Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Scientists, your voice has never been more powerful in fighting the silent creep of authoritarianism. Many of you are colleagues from @whoi.edu: Shoot them an email to say their removal of the LGBTQ+ Resource Library is a step in the wrong direction. If you want more information, message me.

If you are American faculty and aren't loudly speaking out against what's happening at @tamu.bsky.social right now, I suggest you read the news. Absolutely despicable actions by their admin and true loss for reliable, unbiased higher education. Acknowledging trans people exist is not "ideology".

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING A federal judge has THROWN OUT Donald Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, ruling that the lawsuit lacked "any legitimate legal claims." The judge is giving Trump 28 days to file another version of the lawsuit.

«The New York Times reported in 1939 that Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels terminated the careers of 5 prominent German comedians. Their crime? Making political jokes about the Nazi regime.» boingboing.net/2025/09/18/s... Image of the Times article below. www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The mainstream media barely made a peep about Trump’s latest attack on Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech rights.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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US to retire its only icebreaker, stranding polar research - new article posted today by @cuboulder. The icebreaker is critical for researchers who study the changes on the edges of Antarctic glaciers and how they relate to climate change and sea level rise. buff.ly/oMAElHY #antarctica #glaciers

As a trans person, it's really starting to feel like I genuinely wouldn't be safe working in American academia. It's beyond disheartening.

I was on this cruise! Awesome stuff from the Balch Lab at Bigelow and similar evidence recently out from the Bishop Lab at UC Berkeley. What other interesting things do diatoms have to tell us?

AI is not unbiased, do not seek information from it.

Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza

At this moment in US history, we need you in the streets, not just donating to the politicians who let the system bring us here. MAGA is showing up to their shit, are you showing up to protests to support democracy and protect your neighbors?

Local community driven action is the way out of this mess. If you're looking to fight extremism in your local community, please consider attending your City or Town Council meetings and urging your town to ban directive 287(g), which deputized local police forces to act as ICE agents.

BREAKING: Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act again, for a sign which said "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Early this week she said: "Palestine Action are not a terrorist organisation. They damaged weapons used on Palestinians."

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NEWS: Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the US illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding. (Bloomberg)

Harvard University won a crucial legal victory in its clash with the Trump administration on Wednesday, when a federal judge said that the government had broken the law by freezing billions of dollars in research funds. Gift link: nyti.ms/41CEOWy

EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins raked in $2 million from a billionaire private equity exec a day before she voted to advance Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.

I don’t know how this is possible. Texas cannot control guard sent to Illinois without violating Illinois sovereignty. It must be federally controlled units, otherwise instead of a Posee Comitatus problem, we have a major constitutional crisis.

Gov. Pritzker today: "In the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."

Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

Much much appreciation to UC faculty Dr. Sean Malloy for using his position as tenured faculty to lobby the University of California reagents and make a loud call for a reformed academia. Please, if you have tenure, consider using your position.

More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.

🚨 It’s the 20th anniversary of Katrina + FEMA workers are warning us: cuts + censorship are gutting the agency meant to keep us safe. Delayed disaster response = lives at risk. Sign the Katrina Declaration + demand Congress protect FEMA. 👉 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina-declaration

Reporting outside the Baltimore ICE field office for @statesnewsroom.com where hundreds are gathered to protest the potential deportation of Kilmer Abrego Garcia to Uganda.

Jesus this is metal

Friendly but increasingly exhausted reminder that the most progressive place in the world can’t protect people who can’t afford to live in it, and your sign saying all are welcome means nothing when your policies say “as long as you can afford a million dollar house”

If the courts hadn't forced Trump to obey the law I wrote demanding transparency in federal spending, we wouldn't know this is happening. Trump wanted to keep Americans in the dark, but it didn't work. Now we need to fight this with all we've got.

Efforts are afoot to cut polling sites and reduce the number of early voting locations in a Texas county, amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections. @fortworthreport.bsky.social

As someone who is submitting my abstract today, don't miss the deadline!

The DOJ halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law.

ICE Officer Caught on Camera Disguised as a Construction Worker theintercept.com/2025/08/11/i...

Sending armed federal agents to an opponents political rally is textbook intimidation and glaring red flag for authoritarianism. In 1934, six years before the Holocaust (1941-1945), Hitler and the Nazi Regime purged political opponents. historycollection.com/today-histor...

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Historical revisionism is the tool of facists. To improve (as a country or as a person) you must first accept and be accountable for your actions in the past.

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

TARIFFS BACKFIRE: Bloomberg reports Trump’s tariffs are crushing U.S. textile exporters—raising costs, scaring off buyers, and stalling investments. Cocona Labs’ CEO says sales are down and the company may move some of its operations overseas.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.