So many injuries to the Chargers and that Broncos cheap shot on Keenan Allen, you’d almost think that dirty cheater Sean Payton was paying injury bounties again.

Thread about fascists manufacturing a martyr for propaganda purposes.

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

This is a really good read about how experimental psychology research can inform us about human decision making in the context of rare and common outcomes/events/facts.

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

Can we all be honest and admit that Neil Young’s antifascist song at Farm Aid is horrible as a piece of music? This ain’t no Ohio or Rocking in the Free World.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry” “If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence” “If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation” “If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases” You see what’s happening, right?

If Tom Homan was merely caught up in a larger investigation, why is the media not reporting on who else was taking bribes in anticipation of joining a Trump administration?

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

I understand, as a professional politician, Casten has to say this, but an angry left, construed broadly, would be useful politically, albeit harder to control. "Being the mom" & managing Republicans' feelings hasn't worked, while it's clear anger towards them really throws them off their game.

If you expect to be raptured next week, please be courteous and move your car out of street parking in advance

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it” @nhannahjones.bsky.social

'Mafia boss': Ted Cruz warns Democrats will 'ruthlessly' co-opt FCC’s censorship In a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed the Federal Communication Commission chair Brendan Carr, saying he sounded like a "mafia boss" after threa... www.alternet.org/fcc-chair-ce...

Nothing screams “small government, free speech warrior” like the FCC chair rocking state-mandated jewelry of a convicted felon. Brendan Carr went from pretending to guard the First Amendment to cosplaying as Trump’s mall cop.

"Grocery inflation hit a two-year high in August" WHOOPSIES www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Where’s the offense? I can’t see it.

No idea if this would’ve made a difference, but announcing this investigation in October 2024 certainly wouldn’t have *helped* Trump.

“FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said… officials with the FBI and DOJ, who “found no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.”” So Homan got to keep the $50,000?

When you invite Neil Young to the party…you are gonna get Neil Young at the party.

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...

More. Of. This

It’s ok, it’s not like Arkansas has federal research grants to service…..whoops reporter.nih.gov/search/hiiNr...

Click on the green "SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT" button and have your say. 2/2

To provide some international context, not that we can assume good faith, i think we do 3 or 4 years here in Canada by default and then reapply? Like it makes them check in to see if still enrolled. But again, it assumes good faith. Renewal is automatic if enrolled.

4 in a row of "Are you a scientist?"

The proposal ending University exemptions for H1b does that as well. www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-r...

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

I can think of basically no company or institution that will pay this, most of the time. I mean, for c-suite? Maybe? But no one is paying this for run of the mill employees at the tech companies either.

In this Administration? No, not odd at all. Practically a requirement.

Replacing “duration of status”, eg while enrolled in graduate studies no matter how long it takes, with a fixed term. Note that most US biomed grad programs run average time to PHD of 5-6 years, not four.

And *this* is why "The View" didn't mention Jimmy Kimmel being forced out in violation of the First Amendment, even though it was the biggest news of the day. The hosts' paychecks will always come before informing you.

I don’t think Universities will be high on the list to get a carve out from the regime. Those will be obtained on the usual bribe basis.

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

Ezra Klein seems to be the kind of reasonably smart person who reads a lot who at no point in his 20s had the realization that he's not always the smartest person in the room.

Other thoughts on Holden Thorp's latest ill-conceived (in my view) editorial.

So proud of Jess Jones, an HHMI Gilliam Fellow, for defending her PhD today in @tuthill.bsky.social's lab! Jess was one of my lab's 1st hires in 2018. She was also 1st author of one of our first papers: elifesciences.org/articles/57258. I wouldn’t be where I am today without her contributions.

“Keep voting until we get the result the regime wants!”

The thread has been updated with the info that VT is part of the coalition. They just missed the announcement deadline but they are in.

Sad that it's come to this, but thrilled that Maryland is joining other states who value public health when our Federal government leaders clearly do not.

Fucking New Hampshire doing New Hampshire things New Hampshirely.

"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to 3,758 newly funded projects."

“We, uh, paraphrased”

I believe by the Editor-in-Chief of Science's own statements it would be. He should work on fixing that.

A key tool in detrumpification will be the use of the Hatch Act.

Probably a good week to check in with podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Tbqh “gold standard science” would never cite anything published in Science. At least until it’s been replicated in real journal publications.