if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

Finally, a reporter asked the question I’ve been screaming at my TV. 📌 Why do you keep lying about immigrants getting free healthcare? And Trump went straight into his same old word salad mode of incoherent nonsense. No answer.

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Well don't I feel stupid

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Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

If this actually makes it to market I am excited to see weed species evolving crypsis specifically to fool the laser-weeder

Tonight José Ramírez broke Cleveland's franchise record for career extra-base hits. 1) José Ramírez 725 2) Earl Averill 724 3) Tris Speaker 667 4) Jim Thome 620 5) Hal Trosky 556 6) Ken Keltner 538 7) Nap Lajoie 535 8) Carlos Santana 524 9) Lou Boudreau 495 10) Manny Ramírez 484

THE CLEVELAND GUARDIANS ARE IN SOLE POSSESSION OF FIRST PLACE IN THE AL CENTRAL

Both illegal and (one more) backdoor impoundment. “Non-essential” does not mean that money was not appropriated for this work. If this logic holds, any President who wants to downsize government would simply engineer a shutdown

Setting aside the question of legality, this would be an action of enormous self-harm inflicted on the nation, needlessly ridding the country of talent and expertise. It’s also extortive. “Give us what we want in a funding fight, or we’ll hurt the country.”

I must’ve missed Congress voting to approve this expenditure for…Argentina. “Congress—and in particular, the House of Representatives—is invested with the “power of the purse,” the ability to tax and spend public money for the national government.” history.house.gov/institution/...

Take a break from the present agonies and read this gift article about new discoveries in the science of black holes.

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad." And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

One thing that remains fascinating to me is how much radical Trumpism wants to move down the value chain, instead of upwards to more value-add + complex production and research. Instead, RFK kills the NIH and NSF.

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.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

We are being told nothing about these strikes. How they decide to target particular boats, the legal justification for the military, where their intelligence is coming from. What we are being told is that President Trump decided to destroy a boat, and the military obeyed.

the president keeps using the military to murder people in boats in the Caribbean, an act that is a crime even before we get to the release of the celebratory snuff film captured on targeting cameras. internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air

Gentle reminder that Trump also declared Antifa a terrorist organization once in 2019 and once in 2020, and Congress also entertained resolutions to this effect in 2019, 2021, and in January of this year. I don't think democracy is dead. I think Trump is, once again, flailing.

No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

as usual, the pretext is a lie

“Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel earlier Wednesday, suggesting the federal agency could pull broadcast licenses owned by parent company Disney.” ABC takes comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk remarks: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

senator cassidy must act

The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

“DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.”

Love to condemn babies to liver damage for no reason

Is this platform useful for asking biology questions? 🌾🧪 Question for my plant-peeps: Is there something newer and better than microsatellites for assessing paternity? (where newer and better means cheaper and easier?) Have field arrays, known parents, need to genotype offspring seed for paternity.

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

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Free speech warrior Michael Shellenberger, of Bari Weiss’s fake “university,” retweets GOP Sen. Dave McCormick calling for the University of Pennsylvania to take “decisive action” against renowned climate scientist @michaelemann.bsky.social for reposting criticism of Charlie Kirk.

The suspected shooter did a single semester at Utah State but was in his third year of an electrical apprenticeship at a technical college. Perhaps he was electrocuted wokely. Or maybe his high school dual-credit courses radicalized him.

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

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New paper! PhD student Julie Rej found that invasive brown anoles are more aggressive than native green anoles across a wide range of temperatures. The difference is greatest when it's hottest, ie, heat amplifies the aggression of an invasive species! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...