imo we shouldn’t burn fossil fuels in our homes

It’s almost as if federal contracts only bind one side of the agreement. I keep waiting for the defense of basic contract law!

It is sort of mind boggling how the science news of the last year or so has been software engineers saying “we’ve upgraded the torment nexus that might tear apart society to be 10% more efficient” while bio/pharma has been “we’re about to cure this disease that has plagued humanity for millenial

I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

USA TODAY: Environmental enforcement drops to a new low in Trump administration. Trump EPA started 14 lawsuits against companies for environmental violations, the fewest in any six-month period this century and below Biden numbers www.usatoday.com/story/news/i...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

idk guys, "we're going to train our military on our cities" seems like the kind of thing that's 1) very bad and 2) very easy to message against but what the fuck do i know

Never noticed how high pitched Pete Hegseth’s voice is. Kind of dissonant with the Darth Vader military thing

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

(Friday night is not the best time to post newsy blogs, so please give it a boost!)

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

And it’s a win-win for BOTH boys and girls!

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The rich people who are harming us, the fossil fuel oligarchs, etc. would desperately like us to look the other way, to pretend like the damage is imaginary or inevitable. No. What’s happening is they are hurting us and lying about it. The attack on universities is part of their strategy.

University researchers have gotten quite good at figuring out why climate change is happening, why poor people suffer worse health, and myriad other ways in a small number of rich people make everyone else’s lives worse. Of course, the propagandists want to shut us up by calling this “victimhood”.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

I’m a huge fan Roy Grinker’s cross-cultural research on autism—so glad to see his perspective in the NYT. Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

it's going to be like when we got rid of smoking in restaurants and on airplanes and within a matter of maybe a year everybody was like "we allowed WHAT?"

Federal contracts with our universities are our money, the American people’s money, mandated by our Congress. They are not the plaything of any president, Liberal or Conservative, to ‘freeze’ based on his intestinal urges. This entire, vast attack on our universities is an illegal rampage.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

2. The answer to what ails us from all the center-y white guys in Democratic politics cannot constantly be - ask everyone but people who look like them to give up fundamental rights. That’s actually not how you build the Democratic coalition that has won in the past.

Good to know!

A great time to fund the NIH!

Being in a labor union!

As a GenX California kid, I still don’t eat table grapes because by the time the grape boycott ended, I had never developed the taste for them! And I have such respect that my normie schoolteacher parents were down with the farm workers.

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

DSA and YDSA are organizations where folks meet to discuss, disagree, and hash out decisions democratically. Doing politics right, actually.

State capacity that is being gutted now will need to be rebuilt in the future. Alex Hertel-Fernandez looks back at his time in the Biden administration to identify ways that governments could better use social scientists to improve public services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-social...

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

a bit unclear on what we are and are not allowed to say right now according to the government

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

u know who are skeptics scientists are skeptics being anti-science is not being a skeptic

This should make everyone furious regardless of their politics because guess what? "As of this writing, some 40 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Unbelievable, must-read interview.

Times is about six months late to this story. But good that they've shown up.

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

If I were one of the prominent signers of the "Harper's Letter" about cancel culture and free speech, I would simply make a token condemnation of right wing efforts to actually fire professors and expel students for much more nakedly political and obviously spurious reasons.

Is this that cancel culture the Atlantic and NYT keeps talking about?

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...