Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
And she is one of them, yes? I think we already met the fembots somewhere.
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And she is one of them, yes? I think we already met the fembots somewhere.
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
He doesn't know what his department's plans are to help Americans. Maybe it's because there are none.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope. 👎 fails. Next?
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
So we are going to reenact every dark sci-fi scenario in real time?
Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) reposted
A collaboration with the great satirist @borowitzreport.bsky.social anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-reva...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
We are now the evil version of the bozo the clown 🤡 show on constant repeat.
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted
When RFK Jr.’s day of reckoning comes, and it will, it will be much deserved. www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s just it you dumb cheese. Military occupation is not “by the law”. 🤡🤡
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
WTAF
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
danger, danger, danger. "When faculty returned to campus this fall, some found their subject librarians were no longer with them." www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Mike Murphy (@mjamurphy.bsky.social) reposted
If you are a US academic concerned about the effect the proposed rule to fix visa limits at four years will have on PhD students, please consider leaving a comment on the Federal Register #EconSky
Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) reposted
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
paulpro (@mariopro.bsky.social) reposted
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Republican-controlled North Carolina elections board teamed up on a proposed deal that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in the Tar Heel State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
Make Polio Great Again And make Florida truly the state where people go to die.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
The pro-life party in action.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."
Scott Bryan (@scottygb.bsky.social) reposted
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted
Gov Pritzker issues warning of imminent deployment of hostile and unauthorized military forces in Chicago
Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) reposted
We are watching, in real time, the destruction of the CDC. Our kids' and families' health is going to be put at risk because Trump and RFK Jr. are running a money-making conspiracy racket instead of a public health agency. Another result of Trump's corruption machine.
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
“.. There was a period of time, briefly, where the middle-income consumer looked like they were being dragged up by all that was going well in the world. .. Then things fell off a cliff.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
The benighted and beshittified states of Magastan - sad place to be.
Antiquity Journal (@antiquity.ac.uk) reposted
How did ancient civilisations contend with #ClimateChange? The 4.2kya event was an abrupt arid phase that lasted a few centuries from ~2150BC. In the Indus Valley, reliance on wheat and barley monocultures led to the decline of urban centres. 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
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...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Forcible deportation to a different continent historically voluntary in nature. 😐
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Just ask Atlantic City about this behavior. Same piece of shit, different decade.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
PBS News (@pbsnews.org) reposted
A single-source news report that said Trump administration officials plan to take COVID-19 vaccines off the market prompted fresh questions about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power over vaccines. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4n3NkG9
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Since corporate media won't call for Trump's resignation, I will. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-must...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
The ridiculous performative lying reaches new heights daily. (hourly?)
Antiquity Journal (@antiquity.ac.uk) reposted
Is this the oldest known map of the world? 🏺 From an ancient Babylonian city in modern Iraq, it depicts the world as they perceived it during the 6th century BC, with Babylon in the centre surrounded by both known and legendary locations 1/2 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Antico Caffè Greco, Rome's oldest coffee house, faces imminent closure after more than 260 years in business following a long-running row over rent. www.wantedinrome.com/news/caffe-g...
Chaucer Doth Tweet (@levostregc.bsky.social) reposted
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Ghouls. A cabal of ghouls. Soul-sucking, world-ending ghouls.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted
Once again, we are in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
A rapidly delaminating economy to go with our crumbling democratic society. Replaced by chaos, racism, nazis, and assholery.
Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) reposted
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
John Ma 🇺🇦 (@nakhthor.bsky.social) reposted
It’s like one of these experiments when GOP fucks up a red state but scaled up to the whole goddamn nation
Jason Moore (@moorejh.bsky.social) reposted
Received two reviews on a paper I am a co-author on that was submitted the @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports. Both reviews were written by ChatGPT & clearly not edited with hallucinations. Shame on the editors for letting this unethical nonsense out the door.
PBS News (@pbsnews.org) reposted
President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson that he won’t be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch. https://to.pbs.org/47QkgO2
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
No one voted for this.
ballerinaX (@ballerinax.bsky.social) reposted
Trump takes pristine wilderness www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
that's not how 'morals' work.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Miserable piece of shit.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Vile.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
America no longer has a functional government.
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
Everyday is like marinating oneself in sewage.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
a fascist, criminal grift-o-rama befitting a failed state; we make 'banana republic' look good.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
monstrous, epochal atrocities committed by the worst dullards currently available. crimes against humanity.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Ring the bell! 🔔 Geaux Phils!
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Kyle Schwarber! ⚾
All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) reposted
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) reposted
Let’s be blunt: the president who cut pediatric cancer research isn’t going to do anything to prevent kids from being shot in school either. Our children deserve so much better than Donald Trump.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh FFS 🤦🏻♂️ SHUT UP
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
The collapse of our sad republic is just pathetic.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
More fascist bullshit www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Phantom Tollbooth
Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) reposted
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
His mitochondria must be acting up. 😬
Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted
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.
Son Thou (@sonthou.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Yes, but it doesn’t matter. Even if we get a competent and trustworthy government again for some period, everyone should know that it can’t last unless structural and constitutional reforms are made. The fascists are among us and unless they are structurally disempowered, they’ll be back.
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
You think we weren’t prepared for the last pandemic ….
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
"American fascism looks like the would-be self-proclaimed king deploying the military on US soil not only not in response to requests by local or state officials but over — and almost specifically to spite — their vociferous objections."
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Dr. Nick Posegay (@nposegay.bsky.social) reposted
There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Delusional and dangerous crank.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
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
Steve Inskeep (@steveinskeep.bsky.social) reposted
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
And the so-called "party of small government" sits idly by... Hello?
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that a confession?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Madness. Unchecked and unstable.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Paging Dr. Bill Cassidy. Stat.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (@raskin.house.gov) reposted
If Trump wants to throw the book at people who commit “violent crime” while desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon people who on Jan. 6, 2021 violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Tim Walz: "Think of how easy it would be to be a damn Republican. 'Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid frickin' red hat. What should I say today? I don't know, just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy -- the felon in the White House.'"
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Mad king signs royal decrees and hurls obscenities while fawning press corps eats it up. The end of the republic is sure going to be stupid.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
This shit gets worse By the day.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Wtaf. Chairman Mao said what again? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Fascist shit parade rolls on. New atrocities by the hour.
Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves.bsky.social) reposted
Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rosemary Joyce (@rajoyce.bsky.social) reposted
An armed occupation by the military offered as a rehearsal for other cities.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
The Italian booksellers I use most often either use DHL or Poste Italiane to send books to the U.S., both of which have suspended svc. as of today. Worrying.
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
MAGA is a death cult.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
Italy postal service suspends shipment of packages to US amid tariff confusion www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-p...
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social) reply parent
Narrator: he was in fact that ignorant.
Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D. RPA (@serviliusahala.bsky.social)
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