I wonder just how far this overt hostility to public health goes before visa-free travel for US citizens becomes a real liability for countries that currently offer it.

I feel like this should result in a precedent-altering defamation lawsuit.

This press conference is the most unhinged, downright bizarre thing I've ever seen from an American president talking about science. Like...way weirder than bleach and COVID-19.

Cute cat, right? Well ...this was immediately after he brought a LIVE PILEATED WOODPECKER into our house through the catio door. I don't even know how this was possible.

In this angry toilet of a year, this means a lot.

Chicago should not be a target of our own military. Thank you Governor #Pritzker for speaking out! We need lower groceries, better paying jobs, and access to healthcare- the Feds should focus on real issues. This fake crime crisis is an illegal power grab. #resist #nokings #LeeCarterforJustice

Chicago has the 83rd highest crime rate in the country

He doesn't even know what he's signing. That's not what the Executive Order states. The EO is bad and should alarm "free speech warrior" types for other reasons, but "burn a flag, go to jail" is not what he signed. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues. Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...

In which Amanda Sohns and I write about a matter of great public import: why a group of loons should be called an "opera" and why language matters.

$46 billion dollars to build a giant wall and paint it black. But it's very important low income folks don't use SNAP assistance to buy soda.

🧵22 critical U.S. educational exchange programs—totaling ~$100 million—are facing elimination from the FY 2025 budget. These programs represent over 75 years of diplomacy, mutual learning, and global connection.

Voluntarily giving up a position of global scientific leadership. Cool cool cool. Happy Friday.

Abject fucking humiliation for everyone who works at Apple. They could have merely provided a big headline of building products in the U.S., investing in manufacturing, the bullshit that would count as sufficient appeasement. But this performance? Tap dancing as they build concentration camps?

Remember that episode of the Simpsons where they narrowly avoid getting taken out by an asteroid and Moe yells, "Now let's burn down the planetarium so that this never happens again!"... (sigh)...We're at that stage of the intellectual collapse of our society.

Rob: "I did some yoga this morning." Nicole: "...Intentionally? Or...like you fell down in a weird position?" #MyWellnessJourney

I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.

Historian Joseph Fronczak has described the political culture of fascism as “participatory anti-democracy.” It captures the pleasure that people like Mace take from watching people’s rights get trampled upon by the boots of her own government.

Excellent reporting from @bangordailynews.bsky.social on the scope and scale of the cuts/disruption to UMaine. Every one of these actions involves teams of individuals spending countless hours trying to restore funding or close the gap and find ways to continue operations.

These cuts will cost us dearly, not save us: “The authors point to NIH budget cuts decimating the scientific workforce, diminishing support for public health programs that have increased life expectancy, and creating gaps in scientific knowledge that are not likely to be filled by private industry.”

I have never been a senator, but maybe I just wouldn’t take advice from Josh Hawley?

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Too many Dems parrot Republican talking points on immigration and mirror Republican policies. All while regurgitating the utterly inaccurate "open-door" caricatures of Biden/Obama era policies that Trump and his ilk peddle? It's maddening.

To look at this and still argue the rightwing majority was seriously and justifiably concerned about universal injunctions rather than treating Democratic power completely different than the Trump regime because they are opposed to the former and very much aligned with the latter is just silly.

What an absolute clown show.

If you could go back in time would you kill Baby Grok?

the president just opened a concentration camp

$27.6 million dollars from Maine.

“The Trump trifecta likely cannot deport tens of millions in two years, but it can build up and fund agencies capable of doing so. What the new budget suggests is that the entire trifecta has not only the means, but also the will to do just that.” www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deporta...

Call it what it is. A concentration camp.

In light of today's passage in the Senate of Trump's budget, this is now more a dire prediction of things to come than a warning.

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

do remember when Reagan sold weapons—mostly spare parts delivered through Israel—to Iran, funneling the proceeds to the Contras. This is much worse.

Olivia was one of the students who participated in our recent study abroad to Portugal to consider alternative approaches to illicit drug policy. Her research there helped inform this recent op-ed.

Check out our colleague and newest @mainessn.bsky.social member Dr. Mara Tieken discussing how geography and postsecondary educational pathways and outcomes intersect!

The US government is currently torturing a six year old to death in front of his mother. There are no words.

"Why the US destroy its own healthcare system and fund the gestapo" "Well the tax deduction for whalers was pretty good" American politics man

She’s escalating inexcusably, putting words into his mouth that he never said. Awful.

He's done

Happy Lobster Roll Day, y'all. Edwin is FURIOUS.

what a sad megalomaniac groper

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

Counterpoint: Boston has 5 Dunkins and a state trooper whose sole job is to shout at people and cars.

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

Never seen a happier loser. Lander is a winner in the hearts of many for helping to rid us of Cuomo. Sir, enjoy!

There's an awful lot going on here. I feel overwhelmed just reading the headline.

In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.