When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

This is a long thread, but very much worth reading on the permanent changes in global enery policy as a result of the short-sighted and outright wrong decisions made in the Trump administration.

If you're thinking of flying this summer, you might want to reconsider.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Let me get this straight, the DOJ is pressing charges against the SPLC for paying informants within hate groups, a tactic that the DOJ and FBI themselves use?

In my polemic I made a point of just giving Alex Karp the ground he demanded on every one of his points Even w/n his fever dream of an existence, he still manages to not make any sort of coherent argument It's even more devastating if you simply allow them to land their blow, and show it's nothing

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

NEWS: A federal judge has saved the 15th Street protected bike lane (for now), saying the decision to remove the lane running from Constitution Avenue to the Tidal Basin was "arbitrary and capricious and not the result of reasoned decision-making." It was to be removed this week.

Responsible leaders must be honest with their societies. Russia is already waging a war against Europe by systematically targeting civilian environment - the systems that enable everyday life. These attacks take concrete forms:⤵️

“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...

oh my GOD this is beyond amazing. absolute chills.

This is why D.C. needs statehood.

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

Happy Tax Day folks. As I pointed out here, the technical arguments about having free tax filing is over. Direct File proved it. What we are seeing now is just rent-seekers bribing policymakers to be allowed to keep extracting money from you. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Freedman is usually mentioned as the grad student on John Clauser's entanglement experiment. Even there he is often neglected because Clauser was the true believer, he died prior to the Nobel, and the "Clauser" version of the below photo is usually used. This piece reminds us of the complete person.

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

amazing, no notes

The probability that anyone in the military chain of command would object is pretty close to zero. Alex @wellerstein.bsky.social has studied this issue. Here's a post from him on his blog Restricted Data. 3/

This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

after ignoring Trump's "Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell" post for more than an hour, Fox & Friends finally reads it on air

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

Cat! In the animated TV show 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯, the white cat is Artemis and the black cat is Luna. With thanks to our son, our source for all things cat stuffie. #NASA #Artemis #ArtemisII #cats #SailorMoon

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

I have to admit, it's at least a little refreshing for it not to be coming from someone with a physics degree this time

NEW: CNN found a Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate attended a GOP training event just months before filing for Senate. The Dem state party calls him a GOP plant to "trick voters" — he tells me he's a "free thinker," but admits voting for Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...

The D.C. Council will be voting next Tuesday on whether to override @mayorbowser.dc.gov's veto of @robertwhitedc.bsky.social's bill to require MPD officers to collect names and other information from federal agents at arrest scenes. The initial vote for the bill was unanimous, so override likely.

Check out @clairelamman.bsky.social's new comic!

Democrats have forced Trump and Republicans to cave on their DHS shutdown. They have passed a bill in the Senate that will fund TSA, CISA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard without funding ICE or Border Patrol.

So happy to finally share this: I made a long-form comic about Hawking radiation for Physics Today! Although it's a short read, I hope it sucks you in ;) physicstoday.aip.org/features/bla...

ed policy folks will remember Tony Tata as the former super of Wake County, NC. he initiated a program to end school assignment and drastically reduced the number of high-performing schools in the district, just so white kids in Cary didn't have to go to other schools.

My god, cynical as I am I had no idea it was this skewed

I really appreciate that WMATA is finally owning their amazing graphic design inheritance.

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

EU leaders regard Orban as a literal Russian spy while US leaders celebrate him.

No exaggeration, I think this is one of the most important stories in US health care. MAHA makes a lot more sense if you see it as a hostile takeover by the quackery industry

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

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These folks are real ones because their first recommendation is to break something mhanational.org/resources/10...

Jim O'Neill, Trump’s nominee to head the National Science Foundation, is unqualified, conflicted, and a threat to science. As a science defender, please urge your senators to require a hearing on this nomination. 🔗Take action: act.ucsusa.org/4smrGQL

It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race He should not accept the nomination

Today, I asked a State Department official if it’s in our national security interests to allow U.S. weapons to be used against civilians. The silence I got in response was deafening, and only broken when Republicans on the committee interrupted my line of questioning.

Until they start showing full site renderings that include what the parking decks will look like, this is nothing but cheap propaganda. The stadium looks nice and all, but a big chunk of the neighbors are going to have a parking deck blocking their view of the river now.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...