Good NPR story on Trump admin cutting NIH funding despite Congress authorizing the spending. Same is going on at NSF. We can't be the wealthiest nation without science. www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

the real story here I think is that Mossad has lost its marbles www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more

Water usage by almonds vs data centers. We should limit AI like we limit nuclear weapons, but water is not the issue. substack.com/@josheakle/n...

''Kennedy... focused on fraud by home health aides, including family members...“These are family members getting paid to do things that they used to do as family members for free, and this is rife with fraud,” Kennedy said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Why is no one talking about this?! This Administration dismantled USAID, and now they want YOU to pay the bill. www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/w...

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

Mifepristone telemedicine is back! At least for now, probably till after the midterms... Added bonus: the story quotes UC Davis Law prof and abortion law expert Mary Ziegler. Thanks Nina Martin and Mother Jones. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

Could someone please tell me why the judge restricting mifepristone isn’t the lead story every where? They are escalating their assault on control of women’s bodies! www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

The cut to SSI for families who also rely on SNAP was not the Social Security Administration’s idea, even though that agency runs the SSI program. Instead, it was initiated by top White House and DOGE officials last year, ProPublica has learned.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)

Oh yeah? How about 6-7?

There is no plan or budget model w/o foreign students There is no plan or budget model w/o NSF/NIH/Title VI/FLAS/etc. federal funding There is no plan or budget model with further state budget cuts There is no plan or budget model with further state government caps on tuition There is no plan

This is why your local voice and your local vote matters: today more than ever.

A new wholly corrupt settlement handing your money to Trump cronies. It’s notable for several reasons: /1 www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?" Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... " His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Maine boasts the highest percentage of forest land in the US and understands that sustainable forestry is central to protecting our precious land and water resources and economic prosperity. It’s vital therefore that Sen Collins stop the Trump Admin from ravaging our US Forest Service #MEpolitics

ICE shoots this man, lies about it, and then gets him discharged from the ICU and immediately jailed. Investigate! Make them accountable. Thank you Sac Bee for covering this.

"...at least 20 elderly deportees were so weak from sleeping on the floor that they needed to be pushed across the tarmac in wheelchairs and carried to their airplane seats, he said." It drives me nuts how DHS mistreats old and/or disabled people. In addition to all the rest of it...

Great reporting from the Arizona Mirror about detention center with no beds and no showers often crammed to 5 times its capacity. This is what you get with no oversight.

Patterson CA ICE shooting victim says they cut off his clothes, took pictures of his wounded, naked body, and did not administer first aid. Investigation! Accountability! Now!

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

In other words, the war is one more reason to support opposition candidates, to organize, and to protest. May Day is the next big chance for Americans to do so. (14/14) indivisible.org/events/may-d...

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of: -CMU -VCU -Cornell -Northwestern -Georgetown -Texas A&M -NYU -American U -U of New Haven Very scary

Why is Steve Witkoff, who has huge conflicts of interest and no experience with Iran, in charge of heading off the escalation of this damaging war?

Everybody in math and science knows great colleagues and students from Sharif University. Likely a war crime, and alienating the population we are pretending to support. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

This week, the Trump administration closed 57 Forest research stations. Defunding research like this. youtu.be/RTpdNOxXZPo?... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza's once secure retirement is in question. n.pr/3QmhQjr

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

exonerated after FORTY THREE years in prison, only to end up falling in ICE detention immediately www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Let all who are hungry come and eat. To make a food donation to Gaza, you could check out this UN page showing whose trucks are getting through lately. Or, check out smaller local groups. app.un2720.org/tracking/col...

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

“He is not the owner” A Bush judge. Wow. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This is Iran. These are the people being murdered in our name.

Well done. #NoKings

Oh, wow. This is No Kings in Nashville, Tennessee. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed two Black and two female officers from a promotion list for Army general. The move is highly unusual, and it has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias. nyti.ms/4sFGtGm

Fox host: I think it is alarming that we have not been able to see or hear from any of the Iranian people. Do they have drinking water, food? Trump: Do you remember when we had lunch years ago at Trump Tower? You have not changed. You may be even better looking.