Doctor J

Neuroscientist, award-winning comedian, Xbox Researcher, shitposter. Opinions are my own and often sarcastic.

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[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

"All immigrants are welcome here."
#WhosYourFavoriteRefugee
#WelcomeAllImmigrants
#WhatWouldSupermanDo

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

NOW: Hearing Council President Sara Nelson is pulling some strange maneuvers, perhaps to try and kill the new Federal Response Committee, designed to strategize local level response to Trump administration

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@kferrDC @hannahkrieg Protest and the first amendment are the best things America has to offer the world

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

Incredible loss for free speech and peaceful assembly for the City to remove a stage commonly used for speakers at protests right as so many feel motivated to stand up to the Trump administration

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@hannahkrieg WOW

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

BREAKING: Acting Social Security administrator Dudek has just abolished SSA’s CREO department and put all employees on leave. That’s SSA’s statutory civil rights and equal opportunity division.

Developing story.

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@persianjewess Feels like the kind of person who gets rejected by that many schools and immediately sues might have had some red flags pop up during the application and interview process

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

So with tonight's vote GOPs have locked themselves into the "we're taking away your health care to give Elon his tax cut" budget.

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Once again, I don't think people are prepared for just how extreme the lawlessness is going to get here.

Trump has made it fairly clear that DOJ won't prosecute any Republican politicians for anything during his presidency. In his first term, he wondered why GOP politicians

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@braxton_mccoy Locking Americans in their own bathrooms to own the libs

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@BasedMikeLee Because leftists actually think ethics and qualifications matter, probably

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

The plan? Require weekly mandatory paperwork to increase government efficiency

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

This is worth expanding and saying out loud: Musk and Trump aren't cutting waste and show no signs of interest in doing so. They're illegally cutting off valuable functions of government.

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@GandyBillie @DOGE When someone makes an error that's more than 10% of their claimed value-add, I would in fact expect them to be extremely concerned about it. That's assuming they actually care about cost savings, and not just killing actual value while pretending to save money.

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@GandyBillie @DOGE They didn't fix the error, they made it, fixed it on the website after their error was pointed out to them, and changed none of the summary numbers that were based on their error

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@JordanBanaf @danprimack The only problem here is that Trump and the republican party are 100% controlled by the wealthiest, most powerful few who don't care about anything except gaining more wealth and power, and screwing over everyone else

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@JordanBanaf @danprimack What percent of that debt is because of Trump's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? How much bigger is that going to get after the next round of cuts?

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@danprimack They should talk to a lawyer - AFAIK, "probationary" employees aren't at-will employment as a class, only new hires. DOGE is just trying (and failing) to use probationary status to identify new hires because they're incompetent

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@chamath Okay, but we also know that covid infection is much likelier to easily in much worse long term damage to the immune system - not to mention the whole "it might kill you" part - so on net, still pretty clear that it's safer to take the vaccine than not

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@rita10654 @dr_andrealove The idea that measles infection magically strengthens the immune system is absurd, because one of the main reasons measles is so dangerous is it makes people *more* susceptible to infection by other viruses, particularly to diseases they would otherwise be immune to.

[Doctor J @Jonathan_Ehrich]

@rita10654 @dr_andrealove The sole value of measles parties is that infection is much riskier in adults than children. You know what's even less risky? Avoiding infection entirely by training your immune system to prevent it in the first place.