Flying Squid with Goggles

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Lover of science, the oceans, and all the strange wonderful creatures inhabiting this world; 📸 posted without other attribution are mine, despises fascists

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Precisely.

#USDA continues to insist that the #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cows can be stopped. Serious question: How do you stop transmission when you don't know where the virus is? www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/b...

USDA maintains bird flu can be eliminated from dairy cows, even as doubts mount among expertswww.statnews.com Federal officials said Tuesday that they believe the country can still eliminate an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cows, even as experts' doubts mount.

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As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.

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we need more go hard, i am tired of the loserdom, if the party won’t do it for us, fuck them, we will do it ourselves. THEY WILL BREAK UPON US. WE WILL NOT BREAK BEFORE THEM.

honestly this goes pretty hard

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you do not exist in this country as a person of color or a gay person or a trans person or a woman as a coward and all of these men who look like me want to control all of you who don’t because they’re afraid of what happens to them when they can’t.

you become a brownshit piece of shit because you are a fucking coward. because you don’t stand out. because you don’t have anything to stand for and don’t have anything to be proud of.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

GET MAD STAY MAD WE HAVE BEATEN THESE BASTARDS MORE THAN ONCE AND WHEN THEY SHOW YOU A POLL, KICK THEM IN THE FUCKING BALLS AND TELL THEM NOT TODAY

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM, and, by god, none of you should ever forget that. THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM.

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DO NOT LET THEM BREAK YOU, LET THEM BREAK UPON US

I HAVE BEEN MAD MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE AND I DO NOT INTEND TO STOP HERE, NOW, WHEN ACTUAL WEAK CHINNED SOFT HANDED FUCKING FASCISTS THINK THEY CAN DEMORALIZE US INTO SUBMISSION

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Academics: This is what is coming for you in a Trump/Vance administration. “The professors are the enemy” ~J.D. Vance invoking Richard Nixon Vote. Vote like your life depends upon it. It very well might. Your career certainly will. (Vance admires what Viktor Orbán has done.)

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Nyarlathotep is all “okay I love chaos and madness and cruelty but this guy is just a dick.”

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it’s also just wrong, the shooting does not appear to have changed any of the fundamentals even a little, at least not yet. that might have been different if trump had been more seriously injured, but he wasn’t.

It’s almost like the pundit class wants the wrong things out of this campaign season

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Pwnallthethings

We do need to return to by-default non-violent political expression in the United States, but this is going to be a larger project than thoughts-and-prayers-ing it, and any progress towards it starts by turning the faucet off in November by relegating the main proponent of it to political history.

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They banned the book not because it contains any obscene content, but because it espouses a negative view of book bans.

Book about book bans banned by Florida school boardwww.theguardian.com Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for Liberty

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Good morning! That's an order! #birds

Make a band meatier Smashing Prosciutto

Make a band meatier Crosby, Stills, Corned Beef Hash and Young

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Michael Hobbes

I have never read one of these "we need a party for the politically homeless" pieces that does not go on to straightforwardly describe Democrats.

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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continue to think that white columnists are missing a big and fucking important part of the story of this election (and continue to be uncomfortable commenting about it because black and brown people are doing it better)

“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awardswww.msnbc.com The draconian plan supported by conservative groups to dismantle the government if Donald Trump is elected was the talk of the Black Entertainment Television Awards.

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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T. Greg Doucette

we're about two cases away from judges including venmo links at the bottom of decisions lmao

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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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A lot of things that Biden wants to do are things I think are good things we should do. A lot of things Trump wants to do are things I think are bad things we shouldn't do. Therefore I will be supporting Biden even though I don't agree with him on everything. This is not complicated.

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

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The US military has admitted to spreading anti-vaxx disinformation in Southeast Asia from 2020-2021 to punish China, causing thousands of excess COVID-19 deaths. We should all be very fucking angry about this skepchick.org/2024/06/the-...

The CIA Spread Anti-Vaxx COVID Disinformationskepchick.org In the video I posted Tuesday about the “Lab Leak” hypothesis, I called out the US Congress for wasting time letting Marjorie Taylor Greene yell at Dr. Anthony Fauci instead of conducting an actual…

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Good morning! #birds

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school kids bunkered in a classroom around the nation hearing rapid fire shots in the corridor will be very happy to know that well akshually /technically/ it's an altered semiautomatic rifle with a plastic mechanism designed to allow rapid re-engagement of the trigger mechanism and not a machinegun

Something Somewhere At A Time

Make a movie milder. I'll start: Star Scuffles The Tolerable Lightness of Being Realistic Expectations

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Florida: The Clownhole State

School officials in Florida have banned a book about book banning

'Challenges our authority': School board in Florida bans book about book banswww.tallahassee.com Indian River County School Board members, for example, said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools.

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Pwnallthethings

I used to joke that americas "corruption rate" is so low compared to other countries is because they just made it legal. It's not really a joke anymore.

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Triple whammy of poor science communication here. Chan has clout as a PhD (though her expertise is not in virology/pandemics), amplified by space in the NYT, and influential NYT columnist Kristof then amplifies her. This is why the public thinks the "lab leak" evidence is stronger than it is.

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