Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp. It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift. shorturl.at/qhuSc

New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Up to 323 cancelled CSR study sections. That's more than the 204 sections cancelled earlier this year. Rescheduling is going to be a hot mess with NIH staff reductions and study section members heading into finals and holidays that limit availability. 🧪

This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen. A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself. pubpeer.com/publications...

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

Remember the Living Computing Museum? Then you should support and visit the Interim Computer Museum right near the Seattle Airport! Check out this special video I did with curator Stephen Jones and consider a matching donation - support the ICM! Please share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFkx...

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Keep organizing, y’all. It is, and always has been, on all of us. • Get connected to the resistance: www.fiftyfifty.one • Get trained on noncooperation: nokings.org/rise • Get bold for rapid response: nokings.org/next • Get engaged in politics: pol-rev.com • Get started: Choosedemocracy.us

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It is almost impossible to emphasize how unprofessional this is. Immigration enforcement agents pepper sprayed a car driving in the opposite direction, which was in no way a threat to them, hitting a toddler. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...

There is no hell hot enough for the administration demanding clawbacks from SNAP recipients. This is shockingly evil, especially only a few weeks away from a “holiday” where people who have the means will brag about eating so much they have to take off their belts and sleep by 4pm.

SNAP update. Insane one. So USDA is now saying on a huge lag: - issue partial payments using a bad-math formula; - CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance; - if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

It would cost $38 billion dollars to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for another year and ensure Americans don’t lose their healthcare. The republicans said no. Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object. Argentina first, America last.

Counterpoint: maybe Watson was a misogynist and a racist from the start and shouldn’t have had any sterling reputation to begin with. This is him, in his own words, on Rosalind Franklin. (Robert recalled an even worse story involving Franklin, which I haven’t read for myself.)

Oh yeah, they spent it. Link below to the source in my mentions.

I met James Watson at a local conference in graduate school. Watson apparently “over-learned that his bad manners were tolerated because of the greatness of the discovery he had made.” Kindness is a legacy that he failed to leave. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

Trump on SNAP: “Our country has to remain very liquid because of problems, catastrophes, wars… We have to remain liquid. We can’t give everything away.” REMINDER: Trump just have $40 billion away to Argentina.

This city belongs to you. youtu.be/Nf4aPjPu6pk

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Nov 7th is the birthday of both Lise Meitner & Marie Curie. Of the 13 chemical elements named directly after real people (not mythological figures) only two are named after women: meitnerium and curium (the latter of which is named in honour of both Marie & her husband) #chemsky 🧪

Please, please, please take a few minutes to read this and share with colleagues. We are in a *critical* moment. If we all take a stand right now, we can avoid some version of this fate. Notes from the first Gov led faculty meeting in Nazi Germany: www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to deny food assistance to Americans.

Oops! All Chicago

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Atul Gawande: USAID helped countries shift care from hospitals to nearer home. Health workers with a scale & tape measure detect bad cases earlier. A peanut-paste therapy reversed starvation. Deaths fell from 20% to as little as 1%. It saved 1.2M lives in 2023. But now the gains are being reversed.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

That's murder.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Mamdani has now gotten more votes than 1/4 of the members of the United States Senate did when they got elected. The political power being channeled here is immense.

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS. They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 — 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬? In our latest paper in Cell Reports, we show that the answer may lie in pre-existing cross-reactive antibodies. www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🔍 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 in comments

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

This is an ugly development too. Landlords evicting non-white tenants bc, it seems, it’s not worth the risk of a Kavanaugh Raid. Privatization of enforcement, of a sort. Well, not enforcement. Harassment. Which are synonyms to Miller and his racist crew.