“Federal grand juries almost never decline to bring an indictment once, much less twice. Such rejections, known as “no true bills,” have been exceedingly rare, a misfire that often stigmatizes the prosecutors involved” Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Lawless, criminal behavior

“I know every one of you will say I left my kids at home I don’t care You will say I haven’t eaten all day I don’t care You’ll say that you’re terrified, that you’re here unjustly I don’t care”

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.

ICE is snatching up American citizens with ID and throwing them in jail for days at a time without any form of due process. But someone with pink hair did a land acknowledgment at my last HOA meeting. I have never felt more politically homeless.

All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.

Maybe now is as good a time as ever to share The Responsibility of Intellectuals chomsky.info/19670223/

Without cell machinery, how could RNA form polymer strands? In this cool AFM study, wet/dry cycles provided the energy to polymerize up to thousands of RNA nucleotides into long strands, which persisted even in acid at high temperatures Here’s a giant tangle of RNA strands formed this way 👇

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

This is nuts. Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment. Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.

Compounds like iron acetate may have been present on prebiotic Earth This study showed amino acids - building blocks of proteins, which are building blocks of life - spontaneously assemble into chains when iron acetate is dissolved in water chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

Show people this video of a person’s Fourth Amendment rights being violated Then, when they say “well, was he a citizen?” show them the next video …

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.” Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.

👋 Hi Internet please help me out here So, up to now I’ve dismissed the jokes about JD Vance wearing eye makeup But I was watching a video and had to do a double take *Freeze frame. Enhance … * What am I seeing here?

When he returned home, his 5-year-old, who watched the episode from the front door, made a striking comment: “‘Dad, I just don’t understand who the bad guys are.’”

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

A friend asked me last year why I celebrate Christmas if I am just a humanist So I asked him why he celebrates Halloween if he believes demons and witches are actually real 😉

Here is an ABC7 report on the ICE or Federal agents arresting three US citizens in Evanston, Illinois yesterday, October 31st, 2025. See post above for videos taken by residents who witnessed the events.

This is Zoomer Nazi Nick Fuentes, the guy Tucker Carlson interviewed recently The Guy the President of the Heritage Foundation defended while calling the entire American political left “vile” and “venomous” 🙄

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE. A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force. But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

what a GREAT thread. Add your entries to the end please!

Three Category 5 hurricanes this year. Only the second time we know of that we've had more than two in one season (2005 had 4). 🧪

The US Department of Labor’s ads about American workers

👋 Anyone have views on whether complex life was an accident or inevitable? I think it’s better to ask under what conditions is it possible Then, appreciate life isn’t a march towards complexity any more than a forest is simply a march towards height. But, how tall can the tallest trees grow?

A reminder that Trump tripled spending on his Secret Police, adding $75 billion ICE is the most-funded law enforcement agency, has more funding than even the FBI, and more than most nation’s militaries Fascism is VERY expensive and inefficient

“Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao assisted Donald Trump’s family with the launch of its stablecoin, one that could yield tens of millions of dollars annually. On Thursday, Zhao received a pardon … His exchange facilitated transactions for the military wing of Hamas”

“.. The US now doles out nearly $200 billion in direct subsidies for favored businesses each year, and the president has imposed an expansive tariff regime, which will likely invite corruption, waste tax dollars, and sap ambition.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump literally said he wanted to intentionally murder “families” in 2016 Republicans have forgotten this, or are in denial, or have been lulled to sleep because until now checks and balances prevented him from fulfilling his darkest impulses

The US froze aid to Colombia Much of which is used to fight drug cartels Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

Breaking: Extreme ocean heat has eradicated key coral species in Florida from a 350-mile-long reef that protects coastal cities from storms, provides fisheries habitat. Scientists say reef-building elkhorn & staghorn corals are now "functionally extinct." Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The main story of Caribbean boat strikes—now up to nine, in both Atlantic and Pacific, killing at least 30 people—is the lawlessness, domestically and internationally, and how it’s terrible strategy if they’re really targeting drug traffickers, which they might not be, or at least not careful about.

“I’m from Brooklyn! I’m not doing nothing!” The man was indeed not doing nothing, and was released without charge after his Fourth Amendment rights were violated

“Amendment 22: no person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice” m.youtube.com/shorts/QO3hb...

“There is no bottom”

👋 hey science BlueSky If you’re listening, any thoughts on Freeman Dyson’s book Origins of Life? I just read it, and loved it. Nice, succinct, logical little book I know he could be somewhat controversial and the book could be outdated by now

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

There were 7 million Americans at the latest No Kings 🚫👑 protest That’s 2% of the entire population Research shows “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change” Source 👇

“The open market economy and the culturally open society, notwithstanding all their failures and deficiencies, seem to possess a robustness that centrally planned economies and culturally closed societies lack” - Origins of Life, Freeman Dyson