The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
No he lives just outside the suburbs and owns a business which supplies chemicals to the meat industry so he thinks that he is a farmer.
His grandad was poor so he understands something that other rich people don't, but also he's rich, so better than poor people
Instead of a few million people digging back into high school English class and using pronouns correctly, they chose the timeline of measles, recession and www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...
But what is the message? If it is the Atlantic is bankrupt or, as most of the press takeaways I have seen, "make sure to check who is in your group chat before talking shit," it is another in the series of platforms and leaders metronomic failure to seize a moment.
FT Exclusive: The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces. www.ft.com/content/c58f...
What? No "It's in God's hands?" "We have no leverage?" "Your pizza is going to cost more for Superbowl?"
This is what energy looks like. What leadership from the minority looks like.
Showing up. Reminding/educating people what their rights are and how to retain them.
More fucking anti-trans bullshit. The notion that it will take money from others who need it more is fucked up. How much does it cost to let someone pee in a bathroom or call them Julie instead of James? Just like the trans sports thing, it's just crap.
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I recently had cataract surgery. Outside the office, a display featured Dr. Patricia Bath for Black history month and Black pioneers in medicine. She received patents for both laser ablation and ultrasound dissolution of the cataract lens. Thank you, Dr. Bath.
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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
I have a better idea. In honor of Mr. Trump's clear victory at the polling places in 2016, 2020 AND 2024, which he was duly slighted and overlooked as part of a dark and sinister conspiracy to deny him his rightful election as President, we should declare election day as a paid national holiday.
If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat.
Now is a time for courage.
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It needs to be a commitment for a longer period of time. One day won't drive change, it will send a signal people are paying attention, tho, which is a start.
And frankly, the likelihood of using/abusing martial law will only grow with his cementing his power. These dumbasses are gonna cower and let the motherfucker grow in strength and then flip out when he finally transgresses one step too far.
They should be actively doing things or resign.
This was the case in 2016 too... the shift was palpable even then. Biden offered false hope .... Trump 2016 was the new way. Everyone else is just playing catch up at this point. Sickening as it is.
Trump is blocking the Associated Press from the Oval Office. Rather than stand up for freedom of the press, the rest of legacy media is taking advantage of AP's absence.
When this inevitably leads to AP cutbacks, the same legacy media will lament the plight of media decline.
Probably but so what. OANN gets a real scoop once. I think they skip more than once. There are plenty of ppl to talk to in Washington and the rest of the country anyway. They can cliff notes Trump's bs and not miss anything.
If that is the case, would they not just do what they want on things we agree with too?
I don't think they have as much power as they want everyone to believe.
But if it is true as you say, then there is no reason for us to engage with them at all. They will do as they please.
Maybe. But some things come at too high a price. These people are negotiators of the worst order. Like used car salesman with 20 gold-embroidered books of pinstriping they want you to choose from. "But what's in it for me?" is the first third fifth and seventh question.
It is fine to work with someone but how we communicate that can show no eagerness or desire or it will be leveraged against the American people in corporate money grabs. For starters, the illegal shit needs to end before ANY discussions take place. If they wanna fuck us, they do it alone. No support
FWIW, I appreciate he's here. But there's talking past each other on this.
Could do much more, but granted at the end of the day they're the majority. True. But it's frankly about messaging. Doing a real complete dilatory blockade is, yes, optics, it's theatrics, it's narrative. And that matters.
FWIW, I appreciate he's here. But there's talking past each other on this.
Could do much more, but granted at the end of the day they're the majority. True. But it's frankly about messaging. Doing a real complete dilatory blockade is, yes, optics, it's theatrics, it's narrative. And that matters.
We forced a quorum call and that delivered a twelve minute delay and then we went in and out of executive session for ten votes. No one noticed. And then they got their confirmation on exactly the same timeframe. If someone is selling you a magic procedural button it is snake oil.
They can also get on podcasts. Use their socials start newsletters get people educated on how they can individually throw a wrench in this shit day after day. They had how many town halls over Obamacare why not have town halls here on how to resist or how to survive this Musk-spawned hellscape?
This is the entire crux of how we got here I think. The campaign mouth said crisis and end if democracy. The campaign actions was biz as usual--DJs and Leon Panetta and concert rallies and mom and dad were poor but we worked hard Americana horseshit. The rhetoric maligned with the action.
Are you trying to kill them? Being near an actual woman is enough to trigger hives for most of them. Pure estrogen would almost certainly be lethal, at least to their ego.
He can put forth proposals and folks can evaluate. There is no value in proactively declaring a working relationship. Those things we like we support. Those things we don't we don't ... But above all, be transactional. "I would love to support your push for x, but I want this for CDC or NIH."
Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
So @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is all mad at the "Democrat groups" demanding they do something to push back on this Trump and Elon stuff?
RESIGN, THEN.
FUCKING RESIGN.
GET OUT.
STOP TAKING UP SPACE IN CONGRESS THAT CAN BE BETTER USED TO STORE BUSTS ACTUAL LEADERS.
@ritchietorres.bsky.social is upset and resentful that voters are demanding they do something when they quite so clearly "have no leverage?" AFYKM?
Sir, we are SO SO SO sorry to burden you with such a level of unreasonable effort. You must still be so exhausted after flying to MI to help us lose.
That half time show, y'all. Damn.
Let me be clear. Football ain't my thing; I barely know a touchdown from an inning. And I don't even really follow Kendrick Lamar, tho I do know who he is.
But anyone can recognize epic art and top notch performance. And that was an epic performance by EVERYONE.
Folks have been fucking with NOAA for a long time. Ever since Accuweather® boy tried to wrest control and got Bush to curtail their online services, they've been fighting.
It doesn't surprise me the DOGE coup crowd are doing this. But it sure does piss me off.
Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world’s top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A lot of us had 2 displays - one color and one monochrome. Especially if you spent a lot of time in graphics mode but had text on display. The Apple ][ video circuitry combined 2 consecutive pixels as a color (2x1=white, 2x0=white, 10 magenta, 01 green) and it made text hard to read on composite.
It's so funny seeing how young these folks were when they released these apps. They're not much older than I was, but as a kid in the middle of nowhere, my mental image of them was older. Somewhere between this and, say, one of the Beagle Brothers on-screen avatars.
LOL. Swisher & Galloway -- is that a new dishwasher brand? Or a law firm?
Is it just me or does that tweet read like it was written by Trump. Maybe Elon left his phone unlocked when he got up to pee?
