ayekuma.bsky.social

Lemme be your problematic bae for a day. I’m absolutely not arguing with anyone on this site using my thumbs. He/him

[ayekuma.bsky.social @Aye_Kuma]

Anyway follow me before the titanic sinks, again

[ayekuma.bsky.social @Aye_Kuma]

Argentina lost and Messi didn’t get the golden boot. Good enough for me

[average lady @girlcloudnine]

it's summer and I'm training a new cohort of youth in community reporting, and being young black communists. A beautiful season for AW

[tea ☕️ @realteaemoji]

I will vote for the first person to say they will make it legal to shoot cops in self defense. I am a single issue voter and the issue is being allowed to defend yourself from the police

[ayekuma.bsky.social @Aye_Kuma]

I’m not in DSA anymore so it doesn’t really matter to me but,

Why does it matter that nyc DSA “sends” that amount to national? doesn’t mean you nerds get to dictate things because of that

[Gustavo @unionGustavo]

DSA’s national leadership (the NPC) just voted to overturn our convention & took away rank and file members’ right to vote in an all-member poll on presidential endorsement.

The NPC taking away our members’ right to vote while NYC-DSA members send them ~ $2M per year in dues.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is pretty insane: if you read the details of this new policy 👇 that now bans scientific collaboration with China, it's entirely driven by the Department of War.

Which means that civilian scientific research in the US is now driven by military logic - something that had basically never been the case since WW2.

I'm not making it up, you can read the new policy of the National Science Foundation for yourself: https://t.co/Bjx8sbIrcW

They explicitly write that the basis for this new prohibition is to be "aligned with the Department of War's approach to collaborations": a civilian science agency - the one that funds most fundamental research in the US - is now openly modeling its policies on the military's. The Pentagon decides who the enemy is, and science falls in line.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how this will backfire. Cancer, for instance, doesn't care about geopolitics. Some of the most promising research in oncology, like every other field, depends on international collaboration (and especially with China who are extremely advanced in cancer research, and most research fields). Putting soldiers in charge of who scientists can talk to is a guarantee that these problems will be harder to solve.

It's also the US repudiating pretty much its entire philosophical approach to scientific research for decades: the notion that science thrives on openness. Even at the height of the Cold War, Reagan - not exactly a peacenik - enacted a directive called "NSDD-189" that stated that fundamental research must remain open and unrestricted.

This is, obviously, the complete opposite direction.

The only precedent I can think of for this is the Wolf Amendment, passed in 2011, which prohibited NASA to engage in bilateral cooperation with China. The result, 15 years later: China is the only country in the world to have its own space station and to have landed on the far side of the Moon.

That's the track record of the policy they now want to extend to all of US science 🤷‍♂️

[Poorly Aged Things @PoorlyAgedStuff]

i don’t understand. this a physical product? how do i download it?

[Kazeem Famuyide 🇳🇬 🍎 @Kazeem]

Can’t say this without being hurled back into 1940s slurs for some reason

[JayJay ᥫ᭡ @Jameca2011]

dave and busters is reallyy owned by dave chapelle and busta rhymes.

that’s crazy.

[Doktor Ross Sewage MD @sewage666]

friendly reminder: they never paid the lady who snitched on luigi and she was fired from her job

[ayekuma.bsky.social @Aye_Kuma]

Time to celebrate

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

journalist who broke the story of Mitch McConnell's cardiac arrest says he's braindead (per her sources) 👇
https://t.co/4rWP3s47a7

[ayekuma.bsky.social @Aye_Kuma]

what do you mean by farmers my guy?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.

What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.

Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

[Fredda @PunishedFredda]

Come on man

[Ross Barkan @RossBarkan]

"Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side."

A deeply relatable tale. Who among us doesn't have family that is buying an Upper West Side brownstone?

[Arjun Sethi @arjunsethi81]

People keep asking the Iranian players if they support LGBTQ rights.

Why doesn’t someone ask the U.S. players if they support the U.S funded genocide in Palestine?

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

sentencing is happening now and 5 of the defendants have received 50 year sentences. chilling and should be a huge story

[bomani @bomani_jones]

i hope the americans who find this so adorable look up the real lumumba and what happened to him

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

23-year-old Daniel Cressy just became the first person in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene therapy https://t.co/snRE0wOGaP