This is a very special episode of my podcast for me, because it marks my formal launch of my independent science communication and consulting business, newquantumera.com! Check out my blog post www.newquantumera.com/blog/a-new-c... for details if you are curious, and do listen to the episode!

The idea that twitter/X is the internet commons is the stupidest idea that will not die. It is not even that important a social media site, anymore, just quit it

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Elias Law Group is litigating 85 voting and election cases in 40 states. This is the largest litigation docket we have ever carried as a firm and I expect new cases to be filed this week. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.⚖️🗳️🥊

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.

Men, this is our doing, and it’s shameful. If there is some sort of biological “masculinity,” surely it isn’t to hurl vile threats and insults at the vulnerable online like horrid, cowardly trolls?

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

Tariff chaos, no country knows what to do. The US isn’t a rule-of-law democracy anymore, so they know Congress isn’t regulating trade and don’t know if the Supreme Court ruling will hold. But it’s not consolidated authoritarianism either, so they don’t know what president can make happen either.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Counterpoint: No. ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I clearly see the Supreme Court's tariff case differently than legacy media. If you appreciate independent, news, information and analysis and want to support pro-democracy media, sign up for Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Not trying to sub-skeet anyone or be the “actually” guy, but I do want to point out that the sentence “we need to rein in the madman’s reign” features correct usage of both homonyms.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Oh? people.com/jeffrey-epst...

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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚀 Registration is now open for the 2026 Quantum Device Workshop, held at UCLA on June 15–18, 2026

30+ years ago I read a statistic stuck with me to this day - a gun in a home is 37 times more likely to injure or kill a family member than an intruder. #GunsDontMakeUsSafer

The refund question is so so messy my god. But it’s an enormous political opportunity for the opposition party.

He should definitely keep attacking them.

Donald Trump should have been arrested and charged on the night of January 6, 2021. All of this stems directly from that single failure.

"What we need to do, I think right now, is to stand firm on this principle because if we don't, they're just gonna do it again someplace else." @smith.senate.gov explains to @timmiller.bsky.social why she will vote against every penny of funding for ICE and border protection.

The State Department is reportedly building a portal to help people overseas access the kind of hate speech and extremist content other countries ban. Freedom dot gov. That’s the branding. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Wow AI delivering innovation and productivity gains to bait-and-switch and other sleazeball tactics! www.reddit.com/r/MarketingH...

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

They're trying to make observing/filming ICE illegal. Then we must show up in greater numbers. BE UNGOVERNABLE.

Twin Cities Unions Planning 'Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years' as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis #ICEOUT #FDT #Rent #Eviction #MN #ICEOUTNOW www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...

Dan Koh: In the last year, this leader tried to take sovereign land unilaterally, use the justice system to jail enemies, & actively shut down independent media voices That was Vladimir Putin—the fact that so many ppl thought I was describing Trump right now shows how much our democracy is at risk

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

NEW: The filing, which shreds the logic behind the raid, marks the county’s latest effort to reclaim the materials seized by the FBI during the raid, including the original — and only — copy of Fulton County’s 2020 election records. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What an utterly monstrous nation we are becoming

What a monstrous nation we are becoming

The Forgotten Occupation, an amazing documentary about the American occupation of Haiti, is now available to rent or buy; you can find it on Vimeo, Google Play, Amazon, YouTube, and pretty much anywhere you like to watch films : tv.apple.com/us/movie/the...

“.. The Monday interview is on pace to shatter clips of Colbert’s December interview with pop superstar Taylor Swift ..” @forbes.com #TXsen @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

Here's the Colbert segment with Talarico that CBS wouldn't allow the show to air. When he said "I think Trump is afraid we're going flip Texas" I actually shed a tear. Hope is a stupendous superpower. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology: Building a Quantum Ecosystem from Scratch with Martin Laforest. Have a listen:

Ridiculous. Ignorant. Dangerous.

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

was looking for something else and found this important post deep in my files

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy. Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts. An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.

Yes.