The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.

the number of ppl replying to this who expect the magistrate to already know about the PPA—a law violated so rarely that there is almost no jurisprudence—I can't tell if they think every person on a federal bench should have the entire U.S. code memorized or if they don't know what magistrates are

“The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told @CNN.” w/ Holmes Lybrand

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

you don't need either a passport or a birth certificate/marriage license + drivers license to check out a library book. I realize Republicans hate libraries, but, even by their standards, this is stupid.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

ICE HAS COMMITTED YET ANOTHER ATROCITY! They deported & abandoned across the border little baby Juan Nicolás who's just 2-months-old & was unresponsive & hospitalized just this morning along with his 16-month-old sister & parents. The sick infant was only treated for a few hours. #ICELawlessness

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

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

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

I’d like someone to search Mr. Emmer’s home with just an administrative warrant and see how he feels then.

LET PEOPLE REST IN PEACE

"It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings" - Justice Antonin Scalia

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

I firmly believe vaccines are modern miracles.

“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

A new tax provision allows them to immediately deduct the full cost of the purchase of their race horses. An example of how the very wealthy pay zero taxes, while most of us have only the standard deductions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Another excellent, interesting, and informative column from Amanda Mull. Give it a read.

Too true.

Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

This odious white supremacist needs to learn some history. Not so long ago, it was common to see "Irish need not apply" in job listings in the United States. You know, the same type of pernicious prejudice that Elon exhibits regularly.

Note: Allegations of racial profiling aren’t just coming from congressional Democrats. Over the past month, Cardinal Cupich, who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago, has repeatedly claimed that his own priests have been racially profiled by DHS agents. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

If ICE and CBP don't want to be called secret police, then don't wear masks.    If they don't want to be accused of kidnapping, then don't drag people out of cars & houses without warrants.   And if they don't want to be accused of being lawless, then start following the law.

Shouldn’t Senate Dems introduce legislation providing full funding TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, etc.—and no new funding for ICE and CBP? Seems like pretty good ground to fight on. Offer to come back and pass it Tuesday.

This is an important read about the El Paso balloon incident.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu

Some good news for DC sports fans! Wish they were doing Caps too, but it's a start.

The SAVE America Act would impose outrageous voter suppression requirements on American citizens. One example: married women who take their spouse’s name & whose last name may not match their birth certificate. Do they not get to vote? This bill is DOA in the Senate.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

The "you gave a chimp a machine gun?"-ass administration. bsky.app/profile/clan...

A Trump fundraising email tied to the SAVE act falsely claims that all you would need is a driver's license. This seems like fraud? @marcelias.bsky.social

Exciting post-doc opportunity at UMD -- The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow positions as part of its newly established Quantitative Biology Initiative (QBI)

Being placed in a car by a masked stranger who asks what your favorite music is and promises a trip to McDonald's is an exact scenario from our elementary school stranger danger training in the 80s.

I’ve been thinking about this too.

I notice he keeps saying it will be used for future presidential inaugurations (instead of the Capitol steps). This suggests a government in which the executive branch stands solely on its own, and Congress is no longer relevant.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

Again, tell people what the bill actually requires–including that a driver's license will not be enough–and people will hate this bill. It's political malpractice to not to point out just how miserable this will be for a lot of people.

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: Rep. Chip Brown, R-Hollinger's Island, said appointees with experience mandated in the bill could better assess rate requests. The bill does not address a rate making process that critics say locks the public out and prevents proper scrutiny of utilities' rate requests.

FAMU clarified that students told to remove “Black” from Black History Month materials were told so in error by “overly zealous” staff member. The university has since consulted with higher ed law experts to confirm FL law does not ban the use. A statement that should not exist in a free society.

This is likely true until people realize that a driver's license would not be valid for this purpose in most states. If they knew that, these numbers would crater. E.g., NH mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/03/17/a... Pollsters need to start determining if people understand these policies.

Good for Toboni! The loss of the Post is awful.

If you're looking for some quality Nats beat reporting now that we no longer have a real newspaper, you're in luck! Mark Zuckerman has started a substack that will be the full beat reporter experience. Yay, Mark!

My wife said "I wonder if he'll take a jab at ICE" before the show and then she was like "well that's a beautiful and positive way to make a statement"