart of Tel Aviv. So can a Palestinian group blow up all of Tel Aviv to get to [it]"? Ayalon: "No." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/danny-ayal...
CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.
After the Supreme Court justices the biggest suckers are Big Money guys who think they'll do ok under this rotten regime. Countdown to the first CEO who has his company nationalized because a hot mic caught him making fun of our big beautiful president
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Absolutely correct take.
rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
I think there's a core problem with the idea that anyone - **especially straight men** - feels entitled to "debate" the existence and rights of trans people.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Cheesy crap from the authoritarian gift shop, as expected from this yutz
One more time, shout out to the very serious people who suggested that RFK had some really good points about public health. No way to have predicted how things would turn out, except to look at his past record and everything he said about vaccines.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy’s Our Bodies, Ourselves
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece & lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him & his legacy proud. The nation’s health security is at risk & is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest.” Dr. Daskalakis, CDC immunization director
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
So, we have Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Wes Moore, Kathy Hochul, Bob Ferguson all telling the orange felon to send the national guard at his own risk, lawsuits will be filed immediately. We need the rest of the Democratic governors to do the same thing. #USDemocracy
IT DOESN’T IT DOESN’T DO THAT AT ALL IT REFRAMES PREVENTABLE DEATHS AS INEVITABLE AND VICTIMS AS WILLING MARTYRS WHO ARE ACTUALLY BETTER OFF DEAD NOW IT IS A DIABOLICAL THING TO SAY IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO STOP THIS SHIT AND REFUSING TO DO IT
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Perfection.
i watched the disturbing video that's supposedly from the Minneapolis shooter and (with the caveat that it seems real but i've not seen confirmation of that) what seems clear is that more and more of the people who commit these acts do not have comprehensible politics, in fact that may be the point
"A Russia-based Yandex employee is the sole maintainer of a widely used open-source tool embedded in at least 30 pre-built software packages in the Department of Defense, raising potential risks of covert data exfiltration through sensitive digital tools" www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Horrifying. Heartbreaking. In any other era something with this level of careless danger would be immediately banned. Today, I don’t know, sadly.
We have a dictator in the White House. How do I know? The dictator told us.
Folks are so convinced that people who are undocumented just chose not to take the legal pathway that I'm pretty sure you could create the pathway and not pay a political price. I hear it constantly from folks on the right. "They should just get legal!" Ok, let's make it happen.
I just do not understand the general reaction to Trump by Democrats. Pritzker throws one punch and he's clearly freaked out. Standing up to bullies has been a thing for thousands of years for a reason. It works. And yet! Democrats remain in a defensive crouch.
Probably because Lutnick’s son backs Tether, a stablecoin based on a “synthetic” US dollar instrument which could be very valuable if anything were to “happen” to the real US dollar’s perceived strength. Or at least set up humungous rug pulls
How, by all that is holy & good, has America not learned its lesson about immigration? That it’s our greatest strength. Yet, the nativist hate returns Every. Single.Time. The Germans in the 1700’s, Irish in the 19th century, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cubans. Wise up!
Do any reporters ever ask him why he says shit like this when it was Putin who invaded Ukraine, and not the other way around?
Hey ICE: If you go to a blue state and violate somebody's rights or kidnap them. Be prepared to be charged with a state crime. The President cannot pardon state crimes.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Anything
#MustRead "The statistics are brutal: Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: 0 Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years Fascist regimes removed by voting: 0 Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: 0 Most were removed by war or military coups."
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
Finally something the two parties can agree on: not housing people www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
Our greatest ethical question as we eat cows and let children starve is whether a for loop in Python feels pain.
Does anyone know what happened between May and August this year?
There are lots of rumors flying around about what might happen to COVID vaccine access, but please note we still do not have any official news yet. While we wait, there are things you can do: 1️⃣ Wear a mask to prevent COVID transmission 2️⃣ Push your elected officials to speak up about vaccine access
