Kristina Killgrove

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Science writer w/ bylines at Live Science, Mental Floss, Interesting Facts, Forbes & Smithsonian. Former anthropology professor. I crochet and bake a lot. NC based.

Web/contact: killgrove.org

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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to every woman, LGBTQ+ person and immigrant who works in tech: you’re disposable if doing this makes us even more money

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"To all those Prime members who follow the Julian calendar, please know we haven’t forgotten you."

Amazon Announces Orthodox Prime Day Will Be July 29 Through 30www.theonion.com SEATTLE—Providing clarity for customers in Russia, Moldova, Serbia, Georgia, and several other countries where the branch of Christianity is dominant, Amazon announced Monday that Orthodox Prime Day w...

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump does not erase the crimes that Trump himself has committed against American democracy, or the crimes he would commit if given the chance, and no one is obligated to pretend otherwise www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Nothing About the Attempted Assassination Redeems Trumpwww.theatlantic.com This crime does not erase what the former president has done, or what he has promised to do.

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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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President Biden tried to call the widow; she wouldn't talk to him. Trump didn't bother. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/p...

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A fun fact about JD Vance is that he's openly backed purging anyone who disagrees with him from the government, comparing it to "de-Nazification," and illegally defying court orders to do so.

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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An interesting thing about the election now is that it features two Ivy League school alumni (Trump and Vance) against two non-Ivy alums (Biden and Harris).

TIL this disturbing nugget: "White supremacists proudly proclaim their Neandertal heritage as detected through home DNA testing kits like those provided by the biotech company 23andMe, based on the erroneous assumption that people of African descent have no Neandertal heritage."

Rethinking Neandertals | Annual Reviewswww.annualreviews.org In this article, I first provide an overview of the Neandertals by recounting their initial discovery and subsequent interpretation by scientists and by discussing our current understanding of the tem...

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Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies—an eminently respectable, bipartisan think tank—right-wing political violence accounted for more than 90 percent of all attacks or plots in the first half of 2020, far outpacing terrorism from any other source since 1990.

We’re in an epidemic of right-wing terror. Won’t someone tell the press?www.motherjones.com More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6. Has the media learned its lesson?

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the general vibe at the moment

Just saw a Jeep flying an enormous Trump 2024 flag pass a house with a 12ft tall Home Depot skeleton holding a pride flag. Living in NC is wild.

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the "violence shook this previously peaceful white christian nationalist rally railing against the vermin tainting the blood of the country" stories are going to destroy me

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Remember the day Trump was found guilty? Feels like it happened a year ago right? It was 45 days ago. Barely six weeks. The election is in 113 days. You do you, but we're going to live a decade in the next 4 months so maybe stop assuming every Big thing that happens is the definitive one.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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When I condemn political violence I am also condemning a Trump candidacy.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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Quick points: 1) Assassination attempts are bad, period. 2) We do not know the motives of the shooter. 2) We do not know the political consequences of this event. There were attempts to shoot Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter shortly before elections; they all survived and lost.

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Anyone who took a twenty minute break from the internet

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richard simmons and dr ruth were the butt of constant jokes but in retrospect they were probably two of the best people in american public life in the 1980s

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Richard Simmons, the fitness guru, has reportedly died at 76

Richard Simmons Dead at 76www.tmz.com Richard Simmons -- the legendary fitness guru -- has died at 76 ... TMZ has learned.

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Dr. Ruth “defended abortion rights, suggested older people have sex after a good night’s sleep and was an outspoken advocate of condom use … In the 1980s, she stood up for gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic and spoke out loudly for the LGBTQ community.” apnews.com/article/ruth...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96apnews.com Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died.

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Looks like @sciam.bsky.social may have been fooled with this image by Leonello Calvetti - the trunk on the left mammoth bears signs of being gen AI. #SciArt #CreateDontScrape

The First Ever Fossilized Chromosomes Came from a Freeze-Dried Mammothwww.scientificamerican.com For the first time, researchers have reconstructed the 3D structure of ancient genetic material, in this case from a 52,000-year-old mammoth

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this is by far the craziest longshot candidate replacement idea I’ve heard, but if the technology’s there I’ll hear them out

"Ultimately, relying too heavily on a binary comparison approach risks describing the realities incorrectly for everyone, not just for women or non-binary people." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We need more-nuanced approaches to exploring sex and gender in researchwww.nature.com Some scientists are reluctant to investigate questions about sex and gender, particularly given today’s sociopolitical tensions around gender identity. But they should lean in and embrace the complexi...

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Remember the archaeological investigations of the mass grave associated with the 1921 Tulsa Massacre? They have an identification for the 1 of the bodies that was recovered during the project, and found records indicating he was killed during the massacre. 🏺 www.cityoftulsa.org/press-room/m...

City of Tulsawww.cityoftulsa.org

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Project 2025 calls for endangering Chaco Canyon, one of the most important Native American historical sites in North America.

Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.