This guy is in charge of US health care.

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

We’re basically living in a government that is backed in a serious way by literally the stupidest cult that’s ever existed

Yeah, I gotta agree with the “SilkSong is too hard” crowd.

BIRTHDAY PARTY CHEESECAKE POGO STICKS AND LEMONADE

A must read: The fantastic @katerqburns.bsky.social breaks down the controversy Christian Supremacist/Nationalist celeb Sean Feucht will try to manufacture in Seattle this weekend. You don't have to be a fortune teller to know what Feucht's up to. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

All dictators are at their core petty, insecure people.

Fun fact: USB-A connectors are spin-½ objects.

MAGA is a death cult

This is just textbook 1930’s fascism

Pop quiz: what group of people is best described by the words “vicious, selfish, demanding, cunning, and destructive”?

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Oh my God

Breaking: Donald Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from North Dakota unless it changes the name of its capital back to Hitler.

Can we now stop dismissing the Jade Helm stuff as a silly conservative theory, and instead see it as an unintentionally revelatory form of projection by aspirationally authoritarian conservative, “freedom fighters” who were battling against tyrannical phantoms that existed only in their own psyches?

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

I’m home

The term “Orwellian” really doesn’t get used enough these days.

I hate these people so much

Conservatives who claimed Obama was using FEMA to build concentration camps really quiet now that it’s real

“They say that all those people died in those flash floods but what they won’t talk about is the fact that water is essential for life” - some fucking idiot, probably

🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 🚀 the Voyager Declaration has LAUNCHED. NASA employees join a growing rebellion against Trump’s anti-science, anti-American agenda. 🧵(1/4)

NOAA’s Atlas 15 Volume 2, a nearly finished, life-saving tool to predict how rainfall patterns will shift with climate change, has been suspended. Atlas 15 Volume 2 wasn’t just data - it was hope for a more climate-ready future for the American people. zurl.co/MDbeA

🚨 #PAEMST, the nation's highest honor for STEM teachers, has been DEFUNDED in the new NSF budget. This award was est by Reagan in 1983. This award fuels classroom innovation, strengthens the STEM pipeline, and uplifts excellence in every community.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Really sad to see what is being done to my soon-to-be-former state. www.ipm.org/news-section...

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Whoever made the Indiana basketball gods angry last night please cast yourself out of the state immediately thank you for your attention to this matter.

Just sharing a bit of information from the last day at my first AP Physics reading. #apphysicsexam #apphysics #FlippingPhysics #iTeachPhysics youtu.be/cPM__h2WABs

My first AP physics reading is in the books. I really enjoyed the experience of spending seven days not grading one of the lab questions. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

All correct exams are the same. All incorrect exams are incorrect in their own way. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

PSA for AP Physics students: regardless of what your teacher may have told you, writing only “F=Ma” on the free response will not in fact earn you any points. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

Oh good

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

Tyrese Haliburton is 6-for-7 (85.7%) when taking a shot to tie or take the lead in the final 90 seconds of the 4th or OT this playoffs. That’s the most such shots in a single postseason since 1997.

More of this on the local news, please.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

the mRNA vaccines are an absolute miracle of science that saved millions of lives and we're going to throw the entire technology out because they could not vaccinate society against putting the worst and most ignorant people alive in charge of our medical system

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A new update from Dianna Cowern (“Physics Girl”) youtu.be/vqeIeIcDHD0?... #iTeachPhysics 🎢

If you have ever felt that 200cc in Mario Kart 8/Deluxe is much faster than it should be, your suspicions are correct. Based on the formula followed by the other engine classes, the speed the game pretends is 200cc is actually 415cc instead.

I don’t see how this can result in anything other than unnecessary suffering and death. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Just finished working the last of the AP Physics FRQs. They all seemed very fair. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Hey heads up everyone, College Board just sent out another last-minute change for the AP Physics 1 exam. They’re changing the value of g from 10 to 5. #iTeachPhysics 🎢

If anything this doesn’t go far enough. This should be the conservative position on AI. I think a case can be made that nobody should use it.

Good luck to everyone taking the AP Environmental Science exam! Don’t forget about the new executive order that says you must write a 1000-word essay about the benefits of coal power and how much you yearn for the mines!