Tom Murphy 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
1st year PhD student at C0lumbia University Medical Center, working with the Ho Lab on the structural biology of Plasmodium falciparum ⚛️🦟
- Long Live Basil-al-Araj Liberated Zone! Long Live Hind's Hall! Palestine Will Live Forever!
- Free Palestine Movement folks are not to be taken seriously. How are y'all at the Met, but not interruptingTrump and his administration at every one of their speeches and public press conferences? Why, cause y'all are fake as shit.
- yall would’ve support the ethnic cleansing of native folks here because ‘we need to defeat King George!’ or some liberal horseshit like that. Some things—like ending genocide—are more important than democracy. Period.
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- Thanks :) This is stupid!
- Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.
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View full threadBooker sucks, too. He got his little 15 minutes and has done fuck all since. Well, except vote for more death in Gaza.
- Yea booker blows, only cares about protecting the settlers in occupied Palestine.
- THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. First Trump illegally sent a child’s father to be imprisoned without trial or due process in El Salvador. Then ICE grabbed her mother to be deported to Venezuela. But despite the mom saying she wanted to leave with her daughter, ICE is keeping the baby!
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- This is the real news story: Disillusioned Labour votes far more likely to vote Green or Lib Dem (43% and 40%) compared to only 9% shifting to Reform. Share widely to counteract all the misinformation that justifies a further shift to the Right by the gov.
- The government are wrong if they see yesterday's results as a further reason to shift right. People are certainly disillusioned, and 2024 Labour voters are looking elsewhere - but mostly to the Greens or Lib Dems, not Reform. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Do you think labor’s transphobia played a role in pushing progressive voters away?
- There’s also been a framing that this was “biden’s mistake” when so many high ranking democrats (save for real machiavellians like pelosi) bear responsibility for defending him. It’s their fault.
- Just remembered I was in line for the women's bathroom at the Louvre and a woman behind me said something to me in a language I didn't know while gesturing towards the men's room, giving me a small panic attack she was telling me to go in there until she just walked in herself to beat the line lmao
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- What the fuck are you talking about. Firstly, just say islamists (not Muslims, Islamists). Second, the motivator was not some ethereal ancient zealotry, it was a practical desire to break the influence of western powers over Islamic countries. At least in Afghanistan, it’s been largely successful.
- And that doesn’t make the Taliban “good” it makes it, as I said, *sovereign* from western hegemony.
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- Congrats Henry and George!!
- Imagine if the NYT covered trans healthcare this way
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- They won’t do that because the NYT needs the transphobic market.
- BREAKING: Reports that Trump would try to cut NIH's budget by 40% have come true. The request released moments ago would: - Cut $18 BILLION to NIH's $47b budget - Eliminate NIMHD, NCCIH, FIC - Collapse ICs into five 'focus areas' There's also a long screed about NIH's deficiencies.
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- I hope you get bird flu
- NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH) Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.
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View full threadSure, but the legislature, with the power of the purse, who already appropriated funds for these purposes can demand that the spending be done as appropriated & continue to appropriate these funds in the future. It is not only up to the courts, we have THREE branches of govn't!
- I understand. As an organizer I’m concerned with what can do *now* to exert pressure on responsive institutions rather than on what we wish more powerful, but unresponsive, institutions would do.
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- What is NICRA?
- If I worked at NIH I’d literally lab leak every virus in the freezer into the DC water supply 🦠🦠🦠
- This would require the U.S. congress to participate in governing - which they have opted not to do thus far in 2025.
- New statues would (And they should!!!), but if the appropriation has statutory authority then we could presumably obtain a court order protecting the old rate
- And we’re with you Zohran 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- With Trump threatening our city's LGBTQ+ community, New Yorkers need a mayor unafraid to stand up for them. Proud to receive the endorsement of @jimowlesclub.bsky.social, @sdnyc.bsky.social, and Lambda Independent—three clubs that have led the fight for equality and justice.
- Am I wrong that the indirect cost rate is fixed by congressional statue? And this could be legally challenged?
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- Omg I’m an idiot— thank you so much professor Cruickshank 🫶🏼
- How does testing 228,000 people translate into two orders of magnitude more people not developing AIDS? Does every person tend to infect 100? (I’m not an epidemiologist, asking in good faith)
- The mainstream media we inherited from the Cold War era was set up to be a skeptical observer of 2 parties that both deployed self-serving spin. It was not set up to handle a situation in which one party became a firehose of shamelessly false and bigoted, emotionally-incendiary propaganda.
- they’ve always repeated the lies of people in power. Four words: Weapons of mass destruction 🇮🇶
- Personally, I think America should have more dolls 💅
- PROTECT THE DOLLS
- Mohsen Mahdawi was released on bail today from his illegal detention at the hands of the Trump administration. Good. In America, you are not supposed to end up in a jail cell for expressing your opinion. This is a major step forward in the fight against authoritarianism.
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- You’re forgetting one 🇵🇸 “veterans” for fucks sake, liberals care more about american war criminals than innocent Arabs
- RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are."
- I can’t anymore man
- Some days I think about all the far Leftists who spent the entire 2024 presidential campaign on performative outrage against Kamala Harris, and wonder if they think it was worth it.
- Mohsen Mahdawi is free. As the federal judge who ordered his release said, “This is not the first time that the nation has seen chilling action by the government intended to shut down debate.” May it be the last.
- I have to say, I’m so so proud of the students here at Columbia for fighting and organizing and doing the work to build the pressure campaign for his release. From the river to the sea, Palestine *will* be free!
- Finally some good fucking news 😭 My sincerest hope is Mohsen can enjoy a modicum of peace and dignity even as he’s out on bail.
- I reviewed a paper recently. It was flawed & rejected. It later appeared unchanged in another journal. So how is peer review a “gold standard”? You can’t have a gold standard if people can’t tell the difference between gold and bauxite..
- Which journal did it reappear in?
- America is not a Christian nation. America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
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- His cult yea, but he was whole hog for pre-rabbinic Judaism, being as it was a state construct to legitimize the Davidic monarchy
- Christianity has always been that, and Jesus was a well meaning but clueless fanatic for a state cult invented by power hungry scholars to centralize regional political power in Jerusalem
- Illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent. We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
- Thank you senator Sanders
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- Yea! Sounds like you should get your eyes checked, old man 😄
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- Where’s the lie??? There’s no seats!
- I took the train from Boston to Manhattan. My life has changed. I'm a car hater but now also a plane hater. Read a book, knit a sock, avoid kidnapping by the TSA, travel at 100 mph. Trains.
- YES
- Class act through and through. We miss your leadership, Joe.🥹
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- Just like South Africa after apartheid right? All the whites were exiled or killed. Or america after slavery! No more whites in America I guess. Israelis are so bloodthirsty they’re incapable of imagining equality as anything but an existential threat.
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- What about the 90,000 Palestinians hostages in Israeli jails who have yet to be charged with a crime? What about the population of Gaza being overwhelming composed of refugees from Israel’s first genocide in 1948? Stop playing the victim, the only one who believes you is your boy Trump 🤣
- Gaza doesn’t
- Americans need to understand that when schools like Columbia enacted surveillance and policing measures to choke student protests for Palestine, those same policies make resisting the Trump administration that much more impossible. You can’t pick and choose which causes to crush, only to crush.
- BREAKING: A broad lawsuit alleging the Trump admin is deporting people for holding pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel views can move forward to trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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- I don’t think we should be subsidizing the choice to have children over all other sorts of economic choices (non-parents paying for school to an extent, tax breaks for parents, etc). Having children is overwhelmingly a heterosexual choice, and 100% in line with heterosexual values.
- The vitriol directed at women and nonbinary actors in genre fiction adaptations is so so discouraging as a female fan. Which is of course the point because the men leading the vitriol don’t want us in “their” spaces
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View full threadI wouldn’t say the book is offensive (and I love the series so far!!) but so much time is spent dwelling on the racial features of minority characters— especially women, and how it relates to their “attractiveness”. And the female characters tend to be much more shallow than males.
- Also this Reddit post has the tone of “I don’t mind gays so long as they don’t rub my face in it” 🤣
- The people of 2070 must know most of us thought AI was trash.
- I realized “AI” (which generally means machine learning) really resembles the internet in that it was developed by scientists to facilitate the work of scientists. Also like the internet, the normies fucking ruined it
- sorry folks but Palestine and the ongoing genocide there by the apartheid state is still the central issue of our times, from which everything else spirals out. There is no conceding on this issue and there is no way to meaningfully confront Trumpist Fascism without taking an anti genocide stance
- Yes.
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- Which leftists are telling Jewish antizionists to just “accept” the Gaza genocide?
- Thank you MJ Lenderman and the Wind for having me onstage at your sold out show tonight in Brooklyn. 57 days until the election, a lot of doors to knock and a better city to win. Sing up: zohranfornyc.com/events
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- He was the only mayoral candidate here. I’ve also personally seen him at a smaller, public school related trans rights protest. Zohran does the work.
- Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
- It really breaks my heart man. We had one thing in the government that unambiguously works and these bastards are tearing it apart 😭
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- I feel like we could use a new new atheism as a check against the ascendant theocracy. But you do you 🫶🏼
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- Do we really have a masculinity crisis, or do we have a "how to grow up" crisis? It gets cast as a masculinity crisis when men start looking for something that distinguishes them from women. But what if men and women have many of the same traits, and what they really need is to stop being children?
- YES! The discourse around this “crisis” enables the self-infantilization and persecution complex straight men have developed ever since it became uncouth to define themselves around the domination of women
