straythoughts.bsky.social

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If the United States loses its democracy, it’ll be the dumbest slide into authoritarianism in history. Others cases had mass unemployment, a major war, something. None have done it with low unemployment, rising real wages, declining crime, and no troops fighting in foreign wars.

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I would like to see the national media covering this say the name of the man who was killed by police outside the convention zone today. According to one of my Marquette colleagues, his name was Samuel Sharpe.

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🌪️ PSA: A tornado WATCH means a tornado may be forming soon and you should prepare, whereas a tornado WARNING means it’s here and you need to take cover *now.* To help remember the difference: if it’s a tornado WATCH, you’ve got TIME ⌚️

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By "unity" they mean concession by the centre and left that their goals and plans are within the normal bounds of American politics. And they're not wrong. One party states have unity. Democracy isn't about unity. It's about peaceful contestation.

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“Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic.“ #giftarticle

The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

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New short comm out in preprint! 📌Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the SNV level using Oxford @nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correction | @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2024... 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #Microsky 🧪🧫🦠

Resolving a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to the SNV level using Oxford Nanopore simplex reads and HERRO error correctiondoi.org bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Extraordinary caveat in the 1586 will of Robert Tower of Essex. Robert bequeathed his house to his wife & son, if they died it went to Queen's College to educate poor children in divinity; but this latter provision was rescinded should 'religion alter and masse be received' [!] [PROB 11/69]

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction for George Harrison. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwood with Prince stealing the show at the end. What a guitar solo! George's son, Dhani plays guitar and he looks blown away with happiness. youtu.be/dWRCooFKk3c?...

2021 Remaster "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Prince, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Steve Winwoodyoutu.be 2021 Remastered Edit: Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison & Prince pay tribute to George Harrison at the 2004 Induction Ceremony

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My personal experience at bluesky has been fantastic, much of the good of pre-Musk Twitter and none of the bad. Yet I’ve never felt as pessimistic about the future of this app as I do right now, watching another important Black voice get run off the platform. Seriously, what the fuck, people?

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Conversations with two different friends about how to prepare for the fall. What we’ll teach. Are our legal documents ready if Trump wins and his regime comes to tear our families apart. Wills, custody, marriage documents, financial arrangements.

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Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolution and host-specific adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosawww.science.org The major human bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes multidrug-resistant infections in people with underlying immunodeficiencies or structural lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). W...

#birds #photography #bankswallow

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What I'm thinking about today 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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The Declaration of Independence was a series of grievances the colonists enumerated against King George III. The colonists wrote the document explaining why they were breaking away. There are a few line items having to do with colonial dissatisfaction with migration policies. (1/12)

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

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The Free #Election - an #18thCentury political #song by Henry Carey (1687-1743). From The Essex Harmony, 1772 #earlymusic #generalelection #GeneralElection2024 #politicalballads

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If Trump were to personally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue: Not immune. (Probably. Maybe.) If he were to order the army to massacre thousands on Fifth Avenue: Immune. (Very clearly, under the decision.) But from a constitutional perspective, the latter is the grave danger to guard against.

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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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There is no constitutional text that says presidents are immune from all criminal law. Nor was it the intent of the authors of the Constitution or any amendments. It is inconsistent with American precedent and tradition. They just made it up.

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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“Unless our scientific institutions are willing to step up and denounce attacks on those who risk their lives to defend principles of science and public health…our society will begin to unravel. That unravelling is already far advanced in America.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Offline: In defence of Dr Fauciwww.thelancet.com “Is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into?” US Congressman Kweisi Mfume was reacting to comments from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a hearing of the Select Subcommitt...

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Historian here except for brief periods in its history the Supreme Court has been an entrenched obstacle to the expansion of American democracy hiding under the cloak of the Constitution even when they eviscerate it. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Says Prosecutors Overstepped With Jan. 6 Chargewww.nytimes.com The decision concerned the scope of an obstruction charge to address accounting fraud and the destruction of evidence. Among the defendants facing it is former President Donald Trump.

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Hear, hear: “In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?”

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.