I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

Stalin extensively purged top science advisers, engineers & researchers during the '1930s-50s, particularly targeting biology, physics & technical fields. Thousands were arrested, sent to Gulags, or executed. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss in our sadly prophetic book #ScienceUnderSiege:

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Oh so now Republicans think we need to pass a funding measure for the ballroom interesting I thought it was funded by donors, where'd that money go

Odd, how a lone gunman failed to even enter a targeted room and no one was harmed—and Republicans go HYSTERICAL over the “tone” of Democrats. And yet heavily armed and masked fascists murdered two people at point-blank range in the streets of Minneapolis—and not a peep about the “tone” of the right.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I'm not sure if it has any effect on aggregate vote totals. But the difference in media ecosystems between the right and left is that a liberal version of Fox News would show Trump falling down over and over for weeks straight. Slow motion, full speed, once again, over and over.

Worth noting that Raskin's daughter and son-in-law were at the Capitol on 1/6 and had to barricade themselves in an office so the mob wouldn't attack them.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Judge extends ban on regime's half-assed racial fishing expedition to pretty much every college in Massachusetts www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-e... #Boston #lawsuits

"We can encourage youngsters by exposing them to the lives of real-life scientists" You should read the grad students and postdocs active on social media more. We started off doing that, then there were no jobs, DOGE, and Trump. (Of course, we are the bad scientists a few slides ago, I guess.)

"We have problems with the criteria we are using to hire and promote researchers at our academic institutions." Nah, the problem is you can't hire anybody. Because of a lack of funding at both state and national levels. Because American politicians and their donors love tax cuts.

Her point Number 4 is straight up fiction: "Lapses in research integrity have damaged the reputation of science and we need some clear damage repair there." No it FUCKING HAS NOT. Read the goddamn polling data on damage to science's reputation. It's minor and nearly exclusively Republicans.

they are using this talk as a platform to discredit scientists. this is bad. this is not complicated.

Really important, impressive paper from my colleague Yuci Chen. #EconSky

“I knew it was risky to speak out, but my responsibility to Stripes and the First Amendment was paramount,” she said The troops, Ms. Smith said in the interview, “deserve to have the unfiltered news, not what the Defense Department wants them to hear.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/b...

Sun halo in #DavisCA just now

nancy cox was a true public health hero. a brilliant and dedicated civil servant who worked diligently for decades to protect the public's health. she saved a lot of lives, and did so in the background

It's World Penguin Day!! 🐧🐧🐧🐧

This article should've been published before the First Iran War, and republished every few weeks since. Trump is more responsible for the current state of Iran's nuclear program then any living non-Iranian. We're paying for his venality and incompetence.

I've just looked up who is (was) on the NSB. Wow, that is a roll call of eminence. Imagine having that bank of experience to draw on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

BREAKING: Trump has apparently fired the National Science Board (NSB).

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

i think biking or being a pedestrian in any major city is enough to polarize anyone sane against the idea that driving is an absolute right, especially when you see how many people are on their fucking phones

All the "free speech" folks from the last fifteen years have taken the position: "This is bad, but it's the fault of the left for going too far."

The question I have is why the Chevy was street legal? If you can't see a Lamborghini, then you won't see a kid (or an adult come to think of it). Might want to take her license away.

Scammers are stealing homes from New Yorkers. We’re launching the Mayor’s Office of Deed Theft Prevention to defend vulnerable homeowners, and we are pausing the tax lien sale for the next six months as we review and fix a broken system.

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

WSJ reports that Sam Altman has apologized to the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, for not alerting authorities after OpenAI banned the ChatGPT account of the person who later did the mass shooting there. Read my recent investigation—and I have more coming soon. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

Just checked and the final Anthropic status update is in place with # of claims received. 440,490 claims received means roughly something like $2678 per work ($1339 when split between publisher and author).

Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

The very instant people turn out & successfully vote for a change candidate, the GOP eliminates the whole office.

Saw some discourse about the issue of older professors not retiring as if that’s the roadblock to younger academics securing jobs. This despite every institution I’ve worked at simply not filling lines when professors retire, which seems a much more prominent trend.

Not only is it not 600% decrease, but it’s not even a 600% increase! It’s 500%. It’s just so breathtakingly bad.

We literally just sent people to orbit the moon and they’re going to flush all that expertise and knowledge down the sewer.

Look at this beauty! Both the male and female have been visiting a ton for the suet. Eggs should hatch in the next couple of days! #bluebirds #puremichigan

New Mutant corner boxes by the great Bill Sienkiewicz #comicsky

“What we will never know is whether that trial could have given her more time with her children.” 😢

National Endowment for the Humanities staff worked every day to build this kind of capacity. The need is so great, and we did so much - even with a staff of fewer than 200 people, we managed to reach communities all over the US. It begs the question, then, why it was all so quickly destroyed. #NEH

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.

The mother's story is a stark example of how immigration policy can change drastically with each administration — and transform the lives of immigrants. n.pr/3OEulGQ

This administration is just hell-bent against generating knowledge about the world. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Genuine question as i don't see everything: are we getting any of the "what trump/republicans need to do to appeal to moderates/independents" pieces. I haven't seenq single one

It might be a good service for nyt, propublica, etc to do a big compilation of all the high profile public servants who have been fired or resigned after refusing to do something illegal. A sort of what this past year would have been like if it was all at once, like Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre