Laura S

Laura S

@pickersnext.bsky.social

Film lover, avid reader, recovered baker, your permanent "phone a friend" for trivia

4.2K followers468 following3.8K posts

Laura S reposted

What in the ever loving racist incorrect mouth dropping is this??? The Arab world “produces” plenty of “science”… which is all the more impressive since the West periodically bombs all their shit.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Just when you thought that things couldn’t get anymore weird, they do something like this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Laura S reposted

On a serious note: I'm so thankful our city made the right choice tonight. What a relief. There are a number of wonderful, progressive candidates who also won this evening, and I am thrilled for them and their ridings. Okay we now return to our scheduled programming of making fun of Brad Bradford

Laura S reposted

that food you can’t afford? you don’t need it anyway, fatty. and the gas you can’t afford? walk that fat ass to work! wait why aren’t you voting for us

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kevin Hassett: "The affordability crisis is a myth"

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Laura S reposted

🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

Laura S reposted

Good win. We're going to have to run the table with these lawsuits, which will come fast and thick as we approach the election and for weeks after.

Laura S reposted

“Unfortunately, finding a stray tabby under a car and gently tying your ballot to its tail with a ribbon almost certainly ensures your vote will miss the deadline for counting.” — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

theonion.comElection Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In TimeLANSING, MI—Urging the public to use the most reliable methods available to submit their vote, election officials across the country warned Monday that a ballot tied to stray cat would likely not arri...

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The most important part of your friends having a last house party before moving from an apartment they've been in for over a decade is when you all climb up on the roof, pass around a bottle of rum, and dance with Toronto in the background. It's a very sacred and important process.

Laura S reposted

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

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I believe this is the first time I’ve heard a candidate for office attempt a Trump impression.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

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“Like every other conservative premier, Danielle Smith is more focused on political theatre than on issues that will actually make people’s lives better. “By allowing the separatist fringe to dominate political discourse, she’s diverted attention away from affordability, healthcare and education.”

cultmtl.comAlbertans chose Canada. Danielle Smith must resignAlbertans rejected the referendum pushed by Premier Danielle Smith, sending a clear message that it's time for her to resign.

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There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

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The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

cleveland.comPlain Dealer/cleveland.com endorses Amy Acton for Ohio governorThe Plain Dealer editorial board endorses Democrat Amy Acton for Ohio governor, citing her preparedness and community engagement, while condemning opponent Vivek Ramaswamy's weaponizing of Acton's chi...

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Wab Kinew calls on Ottawa to abolish Indian Act: "I'm not sure if that lines up with your vision of Canada, that we still have a race-based form of identification in this country. It's long overdue that we have a relationship with Indigenous peoples that reflects who we are as Canadians today."

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“This is comical. This is insulting. This is a preposterous mishandling of your product at the worst imaginable time … League owners might want to tear up Engelbert’s resignation letter, just so they can fire her instead.” (gift link)

nytimes.comThe WNBA Finals starting at 12:30 p.m. is an embarrassment, when the league should be celebrating (Gift Article)Comical. Insulting. And a preposterous mishandling of the WNBA product at the worst imaginable time.

Laura S reposted

look i support women having the sole right to hold elected office as long as men gain an equivalent unique civil right (the freedom to call each other "big guy" and "my man")

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social

Look, I'm an evolutionary physiologist, ok? I believe in biology, not this sentimental feminist claptrap. Women are biologically optimized to be nurturers. They run households, they don't fight lions. That's why they're the only ones we can trust to govern our complex, industrialized civilization.