Started out his political career writing a book throwing his entire family under the bus, now a blood and soil type; started out calling Trump Hitler, now backing everything he does to the hilt. There is no real JD Vance. Just a void in the rough shape of a man.

No no no no. This cannot possibly be. This is non-universal large-scale redistribution. We aren’t allowed to do that in Americ- 🤔🧐 Right…that’s what I thought: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

They are the pettiest, most thin-skinned toddlers in the entire world.

People seem to be forgetting that DOJ doesn’t just “get” an indictment. They have to convince a grand jury to vote to return one, something this administration has struggled with recently.

The U.S. Department of Transportation backed out of providing $675,000 to downstate McLean County for a project that would finish a 47-mile countywide bike and pedestrian trail. trib.al/SKAkhuU

Utah health officials discovered a person infected with measles visited a Logan medical clinic, where 11 vulnerable babies were exposed, launching a race to get the infants preventative treatment.

New from #SCIMaP - analysis of the White House’s Proposed FY 2026 National Science Foundation Budget. Take-home: Slashing NSF by >50% will lead to ~$11 billion in economic loss and extensive job loss and reduced training opportunities in communities nationwide. Report: osf.io/e8rnc a 🧵

They've lost the 9yos

FARM STATE PAYOFFS, FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY TRUMP'S TARIFFS. The same thing was done during Trump's first term, spending billions of federal tax dollars to prevent political losses by Republicans in the next election. Wikipedia: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FARMER BAILOUTS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_a...

FARM STATE PAYOFFS, FOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY TRUMP'S TARIFFS. The same thing was done during Trump's first term, spending billions of federal tax dollars to prevent political losses by Republicans in the next election. Wikipedia: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FARMER BAILOUTS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_a...

Check out this beautiful drawing based on my photo of an ancient bristlecone pine! 👏 (referenced photo below)

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ahem. Louder for the lawmakers in the back.

huge W

Such a wonderful triumph for medical science www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extremely egregious actions from Harvard Dean, Andrea A. Baccarelli: "...scientists say his work has demonstrated only a correlation between the drug and autism — and not a causal link, as the Trump administration asserted in the press conference." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is one of the many reasons why we must fund #science.

Path through a Field of Bluebonnets https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-onderdonk/path-through-a-field-of-bluebonnets

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

"The Hawai’i Supreme Court just delivered a stellar defense of church/state separation—and a rebuke to John Roberts’ conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court…The question at the center of it is a simple one: Can the government require that a plot of land be used for religious purposes forever?"

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

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President Trump warned pregnant women against use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, suggesting a connection with autism. But a letter from the FDA offers a more nuanced take. It clearly states that there’s no clear causal link.

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Can people stop quoting that 60,000 people murdered by Israel number? That same number has been quoted for at least ONE YEAR. We're sadly way past it now. Way past.

I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders. Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

He shouldn't be dead, but Kirk was widely regarded as a shill and a joke until Trump took him seriously, and then Musk put him in everyone's feed. He's one of the most successful astroturf projects in recent history. Takes some talent to pull that off, but it's 99% moneyed interests propping him up.

Well, well, well… Suddenly the fact they teed up to announce findings (from studies that have need debated for several years) “by September” makes a lot more sense. So kind of FDA to oblige, also.

The FDA relabeling of Leucovorin is... unusual? It is based on a literature review of case studies done by the FDA itself... and not the drug sponsor. No clinical trial. No published papers. To be crystal clear, this is NOT normal procedure. www.fda.gov/news-events/...

The first stops for our tour was in NYC with @rooseveltinstitute.org and @92ndstreety.bsky.social. Some of my favorite moments from our kickoff event included meeting readers, staff members, and my dad. All photos are captured by a brilliant Black woman: Massou T. #blacksky #booksky #librarysky

Woo-hoo!!! A win for the UCLA research community! A win for science! A win for sanity! calmatters.org/education/20...

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Can't wait for all the free speech and intellectual diversity on campus advocates to raise a hue against this abrogation of student rights

Guest Opinion | Real Fascism Has Never Been Tried by Stephen Miller

There's a reason they chose this spot: it's in rural North Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the country, a place national media barely knows exists, a place with essentially no local journalism, where people and resources can be exploited (and lied to) with no consequence

So please don’t both sides the critique of the truly terrible NY Times piece this morning. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said once: you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. The piece is garbage.

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.