In 2013, I passed Watson in a corridor, after giving a talk at Cold Spring Harbour. If it had been Crick, I'd have tried to speak to him. But it wasn't and I didn't. www.dcscience.net/in-memoriam/... www.dcscience.net/USA%202013/i...

This will increase Mamdani's margin of victory by double digits. #ETTD

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.

Just watched episode 1. Brilliant -superb telling of history -very engaging. And salutary.

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

One of the biggest losers in AmeriKKKa.

Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...

A tale from the commission - when Prince Charles (as he then was) called for the slave trade to be on the curriculum as the Holocaust is, one v good journalist at the Jewish News wrote a v good piece on that debate after speaking to me and others:

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country. Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned. We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

I fear that there will a lot of cognitive dissonance when all the redneck MAGA climate deniers feel obliged to buy electric cars to ensure Musk gets their money. But more likely, the crypto (and AI) bubbles will burst and a lot of MAGA people will be broke.

Tim Berners-Lee dreamed of a World Wide Web for everyone. Nick Clegg and Meta had different ideas. In new books, both ignore how profit undermined the internet.

Next time you hear energy-hungry big tech claiming to be the solution to climate change, remember Nvidia was in Brazil pushing technology to aid oil and gas exploration … on the eve of COP30

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough. 25/47

I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.

#Voters #MadeTheirPoint Love this cartoon 🌊🌊💙

It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

“Pundits will never remind their readers of overflowing morgues when the virus was left to spread unchecked. They’ll never discuss young lives lost to COVID or those lost to anti-vaccine disinformation. … Only the harms of mitigation measures, both real and imagined, matter to pundits.”

7 November 1942 | A transport of some 2,000 Jewsish men, women, and children from the ghetto in Ciechanów in the General Government arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection, 465 men and 229 women were registered. The remaining group, probably 1,306 people, were murdered in the gas chambers.

The exponential rise of clean energy. Countries around the world are adding renewables at a blistering pace — and this surge is happening in some surprising places. https://cnn.it/4hWmBu4

Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."

Just naked bigotry, they don't even bother trying to hide anymore

If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25

"The cruelty feels sudden, but it’s anything but accidental." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This week saw a few major wins in the long-running battle between Donald Trump and reality.

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Someone should start making “I’ve been trolled by Graham Linehan” badges. I’m a proud member of that club too! @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social

He's going to 'make the case for markets' despite screwing up Britain's place in a very large one, and putting up trade barriers.

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

De Washington a Berlín: el trumpismo teje su red con la extrema derecha europea. El gurú de redes de MAGA y asesor de #Trump se reúne con la ultraderecha alemana de #AfD para coordinarse en una “guerra espiritual” contra los “globalistas y marxistas” www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Is there a prominent Brexiter left who hasn’t torn off their mask to reveal the rancid racism beneath? Boris Johnson’s chief fluffer accusing anyone else of being over-promoted is peak process. The bitterness of insanely privileged men with empty souls knows no bounds.

Wisdom from @davidallengreen.bsky.social The gotcha mentality of opposition, and of too many journalists, is deeply unhelpful.

Good Thursday, friends!! I'm sure there will be more meltdowns today amongst the kulty klan, and their leaders.🤣 I wonder when MikeyJ and the obstructionist pedo party are going to get the hint? Doubtful bc our government is still shut down. Have a day and stay safe, y'all!! #SheShed

Nancy Pelosi didn’t lead with volume. She led with discipline, math, and unshakable courage. The greatest Speaker in American history. Full stop. #ThankYouNancy

She didn’t just make history — she redrew the blueprint for leadership. The first woman Speaker. The most effective vote-counter in modern American politics. When Pelosi said she had the votes — she had the votes. #ThankYouNancy

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue A man collapsed while in the Oval Office for a meeting/photo op. Everyone hurries to help him. Everyone but trump, who just looks annoyed. What’s wrong with this picture? EVERYTHING

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court on Wednesday.

um. wow.

Thinking this level of inequality is unsustainable isn’t radical, thinking it isn’t is

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

If someone had told me a year ago, that this could happen in the UK I wouldn't have believed it. Now it's all happening very fast. Even if you consider Cummings as the 'career psychopath' he always was, this is a dangerous new level.

He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before. Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.

What's funny is that I'm likely not the only one who won't ever consider buying a Tesla product UNTIL Elon is out the door. I don't understand why they think he's of any value any more. If anything he's a liability. Sure pay him to go away. But to stay? Pure stupidity.

Goddard spacecraft engineer: "I think it just kind of speaks to the atmosphere of the agency and the nation, where people are like, 'Well, laws don't matter for the people at the top anymore.'"

Sneery tone aside, it's not either/or. The UK does have high levels of inequality by European standards, massive wealth disparities and a squeezed working class. And some of us have been thinking of ways of raising substantial taxes while ameliorating cost of living e.g inews.co.uk/opinion/lowe...

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Details matter.