Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

We should be ashamed and embarrassed to be a society in which people will willingingly, actively, point a loaded gun in the face of a fellow citizen. A free society should be one where government employees don't put a gun to your face when you're exercising a core tenet of said society: free speech

Even if you believe ICE should exist (which, to be clear, they should not), there is no good reason for them to use lethal weapons, full stop. There is nothing in their purview which necessitates death sentences.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

Somehow I’ve lost/misplaced three different frames collages. Trying to remember if I gave them to friends or hung them up somewhere or what

Trump has no plan for Americans seeing grocery and health care costs skyrocket. Now he says he’s running Venezuela with no plan, too? House Republicans need to step up to prevent Trump from starting new wars for oil & conquest and focus on lowering costs.

Fascinating. Squeaky wheel gets the grease

legitimately love this guy.

Dangerous winds today in New England -- 60 mph gusts are possible! Watch out for downed trees and power lines. forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...

Seems about right xkcd.com/3175/

Closing NCAR because it produces "climate alarmism" is like closing the fire department because it produces "fire alarmism" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-low-poin...

This is a long read, but well worth the time. Very good argument bringing it back to how obvious the dangers of the new authoritarian and fact-free right wing were even ten years ago. And how gender insecurity is tied up in it all. newrepublic.com/article/2042...

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Awful to hear about the shooting on Brown Campus. Never had my workplace show up in the news before. It sounds like everyone in my research group is safe, waiting nervously to hear about those who were not so lucky. apnews.com/live/brown-u...

If you’re in Providence, swing by AS220 on Friday evening and you can see me play some songs.

After two years in a row of really meaning to and then missing the deadline by accident, I finally remembered to submit art to the Brown After Hours Staff Art Show. Please clap.

The fact that links simply open when you tap them is a real advantage of Bluesky over Threads.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Fun finds at Savers and the discount bin at Job Lot today!

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

DOGE was not a "cost-cutting measure," the assault on universities was not a "fight against anti-semitism," and the extra-judicial murder spree sure as shit is not an "anti-drug campaign." You do not have to just take their word for everything.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

I just finished re-reading His Dark Materials for the first time since I was a teenager. In the ~20 years since, I’ve experienced a lot that has changed the way I understood the books. I find them so much wiser and more interesting now.

Fascinating.

1) that's highly illegal. 2) there's no proof the people in those boats are involved in the drug trade 3) in a bunch of cases those boats are not headed for the US 4) it's murder regardless.

We needed to see what was before our eyes in 2016. This is why I wrote "Road to Unfreedom." www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Love this.

Very cool!

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th. Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I'll be there. Please join in. www.nokings.org

And the response is out! I think Brown did a good job highlighting how agreeing to the compact would require violating their prior agreement, among other things.

Another year, another watch of Over the Garden Wall. Gets better every time.

Really glad to see MIT reject the White House compact. Your move, Brown!

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Horrific. Abolish ICE, and hold these agents accountable for their crimes against humanity.

An eloquent and moving essay on the importance of science. Well worth a read: www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Still thinking about the Transform! exhibit at the Montreal Biosphere and how much I want to see a transition to technology that is radical in the amount of power it *doesn’t* use. Forget data centers and AI, what can you do with the amount of power an 80s solar cell calculator uses?

Exactly what Jesus would have wanted “Kick the powerless and least of these in the teeth” www.abc4.com/news/religio...

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Worth reading (as always): Heather Cox Richardson on the tragedy of Wounded Knee.

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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🧵Trump's dismantling of our science leadership is stopping lifesaving cancer research and cutting patients off from their best chances at beating cancer.  www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

NYT covered it at the time. Scientists from both countries urged Bush/Gorbachev to "substantially reduce" carbon dioxide emissions. They already — in *1989* — were "not here to debate the phenomenon" but to "debate the response to it." timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

There are few things that I find as stressful as discussing politics with conservative* relatives. It also feels bad to not respond when I see posts that are dangerously wrong and/or hateful. *seems like the wrong word for radical authoritarianism and christian nationalism but here we ate.

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

The Trump administration’s fight against diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility is vile. We have the technology. We have the resources. We can make a society where you can fully participate, regardless of where you come from, what you look like, and what abilities you have.