like jfc talk to a normal person for once in your life. If a friend told me that this happened to them my response would be “that’s awful, I’m so sorry to hear that, we need to do a better job of providing healthcare for people like that rather than just leaving them on the train” not “toughen up”

there are too many people on the left who think that politics entails being extremely unpleasant as a purity test. just a total dead end for a bunch of losers

American leftism will never achieve power if the response to getting peed on while taking public transit is “toughen up” public spaces should be safe and pleasant, and that shouldn’t be a hot take

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

there is no peace to be found with these people

“ an at-risk investigator has had substantial, independent NIH funding as a PI and, unless successful in securing a substantial research grant award in the current fiscal year, will have no substantial research grant funding in the following fiscal year. “ www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contr...

That was one of the lessons I learned while on NIGMS Council and fighting for the failed effort to cap grant levels. Most of our colleagues nationwide are on grant renewal failure away from closing. And those of us to entered the MIRA world once again took that risk

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Open-access scholarly piece in @jhppl.bsky.social about RFK's assault on public health institutions by @pamherd.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

right but like in gu's case, her family explicitly has connections to the government. why are we expecting her to act the same way someone raised by a dissident from Tianmen would

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

This is literally the only time I will ever say anything positive about NIMBYism.

Well, lots of shade at the Southern Baptist Convention, that's a whole different thing.

A scale of corruption beyond precedent in US history

You know, I'm starting to think he's not just an irony-poisoned freak but actually a fucking Nazi.

You know this is a completely deliberate choice that is not required, because there was JUST another shutdown and they didn’t do it then. Anyway, not good that the admin is deliberately making air travel more annoying to try to win a political fight. Lot of people will miss flights.

Thank you, @schiff.senate.gov !!

In other words, the standard Trump template: 1. Upend status quo 2. Create crisis 3. Make “deal” that is, at best, the same as the previous status quo 4. Claim victory Wash, rinse, repeat.

Causal inference is my passion.

Holy shit

Just want to be very clear that this is my objection. Would the Chief Justice ever have disclosed this? At some point, the Minnesota Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on issues related the ICE occupation. Including, potentially, the arrests in courthouses.

Fucking impeachable.

As a faculty member of UT's distinguished African and African Diaspora Studies Department, I am angry at the disingenuous way UT is characterzing us and our scholarship. But as an alum of UT (MA, JD, PhD) I am sad to see my alma mater debase itself to curry favor with the ignorance of the right.

Americans will soon be paying even more: Trump increased the rate of a new global tariff to 15% — vowing to work around the ruling that invalidated his emergency tariffs.

Because that's a message normally funded by PACs. You can't have a national ad campaign on small dollar donations . This is what Democrats chose when they refused to take PAC money: they lost complete control over messaging to a national audience.

Just slapping a tax on people for 15% for 150esh days seems like a questionable political decision.

Check out this fascinating MPRA in human hematopoietic cells from Satish Nandakumar, @tewhey.bsky.social, and team!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

10% yesterday. 15% today. As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

“Donald Trump is illegally raising your taxes” is both true and a solid campaign message.

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

SCOOP: Less than 1 month before Trump came out against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1M to the Trump-backed super PAC, MAGA Inc. with @matinastevis.bsky.social

Yesterday I signed two ordinances sponsored by CM Lin that eliminate out of date regulatory barriers and speed the permitting process. This will accelerate development timelines by as much as five to twelve months, helping us move more quickly to build the housing and shelter we need.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

The thing about Section 122 is that it does not allow individual country rates. It is not suited for extortion.

also with the added wrinkle that he's probably going to do it during Ramadan, something the Very Serious people in the op-ed sections of the NYT, WSJ, WaPo, and every other paper of record have spent *weeks* assuring us he wouldn't do.

and spare me the "trump's gonna TACO, he's bluffing, 2 weeks" crap. at this point we've got so many more assets in the region that such shit looks like the "putin won't attack ukraine" bullshit. to use a vulgar metaphor: you don't put on a condom unless you're going to fuck.

given the narrow margins in the house, if salazar switched parties today, she could probably do a lot to stop the mass deportations in her district. but she won't, and that's what makes her a coward, just like every single republican in congress.

Well, so much for that theory. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

"We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states" — Langston Hughes

you don't have to like it, but this is what peak progressivism looks like the left will go so much farther if it embraces patriotism and joy as a rallying cry to aspire for the country to be better

BREAKING: Judge Jeffrey Sutton, the chief judge of the Sixth Circuit, will be taking senior status on October 1, giving Trump a new nominee on the court. Sutton told Trump of his plans the same day that Trump maligned Supreme Court justices and their families from the White House briefing room.

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

I'm sorry, the libs are getting CARDINAL DOLAN in the national divorce?

Says govt has asked for grace for its violations of orders "again, and again, and again (and to other judges in this district again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again)," citing to other MN cases." ...

Putting a lot of work into a grant that probably won't get funded due to lack of funding in NIH/NSF. So I'm curious scientists: what work were you excited about that didn't get funding? Non-scientists, this is the work we are missing out on in the US when we don't fully fund NIG/NSF/USDA/etc

also: doing sham "investigations" to get to a predetermined tariff outcome is handing plaintiffs preliminary injunctions like party favors.

Trump: "I am allowed to cut off any and all trade…I can destroy the trade, I can destroy the country, I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country destroying embargo…I can do anything I want to do to them…I'm allowed to destroy the country, but I can't charge a little fee."

I don't think "he's going to shift to other laws that SCOTUS hasn't shut him down on" is really an argument that the courts aren't effective at all, tbh. And if you think laws are worthless like why would impeachment and removal matter (if we could somehow get to a removal)?