“Tonight the president did not shit his pants or make a number one on the podium. Truly presidential and it puts the Democrats in a tough spot” - CNN seconds after Trump ends

When you're so stupid even the Court you stacked rules against you. https://youtu.be/Ctgqi-2QkPY

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The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

You could make this up, but you don’t need to.

Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let's celebrate the current generation of Black scientists and engineers—including Charles D. Brown II, an atomic physicist and professor at Yale. His essay on "Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics" (link in comments) is essential reading. ⚛️🧪#ITeachPhysics

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I was just thinking about this with regards to #ITeachPhysics and #ITeachMath. Wish there was a "thumbs up" button or something whenever I use someone else's material so they'd know. (At the very least, PLEASE put your name on materials you share so I can attribute properly)

Struggling is how you learn and grow. Teachers need to provide students with opportunities to struggle.🎢 🍎

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of physicist and crystallographer Herman Russell Branson (1914-1995), who did important work on elucidating the structure of proteins and served as president of two HBCUs. 🧪⚛️ #AcademicSky history.amercrystalassn.org/h-branson

#HigherEd #HigherEducation #AcademicSky

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of chemist St. Elmo Brady (1884-1966), who was the first African American in the US to earn a PhD in chemistry and who helped develop strong chemistry programs at three HBCUs. 🧪 #AcademicSky chemistry.illinois.edu/spotlight/al...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

British things that are hard to find in America: Yorkshire pudding, scotch eggs, accountability for rape.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of pioneering polymer chemist Walter Lincoln Hawkins, whose work on durable coatings for telephone cables helped make it possible to provide phone service to rural America. 🧪 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

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For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983), a pioneering psychologist who researched child development and racial prejudice in ways that benefitted generations of children. 🧪#EduSky feministvoices.com/profiles/mam...

Happy birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)! This is my #linocut showing Copernicus and his model of the celestial spheres, or as we would say, the solar system. 🧪🐡🔭🎢 #histsci Copernicus is shown in green with a lily of the valley, the standard Renaissance symbol to indicate a medical doctor 🧵

A colleague (non-science guy!) sent this curling physics article to me. Lots of good stuff! Mentions tribology by name. Mentions the earliest known hypothesis and a bunch of competing present-day ones. #ITeachPhysics www.bbc.com/future/artic...

BREAKING NYT: The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

New via WSJ: French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to DOJ files. Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs. Then Brunel went dark.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Willa Brown, the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license in the US, the first African American woman to run for Congress, and first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol. #aviation #CivilAirPatrol

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as part of the Epstein files investigation, per the BBC. The probe centers on allegations he shared confidential material with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as trade envoy.

Ostriches with suits! Heads buried, accountability avoided. They didn’t “miss” the deposition. They chose the sand. 👇

Also for Pluto's anniversary today, a throwback to my #HPS paper on the Pluto case (drawing parallels with the "species problem" in biology...) 🧪 🔭 🎢 🪐 ⚒️ ⚛️ direct.mit.edu/posc/article...

For the 96th anniversary of the discovery of #Pluto, here’s a 2011 interview with Caltech astronomer Mike Brown - who discovered Eris, a dwarf planet almost the same size as Pluto - that gives insight into the creation of the new category “dwarf planets.” 🎢🔭🪐

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Alice Ball, the first African American & the first woman to earn an M.S. in chemistry from the College of Hawai’i (now U. of Hawai’i), who developed the first successful treatment for Hansen’s disease (leprosy). 🧪 #WomeninSTEM

Well worth watching: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?... #Colbert #Comedy #JamesTalarico #Texas #Politics #StephenColbert #TheLateShow

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of biologist Ernest Everett Just, who made important contributions to marine and cell biology despite the restrictions placed on him by a racist society - and was the first-ever recipient of the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal. 🧪

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

[bedtime prayer] "Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite actor, Robert Duvall, my favorite comedian, Catherine O'Hara, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite president is Donald Trump."

👀 'This is an especially big issue among young men. Researchers from Third Way, the moderate Democratic think-tank, have found particularly notable disagreement among young Republican men with how Trump is handling the issue.' archive.ph/2026.02.16-1... www.vox.com/politics/479...

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of biologist Charles Henry Turner (1867-1923), who was the first to demonstrate that insects have the capacity to hear, and showed that bees use olfactory and visual cues to find nectar. www.artsci.uc.edu/news/profile... 🧪

Archaeologists study how people lived in the past by digging into the ground and examining the artifacts they left behind. A team of researchers has now applied that same logic to the International Space Station. The results offer a revealing look at how humans adapt to life beyond Earth. 🧪 🏺

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Today, we're going to learn about The USS Sumter Three — and the mutiny charges that should never have happened. It's apropos for #BlackHistoryMonth—because most people never knew about it. Pull up a seat. 🪑 (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

For #BlackHistoryMonrh, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. In chemistry and a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who in her long career made enduring contributions to biochemistry. #WomenInSTEM

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

Different rock, same grift…

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of engineer and physicist Willie Hobbs Moore, who was the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in physics. pubs.aip.org/physicstoday... 🎢🧪⚛️ #WomenInSTEM

For #BlackHistoryMonth let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Roscoe C. Brown Jr., exercise physiologist, college president, radio and TV host, and a WW II fighter pilot - one of the few to shoot down a German jet! #aviation en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_....

The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content. This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.

I will be down at the Stonewall Monument today where political leaders and activists will be defiantly raising the Pride flag again at 4pm. I will be there with my SiriusXM program, live on the air, interviewing folks there, including protesters, activists, and political leaders.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Eugene Bullard - an aviation pioneer who was one of a very few Black aviators who flew in combat during the First World War. #aviation en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_...