When the higher education sector is organized, we have the power to stop the Trump administration's campaigns against American universities We are proud of our members and allies at UCLA who successfully blocked Trump from extracting $1.2 billion from UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

Monsters.

Noem more concerned with hate for the other than for love of Americans.

Power out across the whole Stanford campus for going on 2 hours now. One of the most intense storms I’ve experienced in >20 years in California and, apparently, we’ve got another week of this!

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Monsters.

‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID Our case now moves into discovery As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

I mean, c'mon, dude's totally going to hell and he knows it.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

May your children and your children's children curse you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

"The result is a necrotic ode to brand synergy." Well done, Xfinity. www.wired.com/story/hollyw...

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

Bhattacharya cited no studies, no analysis, except his belief that vaccination rates will go up as they paradoxically remove vaccines from the childhood schedule. (1/3 🧵)

Kansas Republicans introduced a bill banning DEI & Critical Race Theory in state schools. “HB 2428 treats Kansas college & university students as though they were thoroughly unable to handle opposing viewpoints, controversial theories or to make up their own minds.” — Eugene Rice, AAUP Kansas

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

There are approximately 1000 research groups on the #NIH campuses, including Steve Rosenberg's research group, which develops groundbreaking T-cell therapies for cancer. Effectively all of those groups were suddenly prohibited from buying any (!) supplies last year. That is on the leadership.

There's something uniquely disgusting about Elon, the man who has done more than any other human alive to immiserate the world's poorest, claiming to want to end poverty

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe patients' care was disrupted. If there were disruptions, it's the responsibility of the researchers, not the NHS HASSAN: That is an unacceptable and outrageous response. You can make an edict - 'Don't disrupt care!' - but that can be a very complicated thing

Dance like nobody's watching, love like you've never been hurt,

Trailer almost unwatchable 💩 "What matters now is that On This Day … 1776 is genuinely very horrible to watch, and everybody involved should be ashamed."

Why you so scared, boys?

So this happened yesterday. The Doomsday Clock is now set at 85 seconds before midnight, the closest it's ever been. thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

He wants to make them folk heroes?

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

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Top set today: 17 x 225 (PR) to La Rage. youtu.be/oewRadlyrHo?...

The murdered man in Minneapolis this morning was an RN who worked at the VA. Saw this on reddit. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Where is our national press? The government has been shooting at and harassing clergy for months. This used to be a red line. The reality is their red line moved, not yours. They’re cowards.

Is this "what public safety looks like when the law is enforced consistently and professionally"? Looks to me like a bunch of bullies who haven't been trained in take-down and an extrajudicial execution. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Are we surprised? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Making American great by funding Danish researchers based on Guinea-Bissau. Oh, also withholding lifesaving medical care to children in one of the poorest countries in the world where ~20% of adults (and 11% of children <18 months old) are infected with HBV. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This hurts.

Business leader warns business may fail if people who know about business express their concerns that the business may fail.

Bovino's throwing form.

Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader

Business leader warns business may fail if people don't like the business. 🤷 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social. My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency. Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.

Important to remember: The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS His conspiracy theories are killing people

The American political universe is fundamentally asymmetric.

Bari Weiss appears to gloss half-assed as "heterodox." They are, in fact, very different, but you need some depth to recognize that.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

This seems totally normal and a really good idea. Signals "we're very serious and not at all desperate."

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Super-awkward for the attempted resource grab that the oil companies don't want in. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Very cool paper here. I'm particularly intrigued by the finding that population size negatively predicts innovation since that has a nice resonance with some of our recent work (doi.org/10.1098/rstb...).

Hmmm...