There are plenty of non fraudulent working class people who are anti-fascist. Maybe the party should try getting behind one of them for a change? That might require listening to what people want which I’m sure must be very hard.

Really wondering how the lady I met at NKIII in Santa Monica but lives in ME is feeling about how her Indivisible group was all-in on Platner. Maybe I should have asked her why she was supporting someone with a Nazi tattoo instead of just backing away slowly.

I am Jewish and I would not have recognized it as a Nazi symbol. That said, at some point later in time he clearly did know what it was and chose to keep it and has hemmed and hawed about it, which is the bigger issue.

It is very easy to manipulate modern recommendation algorithms to boost certain kinds of content (see: Musk and X). It’s probably Not Good that the thoughts, worldviews, and behaviors of hundreds of millions of people are downstream of those biases, which can be set by a handful of people

Some days I feel like screaming at nobody in particular “Do people even realize how insane this all is?? How nothing is stable right now and the world is primed to erupt into extreme catastrophe?!” And then I imagine myself getting hauled away in a strait jacket.

periodic reminder that bill de blasio basically stopped fighting with the nypd after they kidnapped his daughter and publicly threatened her you tell them no and they tell you they're the ones with the guns

this is true for mayors too. between wildcat strikes, manipulating data, and maybe kidnapping your kid, the cops have all the leverage.

This tends to happen when you allow an entity to not only do whatever the fuck it wants, but give it more money and power after doing so.

the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

Got a second one from the same number after I told them I don’t live in the district and even if I did I wouldn’t vote for her!

I just got a text from Traci Park's campaign, asking me to vote for her. Minor wrinkle: I don't live in her district. Good job, guys!

stereotypes about LA make people think the typical Angeleno is a hollywood woo doofus married to a plastic surgeon when the actual median voter in the city of LA is like a 55 year old churchgoing Latino lady who has never voted for a Republican in her entire life and never will

but the parliamentarian... the board... the the the... figure. it. out.

i understand all the legislative practicalities but honestly the biggest obstacle to democratic presidents doing stuff has been the democratic party. you can gnash teeth all you want but trump has shown us how much the dems just refused to do when they had power. and we should never accept it again

If these changes go through, it will be impossible to do effective science in the United States. Logistically, labs will not be able to function under these constraints. Team science—vital to almost every discipline—will be impossible under the rules around international collaboration.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

“I’ve got a bill to stop this!” Cool, so you *do* understand how doing things that are doomed to fail works. Now try impeaching.

It sure would be great if any elected dem showed any amount of fight. I'm sick of words without action to back it up. (I also wish the guy primarying Ted Lieu put ANY effort into his campaign, whatsoever.)

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

For now the unofficial vote.gov is just a pre-build that isn’t accessible but if and when it is deployed as part of the totally unconstitutional White House takeover of elections, it would decimate the wall Congress put up between the executive branch and voter data.

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

I am fascinated by the coverage from all major news outlets for literally months now about how an Iran peace deal is close at hand. Not even an acknowledgement that we have been through multiple cycles of this and nothing is happening.

New on Knock: What's in a name? In Democratic-dominated California, right-wingers often put on a blue coat of paint in order to get by, and other Democratic electeds play along even when their values are made clear. Ahmanise Sanati on the endorsers of Traci Park 👇 knock-la.com/democrats-en...

"Vote for whoever's in the lead of the CA polling" is the new "vote blue no matter who." Fuck this garbage election, vote for the person you think will make the best governor.

Jesus I don’t think I could survive that level of insanity

This. It's going to take a while to fully understand the downstream consequences of tonight's explosion, but NASA's near-term lunar plans are likely now (even more) jeopardized.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

Can we please just call out these fucking piece of shit fucks instead of being nice. I’m so goddamn tired of the niceness

Whether it's Kamala Harris spending $300 of her own money on Le Creuset cookware enameled with porcelain or Donald Trump spending $100 million of taxpayer money on shrines to himself plated with gold, both candidates made some puzzling expenditures.

I just can’t anymore. Needless wars, people starving, jobs disappearing, and these STUPID FUCKS are full on speedrunning Court of the Sun King into the French Revolution.

"If you have certain values about abortion—that abortion is health care, that pregnant people are people, and that we should have bans off our bodies—if all of those slogans include an imaginary viability line in your head, they are not values, they are slogans." - @rhavote.bsky.social

I cannot recommend enough reading Erika's 2022 follow-up interview with Jezebel shortly after the Dobbs leak, and not just because I was the interviewer: www.jezebel.com/2022-intervi...

The DNC being excessively rude online to Trump’s White House policy architect would hit harder if it were coupled with the party’s full stop blockade of voting for his appointees

the democrats (house majority pac) have no respect for their voters. they view them as a giant piggy bank to shake for cash. unfortunately it works.

A nice paper by @asborlaff.bsky.social showing that launching telescopes to space doesn't necessarily solve the light pollution issue from satellites. These are satellite trails seen by NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, which appear in 73% of all its images. Eek. arxiv.org/abs/2605.27501

COGE and Project 2029 are both stupid names for the same reason—we need new ideas to build a new world, and slightly altering the names of fascist programs does not give the impression you’re changing much.

I normally just reply stop but I’ve decided that any PAC that sends overly-dramatic, breathless, clickbait texts is getting reported as spam.

This person is a becerra stan, which I know because I am friends with them. But I cannot fathom how they think this post is going to get people to vote for him, a, because it doesn’t even mention him, and b, because it’s just so aggressive.

I did not expect health insurance companies to be the good guys ever, but today they are. AHIP has announced that insurance companies will cover all vaccines recommended by ACIP through 2027. Because a judge stayed RFK Jr’s Temu ACIP, this means they will use recommendations by actual experts.

These people are losers. Right to their very core. Fascists often are. And mocking them is one of the best ways of undermining them.

the correct way to respond to a psychotic fascist praising you online was perfected 13 years ago:

Vote Raman, otherwise we're gonna get Pratt.

The California Primary And The Frustrating Absence Of Ranked Choice Voting Even if you don’t live in California you've probably heard about the California primary coming up on June 2 (although early voting has already begun). In particular, you've probably heard about it because everyone and their…

I’ve been saying this for a few years and I won’t stop - almost all of the gop shit is easily branded as a “war on kids.” Genital inspections. Abducting immigrant families. Cutting health care. Gutting education. It’s a War on Kids.