Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
If I didn't have to spend so much time trying to save the world I'd mostly be posting about space, sf, rabbits, and random other stuff. #NoKings
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Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Look, you can’t blame people for wanting to believe in karma for cruelty again.
Everyone knows that if you want to hide something from Trump, the safest way is to put it in writing.
Truth
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky" arstechnica.com/science/2025...
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Last week I posted a short thread about social media traffic/engagement and how @bsky.app has skyrocketed to driving a significant chunk of traffic to ACASignups.net in less than a year. Here's an updated visualization of how dramatic the fall of Twitter/X & the rise of Bluesky has been over time:
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I’m outside the MDC here in Los Angeles, where a protest march has just converged outside the gate. Once again a lively atmosphere here
Possibly the best graph ever. You are more likely to die from an asteroid destroying Earth than a skydiving accident, being struck by lightning, or being trampled by an elephant.
People who live in Maryland esp should call.
He's going to award the Medal of Freedom to Giuliani, which is ridiculous but so much less awful than anything I was imagining that I hardly know what to do.
Beyond the jokes, this kind of disorder doesn't make America look very dignified to the rest of the world.
Our former friends are laughing at us in private; our empowered enemies are laughing at us in public. Who but Trump could have brought such jolly unity to the world? by Marc Thiessen
Honestly Trump being too old & sick to talk to reporters serves my purposes almost as well as him kicking it. "What if Trump was president & it wasn't any fun" is a pretty good summary of why the press hated COVID & I am very happy to bring that back
In Donald Trump's America consumers have fewer choices at higher prices thanks to increased taxes on imported goods. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...
They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you
Remember, folks, it is a CRIME to draw with sidewalk chalk on the streets and sidewalks of Washington DC so when you do it be sure to invoke your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent if asked about it. #ChalkCrime
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I hope everyone in the area who can afford the time to get arrested sees this. Keep jamming them until they give up, or they raise the stakes until it pisses off people who just want to use the road.
A judge dismissed the case, finding no probable cause after Florida police arrested a man as part of Ron DeSantis’ crackdown over rainbow chalk ark memorializing the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.
Keep sending thoughts and prayers we're getting closer and closer to our prayers being answered www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Danica Roem, doing the work! @pwcdanica.bsky.social
I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/
This level of blatant mendacity is a nightmare. Will we be able to recover from this?
Not that it matters, but I wonder if it's a deliberate plan to see if the Fox Propaganda method works on people who aren't individually invested, or if they're just spewing obvious lies because they're people who always did that in their previous careers.
wow
Not to belabor the point but RFK Jr is going to implement policies that will kill thousands or even millions of people if he is not removed. Thanks to @thewarningses.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for the frank discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxc...
The 87% figure is a drop from the same period from the previous year, not from the previous month, so it's a complete lie to claim it's the result of the occupation. In the period before the occupation started, violent crime overall was down 20% from 2024, and 2024 itself was a 30-year low.
Trump would have attended the Memorial Services for the injured and slain Minneapolis victims had it not been for his week-end golf outings. PRIORITIES!!
Laugh crying.
My body is tired, but my spirit is willing! Still walking because transit can’t wait. Still walking for our families. Still walking for a government that works for the US! #walkfortransit #day3
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Now at the corner of K & 6th NE, massive ICE presence and arrest. Neighbors out in protest. (Reposted for correction.)
Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.
If you are TLDR on the TaylorLorenz/Wired piece debate, this nails the problem pretty concisely. Journalists have been reporting for MONTHS about the Dem influencer network being underfunded + then act like it's a nefarious thing when it gets funded by nonpublic Dem donors. 1/
This is a recent hiring notice for NWS!!!
"The point of the TV comparison is to convince you that AI is simply part of the general baseline environmental toll of modern life, and that that baseline is entirely acceptable. You might not like it, but only the cranks, kooks, and dreamers try to actually move it down" @dawnnafus.bsky.social ->
Every conservative accusation is a confession
T-R-A-I-T-O-R www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment”
Ms. Luna is so far off the deep end, she's in her own dimension.
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
Trump hired all of them directly or indirectly, and he only cares about personal loyalty to him, not about the interests of the country or having a functioning government.
Stephen Miller should be the second one arrested after trump.
Why does no one seem to give a toot about Trump's using cryptocurrency to let anyone bribe him? It's so brazenly transparent it almost defies description... www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
More and more farms all over the country are collapsing and failing because of labor shortages. This is going to hit our shelves very soon. Not high prices. Absence of food.
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
The One Million Rising training from Indivisible/No Kings is about organizing in your local community to undermine the pillars of support for autocracy www.nokings.org/rise
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Yes, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I discuss the Lysenko episode and the context it provides for understanding the current ideologically-motivated assault on science in the book!
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Not talked about enough: 2024 was fair because all of the swing states had blue administrations that didn’t compromise them
They made up "viewpoint discrimination to make it sound like they're a protected class. The worst thing about it is that their caricature of affirmative action (letting in people who can't get in on their merits) is exactly what they're demanding for conservatives.
Feel like it's worth periodically reiterating that "conservative" is not a protected class. Being a minority puts you in a protected class. Hating minorities just makes you a dick. There is no moral or legal requirement for any organization to have some minimum number of dicks.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anyone else aside from me & @redshift42.bsky.social here gone to all the surviving or on display Mithraeums in the UK? :-) #history 😁
Please join me in donating to send medical supplies that would otherwise be discarded to Ukrainian forces Warehouse to Warfront: What Would be Wasted is What They Need donorbox.org/warehouse-to...
Reminded of my masters thesis work looking at Arab Spring protests and how brittle authoritarian regimes will start by sinking inordinate amounts of time & $ into trying to stem the tide of a protest before just full on blocking access to--or outright destroying--the physical space its happening in.
Has there ever been a class action lawsuit where the class is "celebrities"?
Trump & Kennedy, instead of attacking diseases are attacking the scientists who keep us safe, exactly what anyone who watched Trump’s performance during Covid, is familiar with Kennedy’s anti-science views, or read Project 2025 could have anticipated. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Dick Cheney is still alive despite his heart exploding a couple of times. But these are fun stories regardless and reporters should ask him about them, especially when Vance is there next to him.
I'm attending Spanberger for Governor's event, “Knock Doors for Abigail in Falls Church!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/spanbergerfo...
Mike Johnson will go down in history as the white supremacist Christian nationalist Speaker of the House who attempted to cover up a pedophilic criminal regime and replace US democracy with a fascist dictatorship.
Mike Johnson tries to justify the presence of the National Guard in DC by claiming "We have to bring law and order back" So what are the actually troops doing Picking up trash-like criminals sentenced to community service And landscaping Millions of American taxpayer dollars utterly wasted
Sadly yes. Even if we manage to fight this off, tearing things down is a lot easier than building them.
They're white supremacists with an Atlas Shrugged worldview, so anything positive from immigrants must mean they're taking opportunities from white men who would surely be doing it otherwise. And we can tear down structures fostering innovation because gubmint bad, Great Men will just do it.
Trump Demands Military Party Do-Over, Maybe Going To Dig Up Corpse Of Ashli Babbitt By @marciej.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/trump-dema...
Guess the GOP figured out this wasn't a winning slogan
"end run around Congress' funding power" is quite the euphemism for "blatantly unconstitutional."
For all of Hegseth’s chest-thumping about being “laser-focused on warfighting,” his Pentagon finds time for other priorities — such as restoring Confederate names, reinstalling Confederate monuments, and rehanging a portrait of a Confederate general at West Point. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump doesn't understand anything, Stephen Miller could understand it if he tried. But he hears about international PhDs staying here and starting companies or working for established ones and sees invaders taking from white Americans, because immigrants will never be Americans in his eyes.
These are exactly the kinds of students we should be hoovering up and then convincing to stay and work/found their companies here. Even Trump has said so. But this is what happens when you outsource your immigration policy to Stephen Miller, who hates immigrants more than he loves America.
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The national guard has got to go! Hey hey! Ho ho! These federal troops have got to go! Let’s get loud DC! #FreeDC
Working people across the DC are unified in our demands: we want these federal forces out of our city now! #FreeDC
DC students, mark your calendar: Sept. 9, we walk out of school! Sign your strike card here: linkin.bio/sunrisemvmt Not in DC? Support striking students by signing our petition at smvmt.org/DC.
New analysis finds Trump's deployment of the National Guard to DC costs an estimated $1 million per day.
the founders envisioned a madman potentially becoming president what the founders did not envision was the majority of Congress and the Supreme Court becoming part of a cult of personality around said president. it’s both pathetic and horrifying
Virginians facing serious issues — like unemployment and loss of healthcare due to Donald Trump — deserve serious leaders with real solutions, not dismissive statements. virginiaindependentnews.com/elections/wi...
When I reported for duty at Naval Station Great Lakes, I never imagined that some day a US President would seek to use it as a base for surveillance and enforcement activity on American soil. Our military was not set up to cater to the whims of a would-be American dictator.
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
70 years ago today, Emmett Till was lynched by white supremacists. Here in Illinois, we promise to never hide from our history — no matter how painful the chapter. We honor his memory and his brave mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, by continuing the fight for civil rights and justice.
One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.
Yes, the government defunded pediatric cancer research, but hey — at least the money paid for a *sick * set of ICE-liveried GMC Yukons to feature in videos for Instagram.
If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.
Krugman quotes Hannah Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."