@jfruh.bsky.social this sounds like your department…

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side. What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?

I have a sci-fi flash fiction out with @metastellar.bsky.social today! If you have 4 minutes and fancy a fun take on what the future of advertising may hold, please have a read. www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

The new Popemobile is an interesting choice.

You'd make a great horror writer man. It inspired me a bit if you don't mind.

I just read this. It's beautiful and heartbreaking and true. Go on, you know you want to. Incidentally, Premee's first collection was amazing, so the new one is worth buying. Probably...

Measles was completely eradicated in the United States by the MMR vaccine. It is not possible for anything to be better than that. It is journalistic malpractice to present this as anything other than stupidity, lies, and outright fraud.

Mom & minor daughters are citizens who just moved from MD to Oklahoma. This statement from the Mom should be read, absorbed & circulated. ICE cannot be allowed to terrorize vulnerable families. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social kfor.com/news/local/w...

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a baby swearing, forever. That’s what this is: a kid trained to say “fuck” because grown-ups think it’s funny, without ever wondering, caring, or learning why.

I am not being remotely hyperbolic or overstating things when I say that Elon and RFK et al should be treated alongside Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot in terms of history's greatest mass murderers, assuming nothing is done to stave off the impending disaster

Exactly this. I tell my students that measles outbreaks are signs of a collapsing society because the systems that prevent measles spreads do so much other good. Once measles appears, systems are failing, and society is in trouble.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

The moment is so big, and our leaders are so small.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

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Great story! Dr. Davies’ experience shows the use of computing as a tool to process knowledge and further human insight rather than as the end-all be-all of everything.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage. Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read. 🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

Decades of political spending by business interests have finally produced the conditions that will destroy America's status as a good place to do business. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Human beings cannot afford journalism to be euphemistic or blinkered about what the US is proposing in Gaza, nor about what that proposal will unleash.

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs. Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

As far as I’ve seen, all week the US Treasury’s ASAP system for wiring grant payments to recipients has been down. I can’t get into it to even check past transactions in any case.

Literally nothing should be happening with Trump's nominees in Congress until this stops. Again, this is last-gasp Helms Deep sort of stuff in re: the constitutional order. Either Article I exists, or it doesn't. Is Trump an absolute monarch or does the rule of law & the constitution still exist?

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Our A.I. times ;-)

Spent the last weeks preparing to spend $200,000 on made in USA vehicle chargers. However, they were DOE grant funded. With freeze, we can’t be certain when or if our local government can access the funds to reimburse ourselves. Order paused (canceled?) at the last minute. (1\2)

"Zionism is the national self-determination movement of the Jewish people, as well as a force for ethnic cleansing, racial apartheid, and genocide, which makes it just like every other national self-determination movement." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality...

Hey everyone…had a conversation with the @uoftpandemics.bsky.social SM manager about why they should get off twitter A plea: their bsky account is a shell right now, but if we could get them some followers here I bet we could get them to switch Please consider following 🙏🙏🙏

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

Just at an EV related technical meeting for local governments getting and applying for grants. An embarrassed Department of Energy person popped in and said per higher ups, all technical programs are halted until further notice.

I'm always reminded of this from Jay Smooth - the importance of focusing on the "what they did" instead of "what they are" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti...

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

GOP called climate change 'hoax.' Now our BEAUTIFUL Los Angeles (I call it L.A.) is on fire! GOP let climate get HOT, did nothing as temps became VERY HIGH. SICK!! Democrats will fight climate change and make our environment NUMBER ONE AGAIN!!!! www.thewrap.com/donald-trump...

They absolutely got away with it. They are likely to continue to get away with such things for a while. But here’s the thing: I’d rather be unsuccessfully decent than successfully evil.

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Have you read this story? Read this story. (Thank you, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social ❤️💔❤️) thedeadlands.com/issue-35/rac...

The Democrats always preemptively concede and I’m so fucking sick of it. Just do some good things for us. Fucking one thing even if it gets swatted down eventually. You should be pulling out all the stops right now.

Please read Adeel Mangi’s letter to President Biden. He pulls no punches, and none deserve to be pulled. aboutblaw.com/bgA0

One thing that's been pointed out about Bluesky and that I've tried to practice is that because there's no algorithm, 'likes' don't really give a post much traction. Ya gotta repost if you want to get the word out.

people are fine. MBAs are the dumbest motherfuckers on Planet Earth