Unbelievable. Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Thrilled to share this brief review with you all (pre-print/OSF link available at end of the thread). It's weird to be in the place where I am now writing reviews of the development and evolution of an idea/concept that started when I was a 2nd year grad student link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trumpworld has been trying to spin the US military’s bombing of Iran as a complete and total victory, even as independent experts and MAGA loyalists object.

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Love what they did here. Everyone should do this with their papers. Academic best practice here 👇

"Just as America’s colleges are preparing to welcome what could be the largest freshman class in the nation’s history...many students may have to pay more, professors may lose their jobs, programs could vanish and support services could shrink." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

How do you shame the shameless?

The study uses the patchwork of state and local plastic bag policies across the U.S., plus crowdsourced data from 45k+ shoreline cleanups, to show that plastic bag taxes and fees reduce bag litter by 25-47% in the jurisdictions that pass them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...

SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

"I see you've got reports and papers. What gives?" Glad you asked, #ICA25! For most folks, the "full" papers are your standard fare completed works (~8K words), representing every corner of ICA. Reports? Much shorter (~4K words), meant to give space for emerging & incremental scholarship.

#ica25 chair tip - ASK people how to pronounce their name phonetically (even in email first) and/or ask AI how to pronounce it. There is really no excuse for people stumbling over names anymore. This is a matter of respect.

near Union station in Denver (@ XIV). cops have set off what seems to smoke bombs & tear gas at a small cluster quiet of protestors. We’re evacuating a roof top bar, people at this #ica25 reception are throwing up, streaked w/ tears & seeking refuge inside. If you’re in the area, get inside.

We lost by 1.5% and 90 million people didn't vote. Lesson learned folks, let's spend $20 million on ads targeted at divorced dads who fall asleep every night watching IG reels about how to open a bottle of water like an alpha.

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

For starters, Democrats need to actually field a candidate against Mike Johnson, unlike the 2022 and 2024 campaigns when they let him run unopposed. The odds of unseating him will be long, but use the campaign to put him on defense and make our version of Pierre Poilievre sweat a little.

Imagine if Joe Biden had said ‘where do these three judges come from?’ and one of them had been appointed by… him.

If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

“Claude is a snitch.” The internet freaked out after Anthropic revealed that its new AI attempts to report "immoral" activity to law enforcement or media in certain circumstances.

the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri. big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

International students add $44 billion to the US economy, annually. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

Can we have Harvard grads and plumbers or is this a zero-sum thing? bsky.app/profile/atru...

A CDC report found that among pregnant U.S. women with COVID-19, 1 in 80 deliveries resulted in stillbirth, compared to 1 in 155 for uninfected women--- but under new leadership, the CDC isn't telling you that. apnews.com/article/cor...

People will die. They don't care. “Are they making this decision without going to any of their advisory committees?” Benjamin said. “Show us the evidence, the studies that have been done … I don’t know of any.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

in the american system, the president may represent a national electorate but this does not imbue him with anything other than rhetorical power. he must still negotiate with congress, which represents particular constituencies, and heed the courts, who determine what the law is.

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

Support for stricter environmental regulations outweighs opposition in a majority of states www.pewresearch.org/...

#AZ01 David Schweikert (R): Won by 3.8% last year ~49,200 enrolled in #ACA exchange plans ~39,400 enrolled in #ACA Medicaid expansion ~88,700 combined at risk (10.8% of total pop)

"Joe Biden’s fitness for office is not the most pressing issue facing the country now, in 2026, or in 2028. This is trivially obvious. But the fact that the media, and some Democrats, continue to be obsessed with the last election points to some real problems going forward." — @nberlat.bsky.social

Trump is as orange as he's ever been today

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists

I often say we have Both-Sides our country into oblivion, with an assist by the Dem Purity Test where one is either too left or not left enough

The decline of local news is undermining the volume of coverage of political scandals and the electoral consequences of them for politicians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW: CBP has confirmed that it used Signal clone TeleMessage. Messages a hacker leaked to @josephcox.bsky.social indicated the agency was a customer. TM Signal has not been approved by the US gov's risk assessment program. @lhn.bsky.social w/the scoop www.wired.com/story/cbp-co...

President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire. By @gbrumfiel.bsky.social

This is amazing, does anyone have something similar for #comm #commscience, would be a time saving collective resource to pull together (especially if scripted to pull data directly into cells … an #ica25 hackathon project, @jacobtfisher.online? 😁)

Honestly my favorite part about people who defend AI inaccuracy and hallucination is thinking that something like 15% is acceptable. Imagine if Excel calculated formulas incorrectly 15% of the time but you didn’t know which ones were wrong

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

The communications app and Signal clone TeleMessage, which was spotted on former US national security advisor Mike Waltz's phone, has suspended “all services” following reports of hackers stealing data from the app.