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“DEI” for these people just means integration and the enforcement of civil rights laws www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

This would have been a very good press conference for news outlets to send their health and science reporters to cover.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Since the start of July, there have been virtually as many carjackings in DC in the 41 days since the National Guard was deployed (21) as in the 41 days preceding that deployment (22).

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If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Just throwing this out there in the current chaos. Those in molecular biomedical research (broadly defined). IF you have a postdoc or RA on an H1B who can't return to the USA in time, and THEY actually do this thing, reach out. We might be able to host someone here, right across the border.

Enter Russell Vought – a man who is driven by the idea that a radical “Left” has taken over the country and is destroying the nation. He is determined to use his detailed understanding of how the government works in a crusade to turn the state into an instrument of Trumpist domination.

NYT: The Senate confirmed Michael Waltz to serve as U.N. ambassador. As national security adviser, he added a journalist to a group chat discussing war plans.

A woman abused by Jeffrey Epstein at 14 is asking the Supreme Court to rule prosecutors violated her rights by secretly cutting his 2007 non-prosecution deal. Her lawyers argue the government should not be allowed to sideline victims in such secret agreements.

The free speech comedy bros are silent on Kimmel because they were never concerned about state suppression of speech. They just wanted to use slurs without consequences in the form of people saying, “You shouldn’t say that.” They don’t know how to handle actual threats because they’re weak.

It’s been clear for months that this administration is ten times the threat to the First Amendment that “wokeism” ever was. If this doesn’t wake the fuck up all the comedy podcast bros, nothing will.

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

This vote demonstrates exactly why we need DC statehood. Until we get statehood, we will always be at risk of having our local laws rewritten by Republicans (and a few Democrats) in Congress who are more focused on micromanaging DC than nationwide issues like the cost of living

Tomorrow, the House will vote on bills requiring police to conduct high-speed car chases in most circumstances and giving Trump total control over who DC's local judges are. Will @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @whipkclark.bsky.social whip those votes? Or will they abandon DC again?

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

The fact that people are afraid to voice their honest personal opinion on Charlie Kirk, using his own words, especially in academia, because they are afraid of losing their jobs is exactly what happened in 1930s Germany.

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right now, we have no clue how many people ice has kidnapped in chicagoland under "operation midway blitz." masked feds are snatching people from their cars, from gas stations, from sidewalks. loved ones don't hear anything—sometimes for days. this is what it means to "disappear" people.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This 79-year old comic strip (of all things, a Nancy comic) is still hitting the mark with modern-day corporate leaders, politicians, university presidents, newspaper publishers, and on and on

These guys are claiming Kirk as a nazi. I'm curious, from the right's perspective, is this unacceptable criticism, of the type that's getting liberals fired from their jobs, or is this honoring his legacy?

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

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Are you a science or environment journalist who has covered (or may cover in the future) ocean conservation stories, including but not limited to stories about sharks? I'm always available for a background briefing to teach you key topics before you pitch or write a story.

/6 To me this is a little like the virtue of bravery. Bravery seems morally neutral in itself; its virtue depends on its ends. Very few people say "look, I don't agree with the 9/11 hijackers, but they were really brave and that's admirable."

In DC in particular, Democrats have become very invested in a flattering self-image--they're "the adults on the room." But if you avoid forceful daily pushback, you're not the adult in the room. You're not IN the room. "If we did that, we'd never get anything done." Okay. What are you getting done?

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Makes me wonder if UBI would create any kind of revolution, just from the sheer brainpower we'd have available that isn't forced to live hand-to-mouth anymore.

“Temporary” until what? What happens after the temporary period ends??!!

I’m sure this will be fine. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

In the Soviet Union they called this position “the political officer.“

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GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Excellent piece by Ezra Klein: if Dems really believe that Trump is creating an authoritarian government they should not continue to fund it. The shutdown is their only leverage right now to draw attention to what is happening and maybe force change. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Venezuelan minister accuses US of 11 extrajudicial murders english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...

The United States Department of Defense is a massive organization, with millions of personnel and thousands of facilities. Do you realize how expensive it is to rebrand something that big? It means new signs, IDs, stationary, etc. On top of everything else, it’d be unprecedentedly huge govt waste.

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I don’t get how 77+million Americans are ok with this

Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.