Clergy getting arrested was a huge tactic in the US Civil Rights era and the anti-apartheid movement. It makes moderates who may not embrace the movement uncomfortable with government repression. It’s a key part of the repertoire for a reason.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Fenway Health caving to Trump administration bigotry is shameful, not strategy.

“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says. A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

If this was in pink, I would buy it and wear it every winter's day.

Here's the thread you've been looking for re: former UVA president Jim Ryan's letter detailing his ouster by a governing board (BOV) that was in cahoots with Trump's DOJ & Virginia's MAGA governor & attorney general.

If this stupid bill actually passes, we are even more doomed than I thought. Note that it also includes Russia. U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Priorities.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Seems like we're in a Sandy Hook moment. We can enforce social taboos against pedophilia by shunning Epstein's friends & hangers-on, stripping them of social & political legitimacy; or we can shrug our collective shoulders, confuse legal and moral standards, and in the process weaken those taboos.

The FDA removed the black box warning for HRT. Recent research reveals that the benefits of HRT outweigh risks for most women who start before age 60: Reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases by 50%, Alzheimer’s disease by 35% & bone fractures by 50-60%. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

Peace to her, whoever she is.

The courts are moving ahead with a scheme to make trans people as a category of second-class citizen, unprotected by law. More by @valorievandieman.bsky.social and @billiejsweeney.bsky.social here:

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

This is crazy subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/1623...

It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I’m stuck in bed between chemo treatments for metastatic coloncancer, wearing a take-home chemo pump attached to my chest. I wanted to share my advice that you can benefit from ‘Letting Your Colleagues In’ don’t need to struggle alone @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I finally had a chance to read the Ohio case prohibiting schools from enforcing anti-bullying policies protecting trans kids. This is a shining example of the two-faced nature of ostensible “free speech” legal groups who never seem to feel the same compulsion to actually sue on behalf of trans kids.

Nope. Read his words compiled by @lpachter.bsky.social and say that again. He was a stain on science from day 1 liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.

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This is genuinely frightening. Nothing good can come of us being trapped inside this country

I have a flat chest, low voice, and full beard. Having an F on my ID causes confusion and harassment. Why does the TSA need to know about my genitals for me to fly? Glad I got my passport in the window it was allowed. What a failure of ethics and common sense. So stupid www.them.us/story/suprem...

I’m going to keep mentioning how heavily people leaned on the “actually, poor Black people don’t go to elite schools, we need more investment at the community level” argument when affirmative action was before the court, and how fucking silent they are now.

The unions say the move was “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most.”

"Dick Cheney, Republican vice president who lied to start wars that killed 1,000,000 people, dies." At least the CNN obituary recognizes how Cheney was entirely unrepentant for his crimes. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

If ya can't review 'em, ya can't fund em. Here's your ref, from the Politico article.

New research finds a 70% chance the AMOC collapses under current emissions…37% under moderate cuts, 25% even under low ones. That collapse would upend rainfall, chill Europe, wreck crops, and raise seas. We blame fossil fuel billionaires because mirrors are awkward. cleantechnica.com/2025/10/25/r...

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy. UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California: Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.

These are big strong men doing big important things to keep us all safe, you see

Commentary by @needhibhalla.bsky.social et al. on the recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research. Data show that diversity in the science increases creativity & success in tackling challenging problems. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A U.S. citizen and student was violently detained by ICE near the school in Chicago They want community members too afraid to resist out of fear that they might be next. As ICE occupations worsen, communities have proven to be a lynchpin to resisting ICE. We must build up community solidarity.