to be fair, an administration wants representatives who will reflect and advocate for its own values and priorities.

Me too!

it’s hard to live in a world like this. ht @amerpie.lol www.propublica.org/article/revl...

Are they fucking with annual flu shots in the way they are fucking with annual COVID boosters?

On how the absence of a strong left cripples policymaking even (perhaps especially) on the liberal center. By @chrisdillow.bsky.social Placating the right yields terrible governance — practically, morally. Outcompeting the left requires delivering. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

meanwhile, these people are sitting on the tarmac in a airplane, right?

How much does US vaccine politics (e.g. imposing huge burdens on booster by the FDA) affect availability of vaccines outside the US? Will boosters be readily available elsewhere?

it’s hard to believe Elon Musk will become aloof to politics given how much risk he would be in from the criminal justice system under different politics.

what if all of our phobias converted to phagias?

Habeus Corpus is the story of a young zombie trying to make his way in a world full of hatred and discrimination.

text is now infinite what grows scarcer and scarcer is voice connected to a human soul.

“The enduring strength of a state-dominated Chinese system that can pivot, change policy and redirect resources at will in service of long-term national strength is now undeniable, regardless of whether free-market advocates like it.” ~Kyle Chan www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

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thank god, cross fingers.

“maybe if you tax poverty you get less of it.”

a "rogue employee" is one who gets caught doing what Elon has asked.

#RuleOfLaw

maybe antivax influencers are the result of a conspiracy by big pharma to replace efficient one-or-two shot cures with expensive chronic treatments that yield perpetual recurring revenue.

perhaps we should be grateful that the first job to be really perfectly and completely automated by AI is the fraudster.

just because someone put a book out about a last-year's issue doesn't mean it should become the heart of the news cycle and discourse today. the conversation that decides whether and what our democracy will be should not take its agenda from publicists trying to sell a new book.