Yes please. I did phone banking for HRC in 2016, and we got enough structure to make it not-terrifying. I think there are a lot of grassroots groups (Knock Every Door, Swing Left, etc) aiming for high voter turnout in 2018 so Dems can take the house who would love to train you and have your help for the election.

Good. My main hope for the next year and a half (until midterms) is that these two factions will be fighting each other rather than messing up the rest of the country. Y’all want to destroy shit, Republicans? Destroy yourselves please while the rest of us gear up for the midterms.

I like the idea of an Indivisible Academics.

I don’t want to go that far/that dark at the moment, but I get your perspective ...

Oh god, I remember hearing about that. It feels like a year ago when it was actually like a month ago. I think the scientific community has written him strongly worded letters about that malarkey, though I doubt anyone even read them.

That theory makes sense. Ugh. At the same time, it’s not like medical and biotech companies can just pick up the employment slack or the project slack. NIH funding supports 300,000 jobs. It’s not like 60,000 suddenly unemployed scientists are going to do anybody any good. And it’s not like biotech companies will pick…

Yeah, but Zika (so far) hurts brown people and women so they don’t give a shit. Duh!

I don’t get this. (Though to be fair I’m not trying very hard since THE NIH PAYS MY FUCKING SALARY). Is it just a great big middle finger to everyone who’s educated? To people who actually improve our country? A huge portion of NIH research is into cancer. You’d think these old selfish fucks would at least want decent…

These SOBs don’t just want to cut the “controversial” science agencies or funding. They want to cut the NIH budget by 20%. You know, where most of the money for biological research comes from in this country. The agency that eventually gives us vaccines and drugs and cancer treatments. That one.

I needed this gif in my life

Parent pet pictures are the best. My parents are in their 50s so got smartphones way before I got one (hey, I was broke and they weren’t!). They send me dog pictures every few days and I LOVE IT.

That’s infuriating and you sound like a badass.

Any chance someone could make this reality? Not sure if it would change the minds of the American public, but it would be a brief balm of schadenfreude on my soul.

YES love the idea (and love the username!)

OK, we as a civilization need some new kind of satire policy. Because I cannot tell if this is real or if this is satire. What world am I living in? Will I go home and find out that I’m Spock’s Beard? Will I get daily delivery of the Onion to my door?

Hey, the man stacks his slices and eats pizza with a FORK. New Yorkers certainly want to know where he’s “really” from.

My response to this backwards-faced idiot (quoted from Woody Allen): be fruitful and multiply ... but not in those words.

God I miss The Nightly Show. I could really use it right now.

And nobody can deny that the woman has hustle. She works hard. I don’t care for what she works hard at, but I can tell that she’s working and putting her back into it.

So, any bets on how long it will be before a law like this gets introduced in the House of Reps? Anyone?