My brother is unemployed and struggling right now, and I'm trying to help as much as I can from far away. He needs to be on disability, and just started the process. But he "doesn't get involved in politics." Politics is about to get involved with you, bro. Good luck with that.

#science #research #DNA #crisprcas9

It wouldn't surprise me if over time we discover most of what has been called "junk" RNA is not.

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-rna-crispr-reveals-hundreds-noncoding.html

RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that hundreds of noncoding RNAs are essential—not 'junk'

The #media aren't only sanewashing Trump, they're normalizing him and his fascism and his personality cult.

One could say that their bias is to deny that the abnormal is abnormal, to try to make sense of the senseless; that they're used to giving new presidents a fresh start and ignoring everything that went before, the particulars be damned.

But really, they're just all in on being the propaganda tools of a dictatorship. So long as they get paid.

@DavidSalo weareworthfightingfor.org

Has anybody heard about any vigils, marches, organizing meetings, online calls, or *anything* that people are doing to collectively organize and at least demonstrate that we haven't gone away?

#politics

From an National Education Association newsletter: #PetitionToBiden

https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/do-everything-in-your-power-to-protect-our-democracy-and-rights-before-trump-takes-office

"To: President Biden
Do everything in your power to protect our democracy and rights before Trump takes office"

I have been thinking about this and then got that email for one of my national Teacher's unions.

Please check it out & sign it too if you agree.

Saturday's plan.

#eeffoc

I just want to go to a tropical island that isn't hit by hurricanes & forget the rest of the world FOREVER.

I'm done making predictions about "What the American people will do" based on my assumption of anything like their 'national character.'

I've already seen that, during the pandemic, millions of people chose to risk their lives and the lives of their children rather than engage in some simple and non-controversial preventive measures.

I can no longer assume that people have *even their own best interests at heart.*

😬

The USA has been bought lock stock and barrel by our billionaires and corporations too large to fail.

It is high time we recognize it for what it is.

I've had vivid dreams of a day in the life of #MelonHusk.

He surrounds himself with drug-addled sycophants, and discards everyone else as easily as we'd throw away an empty Starbucks cup.

Elon Musk is into Saudi Arabia for an awful lot of money.

It's quite notable that KSA has never once chased Musk for repayments on what seemed, at the time, to be a stupidly over valued investment.

Now do you see it?

Voting Interference has been reported and is currently being investigated.

Possibly a technical coup involving Wall Street.

Could be why they were so confident the night before...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/04/2024-election-integrity-security-interference-issues/76044660007/

I was shocked the number of women who voted for Trump, then I am reminded of the Stockholm syndrome, where victims align themselves with their abuser. And the patriarchy is all women’s abuser.

In a country run by trolls,

be a Billy Goat.

Being married to a white Jewish man hurt her at the ballot box, too.

MISOGYNY
noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women, manifested in various forms such as physical intimidation and abuse, sexual harassment and rape, social shunning and ostracism, etc.

America is racist af. Misinformed af. Stupid af.
But misogyny is their #1 brand.

Oh, gee. Passport processing times DOUBLED overnight.

The US is about to experience a massive brain drain.

Pro-Trump lobbyist & political commentator David Urban ~

“Democracy is a luxury when you can’t pay your bills.”

...

Democracy as a luxury. Democracy in good times only. Democracy when it suits you.

When we talk about democracy as a luxury that means everything that comes with democracy: free and fair elections, majority rule, and the rule of law.

And so America’s experiment in autocracy begins …

~ TPM