*watching a 600 foot tidal wave approach." "very, very just totally, totally, totally troubled"

We murdered an old lady for no reason

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

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You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

And there it is:

We covered so much here thanks to @davidforbes.bsky.social, but I’d like to underline perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the nyt’s ideologically driven campaign: How it has caused grave damage to the rights of *all* queer people.

Please say “ethnic cleansing” when posting this stuff because that’s what they’re broadcasting. They’re broadcasting plans to engage in ethnic cleansing.

This piece by @melodyschreiber.com is a must-read. Most people don't know what CDER is, but it is responsible for the regulation of all the drugs we put in our bodies. Hoeg is unqualified for CDER director. The only reason she was appointed is that she is an anti-vaxxer and a friend of Vinay Prasad.

Sigh. Not a huge surprise, but also people should understand that American science is struggling on huge scales, even though it's happening in these "nickel and dime" ways. (a lot of disappearing opportunities, not renewed grants, etc. etc.)

just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too

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And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

ICYMI | The Department of Justice has declared a slew of Department of Education programs and grants unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and the University of North Carolina. https://bit.ly/3LjEVkL #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Many of the “never Trump” right are committed to the same project as Trump but are offended by the idea of doing it out in the open without any veneer of egalitarianism or pluralism

See I knew that the Right could be brought around to supporting gender-affirming care as an expression of autonomy and human dignity (well, kind of)

So, you agree...you think people should be free to take hormones that make them feel better in their skin and improve their experience of life?

as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Really appreciate the justified anger in this piece by @ryanlcooper.com. The GOP's narrative about trans people "is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."

Never forget the entire anti-trans hype machine is built on lies. It's not "cruel truths" or "two sides." It is blatant, deliberately cruel lies. They are liars. Never give them the benefit of the doubt, because they are proven, deliberate, malicious liars.

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

We can't work with foreign collaborators, but they can send money to a foreign PI to conduct an ethically questionable study in a vulnerable population in another foreign country? This is what corruption looks like.

17 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Pretty insane new memo from AG Bondi instructs DOJ to create cash bounty system for information on domestic terrorists--which are overwhelmingly right-wing-- like "Antifa-aligned extremists” promoters of “radical gender ideology.”

Or perhaps....people saw that he was...shall we say unpleasant....and didn't want to hire him.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Hmmmm www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/n...

The human cost of Trump's gutting of USAID: By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for weeks. He bundled her into a canoe & paddled toward the nearest hospital, 8 hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died. New, @propublica.org

His name is Ahmed al Ahmed. He’s 42, father of two, and owns a Sydney fruit shop. His relatives say he had no experience handling guns. He was shot twice, not in this video, but is expected to survive. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

“I've come to see that independence is an illusion, and that collaboration, empathy, and connection are the true engines of discovery”. ⬇️⬇️🧪

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Blistering editorial in Slate on USTA's rolling back nearly 5 decades of progress on trans equity in professional tennis going back to legendary Billy Jean King standing up for Renee Richards right to compete as a woman in 1977.

The Justice Department is siding with bullies who are suing their VA school over a 10 day suspension after a trans kid captured their bullying on tape. More here, from @alyssaur.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

They want to do identity theft and credit card fraud against tourists.

Prison rape is wrong. Jokes about prison rape are wrong. Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong. If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity. BUT A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.

For the umpteenth time since at least Watergate, there are going to be no actual legal, personal, or professional consequences for the lawless authoritarianism from the GOP. It’s the signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics & why all the awful & illegal things keep happening again & again & again.

This was truly a “Sliding Doors” moment for history. No Bush —> no 9/11, significant progress on CO2 emissions & climate change, and a Republican Party that would be unlikely to ever nominate someone like President Trump and the resulting degradation of American prosperity & morality he unleashed

they literally picked "caucasian" because some racist dude in the 18th century thought the most beautiful people in the world came from the Caucasus Mountains, and therefore must be the original stock of (European) humanity.

An HIV doctor quit the CDC when they insisted on censoring his research by removing data on trans people. This interview peels back the curtain of how anti-trans ideology figured into the Trump administration's war on science. Republished from @kffhealthnews.org, written by @amymaxmen.bsky.social.

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly. The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Earlier this year, in response to RFK's comments about EDCs making more trans/nonbinary people, I was interviewed by a journalist from 'Undark' about this subject. I said a lot more than what was included probably because my comments were a bit more inflammatory than what they wanted to report.

“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”