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Alex Merz
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On this, as on so many topics, Berger adds no value.
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Alex Merz@merz.bsky.social |
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"There are no answers; only choices." – S. Lem I choose one [o] or two-cell [8] organisms and dissonant music. Professor of Biochemistry @ UW-Seattle. Any coincidence of my opinions with my employer's is coincidental.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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On this, as on so many topics, Berger adds no value.
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Alex Merz
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And he couldn't stay awake in his own felony trial for days on end.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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You can use the Paprika app to grab NYT recipes from behind the firewall if you’re not logged in. Just saying.
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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This is an appalling and horrifying story about the attacks researchers like @katestarbird.bsky.social undergo by those determined to silence any who call out their disinformation and other underhanded tactics. Very similar to what climate scientists experience but with even MORE vitriol.
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Marc Veldhoen
@marcveld.bsky.social
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American academic freedom is in peril
Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—
www.science.org/doi/...
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Yes, you should be Taylor Swift.
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Alex Merz
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Their opinions about geriatric medicine are applied only to an 82 year old and not to an incoherent 79 year old with poor impulse control who was unable to remain awake in his own felony trial.
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Mike the Mad Biologist
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Really don't want to have to post this every day: after watching pundits and political journalists at the NYT misunderstand and misrepresent infectious disease biology for the last four years, I'm not really eager to read their opinions about geriatric medicine.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Michael Harrington is spinning in his grave.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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gee that's really too bad
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What I'm thinking about today 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Brendan Nyhan
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Alex Merz
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Because the mediocre people sniveling about affirmative action can't compete.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Every. Single. Time.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Because a lot of the problems we are facing is /because/ this is authoritarianism's last chance. They wouldn't need to rig the vote if what they offered was popular
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Alex Merz
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Young people are definitely not going to want to leave Greece for other countries in Europe now that they can stay home and work 6-day weeks. Yet another country run by morons.
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Alex Merz
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Particularly given that his opponent, who is incoherent on the best of days, literally could not stay awake in court on most days of his own felony trial.
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Alex Merz
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"the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man." Does that actually narrow it down?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Micah
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and it’s not a power the court can put back in the bottle once it starts being used that way if a president starts ordering assassinations and the court says well oops that’s not what we meant why would he listen to them instead of making them the next targets
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John Brown stan account
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Look forward to this landing in page A8 of the Times, just below five or six more "SHOULD BIDEN DROP OUT????" stories
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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My, aren’t you worth blocking.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Reminder that even if Democrats drag Biden or someone else over the finish line, the threats to democracy will still remain. One party winning every time is not a plan (nor a democracy). And the president will still have the power to commit crimes with impunity even if the next one doesn't use it.
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Alex Merz
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I sure hope it’s approved for this autumn.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Running is good too.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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SIR MARK CAVENDISH
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Nolan Zugernat
@zugernat.bsky.social
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The Heritage Foundation is a principal architect of Project 2025. Here is the Heritage Foundation’s president saying that the right will kill you if you don’t submit to their rule.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
@nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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Very weird to have people in my mentions talking about pograms as if they are a fact of the near future and not something we can almost certainly stop if we get it together.
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Jenna C. Hill
@chillocean.bsky.social
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Thanks! We do a lot of work along the Pacific coast, so stay tuned.
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post malone ergo propter malone
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when you vote for President you are voting for a coalition rather than a person. the right understands this very well, which is why evangelicals lined up behind Trump.
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Lord Businessman II
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Right now, today, the polling is completely in line with a Biden repeat along roughly 2020 margins and there's honestly no reason to doubt that as the likeliest outcome
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Yet the account is consummately blockable.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Greg Greene
@greene.haus
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When the freedom and the rule of law are well and truly poppin’:
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Coup Otter
@therealjimsanto.bsky.social
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"That’s the way to see this and argue it to the public: the same out-of-control Court, which Donald Trump created and which ended abortion rights, now wants to change the constitution itself to help Donald Trump commit more crimes." 🎁 link
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Elly
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Welp, logged in to see what was up, immediately saw “the revolution will be as bloodless as the left allows it to be” and I oop. Time to go back to some low-stakes romances I’ve already read (zero stress—just what I need). Good god, y’all. 😓
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hannah gais
@hannahgais.bsky.social
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this is fucking insane
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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A man who'd eagerly incite ordinary people to violence, then try to slither out of accountability during the tribunals afterwards
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Peter Sagal
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It is remarkable to me that when they ever deign to name a specific complaint that requires them to overthrow American society (ie, a “revolution”) it’s always something like faculty senates or website DEI statements or calorie counts on menus.
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Popehat
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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If the American media were in Italy in 1922, their headline would be: "Opposition Leader Benito Mussolini has Gathered a Large Group of Passionate Supporters in Rome Who Hope to Take Italy in a New Direction"
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Peter Jacobs
@pjacobs.bsky.social
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What.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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A pity that he never came to grips with the internal demons that drove his awful career and ultimately led to him dying alone and friendless.
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Alex Merz
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Chrissie Hynde, later to lead of The Pretenders, was also at Kent State that day, with her friends who would go on to found DEVO.
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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Become that which you oppose, eh?
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Alex Merz
@merz.bsky.social
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The president has the power to appoint Justices but not to remove them.
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