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@rbreich The trump crime family will have their hand out at the front of the line

Mexico’s president is demanding an explanation of what CIA officials were doing in Chihuahua when they died in an car crash over the weekend. https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/04/21/politica/sheinbaum-exige-a-eu-explicacion-por-agentes-en-chihuahua

Sheinbaum exige a EU explicación por agentes en Chihuahua

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo enfatizó que los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y Chihuahua deben aclarar la presencia de dos agentes estadunidenses en un operativo en campo en esa entidad, a fin de determinar si se violó la Ley de Seguridad Nacional.

La Jornada

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Randall Lee 42m ago

@Paul_stilgar @georgetakei Riiight. His signature is not his name. I don't know what it is.

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cygnoir 4h ago

It’s National Library Week here in the US, and this year marks three decades since I first started working in libraries. Libraries are an essential component to our communities, and we need you to show up for us, now more than ever. https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek

#libraries #NationalLibraryWeek

National Library Week

National Library Week is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and library professionals play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

Academia is not fully equitable. Not by a long shot. And yet it is an order of magnitude more equitable than venture capital.

VC bros sit in the way of women getting to do more science in the private sector. If it were up to VC bros, you'd probably have no gene editing, and no mRNA vaccines.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRS-v2G7vo8&t=430s

Our society is a little silly, in that we have a bunch of racist and sexist dudes sitting around talking about birth rates and great replacement theory.🤡

That would be bad enough, except we also decided to let them be in charge of how business and science capital gets allocated in our country.🤡

US Venture Capitalists genuinely believe that they have some sort of magic gift for capital allocation.

That's how we end up investing big in monkey jpegs and "banking, but worse!🤡" while other countries invested in EVs and solar.

Now we're cutting mRNA vaccine funding, while others ramp it up.

The Future of Work is Equitable with Mekka Okereke

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Randall Lee 2h ago

mekka okereke

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Fascists will tell you that women shouldn't do science, that they're less good at it, and that they don't even like it. They should be at home tradwifing it up for some dude.🤡

Reality tells you that women are out here curing cancer.

Dr. Doudna, Dr. Kariko & Dr. Türeci (a co-author on this paper👍🏿👩🏻‍🔬)

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pancreatic-cancer-mrna-vaccine-shows-lasting-results-early-trial-rcna331969

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Nearly all of the patients who responded to the a personalized mRNA pancreatic vaccine are still alive six years later.

NBC News

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e.w. niedermeyer 3h ago

After more than $250 billion in revenue and billions more in subsidies, Tesla has never paid taxes... that's thanks in part to tactics like pretending $18b in profits came from places like Singapore and the Netherlands www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes...

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Jeff Grubb 2h ago

Capitalism isn't a democracy. Spending money isn't voting. Every time we repeat this, we forget where we actually derive power: not by being a naughty little consumer who won't consume, but by getting loud, speaking out, direct action, and making the people who stand to benefit miserable.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b4sogb3vzndeu2g7rbeocuez/post/3mjyzzbru5s26

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Randall Lee 6h ago

@emptywheel.bsky.social The hubris of these people is epic. May their downfall also be of epic proportions

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David Njoku 7h ago

COUPLE WHO MET ON BUS TAKE DOUBLE DECKER TO WEDDING

Every day I see little stories like this that fill my heart with joy. I read them and move on. But, oh boy, if I see something about some random redneck in rural Albuquerque being racist to someone, I'll start tweeting up a storm. It's almost as if I was put on earth to make sure you have a bad day.

I'm am idiot. Here's a nice story of love. There are more stories like this than stories like that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28mym4dl3o

Northampton couple who first met on bus to marry

Gabriel Enyi took months to find the courage to speak to Uloma Igwe, he says.

BBC News