Dr. Katharine Dickson
Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Bluesky’s first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū)
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- Forcibly removed off of an OUTGOING flight is a good sign that there's more going on here than usual.
- The drummer for Austin metal band Lord Buffalo (a legal green card holder) has been seized by ICE off of a plane as the group was departing for their European tour. His current whereabouts are unknown. www.metalsucks.net/2025/05/14/l...
Within a short period of time we have gotten to a political system where SCOTUS has given the President broad immunity, and Congress says clearly impeachable offenses are "not my lane."- I've said it before and I'll say it again: Any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken. That, all on its own, makes the present Constitution fatally flawed.
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- apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
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- I have never read a letter of resignation that gave me goosebumps... that is until today. And we have the honor to break bread with her tomorrow. I... I'm gonna get the feels. Just warning everybody ahead of time. time.com/7285045/resi...
- It's not nearly over.
- I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
- RFK Jr. just claimed that NIH-funded research “almost certainly” caused the COVID19 pandemic. This is a lie.
- Dereliction of duty.
- Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
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- We finally agree.
- GOLDMAN: Will you give Abrego Garcia the due process the Supreme Court has required you to give him? NOEM: If he were to come back to this country, he would be immediately removed again G: How do you know? The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he hasn't been treated appropriately
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- I know lawyering up and shutting up is scary. Believe me. I do. But you CANNOT talk your way out of an arrest or detention. You CAN talk your way into charges, arrest, or detention. And you'd be amazed how often the response to lawyering up is just letting you go.
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- Republicans on the Ways & Means Committee just voted to kill my green energy tax credits. youtu.be/z0t3TrtJK3c?...
- These credits delivered over $71.2 billion to their districts, alone. Destroying these credits will kill jobs, give China the upper hand in the race against us for clean energy, and make energy prices higher for Americans. It’s just bad policy.
- Left Twitter is currently yelling at me because they’ve decided that talking to cops without a lawyer is fine if you’re a popular Twitch streamer, because then you have automatic immunity to prosecution. This might be the dumbest position I’ve ever seen someone negatively polarized into.
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- I've got an amazing story about this one. Let me tell you all about how "If you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to worry about" almost got me charged with unlawful possession of a minigun. 1/?
- McGovern: You guys make Marie Antoinette look down to earth. Trump’s cabinet is like an episode of the lifestyles of the rich and famous. These people are totally clueless. They don’t shop for their own groceries. They don’t buy their own food.
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- He's getting absolutely smashed for this and he's doubling down.
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- Someone with no authority demanding you present your genitalia to them should be treated as sexual assault, period.
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- Chuckling at the fact that Ro Khanna is on this “floated for 2028” list, but JB Pritzker is not
- Laughable
- Someone seems a bit insecure about the whole thing
- Let’s talk about impoundment and why it matters. The Constitution gives Congress- ONLY Congress- the power to spend money. By eliminating and redirecting spending for programs like Meals on Wheels, Trump is not only violating the law, he is asserting the powers of a dictator.
- 1/ Recently, #RFKJr. recently said parents do research to buy a stroller, they should also “do your [their] research” when it comes to medicine. But here’s the problem—when it comes to vaccines and medicine, that advice can lead people straight into conspiracy rabbit holes. Let’s break down why. 👇
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- The inappropriate acceptance of extravagant gifts is a common feature in authoritarian regimes and can be analyzed through several interconnected lenses: corruption, patronage, erosion of institutional integrity, and the personalization of power. 1. (1/9)
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- OPINION: Your tax dollars could soon lift a rainbow of religious educators — from Christian academies to pro-Palestinian classrooms — as the U.S. Supreme Court teeters on forcing states to aid sectarian schools.
- Texas’s State Senate has passed an anti-abortion bill that seeks to punish anyone who distributes abortion medication with huge fines — and it includes a provision forbidding any state court from reviewing its constitutionality.
- is it even legal to forbid courts from considering constitutionality? That seems like BS.
- This is an unscientific decision that will cause harms. While topical fluoride is useful, when adult teeth are growing (in children) ingested fluoride makes more impact than any topical fluoride later can. Everything we ingest “changes our microbiome.” Microbiome composition is not a health outcome!
- 🚩 “Microbiome” is one of those pseudoscience red flags because it is a real thing and can have real implications, but 99% of the time it’s brought up it’s totally unscientific. Ask the people to clarify what components of the microbiome they have concerns about and which health outcomes are affected
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