Peter Sgouros

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

I mean it’s good to see a bit of contrition, but “we gave our employees some software with no clear application which I assumed was magic and ordered them to use it for everything” needs a “so I have no choice but to resign” at the end. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...

Counting the days until Midterms. VOTE BLUE! Trump is banning stds majoring in degrees that don’t make enough $ from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. The policy will be implemented in 2027. trib.al/Y98uBJc

In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.

Yes, you need to check your voter registration. Yes, vote.gov will do that for you through the EAC. 🚨 NO. Do NOT use VoteSafe[.]org 🚨 It belongs to Elon Musk & Itty will absolutely hoover up your personal data from ip address to links you click & more. Musk's American PAC is funding that site.

The current republican administration is using NOAA to search for viable oil in the ocean. This should be a huge story.

The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.

This is even more sickening. And from someone so cheap too…

This is just so sickening.

Trump’s EPA wants to remove public participation and transparency from certain air pollution permits. Those permits cover the large diesel generators that help power data centers — and pollute the air. Trump is selling our right to breathe clean air to enrich his Big Tech donors.

Seriously, can we stop doing nature disrupting bullshit?

Oh for F*CKS sake. 🤬🤬🤬 We want a healthy environment, not this dystopian 💩. Can we even fathom how much disruption 50,000+ space mirrors will cause to all of Earth's systems? These psychopaths are gleefully speed-running our extinction for fun and profit. www.cnet.com/science/spac...

"He was at least the eighth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign. No immigration officers have been charged in the killings and video footage in several previous shootings has contradicted the accounts of federal officers..." apnews.com/article/ice-...

This summer's record-setting heat wave is making wildfires in states like Colorado and Utah even worse. And to top it off, private equity investors are even price-gouging firefighters.

The hood is fully off Alito “None of the..statements by..[Trump were] overtly racial..all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justification” Kagan’s reply “The evidence..includes statements..so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”

Hi! This is for any Scientific American fans, a support rally in Manhattan on Tuesday. (Not as elaborate as the #Knicks parade, unfortunately. )

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

The president of the United States is a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist.

The end of a civilization will be the triumph of people who look like they know what they’re doing.

Hi reporters, Looking for someone at CDC with KNOWLEDGE OF THE MATTER⁉️ Contact the national public health coalition here: www.nationalphc.org/media-inquiries NPHC @firedbutfighting.bsky.social is a group of fired CDC employees in contact with current CDC staff and CDC alumni

We just blew up an Iranian ship in international waters and left all of the survivors to drown. This is who we are now.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

@ash-housewares.bsky.social I’ve found a way to survive… translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=M...

As the U.S. doubles down on glyphosate, a widely cited study asserting its safety has been retracted after it was discovered the paper was ghostwritten by Monsanto employees. This incident, and ghostwriting in general, harms scientific integrity, writes Naomi Oreskes. https://scim.ag/4rIIu4a

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Former NFL player, political activist, youth coach Chris Kluwe is my pick for CA Assembly District 72 in 2026. He’s ready to defeat Gracey Van Der Mark, a known Holocaust denier who has worked with Neo Nazis and radicalized white nationalists for years. Let’s go @chriswarcraft.bsky.social 🇺🇸!

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

For my fellow knitters.

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

Northern Lights over Greenland.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Anyways, if you want someone in office who cares about other people and has the track record to prove it, and is ALSO an inveterate shitposter committed to using his powers for good, I’m, uh, running for CA State Assembly District 72 against a MAGA diehard.

ICE Activity is stepping up in Seattle. Reports of plainclothes in University District, and abductions from Lynnwood to Renton, and Aurora to Issaquah. Now is the time to get trained and engaged; #Seattle seattleindivisible.com/support-immi...

That is why I told you to fix your heart. You think it's only us weird lefties here on Bluesky who care about this but it's literally foundational American principles in the goddamn bill of rights which are being gleefully violated in the name of deporting more brown people and fuck that shit.

I am willing to lose some YouTube subs at this moment because I'm a patriot and not a coward. I am absolutely shocked how this country, the country founded on principles of liberty and with the goddamn fourth amendment, has enough people now saying "if you're get in ICE's way you deserve to die."