Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

Reminder that ICE whistleblowers have been warning for months that the agency's Trump-era hiring surge has led to dangerous recruits being given alarming levels of power. Watch.

The Treasury’s top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Or specialized medical training. It’s not like we need general surgeons or neurosurgeons or orthopedic surgeons or otolaryngologists or urologists, or reconstructive surgeons or…

Everyone in the legacy media knows Trump's history and knows that he will spread dangerous lies on Thursday night. They know that they have a choice about whether to cover the speech. Most importantly, they know the danger and the stakes. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-the-media-h...

Opinion NYTimes Editorial Board: The Senate Should Reject Todd Blanche www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/o...

Happy to share our latest paper in NAR showing that the 2B sub-domain is a general dimerization domain for the UvrD-family of SF1A helicases including Rep and PcrA, led by Binh Nguyen in collaboration with Eric Galburt's group. doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

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The comment period ends Monday. You can submit comments through this link: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... See next post for a link to an example for how to structure your comments. Details matter! 🧪

The acceptance of those in the DC club of evil because its proponents were pleasant to them at cocktail parties is one of the problems with our establishment. Morality takes a back seat to the conviviality of their pampered bubble lives. An evil man who could tell or laugh at a joke is still evil.

For me, these two statements about Trump will always define who Lindsey Graham was "I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office” “What concerns me..is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy some kind of kook not fit to be president” youtu.be/kSEvatYTgyY?...

This, in a nutshell, is Democratic centrism. "Let's not say anything true about the fascist that just died."

The OMB rule would codify this uncertainty, making termination a constant threat to all federally funded science. Your field might be safe now, but this rule would allow the admin to stop any line of research that becomes politically inconvenient. Posting below resources on where/how to comment.

Good point.

This strip is, no exaggeration, a formative element of my life. Read it young; remembered it forever.

Since Trump took office, Wisconsinites are paying $3,000 more in a year for necessities while over 45,000 of them have lost healthcare. Rep Van Orden and Rep Bryan Steil have stood by and allowed this. They have to go in November.

The chorus against Blanche is growing 1,200+ frm. DOJ employees urged the Senate to reject his nom—citing illegal firings & political purges @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social + 101 judges called for investigation into his Epstein conflicts & ethics breaches Reject this nom! -TN

100 years ago, same place, same message, different outfits.

Women arguing women should lose their voice is patriarchy's marketing. "Household voting" & the SAVE Act strip women of citizenship, not protect families. Sold as "God's design," it’s Christian Nationalism. iambossiofficial’s #CupOfJoe has a latte feminism.

The writing of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE The committee of Jefferson, Adams and Franklin meets. This scene from JOHN ADAMS series gives me goose bumps youtube.com/watch?v=SL8a... youtube.com/watch?v=U0_3...

🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn -- Norm Eisen, Democracy Defenders Fund & Mary Dohrmann, Washington Litigation Group

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

"On August 18, the accounts purchased Intel stock valued between $250,000 and $500,000—four days before Trump announced that the federal government would take a nearly $9 billion equity stake in the chipmaker, sending Intel shares up roughly 6%" Multiple valid reasons to impeach here

18 year term limits. Expand the court. Save America.

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

He's absolutely right. The birthright citizenship decision is an obscenity because it wasn't a 9-0 decision. And every "scholar" who argued in favor of Trump's executive order should go down in history as a traitor to the Constitution.

My quote of the day Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath. John Roberts

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Wasn’t this a policy that has been successful in France?

cc: Stephen Miller

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I Was an NIH Program Official. Here's What a Peer Reviewer Doesn’t See. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I just came across this, rather late in the day. The final sentence is very apt, and I wonder if I detect in it a hint of irony? cc @scurry.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Special Issue: Cell Biology of the Nucleus has been building over the last few months. In the coming weeks, we’ll be highlighting all the articles in this issue. First up, we have an interview with our Guest Editor @abbybuch.bsky.social: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #CellBio #nucleus

The proposed OMB rule goes so much farther than just science funding. Read and then make a comment and contact your federal legislators (see next RTs for more).

5,843 terminated NIH grants. 110 canceled announcements. Courts ordering reinstatements. Political pre-issuance review in action. My take in MedPage Today. @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I’ve done this and you should too!

tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”

So True @karlykingsley.bsky.social

and here we go.

It is open comment time for a Project 2025 bill Stand up for Science has a synopsis of it here synopsis of the key points www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... and also tips for commenting here www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a.... Comment and fight for science!

Susan rice reacts to the MOU after Trump’s disastrous, pointless war

"America lost the war...We will exit the war with none of those goals achieved, and in order to end the war, America had to submit to a host of Iranian conditions. We lost and there is no reasonable way to hide this fact." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Here is another thing you should do to oppose OMB’s proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034). Pressure congress. They have the power to stop it! 5calls.org/issue/federa...