This alone should be able to win Democrats control of the Senate. Will they even bother to try and fight back on this?

I think it's nice when there's a big snowstorm and the next day people put chairs out in the street to give away.

I reject the premise that the NIH & its Director ought to engage in trivial gestures aimed at inflaming this or any culture war The work of understanding and improving human health is far too serious and important for tomfoolery like this This erodes credibility more than any professional judgment

It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers. Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.

like, there are people on the left who just don't vote for Ds ever and pretty much don't participate in electoral politics. the best thing to do when they stay stuff like this is just nod and smile and work with them on non electoral progressive goals (mutual aid, resisting ICE, what have you.)

It’s not great

This is not the end all be all, but it's something. Politicians should take note. Doing something is better than doing nothing. He should take this way further though. Arrest masked ICE agents, actually confront ICE. Make a database of known agents.

this is wishcasting

James are you open to constructive feedback

No, he's never been asked to explain his views to *people who aren't bigots*. If he's speaking to bigots, I'm sure he has a very fluent answer.

This ad should concern Susan Collins.

Might be interesting to ask Tapper “So, as you understand it, was Manzanar a concentration camp?” Because a lot of people (maybe Tapper) think it’s only a “concentration camp” if it comes from the Todeslager region of Germany, otherwise it’s just sparkling relocation.

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

Noem owes these men an apology and the country a resignation.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

MAGA music sux. Fight me on it...lol! youtu.be/u8FAbjjB48A?...

Moderna has 2 trials for EBV vaccines in Phase 1/2 and Phase 2. EBV is now widely believed to be a causative agent for Multiple Sclerosis. Just under 3 million people in the world, about 1 million in the US have MS. trials.modernatx.com/study/?id=mR... trials.modernatx.com/study/?id=mR...

The reason this guy has so much trouble answering this question, compared to Southern politicians in the Jim Crow south or someone like Nick Fuentes, is that he's not willing to use the same language he uses in the group chat to express himself in a public forum like a Senate hearing.

Great thread on Alito retiring, and if that happens a likely SCOTUS fight. There is a 🧪angle. The major scientific societies like @aaas.org should have a Supreme Court nominee fight strategy. The Trump noms will be anti-science. We shld draw up a plan now.

Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US

Reminder: The national guard occupation in DC has cost over $330 million in taxpayer money so far and they're set to remain here for the rest of the year.

Marco Rubio telling Jeffrey Epstein he loves him in 2016

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

'In 2016, Dr. Mehmet Oz, now the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, invited Epstein over for a Valentine’s party—eight years after Epstein was registered as a sex offender.'

Turns out Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Jewish space lasers” are more like “CBP space lasers” in this, the dumbest of all possible timelines.

If you need to field test how to talk about child rape, you are not qualified to hold elected office.

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

anyway I do expect a huge midterm for Dems and I do expect a Dem to win in 2028 and then I expect the GOP will win the 2030 midterms on the basis of “the last guy broke too much shit and you didn’t fix it in five minutes”

Links 2/12/26 Links for you. Science: Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules Trump Is Making America Stupider. How MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public…

It's back up. #stonewall. #nyc

"The White House is looking to exercise tighter control over [HHS] ...restructuring HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s senior-most ranks, installing four new senior counselors who will be charged with more closely managing the department..." www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p... @cnn.com

i don’t think there’s ever been anything like it in american history. they *are* who the most hardened conspiracy cultists *think* the rockefellars or the kennedys or the soros family are

one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

Dear Algorithm, please send me people who actually want a library card today. I’m exhausted but still ready to sign you up. Do your thing, bestie.

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

In addition to all the other demented ideas packed into 15 short words, see also:

And if you have an iPhone and you have the sinking realization as the federal agent is bearing down on you that you forgot to disable biometrics: hit the right-side down button 5x very quickly to enter the power down menu.

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

I'm sorry but if you are a public commentator and your line in 2024 was like "pro-worker Republicans like Josh Hawley and JD Vance are building an interesting new labor-friendly lane for the second Trump administration" you are both dumb and dangerous and should retire

you're doing amazing everybody ❤️

Logging into Bsky each morning

Woot woot hold the line Dems

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

I still think Paul is a tool, but this libertarian point is valid, and grounded in our history.

Two things that are both true: 1.) American conservatism has always been far worse than voters are willing to believe. 2.) The groyperization of the GOP has been a world historical catastrophe which will echo for generations.

This mentions something that tends to be forgotten given the violent fascism: the paramilitary surges really harm businesses. In D.C., when the summer surges began, businesses in the patrolled areas got hammered.