Check out the chyron -- they are shilling their merch store during a funeral. The sheer vulgarity of these petty-hucksters-gone-big is wild to me. Government by fashy used car salesmen, I swear to God. It will never ever not be fundamentally strange to me that their own base find this appealing.

Says the man whose entire existence has been spent attaching himself like a leech to powerful men. He’s never won election, hasn’t passed a single bill, or produced anything of significant meaning. He’s just abused power given to him by other men. His only real success has been in failing upwards.

I don't think I've ever been so keenly aware that I'm watching people do and say the kinds of things they'll be lying to their grandchildren about

Scientists working for the US government's water regulator have been told to cease submitting research papers for publication pending the establishment of a new internal review regine. #EPA 🧪

White House account loves Fetterman blaming Schumer instead of Trump. Of course that blame makes no sense since Republicans failed to pass a bill then went on recess. And because while Schumer is actively trying to negotiate, Trump is refusing to.

He’s talking about more than half of the US population.

"Since 2020, quite clearly you've seen a media ecosystem that exists to reinforce and to mobilize the base around ideas that they consider to be advantageous for their political movement," says @noupside.bsky.social. TBH, these folks have been "high on their own supply" for a lot longer than that.

Excellent explainer on why private industry and venture capital can’t replace government funded basic science research.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Senator Mullins might want to have a conversation with his colleague from Utah then. minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/16/s...

FINAL THOUGHT: When scientific process is not followed, the science that make the foundation for decisions is suspect and the decisions are therefore not valid. The ACIP is no longer a scientific committee. It is an ideology machine.

This is going to cause so much harm.

There's no shortage of computational ideas about memory, attention, etc. The problem is that the experiments barrel forward without reference to these ideas, relying on experimental (extensional, operational) intuitions about concepts rather than explicit (intensional, mechanistic) definitions.

I once saw a (very interesting) talk about sleep in which the speaker started by saying that we don't really know how to define sleep, and then proceeded to operationalize sleep in flies as basically periods when they are still for a long time. This got me thinking...

Trump administration cancels annual hunger survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’

There's many signs US households are increasingly struggling, but consumer spending looks ok. How can this be? One explanation is that consumption is increasingly driven by upper income households who still have lots of "precautionary saving" from COVID... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-incred...

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

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So Tom Homan gets a pass on the same thing that took down a sitting Vice President 52 years ago?

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I know it’s petty, but one thing I still can’t get over is how whiny and spoiled he sounds when trying to come across tough. I just keep hearing a young child’s voice when he does it.

White House border czar Tom Homan was investigated by federal law enforcement last year and was caught on camera accepting $50,000 in cash from agents who were posing as business executives seeking government contracts. Trump administration officials now decry the probe as “politically motivated.”

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

They pushed out Claudine Gay to weaken Harvard and ensure compliance with destroying what makes this university great. She would have stood up to this administration much more than the current president has. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

You mean like the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA pageant?

Nothing says that you are “pro-life” more than bragging about successfully getting research into treatments for pediatric brain cancer defunded. nrlc.org/communicatio...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

It was amazing to me that the report I heard on this *only* mentioned effects on tech. Especially given the war(s) on universities, and on immigrants, being so visible on other fronts.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

I’m exhausted with the gaslighting that what we are seeing is just an extreme variation of normal. Our Constitution is under attack, our neighbors & friends are being targeted, and we’re now being told that speaking out against it is akin to political violence. None of this is normal nor American.

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've often wondered how long I *could* have stayed in the US with my family if we had chosen to continue living in Florida. That question is now settled. I was there on an H1B, I do not have $100K available. From Sunday on, my family and I would have been stranded in a hostile country.

The full order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Because this cam out of the blue and sudden: other, similar orders could come out of the blue and sudden. So those on visas will surely consider international travel a potential risk, and opt for zoom calls over flying when possible

I have worked with folks on visas, including H1B, for decades. Immigrants add a vibrancy & creativity to technical work & scholarship that makes us strong. Putting barriers like this on them makes us weaker. I’m beginning to think that’s the point with these xenophobic policies.

I still can’t get over the fact that this man is in charge of our nation’s health services and policy. What a chud.

The antivax destruction coming from RFK Jr is unspeakably bad. Many many people will die. Babies will be harmed for life. Unspeakably. Bad. Impeach RFK before it’s too late, Congress.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

Trump doing his absolute best to keep the European tech sector afloat

An fyi for foreigners like me: in many American schools they get taught a "fact/opinion" dichotomy whose part of the point of which is to encourage a kind of live and let live attitude about opinions, no disputing taste kinda thing. That is the background against which things like this make sense.

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

Just to be clear, it’s not 100k. It’s 100k PER YEAR. That’s $300k per usual H-1B term of 3 years.

Martin Kulldorff, whom RFK Jr. chose to lead ACIP in order to push through his anti-vaccine agenda, has demanded a debate with former CDC scientists. Kulldorff begins his demand with a lie: “The fact is that we are honest vaccine scientists…” Most of them are not “vaccine scientists” at all.

Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1