A nice elderly gentleman at the coffee shop asked me what college I study at and I said, "Sir, I am 40. Thank you for assuming I'm a college student. I will proceed to brag about this endlessly."

I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California. You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content -- including deepfakes.

Abortion bans are delaying medical care and killing women. Yet, Mark Robinson wants to enact a TOTAL abortion ban with no exceptions here in North Carolina. It's backward — and it's outright dangerous. propublica.org/article/georgi…

This isn’t some wild accusation or scare tactic. Republicans are admitting they would side with Big Pharma and gut the Biden-Harris law that lets Medicare negotiate drug prices, if they win. They are literally, openly, for higher drug prices. axios.com/2024/09/17/tru…

COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions: nature.com/articles/s4154…

lol

This morning at the Paris Sleuths' symposium we are discussing what drives people to do fraud. Administrators love metrics! As long as we focusing on metrics, and the chance of repercussions is small, scientists will fraud. This has led to the explosive rise of paper mills.

If you're earning $60k a year, you're spending around $5k on federal income taxes. In that case, at your income level, any amount of Universal Basic Income over $5k will leave you better off than no longer paying federal taxes. Cutting taxes helps the rich more than UBI, not you.

The demarcation between science and pseudoscience is not a pseudo-problem of armchair philosophers: it has grave ethical and political implications. - Imre Lakatos

Imagine living this afraid of everything, this detached from reality every day.

I'm sorry, but this reads that you had severe COVID and they happily saved your life in the hospital, not that they tried to kill you... And we are all happy you survived!

So Trump has gone from claiming that tariffs don’t raise prices to claiming that tariffs on imported food will make groceries cheaper. Coming next: tariffs will make you lose weight without dieting or exercising.

New: Three reports issued by the agency's inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists -- including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” -- and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response. propub.li/3XytvvP

Health insurance is a scam. Put them all out of business and use the savings to provide universal coverage. Every cent spend on marketing, pre-approval, executive compensation, and EOBs is money that could provide care

People would rather make themselves and others sick than admit they are wrong. As Pogo said, "we have met the enemy and it is us".

See why Thiel invested in him and why Trump chose him? JD Vance has no morals, no principles, and is taking from the authoritarian playbook is being open about lying to incite violence if it helps him get to power.

It feels pretty fabulous not sharing the same internalized toxic masculine identity that makes so many of my detractors feel insecure. 💅

UNC Chapel Hill will give out free physical One Cards at no cost for students, faculty and staff to use as voter ID! triangleblogblog.com/2024/09/18/we-…

A reminder:

He's a liar.