Great.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

Keep your heads up @splcunion.bsky.social. Thank you for your important work.

HAHAHA! That response killed me. And it's so damn true.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

US laws and policy give us this. It’s a choice. We could decide to not have so many dead kids, but 1/2 the voters prefer to not be bothered 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with $255 billion

Today, Pamela Jo Bondi, our most recent head of the Department of Justice, is blithely ignoring a valid, legal subpoena requiring her to testify before Congress. We are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of some people can get away with anything.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

It’s beyond nuts. Millions of people will die and suffer because of this.

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I also require this information. Someone must know. Tell us.

I saw reporting on this yesterday and it sucks. The regime is wrecking everything good the US ever did and is stripping the country for parts (cash). My hope is the backlash is enough to fix this and more. Volunteer, protest, and most importantly, vote in every election.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

There’s a special place in hell for people like this: Homeowner called ICE on migrants working on her roof to avoid paying them.

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

It’s well known that inflammation increases cancer risk, but how? The answer: the epigenome "remembers" inflammation and primes stem cells for cancer. Here is our paper: nature.com/articles/s41... And a special shoutout to the lead author @snaga13.bsky.social A 🧵

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

They tried to silence me. They failed. Today, the court dismissed Richard Grenell’s lawsuit against me—with prejudice. Grateful to my attorneys @markzaidesq.bsky.social and Tom Craig, and everyone who stood by me throughout this case over the past few years. I didn’t back down. The truth prevailed.

The first questions from the judge when this progresses to a hearing will be (a) have you, allegedly faultless attorneys, ever read the guidance for yourselves, and (b) did you ever even ask to see it? There are no winning answers to these questions.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

genuinely shocking evidence of misconduct in ways that should guarantee disbarment of the lawyers responsible. i've never seen anything like the longer para on page 2.

For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents. I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

Octopus playing Now You See Me, Now You Don't: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Think voting doesn’t matter? 766 votes.

I anticipated that the energy transition would not go smoothly but I seriously underestimated just how stupid it would be

I notice that ‘straight’ news reporters and White House correspondents are all posting Trump’s ‘I’m glad he’s dead’ reaction to Mueller’s death with just a ‘here is the president’s response’. Very few acknowledgements of how insane and inappropriate it is for the president to respond like this.

The FEMA response and recovery lead has claimed that he was once teleported to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. In other words it’s a regular Friday in the Trump administration.

About that new computer you were wanting: freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week. Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist.

"I looked down, scrolled through my Bluesky feed, and saw a screenshot of a Verge article by former PC Gamer contributor Stevie Bonifield about an AI company turning journalists into fake 'editors.' One name in particular caught my eye: Mine."

The ICE official "noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House. The woman, Amanda Ungaro, was placed in ICE custody and ultimately deported."

Talking to my peers, it’s hard to fathom what the job market for new biomed PhDs will even be - with academic jobs, you’re signing up for near-0 hiring or funding odds; industry isn’t much better, with federal funding & approval process volatility disincentivizing inquiries, investments, or hiring

We all spend hours upon hours writing and submitting grants, many of us spend hours and hours reviewing grants, but has anyone in my network actually received an NOA or funding for a *new* project in the last 6 months or year? The fact that NIH doesn’t appear to be releasing any funds is 😬😢💔.

Very happy to announce that "Mapping Malfeasance" is now forthcoming with the Indiana Law Journal! I argue that partisan intent is sufficient to invalidate an election map under under any state's constitution. @ssrn.bsky.social link: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

Watch this in its entirety. It is painful to watch. I work at a university with exceptional colleagues who do thoughtful, consequential work. And this is the buzzsaw all of academia they face. This should follow him forever.

Wild part is we explained all of this years ago very publicly and they swore they got it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

The paper does not show anything else. There is immune activity, these activities correlate with each other, as you would expect. If this is causal, for some symptoms, or consequencial to others: it remains unknown. 7/7

Circulating Microclots Are Structurally Associated With Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and Their Amounts Are Elevated in Long COVID Patients Small paper without much details or new data. There is an association between inflammatory markers is it. onlinelibrary.wiley.... 1/7

Silly. You need ID (not “voter ID”) to get on a plane. Not “proof of citizenship,” which is what the SAVE America Act requires.

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

This makes sense but also wtf.

That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.