Josh Rodefer

GOP excelling at screwing things up. A lot of small biz will go under bc this industry has grown & flourished over the past few years. Billions in tax revenue will disappear overnight -- better to leave it up to states and local communities to regulate their own needs. www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

This is the first event outcome....now we just need parts 2 and 3

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

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@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

As far as I'm aware the Supreme Court hasn't granted immunity from prosecution for President's son-in-laws. As yet. Extraordinary story if it's correct. Iran-Contra +++ and maybe more besides. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, nobody should support this kind of deception. They created a fake pamphlet to spark trans outrage and sent it to every home in Texas. Then their paid shills continued the outrage on social media. Politics is broken.

Trump is a despot. He answers only to Putin and Netanyahu – because they both have Kompromat on him worse than most people can imagine.

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

interesting study w potential long term effects on offspring

Long COVID can develop even after a mild COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can persist or emerge weeks or months after the initial infection, including fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, and other health complications. Long COVID is not limited to those who experience severe illness. (...)

good read about Rosalind Franklin's photos www.science.org/content/arti...

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

just brutal local news coverage ....

If a Dem Senator did this we’d be listening to 6 mths of how Dems are out of touch with real Americans. So… Why don’t GOP MAGA politicians know and understand college vs pro sports teams? Guess they’re relying on AI to tell them all the answers lol

This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell

The best flag in the WORLD...

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

Girls don’t need to be perfect. They need the courage to try, fail, learn and try again.💜 Sports teach girls to be brave, take risks, find their voices and lead. Winning is wonderful, but becoming strong enough to get back up is the real victory 💪🥎 #SheShed #GirlsInSports

I have some thoughts on AI and national security. I started writing this prior to the panic over the weekend, but it seemed important to finish part 1 quickly in light of the chaos. Unlocked for everyone: www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog/pos...

Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.

The assessments are part of an effort to monitor the brain health of service members exposed to blasts after an Army reservist killed 18 people in Lewiston. (via Maine Public) www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/01/p...

I had an idea. What if, instead of recalling contaminated food back to the production facility where it was made, we had some kind of set up where the food went through a testing process of some kind. You could perhaps have national standards or something for it

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

Now do the rest of the administration

Some Friday fun with a pop quiz.

We as scientists must assume that *NOTHING* this administration does with regard to NIH or NSF comes from a place of good faith, even if you agree with the action in principle

There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*. This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.

One thing that’s always bothered me about the “lab leak” theory, is how many of its proponents shift back and forth from “bioweapon” to “unethical science” (gain of function) to “negligent science” (leak of naturally occurring virus) to adapt to different debates and for max political effect.

Monkeys make friends with other species, and that can tell us a lot about how keeping pets came about. Great article by @cyrilgrueter.bsky.social et al., reporting friendly primate interactions with a whopping 55 non-primate species! 🧪🐒🐕 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Modern medicine advanced through the exploitation of Black people, but the breakthroughs in effective care do not necessarily reach Black patients. prospect.org?p=142811

modern medicine and <cough> vaccines <cough>

Would be nice if the DOJ lawyers were professionally sanctioned for bringing these cases.

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

Elon Musk, Royal Society Fellow SHAME @royalsociety.org

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.

Very interesting article, and in my field (plant taxonomy etc.) the bottlenecks are fieldwork, museum work, permits, grants, old literature, and simply 'we do not know what we are looking for until we have found a new species' - it is discovery in the unknown sometimes, not based on data we have.

of course the immigrant kid was excluded. it doesn't fit the narrative.

#ETTD @therickwilson.bsky.social ¡Viva España!

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint programming.dev/post/53358829

Ah hell no Hello Keynote!

Iowa MAGA politicians doing their best to destroy U of I’s reputation for quality and rigorous undergraduate education.