There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

This

This aged well.

Everyone knows when a weak member of the herd goes down it is better to hightail it away before the predators show up.

Left unsaid: running away like RFK is not helpful.

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

What a difference. I prefer this guy.

Biologist David Sabatini loses again in legal fight against Whitehead Institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is not really taking responsibility for data faking. Wherever you stand on the case, Pruitt is not in any way admitting that he faked data, for what it is worth. "the data irregularities and time-keeping oversights in my research"

context. we always need context

This is really impressive. They invented racism.

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

A man is suffering a collapse and Trump has no idea how normal people would behave.

Another L for retaliatory prosecution “The federal government has chosen to bring a criminal case over conduct so minor it would be comical — were it not for the unmistakable retaliatory motive behind it and the resulting risk to Mr. Dunn,” the defense motion read. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Health. And human services. And he dips out as fast as he can.

From the stench?

Note for my academic friends- your University is almost certain to have a food pantry. They will make good use of your cash donation.

I'm a little bit confused (rhetorical, I'm not) about why we're not hearing more from the Democrats that Donald Trump fired a bunch of federal employees and a government shutdown where only ICE and the military get paid is completely in line with his plans and funding goals

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

🧪 Should you have to indicate which of the articles on your CV are in a “Special Issue”?

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

It’s hard and dangerous work… I mean really we should have always known who was doing it.

Synopsis: Executive produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, this three-part pop culture and historical docuseries confronts and reclaims the Wild West. It reveals the story of the Black cowboy — a history that has been stolen, erased, and left untold.

Me and federal grant funding rates 🧪

I do not remember what I ate for lunch two days ago but I remember every media organization pay inequity report published in the last eight years showing how often journalists of color would be underpaid and less likely to be promoted

On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day. (Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

I had the god-tier candy (Reese's, peanut M&Ms, Twix, Kitkat, etc.) and the neighborhood kids were like "Give me the Nerds and gummy bears". I am afraid for our future.

Can one select a reviewer “personality”? ✅ harsh, but fair 🔲 rushed for time 🔲 nice 🔲 cursory 🔲 Reviewer #3

Years ago the Dem party supposedly did this really well w union halls, precinct clubs, etc. Now they just text you unhinged demands for money.

This is a super important point (raised repeatedly by politics commentators) that a political party can't thrive on just "policy" & "vote for us". Rather, it has to provide an emotional, social, cultural outlet for ppl. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...

OMG this is absolutely HILARIOUSLY bad advice & is pointing this delusional grandma down the road that in five years ends w her writing in again crying that she is estranged from her son & DIL & they won't let her see her grandchild. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

If 18% is "whopping", then 7% is more a "chunk" than a "sliver"... 😹 😹 😹

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Oh, was that discouraging to talented young scientists?

You are a Post-Padawan now!

Nature Reviews Nephrology comment on the harms of NIH grant terminations related to kidney disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WaPo: Here's some of that rampant government waste and fraud you were looking for Trump VA: assails “the radical liberal Washington Post” for its “shoddy brand of liberal-activist journalism.”

Director Bhattacharya "Let's fund emerging investigators" Yeah, who's the idiot running NIH who allowed 15% or few fewer early stage investigators be funded in FY2025 compared to FY2024? (Estimate: The official numbers are not yet available (at least publicly)

Our Behavioural Brain Research special issue on Ultrasonic Communication in Rodents is growing, rapidly – and actually a lot faster than I manage to post about it. Nine new manuscripts got accepted since my last post. Quite impressive work. Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

All of that is being undermined now by Universities who are getting rid of support for minoritiized students and loss of funding that has forced programs for racialized and minoritiized students. I wouldn't be here without Wunk Sheek or AISES or Aaron, who checked in on me and connected me with 🧵

What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

I heard rumors about this but devastating to see it happening.. “the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025” 💔 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

the senate appropriations bill explicitly limits MYF while the congressional budget doesn't. Making sure the language in the senate appropriations bill ends up in the final budget seems like an clear goal tp push our representatives on

There are reports that the goal is to get to 100% MYF by FY27.

Whether the budget is the same or not is a major factor, obviously, but it's not clear to me that the MYF policy will continue by default in FY26. Do we know anything about that? If there is a CR (very likely), they can do whatever Vought wants them to do, presumably?

So it would seem that they’re trying to figure out if throwing a sandwich at somebody could actually inflict bodily harm Where are my Physics folks? We could do some math on this and find out the force of a sandwich throw. In the meantime, I could look at the potential hazards of mustard and onions