NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say. Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration. Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".

Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness (11/13/2025) f the nyt

Searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...

ICE agent stole a U.S. citizen’s car keys and wallet, then abandoned her vehicle in the middle of Portland Road NE and Ward Drive NE in Salem, Oregon. #ice #oregon

Far-right GOP Rep. Andy Biggs says that he’s willing to break ranks with the White House and pry open one of the ugliest files in Washington. Biggs said he plans to vote to release government files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, putting him at direct odds with Donald Trump.

Our top story: A Texas Observer analysis found since 2021, at least 60 cryptomines have been developed or are under construction in at least 33 counties statewide. Experts worry our grid, and water supply, can't handle the load.

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently). bsky.app/profile/data...

We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again. We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026. Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/

And now this. A clear violation of free speech. Jay Bhattacharya likes to talk about censorship, but he doesn’t actually care about censorship or free speech: he just wants to weaponize those principles to censor others. Like @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪

🧪🛟 #PublicHealth #EpiSky “Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.” news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...

Here's a github repo with the code + how you can do this yourself if you'd like: github.com/paulgp/epste...

I should have said this is a gift article so not paywalled. 🎁 I thought it was interesting on many levels but also… just adorable sheep. 🐑

Some T.S.A. Workers to Get $10,000 Bonuses for Shutdown Work www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... Great work and they deserve it, but does she need congressional approval?

I know I’m far from the only one who said this would be one of the most popular uses for deepfake tech, the second it was revealed. Mix this tech with the kind of hateful patriarchal attitudes of Christian white nationalism, you get examples like this. www.12onyourside.com/2025/11/12/g...

Brandon Silverman explains how many social media platforms have made their data — and therefore their role in any number of societal concerns within the public interest — increasingly opaque by limiting access to researchers, even as they sell that same data to companies.

This was written *before* the Epstein email was released. Kinda curious what the Senate will do. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Tax payers taxes = tax payers money, not government money Congress needs to remember the money is from We all of the people, we have paid for an excellent quality of life and got short changed.

Most paid for by taxpayers. Can’t stand that POS.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

At 17, Jose Barco was the youngest in his unit in Iraq. After a 2004 car bomb near Fallujah, he saved two fellow soldiers, suffering severe burns and earning a Purple Heart. Now he faces deportation. Read more here: www.csmonitor.com/World/Americ...

Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous and shouldn't be turned over to federal immigration authorities story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Justice Sam Alito was v disturbed yesterday by the mere possibility that judges might be using the federal compassionate release statute to *checks notes* grant incarcerated people's requests for compassionate release ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ferna...

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

An exceptionally thoughtful piece (gift article) from David Brooks) How to Replace Christian Nationalism www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

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As Pakistan ramped up its charm offensive, it spent at 3X more than India paying off Washington. Islamabad hired Trump insiders, including his former business partners and bodyguard. Pakistan's relationship with the United States blossomed and India’s deteriorated. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

What Newly Released Emails Tell Us About Epstein and Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Let’s not forget… www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/b...

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

I am old enough to remember when being accused of rape or being a pedophile would ruin your career. Now you can be the President of the United States of America! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

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Larry Summers complaining about having a female friend acting a certain way when there are no benefits involved is peak neoliberalism. Free market for me, for me, not for thee.

More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m... What more people should know as we weigh mental and sexual health, and their effects on our well-being and declining population. So complex! 🤔

The genocidal occupation forces continue their daily war crimes (for 80 years). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

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The Trump administration is preparing tariff exemptions to lower food prices, effectively killing his nonsense claim that we’re not paying for the tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs. The strike in the Caribbean brings the death toll in the Trump administration’s lethal campaign to 80 since early September. | NY Times 🎁 article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Well worth your time to read. The writer is an independent non-partisan journalist whose personal opinions usually lean right of center. www.readtangle.com/yes-things-a...

"What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Situation Room being used for scheming to protect pedophiles. Sounds about right. #releasethefiles www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

What these people want is socialism for a circumscribed national community—a, uh, national socialism, to borrow from @jvl.bsky.social That national community is white and (at minimum) culturally Christian bsky.app/profile/libe...

It's not simplification, it's ohhh we said we were doing something green and good for the world because the EU is powerful, but now we don't want to do that anymore.... let's just have wasted everybody's time and effort for the last 5 years.

Experts Say SNAP’s Food Budget Doesn’t Match How People Actually Eat f the nyt