Thanks Obama.

JD Vance Still Waiting For Secret Service To Retrieve Him From Secure Hiding Area

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

All of this!

This is loving your neighbor. Also this story was told by Tim Walz in tonight's State of the State speech in MN.

This is loving your neighbor. Also this story was told by Tim Walz in tonight's State of the State speech in MN.

Right after the March to the Sea, he said this:

Excellent thread 👇

Excited to dig into this by @chanda.blacksky.app ! In addition to just being really interested in reading it, I'm wondering if we can use a chapter or two for our institution-wide First Year Seminar titled How Do We Know What We Know? 1/2

Iowa friends: I'll be at Prairie Lights in Iowa City tomorrow night (4/23) at 7pm, for a reading and conversation about Holding It Together. I'd love to see you there! prairielights.com/event/2026-0...

This is a great idea!

An absolutely beautiful day. #CornellCollege

There is no McTry.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

In Atlanta for the Am Chem Soc meeting. If any old or new friends would like to connect, send me a message! #ACSSpring2026 1/3

Only a few days left to submit an abstract to the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education! Abstract deadline is 1 March. Come give a talk in the Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry symposium or any of the other great symposia. #bcce #pchem #chemsky #chemchat 1/2

Though I don't always succeed, I try to be thoughtful about social media use. I take one day off of social media every week, and once a year I take a several-week break. It's now time for that longer break - so with very few exceptions I'll be off for awhile. 1/2

Wow is right.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Do you teach large enrollment STEM classes in higher education? Are you interested in doing more active learning in your courses? Resources and dedicated mentorship are available! Apply for the Large Class Transformation Award-link in next post. #edusky #teaching #STEM #learningisnotaspectatorsport

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

We need to talk about how a guy named Bruno (namely @paul-bruno.com ) published an article titled "We Need to Talk About How We Compensate School Staff" muse.jhu.edu/issue/54902 \ (standing ovation, Paul)

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

My takeaway is the artist was told to draw painstakingly draw each hair in Platner's beard and then what they thought someone called Jasmine Crockett would look like

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

As usual, we are running the Engaging Students in Physical Chemistry symposium at this summer's Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Abstracts are due 1 March. We hope you can join us! #chemsky #chemchat #pchem 🧪

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

This speaks volumes.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

"As the light departs my corporeal form, yearning to move on to destinations unknown, I have but one final request. I beg of you, please commemorate my birthday with mattress sales."

This is a tax on you. You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.

Grading lab reports. One student: "...our goal was to find the energy gap between FOMO and LUMO." Close! Just missing out, so to speak, on one acronym. #chemsky #chemchat

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

I keep coming back to this.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

Great sunset tonight. This was a little past the best color. #iowa

Arrived yesterday! #chemsky #chemchat

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"? I ran across historical precedent for that today. It's from a radio transcript @rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark… …in 1943.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

This is all pretense. They know they're going to lose big in November. So, they're preemptively establishing (false) claims and manufacturing (false) evidence. Which they'll use to justify (illegally) invalidating state election results and refusing to give up power.

Important observation.

This is a great conference! #chemsky #chemchat

Caucused tonight. Good people who care about making their community better.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...