Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

These nested posts and replies gave me a pang of sympathy for people who refuse to vote for the lesser evil — — but it is actually a significantly different situation from the usual challenges gritting one’s teeth to vote for a Dem. 1/6

“That is not normally the problem” explains so much about the actual problems w/Platner. Great thread.

This is journalist warning on what many of us have feared w/r/t Platner. Maine voters are going to do what they’re going to do. But rest of party should be less naive & more cautious about what else might be out there.

📣 Actually, strike that: I've updated my U.S. Senate page again to include BOTH @davidcostello.bsky.social & @andrealaflamme.bsky.social. I'm only doing this because Maine *has* ranked choice voting, so I might as well take advantage of it. Rank them 1st & 2nd! secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...

Great opportunity for Platner fans to rank @andrealaflamme.bsky.social #2 and Mills fans to rank her #1! Or @davidcostello.bsky.social for these two slots, if you prefer. 🖖🏽

I want to write an essay on these posts as a microcosm of the breakdown of our information stream

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Election officials across the country are already doing the hard work to keep our elections fair, free, safe, and secure ahead of the 2026 midterms. We should be strengthening that effort - not passing voter suppression bills that create more barriers for eligible voters.

Wow. Let’s go, NC. ”Cooper ended the first quarter of the year with more than $18.4 million on hand across his affiliated PACs. Whatley finished with more than $6.3 million across affiliated PACs.“

Ironically, the last time the Dow closed over 50,000 was on Feb 11, otherwise known as Pam Bondi Dow 50 Thou Crash Out Day. Hollywood could not have scripted that better.

Americans quick to shriek that Magyar is a conservative might want to sit this one out and just let Hungarians celebrate tonight. Promise you Hungarians from the LGBTQ community who voted for Magyar know, and have understood opposition politics against autocracy better than you.

So people have pointed out that as late as 2020 and 2021 Graham Platner was using slurs, both homophobic and anti-disabled slurs I never ever imagined he was so stupid, and so hateful that he would still be using them today, to a journalist, in print

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Exactly about the triggering. And Trump talking about an 8pm deadline like he’s hyping a must-see TV event is totally sending me back to 1983 & the whole country waiting for “The Day After” to start so we could all be collectively traumatized.

Trump unintentionally educated the US about the 14th amendment & it turns out most of us decided birthright citizenship is a good thing.

NEW: For months, faith leaders have pushed for access to detainees at ICE facilities in Broadview, IL and outside Minneapolis. This past month or so, clergy finally gained access in both places — bc judges ordered the govt to let them in. Here’s what they saw. religionnews.com/2026/04/03/a...

5. Side note: That song — which was originally created for the faith-led Poor People's Campaign — has become increasingly popular at faith-led and secular gatherings pushing back against ICE/DHS. I heard hundreds of clergy belt it in January at a gathering in MN: religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

The story of how this all came about is far stupider but also possibly less sinister than we may be assuming. Also explains why ICE is wandering around doing nothing (prob preferable to the doing something, but hardly helping TSA lines). There was never a plan.

Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.

Let me be clear. I don’t support AIPAC. Quite the opposite. But I also have major issues with Track AIPAC. It’s a shady project.   Track AIPAC isn’t a neutral watchdog. It’s a political operation with its own PAC and a very clear agenda. 🧵

1/ Has Iran managed to reinvent the Sound Dues – the tolls that Denmark imposed for over 400 years on ships entering the Baltic Sea? Recent ship movements suggest that rather than completely blocking the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is monetising it instead. ⬇️

@attackerman.bsky.social explains why he does this: “For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.”

Oh hey that thing we were all afraid of happening. Well it fucking happened. If you haven’t already locked down your credit/identity, you should fucking do it now. I’ll put the thread I wrote on how to do that (ish, there are Reddit boards with a million more steps you can take) in the comments. 🤬🤬🤬

Dem AGs are the watchdogs keeping elections free and fair. 🗳️

“I could tell immediately that this compound was deliberately targeted…”   I sat down with ABC #WorldNewsTonight to discuss the strike against an elementary school in south Iran that reportedly killed upwards of 200 civilians—most of them young schoolgirls. #IranSchoolStrike #RemovetheTrumpRegime

💯 www.thebulwark.com/p/can-lawsui...

It can’t be understated how important lawsuits have been in stopping some of the worst abuses of this admin. Sometimes we hear too much about the losses & not enough about the many wins. Thank goodness for all those pursuing justice. They have been tireless & fearless & we need them to keep it up.

ABC did include their photos on front page and in blog coverage. abcnews.com/Internationa...

These U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait over the weekend. They are Capt. Cody Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39 Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42 Sgt. Declan Coady, 20 Two others were killed in the same attack; their names have not yet been released. RIP.

Take it from AG @philweiser.bsky.social: Dem AGs are READY and ABLE to protect your vote this fall. ⚖️ 🗳️

Democratic Secretaries of State, including @adrianfontes.bsky.social, attended a federal elections briefing where election denier Heather Honey spread lies and refused to acknowledge states’ authority over elections. Dems of State will protect elections - even from the federal government.

I‘m glad to see that Roger’s reporting on credible accusations against Trump found in Epstein files gaining traction in MSM today but PO’ed he‘s not getting enough credit for breaking story over week ago. Highly recommend reading his reporting & supporting him & other independent journalists.

Not sure if there was a reason for her not to give independent journalist’s name; it’s @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social & he broke this story more than a week ago. Highly recommend reading his reporting, starting w/this: bsky.app/profile/soll...

Trump can't steal the midterms. I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands. Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has. Me, in @thebulwark.com:

A group of volunteers wait for the released "unlawfully" detained detainees 24/7 outside of the Whipple Bld., who greet them with compassion and to ensure they have a ride home. This is what humanity looks like! There are angels who walk among us especially, in Minnesota. 💙😇💙

Jesse Jackson at the 1984 Democratic National Committee Convention describing America as a quilt in his “Patchwork Quilt” speech. “America is a quilt all woven and held together by a common thread.” #JesseJackson 🕊️

I never thought I’d see the day. Americans being told by the rest of the world to fight for our own democracy. We should never have gotten here. Keep resisting. ✊🏽 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

Wow.

I wish every time someone asks “What if X happens” w/respect to election doom scenario they would answer w/what they, personally, will do if X happens. B/c if we can imagine worst case scenario but not how we will fight against that scenario, then the battle is half lost w/o GOP doing a damn thing.

NOT HARD to make* the argument & win: "Yes, it's true. Someone took your job, your healthcare, your ability to take kids to Disney. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money. And if they can convince you it was anyone else, they will keep screwing you."

Someone decided to post a cut-off, 18-second clip of Wes Moore’s answer to Norah O’Donnell. Unsurprisingly, the whole answer tells a very different & powerful story.

I reject the whole premise of this thread because what it describes is...just literally democracy? The whole point is the "republic if you can keep it". There is no point where you can go on autopilot and the conceit that we can is exactly how we got the racist reality show host as a president.

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :

That article says Miller wants 100–200 revocations per month, which is impossible unlike most of the bullsh t the Trump Admin is doing, revoking citizenship requires filing a lawsuit in a real US federal district court under 8 USC §1451, and revocation in on narrow grounds

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Great quote: “For all his vast powers, a president can never order a governor or mayor or, for that matter, a dog catcher to do anything. He can’t fire them. They are part of a separate sovereignty. And it’s driving Donald Trump completely up the wall.“ Love this anti-doomer energy.

There are different types of those who actively resist. If you are one who protests on the roads or sidewalks - anywhere outdoors * here are some helpful hints from those who are now leading the charge against this tyrannical regime. No matter how you protest - use your tools to stay safe!

🧵 Kate is right about how Bannon’s rhetoric is meant to intimidate and depress participation. But I’ll add a fourth level/pillar to her thread: visible, real-world community response. Minneapolis shows how observers, neighbors, and organized pushback blunt fear by refusing silence. (1/9)