While we do not agree on all issues, I want to publicly thank UNC-CH Chancellor Lee Roberts for clearly stating today in Faculty Council that UNC cannot and will not sign Trump's Compact, because it raises irresolvable issues of academic freedom. That was important for faculty & students to hear.

It is difficult to get Extremely Online posters to understand something when their clout and metrics depend on them *not* understanding it.

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩‍🔬 🧪 Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent. Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive

almost like this is what schumer expected

Every new report on the consequences of Trump’s dismantling of USAID is more horrifying than the last. One model estimates it's caused 600K deaths — two-thirds of them children. We can’t give Trump a blank check to keep destroying life-saving programs.

Exclusive: Keir Starmer is poised to slash £150m in aid to among the world's biggest funders of the fight against HIV, TB and malaria - despite govt saying it would be prioritised www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Disgusting behavior, and yet this person is being rewarded for it in the bad place

"Whitestown"?!

The Black Women’s Player Collective has dropped a statement as well this morning on their Instagram in light of the recent comments made this week.

No matter how damning you think this report is going to be, it’s worse. I promise you it is worse.

I know who leads the party at the moment (and note I didn’t say “leader”). Women. Black women who, for decades, have been the bulwark of the Democratic Party. Young women, who just showed the power of their collective voice. Older women, whose attendance in street protests has been a mainstay.

So dumb. But maybe he can tell his corporate kiss-ass buddies to pay a living wage so people don’t have to rely on SNAP.

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

reminder: the heritage foundation is trying to co-opt feminism. they’ve achieved this in the uk via transphobia. they’re now doing it in the usa by claiming that the ‘problem’ is ‘liberal feminism’ and the solution is ‘conservative feminism’( aka sexism ).

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con. Please.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

We’re inviting everyone to join us in making sure our community stays fed💛 Bring your non-perishable food items to drop off outside every gate at the quarterfinal match at Audi Field this Saturday, Nov 8th. All donations go to Capitol Area Food Bank!

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

No, no, it's **Rebecca** who was great. And, indeed, now it's a radio show! The second (54 minute) link here: www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/... or Spotify link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5nlK... or Apple podcast link here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

For over a decade, the State Department had policies in place - policies that worked without a hitch - to offer trans and non-binary people dignity at the border, in the airport, and when otherwise traveling. There was no reason other than malice to reverse them. Again, the Court gives Trump cover.

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.

The next president isn’t gonna have to demolish this because it’s gonna collapse under its own weight during a state dinner.

While I guess I'm glad that conservatives now believe they get to have some form of feminism, it's baffling that they think this kind of biological determinism counts as equality.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Two and a half years after the NYT explicitly attempted to add trans reporters to the paper, the efforts never resulted in a hire. "This leaves an open question: Why?" writes the former NYT editor tapped to recruit. @assignedmedia.org www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

I notice the @nytimes.com has changed the WTF headline "Did women ruin the workplace" to this only slightly less egregious headline, but still. The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

ICE aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Okay this rocks

Folks - let them think this. I’ve spent 25 years doing campaigns - when you think like this after a loss like last night, you are doomed to lose again.

Not to nitpick but it would have been so much better if he had an “oye, Cuomo va” shirt

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

The headline about Spanberger's blowout victory in VA--along with the Dems romping in the House of Delegates--is that transphobia really doesn't work as an electoral secret weapon. And this fact needs to set in, despite the dearest wishes of the most ossified members of the commentariat.

Great night for Dems! Really wish things didn’t have to be horrible for us to get here.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

I would like Mamdani more if he weren't cuddled up to Bernie, whose positions on inclusion and immigration are so very bad.

Looking forward to media proclaiming that attacking trans people is electorally toxic.

If you want to know why we can’t give Trump a blank check, look what he did to USAID — illegally dismantling an agency that saved millions of lives and literally burning food meant for starving people. As I told former USAID staff this week: their work was the best of America.

BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced he will withhold SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans throughout the duration of the Republican shutdown, DEFYING previous court rulings. The cruelty is the point.

This #ElectionDay, we have the chance to choose leaders who will act to end gun violence and protect our communities—not the interests of the gun lobby. If you want change, vote like our lives depend on it — because they do. Find your polling place and go vote: etwn.us/4qLHRXu

No, I don’t have any Election Day trauma, why do you ask?

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

THIS

Virginia: don’t sit this one out. Change only happens when we all show up. Your vote today is about freedom from fear. It’s about the Commonwealth we can build with all of our children safe. Vote for @abigailspanberger.com + GVP leaders. Find your polling location at elections.virginia.gov.

Polls are starting to open. Go to IWillVote.com to find where you can vote.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Dozens of leaders in medicine, criminal justice and more issued an urgent call for collective action to tackle the gun violence crisis in the U.S.