Sickening.

Scientists right now (thanks in large part to your work with @standupforscience.net):

Top story on the @nytimes.com app. A big sign that this all-important story is breaking into mainstream consciousness.

Professor Timothy Snyder, University of Toronto, Author of On Tyranny, will be speaking at the Emergency Science Meeting, TODAY at 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science. Visit the link in our bio to register, or go here: zurl.co/oCIDw #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience #FundScience #OMB

Jack of all trades master of none

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

Maybe how a country celebrates 250 years of democracy shouldn’t be decided by one man.

Welcome to the Slumberdome

North Korean TV covers Kim Jong Un's new ballroom

I refuse to get used to this. That all Republican elected officials have done so should never, ever be forgotten or forgiven. At the very least, they must never be allowed to opine about decorum in any context again.

It’s remarkable how this administration has done every single thing conservatives pretended liberals were doing when Biden was in charge.

The biggest and most disruptive change proposed by the OMB would be to require senior political appointees to review every grant before it is awarded, blocking awards that “promote anti-American values," challenge binary views of sex, or otherwise don't align with the administration's values. 4/n

I think it's fun to have a James Bond who was in high school during Covid

lol. Just that.

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

🚨The OMB rule will be the end of science as we know it. MARK YOU CALENDAR for the @standupforscience.net EMERGENCY SCIENCE MEETING June 2nd, 4pm et. We will be giving an overview & assigning EVERY SCIENTIST IN AMERICA their marching orders. REGISTER: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Everyone needs to read this— not just scientists.

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.

You may not "do politics" as a scientist, but politics is doing you. Might as well start fighting now! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

Called this back in October

i feel like this is probably the best time in recent american history to be a criminal because the justice department doesn’t give a shit, it’s too busy going through the president’s burn book www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

Trump threatened to “blow up” one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East today and I couldn’t find it about it on the homepage of the Times, Journal, or Post

What happens when super intelligent Ai concludes the problem is all powerful oligarchs?

It’s bizarre that the press hasn’t noted this more. Turning the Butler attempt into a big show at the convention was practically inviting more people to give it a go.

My quote of the day We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan

No Scrubs, NASDAQ remix.

I feel you eBay, sometimes the guy hollering pickup lines from his car just doesn’t have it

FOX NEWS' JOHN ROBERTS: When I talked to the president this morning, he kinda surprised me bc he said, 'John, I'm very serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.' WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON ANNA KELLY: This is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo

Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” more than having a right-wing economist who has never practiced medicine in charge of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. You can really tell he has literally never treated a single patient or a single infectious disease.

watch what they do, not what they say whatever Trump & GOP said they were running on in 2024, this is what they're actually doing - Trump's plan to dismember agency that administers food stamps, school lunches and nutrition programs for pregnant women: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Sure, bud.

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

just a small town girl // livin’ in a pornhub world

“we live in a pornhub world so we are driving around everywhere to see as much of it as possible really wholesome good family stuff”

Seeing Kennedy resign in disgrace could do wonders for my depression. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Transatlantic incubators of pestilence.

Next up on Industry.

The story of the United States in the past decade is that the most materially comfortable society in the history of the world, out of sheer boredom, subscribed to conspiracy theories that told them to take a sledgehammer to the foundations of modernity.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Read @markhertling.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-last-t...

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

Trump declares the Iran war “terminated” precisely on the 23rd anniversary of Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech. (h/t @kdbyproxy.bsky.social)

a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Endive will always love you!

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.