President Donald J. Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to promote domestic production of glyphosate-based pesticides, potentially giving manufacturers immunity from lawsuits over alleged health impacts and inadequate warning labels. #chemsky 🧪

This is the way. Tech giants need to prove and fucking _show_ proof before there's any adoption of AI.

More disastrous cuts to American science: “This effectively sets X-ray astronomy back by a decade, with the earliest realistic timeline for an X-ray flagship now looking like the 2050s or even 2060s.” 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪 bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Medical misogyny is real. I had a rheumatologist tell me that my (very clearly COVID-caused) fibromyalgia was caused by my "mental health". Another said my (also COVID caused) chronic fatigue was caused by my gender. (Not even hiding the misogyny there!) Doctors, do better. #AusPol #Disability

This article does not mention Covid even one time, and suggests maybe just all 40 yos have hypertension for no particular reason at all.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...

Note to Democrats: Weird how when you don't explain to people how your policies would actually improve their lives, many just don't know what your policies would do. But if you do tell them, they often actually really like that.

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Let's elect people who have put gas in a car and shopped at a grocery store.

The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.

BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee just formally subpoenaed Pam Bondi to answer questions about the Epstein investigation behind closed doors on April 14. tinyurl.com/ympvmxh2

NEW: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed charges against prediction market company Kalshi. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction ⁠market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation." www.reuters.com/world/kalshi...

New Dem ad just dropped

Because it’s already been litigated. 63 times. And Trump lost all 63.

😲 HORRIFYING – A trans person who has a mismatch between their identifying documents and their "gender at birth" can be rejected for visas/green cards for FRAUD under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(C)(i) – which comes with a LIFETIME BAN against re-entry to 🇺🇸 ⤵️ transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

"what is really worth recognizing is that able-bodied fears, rather than disabled realities, are distorting public thinking about “assisted dying.” Excellent piece. Every word. www.compactmag.com/article/i-am...

🇬🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷 UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell attended US–Iran talks and believed a deal was “surprising” and could prevent war, - The Guardian Further talks were planned, but 2 days later the US and Israel attacked Iran. Witkoff and Kushner were seen as “Israeli assets” pushing Trump into war.

I mean yes this is how people get to be billionaires. By just completely checking out of their responsibility to be a decent prosocial human being who does prosocial human things (like think about how their behavior affects those around them).

A new analysis shows that Americans owe more than $1 trillion in credit card debt – more than any other point in history. tcf.org/content/repo...

Today is the one year anniversary of DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. DC Metropolitan police literally broke open doors at the institute's privately-owned building to let Trump officials bully their way in. Read about my lawsuit to retrieve the body camera footage, and what it revealed:

Amazing piece of work here:

An interesting bit about the Fight For Kentucky super PAC (the one that Musk donated to backing Morris that made the racist anti-Afghan ad against Barr) - as of the last quarter (Dec 2025), not a single donation came from KY.

Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision to reimburse farmers for 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies. The standards governing those tech wouldn't be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry. This could give Big Tech immense power over farmers.

BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco. The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

Those deposition videos display naked aggression and entitlement to RULE. Anti-intellectualism yes, but that's further down the list from "WM no longer feel the need to conceal how far they'll go to achieve *and maintain* their preferred hierarchy. You cannot shame the power drunk w/ morality. CANT

Have to be banned

The SAVE America Act would make it harder for Native Americans who live on tribal land to vote, advocates and lawmakers say. https://www.notus.org/us-news/native-americans-save-america-act-ballot-access

Day 474 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests. 🇬🇪

Trump officials need to go to jail over this and similar Crimes Against Humanity. Stephen Miller, in particular, should be imprisoned for decades and possibly for life. NYT:

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

Things are not okay.

"SSA policy and process changes implemented by the second Trump administration created significant barriers for those seeking to apply for and maintain disability benefits" Everyone who cares about the future of Social Security should read this report.

To contrast, here's the alt text OP provided for the first image in the previous post. And hey it's not all bad, but it's also mostly not appropriate for alt text, which has a specific and defined role for use and is 30+ years old. In other words, this is not about my opinion.

Yes, and when he does make a “policy announcement”, the mainstream press treats it as truth.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

If we let them, these people will destroy everything that makes human civilization worth saving. It’s frightening how much power and influence we have allowed these tech feudalists to accumulate - and it will be one of the twenty-first century’s defining struggles to wrest it back from them.

TODAY: Military leaders WARNED Hegseth and Trump about civilian casualties and the Strait of Hormuz. They ignored them, and eventually replaced them. Free wherever you get your pods: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3

New polling from Pew shows what Americans think about data centers: Only 6% think they're good for the quality of life for those nearby. Similarly, only 6% think data center have a good impact on home energy costs. And only 4% think they're good for the environment.

A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/a...

CCCC leading the charge how to advocate for our rights to refuse genAI ❤️❤️.

🇪🇺 Association Agreement with EU: Ukraine completes nearly 85% of required tasks

Trump shows yet again that the US under his administration (a) has ceased to be a trustworthy NATO ally and (b) is a much less desirable ally because it starts destabilising wars for no clear reason and with which it has to ask for help when the wheels fall off.

ICE is buying industrial warehouses across the U.S. and converting them into mass detention facilities often without notifying local officials. A thread on the "ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative" and what it means. 🧵

The universalization of LLMs is going to turbocharge everyday sexism and misogyny and already has,

🇪🇪 In recent weeks, a large-scale propaganda campaign has begun, with Russians promoting the idea of ​​declaring a "Narva People's Republic," Narva is a border city in Estonia, - BILD

A reminder that "orbital data centre" is a science fiction concept, we currently have no way of dealing with waste heat on a scale that makes this viable. We can barely handle it on earth.