Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

The US-China S&T Agreement was just renewed and is worth protecting. A new piece by @kennedychina.bsky.social and I for @chinaecon.csis.org nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Literally, the next time Tom Cotton opens his mouth about any China-related economic or military issue, every journalist needs to ask him why he supports completely gutting our scientific research capacity & not move on until they get an actual answer.

Larry Krasner wins the Philly DA primary with no nominated challenger for the general. The national press has ignored Philadelphians' loyalty to Krasner and trust in the progressive DA movement.

Excellent graph

What a horror show to have put that man in charge of anything. The documentary is very short and very good. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ...

Come to think of it, my Dad received expeditious naturalization at his basic training camp in 1944.

"Is a new health clinic for Thomasville, GA woke?" Excellent question @ossoff.senate.gov

They are withholding this guy's diploma over this 2 minute speech. Our universities have truly lost their minds.

With all the terrible news in the world, let's enjoy this sweet one. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Another reason why if you are in or near Philadelphia, you must subscribe to the Inquirer. We need to preserve the still effective local papers.

“The man was taken by ICE agents and his children were left behind…inside the truck”

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

FOR ALL OF THOSE REASONS, COURT FINDS THAT HER CONTINUED DETENTION CANNOT STAND. BAIL IS NECESSARY TO MAKE HABEAS REMEDY EFFECTIVE.

"The big disadvantage science has in the competitive information age is that fictions can be optimized for engagement & audience demand, but facts usually cannot." @startswithabang.bsky.social talks to Philipp Markolin about tackling the lab-leak conspiracy theory. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

I can't stop watching this.

The entire legal community is being threatened into de facto abolishing the US system of legal representation

Consider it highlighted!

How did it just come to me? He's the Jed Bartlett of Canada.

💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

I posted this three months ago, showing that Americans like the idea of "getting tough" about illegal immigration, but don't support the actual policies it would necessitate. The latest poll numbers showing Trump is now in the red on immigration seem to confirm this.

*tears hair out of head* No! These are not the same! www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/the-nexus-of...

Both China and US got 24% of their total March electricity supply from wind and solar.. ☀️ Latest monthly data here: ember-energy.org/data/electri...

American citizen held for ten days in lockup after being picked up near the border. He didn't have ID. Ten days! news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

When everything is shocking.

Tells you all you need to know about the scientific validity of the lab leak theory-- a lot of bs. [Of course if evidence emerged to support the lab theory that assessment could change, but it would still need to explain the voluminous data supporting natural zoonosis.] gizmodo.com/trump-turns-...

I've always thought that foreign service brats have special skills and comfort in unfamiliar environments. Wikipedia tells me Senator Van Hollen was a foreign service brat, born in Pakistan and an alum of the Kodaikanal School. No wonder he was the first Senator to actually go to El Salvador.

🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

You're a United States Senator in the face of fascism. Do your damn job. People with far less power than you are sitting in overseas concentration camps right now, our students are being deported, & the lying idiot you confirmed for HHS Secretary is demonizing autistic kids & lying about vaccines.

“All of this feels familiar to Bretts. It reminds him of how Jewish people were kept from accessing legitimate travel documents when Nazi Germany was in power — leaving Jews across multiple countries unable to flee rising violence.” — @oriion.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/04/trum...

Would be great if actual data enriched some of the "antisemitism on campus" takes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I agee w Patrick. (We lived in China at same time, diff on many things, agree here.) Chinese leaders always reckoned with the vast *depth* of US strength. Institutions, networks, expertise. Now, in cold-blooded rather than triumphalist mode, they recognize they're dealing with nuts and clowns.

Just to note, in this US-China trade war, China is in the better position, because it is slapping tariffs only on the US. It maintains its relationships with other trading partners, which the US hasn't. Foreign trade is a higher % of GDP in China, but declining. Not good, but worse for us.

Trump finally answers the question of "when was America great" and it's before we won two world wars, defeated the Nazis, ended segregation, learned to manage the business cycle, gave women the right to vote, or had a progressive income tax. Okie dokie!

Steves's message is clear - maybe the best speech from yesterday. Worth a listen.

So I'll finish transcribing parts of this speech later but I wanted to talk about a couple things in it that makes it great.

As the crowd at #HandsOff Boston files into City Hall Plaza, someone got up on a barrier waving the flag, and folks started singing the Star Spangled Banner. This too is America.

Very clever addition to a protest - set up a poster-writing booth #HandsOff #Philly

With Yoon removed from office today, by my count that makes 34 democratic leaders convicted since 2010. Only one—Trump—faced no real consequences. Trump's actions weren't uncommon. What was exceptional was how our institutions failed to hold him accountable.

The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.

50 percent of imported consumer goods will have a tariff of at least 40 percent. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Two common misconceptions are on my mind today: 1. Overestimating the power of a single day of protest. 2. Underestimating the power of a single day of protest.

Mark Kelly: "This is not surprising. Here's a guy who told Americans to inject bleach into their bodies, who sent a mob to Capitol Hill. And now I think it's fair to say he stands out as singlehandedly destroying more wealth with his bad decisions than anybody else who has ever lived on this planet"

This is an excellent piece on the current threat to regional universities, which educate and impact far more people than the Ivies, but are completely ignored in the legacy media and national debate.

Made this charts for my students of just a few poor countries that are being hit by extraordinary tariffs. Tariff numbers came from the Guardian. GDP numbers from the world bank. The topic of the day was human rights.