Joshua Sharp @JoshuaSharp@qoto.org

@radleybalko does more than any other journalist to debunk BS about crime and law enforcement. Here, he has the goods on the propagandists who deceitfully say a Vermont city is proof that police reforms aren't working: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/is-burlington-vermont-suffering-a

We have an exhaustive timeline exploring how $5 million in Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funds went to build the volleyball facilities at USM just as Brett Favre's daughter began a volleyball career there.

It includes dozens more text messages: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/27903/mississippi-welfare-scandal-timeline-brett-favre-and-the-volleyball-stadium

The Mississippi Ethics Commission moved a step closer today to declaring that the Mississippi Legislature is NOT a "public body" and therefore is not subject to the Open Meetings Act, a vital transparency law.

@NickJudin@twitter.com reports:
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29592/ethics-commission-to-affirm-mississippi-legislature-not-a-public-body

Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the “enemy.” (1/4)

MDOC announced that Timothy Hudspeth (pictured) and James Talley died in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., on Jan. 21, 2020. An inmate at the time says that days before, gang members beat them for hours.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29568/the-gangs-run-the-prison-witness-disputes-official-parchman-death-count

“The Blue Marble,” one of the most reproduced and influential images in history, was taken #50YearsAgo today by the #Apollo17 crew on their way to the Moon. #Apollo50th #photography
#NASAhistory

CNN: Trump found guilty of tax fraud

NBC: Trump found guilty of tax fraud

NYT: Trump found guilty of tax fraud

FOX: THE WOKE MOB THINKS YOUR DOG IS RACIST

A majority on the Mississippi Ethics Commission has rejected its staff’s recommendation to affirm that the Mississippi House of Representatives is a “public body” that is subject to the Mississippi Open Meetings Act in a 5-3 vote.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29460/ethics-commission-rejects-staff-mfp-push-to-open-house-caucus-meetings-by-2-votes

It seems many people haven’t encountered the Swiss Cheese Respiratory Pandemic Defense model.

Since #COVID, #RSV and #flu are spreading a lot, I figured I’d re-share it.

😷 • 🪟💨 • 💉
#CovidIsntOver #mask #ventilate

Hey Structural Biologists

#crystallography #MX #CryoEM #CryoET #NMR #SAXS #HDX #Alphafold #PDB #EMDB #StructuralBiology

I have created a group @strucbio .

If you tag this account in any relevant toot, it will automatically boost it.

So if you follow this account, any toots about structural biology should end up in your TL. The more people use it, the better it will be.

Boosting appreciated.

Gaslighting, thy name is Brownstone Institute! https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/brownstone-uses-flawed-data-analysis-to-minimize-covid-in-nyc-an-nyc-hospitalists-perspective/

Just 16 years ago, 49 Senators and 236 House members voted to pass *an amendment to the US Constitution* backed by President George Bush to prohibit same-sex marriage. Since then support for marriage equality has skyrocketed.

Yesterday in my BIO/INFO 270 class I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they need to be doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.

Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/

Look closely: These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.