Every time someone gets their Covid shot, RFK Jr loses hit points.

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Nothing says colorblindness like demanding race data

12,000 years ago, we welcomed our northern neighbors as they came south, riding a glacial tsunami across the plains. Very slowly. ⚒️ There is no granite bedrock outcropping at the surface in Ohio. This is an erratic from 🇨🇦, minding its own business and not bothering anybody.

Just got word that at the Broadview, IL facility I protested at yesterday, ICE fascists arrested Dana Briggs, a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Trump claims he's getting "violent criminals" off our streets with ICE. No, he's going after military Veterans who oppose his fascist policies. Indefensible.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Let’s Get Out The Vote Fairbanks! Municipal Elections are on Tuesday, October 7th! Early voting is still on today, tomorrow and all next week at the Bentley Mall! #gotv #fairbanksak #fnsb

If it turns out our best experts and detailed reporting strongly indicate Portland is not in fact “war ravaged” can we get an Analysis™ of why the President gets to say this sort of thing without much in they way of direct reporting to the effect that he is spouting nonsense in a worrying manner?

MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration is planning to close some U.S. Forest Service offices in Alaska under a national reorganization announced this summer by the U.S. agriculture secretary. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

I know we’re supposed to be Past That, Marge, but it really is astonishing that Trump—through a weird combination of total shamelessness on his part and sneaking regard on theirs—has largely gotten to the media to treat him in a way that applies to literally no-one else in American public life.

So what would it take for people to absorb the fact that, “The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane”? “I hereby declare the moon is made of green cheese?” “I am naming my horse as Consul?” “Two plus two is five?l “Portland is war-ravaged and I am sending troops?”

2D circle inversion fractals on the spherical surface. This was a fun offshoot of my recent Apollonian endeavours, again using the Riemann sphere mapping to go from 3D to 2D for the iterations.

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

Portland police were utilizing known and wanted proud boys to antagonize crowds in years gone by so they know it when they see it

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Found while walking my dog this morning.

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

Hot take (apparently) Secret Police are bad

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Made my CNN debut last night breaking down the shutdown and why the blame falls squarely on Donald Trump. He blew off a meeting with Democrats to go to the Ryder Cup instead of working on real solutions to avert this crisis. This isn’t about partisanship—it’s about leadership & competence.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

Let’s call a lie a lie, shall we?

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Shared governance isn’t just a concept. It’s a practice. To do it well often requires preparing participants. Both faculty and administrators must learn how to practice it well and both can be bad faith participants. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

#MinCup25 Quarterfinals 3: It's a showdown between Team Green and Team Blue for #kosmochlor vs #kyanite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

…Neither of them seem to realize the airlines must check USA entry documents for passengers boarding here *due to United States policy* Folks: direct your rage at United States DHS, not Germany

This only happens to you once

Finally getting something that approximates snow here in Fairbanks. #alaskasky

I know Lindsey Halligan is new at this prosecutor business, but there's far more evidence Ka$h Patel committed a crime in investigating Comey than that Comey did. Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer got the wrong FBI Director!

I ordered a couple of small metal prints of some of my sculptures from Craftcloud (IN3DTEC was the printer). Spendy (and don’t forget the extra $30 in tariffs!), but they came out looking pretty darn spectacular! #mathart

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The affine space AG(3,3) and corresponding projective plane PG(2,3).

Hooray! A c0nc0rdance interesting science/facts thread!

Let's talk about how "ammonia" (NH₃) gets its name 🧪. Along the way, we'll talk about Alexander the Great, ancient Egyptian gods & a Roman misunderstanding. Let's start with these giant CASTLES made for PIGEONS in Siwa, Egypt, a tiny desert town built around an oasis, with 2 dry salt lakes nearby.

#MinCup25 Quarterfinal 2: It's #perovskite and its intriguing structure against #tugtupite's collection of optical tricks for this quarterfinal match! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

“The latest salvo came as part of a series of late-night posts in which Trump also imposed fresh tariffs on heavy trucks, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and furniture.” Ugh. Can we *not* have international policy set via “late night posts”? Did his officials even know this was coming?

got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices www.ft.com/content/dd6d...

4 sitting female judges detailed Thursday the escalating threats they face over their rulings, including explicit intimidation that often targets them in ways their male colleagues rarely experience. --> They’re really going to make judges their personal executor. www.alternet.org/maga-judges-...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist. It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil. No executive order can change these facts. However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

Even if you think that we need a 100K fee for H1-B visas (which for the record is absurd and bad) or 100% tariffs on imported medicines (also absurd and very bad) the idea that you would roll out these policies with less that a week’s notice is just pure incompetence. It’s SO BANANAS.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”

You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM