This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

This is wonderfully promising for reducing the costs, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions associated with air conditioning! www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

If trump needed actual medical care he’d be better off with Conan O’Brien’s doctor than Ronny Jackson

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Casar: "Look, when Donald Trump said first this didn't exist, and then we found it, and now he's saying he didn't sign it -- his signature looks just like his own signature -- it's like the bank robber who who's caught with a bag full of cash and says 'I'm not the one who robbed the bank.'"

What do the clinic trials say about prayer as an effective prevention measure for communicable diseases?

I want to live in a state where the Health Department and Surgeon General aren't the biggest risks to my health and well-being.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

The only silver lining of a potential JD Vance presidency is that he is so thoroughly uncharismatic and unlikable - even among R voters – that his war crimes would land him in jail in no time

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand.

A non-trivial faction of his base is isolationist. Hopefully they can form a coalition with another non-trivial faction of his base that’s anti-sexual predator.

I used to think the people who truly held the purse strings in this country would realize Trump is bad for business and cut him loose. How quickly they fall in line.

Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.

Gov. DeSantis and FL Surgeon Gen. Ladapo are attempting to remove statewide childhood vaccination mandates. This will result in needless suffering and death among children and families in Florida. Please consider contacting your state representatives to push back against this callous proposition.

Good on Florida Memorial. Makes me sad that #FIU rolled over ( #PawsUp) without a fight when Jeanette Nunez was appointed president last year.

we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage

It’s time to fight! Become a member of @aaup.org or your local union and let’s build power and get ready to rumble!!

“How bad slavery was”.

The judge ruled that 20 banned books had no legitimate basis for being banned and makes it easier to sue when books are banned

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

And this is what I mean about backlash.

NEW: Of the 238 men deported to the prison in El Salvador, DHS data shows: • 130 had no U.S. criminal histories aside from immigration violations; • 32 had been convicted of crimes in the U.S.; • 6 of those were violent crimes.

Are we really comfortable with these immigration enforcement agents who have been militarized to the point of resembling a domestic paramilitary continuing to cover their faces while conducting these types of operations in our neighborhoods?

International students added $44 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2023–2024 academic year. Adecline in international enrollment would also impact local and state economies across the country. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

King Charles' recent visit to Canada:

CBS anchor Scott Pelley tears into Trump in fiery commencement speech. He warns graduates that journalism, universities and freedom of speech are ‘under attack’ from new administration in impassioned address. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A second measles case has been confirmed in Florida and while we know it's in Broward County, no other information is available from the state. Surely they have the info. They're simply not sharing it.

Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.

Sounds about right

After RFK posted this pic and declared the Caps "my new hometown team," Washington lost 3 straight and have now been eliminated from the NHL playoffs.

I wonder if John Roberts has ever heard of this little-known, dusty old charter.

“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so. We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”

Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.

Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.

America does not hold a military parade to celebrate the birthday of the president other policies are more consequential, but this goes against what America always has been, not just what it ought to be, in a way that is really new we do a lot of bad and dumb shit but we don't do this shit

For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊 🎨 Using colour to highlight one category 📈 Transparency to highlight the important data ✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

But Hunter Biden! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

In other words, international students are SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TIMES less likely to have a criminal record than the US adult population as a whole (estimated 30% of whom have had some encounter with the criminal justice system).

Restrepo back w cam