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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

No Kings includes Angus

The worst thing about fascism is the fascism. The second worst thing about fascism is what one has to do to stop it, and the fascism only gets worse the longer one takes to begin opposing it.

great to see Watson getting absolutely slagged, but no one seems to quote the postcard that he, age 40, having just wed Radcliffe junior Elizabeth Lewis, sent from their 1968 honeymoon in La Jolla to Paul Doty at Harvard: "Nineteen year old now mine." [Victor McElheny, Watson and DNA, p141]

not quite as overtly fascist, but one of my students pointed me to the USDA website today:

banger closer www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I have a new publication called Throwing Like a Girl sterlinga.substack.com/p/throwing-l... Open access link: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚨🚨🚨 What Russ Vought Is Doing Right Now: Project 2025 Architect is Spending his Shutdown Destroying Your Government With half of Project 2025 implemented, what is its architect turned Director of OMB coming for over the shutdown? Find out (free) and then RP! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience youtube.com/watch?v=5APQ...

correction: that article is A LOT wonky but AF-S knows amazing when she sees it…

Can Tanya Harding's Ex-Husband Save Figure Skating?

They've set the conditions for a Trump movement partisan to attack &/or kill a GOP senator, presentative, appointee, state level official, or a member of their families for years. It has fortunately not happened, but when Kirk was killed it created the opportunity they've been looking for. 13/

It is important to remember that the violence in political violence & the terror in terrorism includes not just actual physical acts or attacks. It also includes threats, whether verbal or written, delivered w/ink on paper, phone call/voicemail or virtually by email, tweet, or other type of post. 1/

Spencer Cox Quotes Charlie Kirk, Leaves Out A Hell Of A Lot open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

I hope Camille Zapata is getting a bonus for this brilliant work.

Absolutely thrilled for @jordanscarroll.bsky.social, whose book is excellent and necessary. And always thrilling to see a book of criticism win in this category.

good to see this asshole getting dragged here but i wish i felt more confident that he is a minority voice

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities. “scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

People saying "Nixon wasn't shamed from office, he was forced out by Republican Senators telling him to resign or be removed" are in fact describing the dynamic of being shamed.

great writer, great analysis, great publishing model

This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

"there must be no politics in science!" say the scientists engaged in crass politics www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Good people at the Irvine protest today, July 13th, 2025. Hosted by @50501oc.bsky.social & @ocindivisible.bsky.social

what’s even weirder is that we keep teaching people it’s all about genius and proof

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/natio...

Thread of new #sciart in my shop now

Federal Judges Are Begging Us to Pay Attention open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

Brilliant work here

This was NOT the Leo Szilard anecdote anyone wanted, but perhaps it is the Leo Szilard anecdote the world deserves.

i just really do not know what to say mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/04/18/i...

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

Important 🧵!!!

I truly haven't even been able to take this in tonight because it is so horrifically appalling.

Adam Silverman: "The question here is not whether Trump, his employer/owner Musk, and Trump’s team are witting or unwitting Russian assets. The question is what, if anything, would they be doing differently if they were. And the answer to that is nothing." bit.ly/4iahcPj

nuff said

A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.

"Newsom can presumably interview every high-profile person in America, people with reach into all kinds of communities. But there’s extremely limited utility in conversation with professional Trump apparatchiks." By @brianbeutler.bsky.social

🧵: One of Trump's accusations yesterday is that President Zelenskyy or Ukraine's defense against Putin's/Russia's genocidal re-invasion would start World War III (WWIII). That ship sailed a long time ago. We're already in a world war & have been for some time. 1/

These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

UW-Madison's statement today about the NIH cap on indirects news.wisc.edu/a-threat-to-... 🧪

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"