"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

This incredible essay by @magsvisaggio.com is like a thorn in my brain. It speaks to something that've been eating at me for a long time—how hate scars everything it touches, & when you're on the receiving end you realize one day that hate has changed you in ways that you didn't ask for & don't want

I submitted my comment on the proposed OMB rule. Sharing here to the extent it’s useful. Today is the last day to comment. If you have not yet commented, please do! substack.com/@jennanorton...

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Many thanks to @williesha.bsky.social for covering this important issue. Public comment on the proposed changes to federal grants rules are due TONIGHT! Please submit comments if you haven't done so yet. www.al.com/news/2026/07...

Another one: www.cnn.com/2026/07/13/u... Biddeford, Maine where I used to work and we still have famiy.

🧪 The OMB science rule would be such a sea change, against the interests of so many Americans — both 🔴 & 🔵 — that state electeds have a reason to lobby* IF someone explains to them what the hell is happening. You can be that someone. *State electeds have better access to your federal reps

This is the link to make a comment about the proposed OMB rule change. This rule change does many things, most most centrally it effectively moves the power of the purse from the legislative to the executive branch. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... This is incredibly dangerous.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

This sounds like a lot. @hannahdaly.ie, is it a lot?

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.

Speakers highlighted escalating ICE activity, recent changes the Trump admin has implemented making it more difficult for people to navigate immigration court, and the admin's targeting of Latine communities. "[Midway Blitz] has never ended," Illinois Latino Agenda co-chair Jose Muñoz said.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

NEWSFLASH: Russia launches another massive attack on Kyiv - but due to severe air defense shortages Kyiv was unable to intercept any of the missiles. Over 600 residents in the Kyiv region are being evacuated due to continuing detonations following the attack.

“It’s a loss for the nation…When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures—and you shrink the supply of future scientists.” #highered

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

The speech concerns are why I keep the cash, why I've gamed out worst case scenarios for crossing the border. They're why I moved my trans news site to open source software on a Canadian hosting service. That move left us 200 members down from three months ago, so it's a great time to join us:

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

The corruption is staggering in scale and scope, it doesn’t stop, and Republicans in Congress refuse to do any oversight because, as Mike Johnson admitted this week, they serve as a protection racket to cover up the crimes of the regime.

"Mood Enhancement, Self-Transcendence, and Prosociality," by Danyang Zhao and Arthur A. Raney, explores media selection after inducement of elevation (vs. nontranscendent) positive affect. Findings provide insights into media preferences and helping processes. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

I think this post, in a great thread, really sums it up for a lot of us. I moved to a “safe” state 6 months ago but even here I still overall have fewer rights than I did a few years ago. My options for leaving the country are vanishingly small because of health and disability.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

(texting the devil) hey man are you bringing your eggs to the function

NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.

Not playing. Not a joke. This is without precident — ending American leadership in science that began after World War II. Read. Comment. Share. Press conference Tuesday at noon ET about impacts from my friends at @standupforscience.net Register: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Please RT this piece and share on other social channels talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...

“The point is that the timeline itself is the problem. If the career was structured for early parenthood—if it didn’t compound into permanent disadvantages—women wouldn’t need to make this choice in the first place.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Are preferences for authoritarian rule individual predispositions—or can they spread socially? Using field + survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces, we show that openness to strongman rule can spread socially. American Journal of Political Science: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I think it's important to know that the post that agents came after her for was her simply saying: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribute. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!"

Watching episode of ER from 2001. Dr. Chen & Dr. Carter are trying to diagnose an unconscious preschooler. Carter: “Could be measles.” Chen: “Measles? Have you ever seen measles?” Carter: “No, have you?” Chen: “Of course not, nobody’s seen measles.” So far backwards in such a short time.

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Introducing a new video series: How to Save the Free World Over the next 14 days, @juliaangwin.com and I will share the most powerful lessons we learned reporting on 100+ global dissidents – strategies for individuals to fight for democracy & win. Lesson #1: Trust your gut. Join us & follow along

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

"I try to keep as calm and low-key as possible. But I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this. They are four years old. Four. They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is...For God’s sake, they are just kids."

This house in my neighborhood gets dressed up for Pride every year and it makes me happy. 🏳️‍🌈

A bunch of gay bars in San Francisco just started using facial recongition surveillance on customers. Madison Square Garden was just caught keeping "dossiers" on facial recognition activists ... including me Now is a great time to ask your fave artists to sign this banfacialrecognition.com/venues

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

I meant to write about this story and I didn't and I'm sorry. Trans kids have been abandoned by so many people. It's hard to find words for seeing the kids who were our promise for a world where people like us didn't have to have the hard lives most of us had being abandoned life by innocent life.