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Carl Zimmer"Angry, disappointed, frustrated"--Scientists were making progress on vaccines and antivirals for the next pandemic--until this week, when the Trump administration abruptly told them to stop. Here's my story with Apoorva Mandavilli. Gift link: https://nyti.ms/43Xz77q
James Gleick"On the chat, reactions to the military strikes were emojis of a fist, an American flag, fire, praying hands, a flexed bicep, and 'Good Job Pete and your team!!,' 'Kudos to all…. Really great. God Bless,' and 'Great work and effects!'"
I mean, really. We're using American military might to kill, including civilians, and our most senior officials discuss it this way:
👊🇺🇸 🔥🙏💪🏻
Greg WilsonBe the @TeenVogue you want to see in the world: "To put it bluntly, Trump is now violently pursuing, rounding up, and disappearing immigrants, the majority not charged with any criminal offense, while right-wing loyalists convicted and sentenced for violent felonies against the country are released and celebrated." https://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-criminal-justice-agenda-public-safety
I Voted for McGovernNow they are taking down the ADA Accommodations pages at US government agencies, violating the American w Disabilities Act, signed by Ronald Reagan. Sure it violates the law. It also violates the implicit social contract between all these pro-life Republican MAGAts and me as I push my boys' wheelchair to the medical office complex where I search for the wheelchair access. ffs people is this who these people are? Raging MAGAts who think life is so cheap we should just disappear? Yep
#notmyPOTUS
#notmyPOTUS
Clive ThompsonA good example of the scattershot, blunderbuss way the Trump administration is operating
In 2015 a federal worker did a presentation on how to write clearly
One tip: Don't use words like "beneficiary" or "purchaser". Just talk directly to the audience: use "you"
Or, as she said, "use pronouns"
Because that presentation used the word "pronouns", the Trump folks deleted it
Here's the @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story in @404mediaco -- https://www.404media.co/email/e8133814-04fd-445b-b2e8-91beb99f4d73/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
This seems so science-fictiony that most people won't take it seriously. That would be a bad mistake.
Not only are we messing up the planet, we're also inadvertently shutting our door to space. When we're shut in, we're probably shut in for ever.
And when I say "we" are shutting that door, I mean mainly Musk.
https://robertvanwey.substack.com/p/the-imminence-of-the-destruction
Photo Ewen 📷Someone stole some photos off my website, and now is filing DCMA take down notices against my website claiming copyright.
That's the world we live in now.
I literally cannot just share my photos with the world without becoming a target for some complete arsehole. It's not enough that people try to hack into my social media accounts every day, or flood my mobile with scam calls, or try to rip me off when cancelling a tour... I now have to waste my life responding to this shit too.
In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...
... so they wrote one
and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this
So they explained how fascism would come to the US
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024
