Meanwhile, more on the shitweaselry within the NSF. For unexplained reasons they've put all grants to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Duke on hold.

What a defeatest. Slinging falsehoods for the fossil fuel execs he's in the pocket of.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

If Trump ever manages to erect that monstrosity of an arch, I'd like a small piece of it when it's demolished during the following administration. I have a piece of the Berlin wall, after all, and they'd make a nice pairing on the fireplace mantel.

LOL. "Many decades to come"? It'll be demolished as soon as he's out of office. If it even gets built.

Freya fascinated by the splashdown. Perhaps wondering if there was any good food to be had on the far side of the moon...

Great to be watching the Artemis feed from NASA. But... what's with the religious guy on the crew? Sounds like a typical proselytizer. Too bad. (It's not "belief" in your particular deity that got you where you are, buddy).

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

If you've seen the local ads from "Energy Future Maryland" understand that they are an undisclosed front for the Public Service Enterprise Group, the developers of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP), a highly-contested 70-mile transmission line.

"Call your representatives. Tell them it's not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene. Tell them to block all funding for this relocation and restructuring until the full implications have been studied, debated, and voted on"

Sometimes, there's good news.

No Kings rally, Baltimore. March 2026.

Abolish ICE (Bears repeating)

We all kind of figured this would be Fetterman's only term. But Heinrich is a disappointing surprise. Maybe he's figuring folks will forget, since his term isn't up until 2030. Good riddance. His exit can't come soon enough.

How many people were fired for posting something like this?

He's got the odor of Fetterman all over him. We'd all be wondering how many days until he reverted to the sentiments of that tattoo he wouldn't remove or cover up.

While we wait for the next warm spell (this weekend?) here's a video clip from the last one (> 35 wood frogs, 3-4 American toads, though the toads weren't calling yet at the time of this clip). The pond we built is definitely paying dividends. Hoping they'll all start calling again soon.

Why we need to get rid of the billionaires. Tax them into oblivion.

After the thunderstorm rolled through this evening, the American toads began calling along the edges of the pond. We'll leave the window open tonight.

"Biodiversity responses to land management changes can occur quickly. So when habitats are restored or chemical pressures are reduced, birds and insects can return within years." Restore more habitat. End rampant chemical use.

The pond is now ice free, and with the rain last night the wood frogs have emerged. Dozens of them. There is much calling. The world is a little better today.

Wow. Letter to the editor concerning the paper “Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches' populations” published by Marazuela Pinela et al. in Ecological Indicators, 171, 113155 (2025)

"If border walls destroy La Lomita, Santa Ana, Bentsen State Park, and the National Butterfly Center, they will not be magically resurrected when the White House has a less malignant occupant." www.texasobserver.org/trump-new-wa...

Congratulations to Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk for earning her PhD despite being unlawfully targeted by ICE for protected political speech. Our victory in AAUP v. Rubio will enshrine rights for non-citizen students and faculty like Dr. Öztürk. Everyone deserves to learn and speak freely on our campuses.

The end of Trump can't come soon enough.

A year into Trump’s second presidential term, Nature presents a series of graphics that reveal the impact of his administration on science. 🧪

HOW IT WORKS IN MOVIES: 1. Government lies 2. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 3. Press says “the government is lying!” HOW IT APPARENTLY WORKS IN REAL LIFE 1. Brave heroes release video showing the truth 2. Government lies 3. Press says “Oh no, what now? So confusing! So hard!”

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

I guess she was the wrong choice, Norway...

Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Don't mess with professors.

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

Getting tired of seeing the "RFK Jr is the most powerful man in science" posts? I am. Will he hinder our ability to get science done? Sure, to an extent. Will he change the direction of research? The areas and subjects we pursue? Not a chance. We all see him for the ignorant shill he is.

ICE must be *completely* abolished in its current form. Everyone fired. De-armed. A new immigration service will have to be built from the ground up under the next administration, with all former ICE employees prohibited from being hired there. My representatives will know that I feel this way.

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Just when I think maybe (possibly??) the NYT is on the upswing again, I get reliably disappointed that it isn't in the cards for the near future.

I think it goes without saying (if you've read the Constitution). But HCR says it very well. We are not a Christian nation.

I support the data center moratorium.

"The Liar" was my favorite story in the The Book of Witches (an anthology full of great stories). Weber State students really missed out as a result of their administration's policy. Honestly, I don't think you can call yourself a university if you "prohibit words and concepts."

one of the big lessons re conservatives and especially conservative christians is that they are more satisfied by being comparatively better off than others rather than being better off in absolute terms. they’re perfectly happy to lose if you lose more.

Wow. That just encapsulates the entire problem in one image, doesn't it?

I get that they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Here's what I'd do - commission "modern" versions of the anthem - a different one for each concert, increasingly dissonant/distinct. Obey the letter of the law, but mock the spirit of it. Flagrantly. Y'know, Shostakovich the hell out of it.

Platner is like a runner who's been hiding a ball and chain under his pant leg. Even if we accept that he did nothing illegal, or that he did and just didn't know the consequences of his act when he did it (a hard sell), the race is about to start, and he'd have to run the race that way. Drop out.

I understand the sentiment. But it's going to have to be torn down. The sooner, the better.

NYC? Oh, man, are they not reading the room.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

In #ScienceUnderSiege, we discuss how belief in weather modification & chemtrails are actually gateway beliefs to climate denial and antiscience conspiratorial ideation. There's a reason that fossil fuel shill Lee Zeldin is encouraging these conspiracy theories.

If you don't like being labeled fascists and Nazis, but your own supporters admit "I like Hitler"... Guess what?