the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

USPS 👏 IS 👏 A 👏 PUBLIC 👏 SERVICE 👏 AND 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 BUSINESS

"Scientific judgment exercised by career civil servants, vetted through multiple layers of peer accountability, is categorically different from political discretion exercised by appointees whose job is to advance the President's priorities...

200,000+ Black New Yorkers have been forced out of NYC over the last 20 years because of costs. After rent, child care is the largest cost families face. So we’re making universal child care a reality. Families have until this Friday, June 26, to apply for a 2-K seat this fall at myschools.nyc.

There is no reason to be concerned about this. History gives us precisely no examples of would-be authoritarians using fake emergencies as cover for seizing absolute power. My suggestion would be for all Americans and especially all politicians in Washington to continue doing whatever they're doing.

The Tea Party was (1) small protests which were (2) hyped by media & (3) led to the election of radical nut jobs who (4) badly broke US politics. What we have now are (1) huge protests that were (2) dismissed by media but (3) still got a few candidates in deep blue NYC who (4) will work to fix it.

REPUBLICANS: IT IS WITH ENORMOUS PRIDE THAT WE BRING YOU THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THIS LANDMARK HOUSING BILL THAT WILL LOWER YOUR COSTS AND BRING THE AMERICAN DREAM WITHIN REACH AS THE GOP DELIVERS ON OUR PROMI— TRUMP: I hereby cancel my signing ceremony for this Warren centric bill

All of the LAMESTREAM media coverage of the NY primaries is completely missing the point. Mamdani isn’t a “kingmaker” as the NYT decrees—he’s a BELLWETHER. He’s the face of leftists and progressives desperate for candidates that actually believe in progress.

There are words for that and they are “political” and “prisoner.”

The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

A friend of mine recently said: “People will never know the level of trauma we have from being a fed at this moment in history.” 😢 Check in with your friends and colleagues who are federal workers. Let them know you appreciate them and the work they do. 🫶 Good night 🌙

It seems somewhat bad that the richest man in the world can use his money to bankrupt individuals or organizations -- including officials who are tasked with holding him accountable -- that accurately point out that his actions plausibly facilitated the deaths of millions.

A covid vaccine study that the CDC halted over methodological concerns was published in a leading medical journal. It found that the vaccine reduced the risk of emergency room visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half last winter.

1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.

We are pleased to announce a major donation to support the work of the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. Lawerence Washington, husband of former BDSC director Kathy Matthews, has established an endowment in her honor. bdsc.indiana.edu/news-events/...

Taylor is a very talented #SciArtist! We always enjoy seeing her fincredible illustrations of cool fish. Give her a follow, if keen! @taylorblack.bsky.social 👈 🧪

Remember artists: If someone approaches you for your art, then tells you to lower your price or else they’ll just get AI to do it, they’re lying! They already tried AI. It failed. That’s why they’re coming to you. People always want free (ai) until it sucks, then they try the premium option (you)

A Tesla, reportedly in autopilot mode, crashed into the front room of a home in Texas, killing a 76-year-old woman, according to authorities.

Just in case you were wondering whether the feigned outrage over personal freedom during Covid was real or theater… it turns out the right does really like the exercise of state control.

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

It remains hilarious that Republicans keep insisting Trump is a master dealmaker when he's never really had any success at all at making deals as president. Not just Iran, either. He's sitting on majorities in both Houses of Congress but hasn't accomplished anything there. He's an utter failure.

When an Eppendorf falls and you look for it under the -80

The Comical of Higher Education has a bold proposal to radically remake academia, written by someone who didn't get tenure at Yale in 2008 and then left academia altogether. What's next? A hot take on the humanities by a guy who took an American Studies class pass-fail in 1997?

Given the way Elon Musk speaks of nonwhites, particularly from Africa, I would argue we should view his actions at DOGE to destroy USAID—which has led to the deaths of 600,000 and the millions more to come—as intentional acts.

"I have spent more than 40 years in pulmonary and critical care medicine. I have seen children harmed by disease, poverty, by bad luck. I had not, until now, seen them harmed so methodically by their own government."

He really did

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Meet the microbiologist and science advocate who’s headed to Congress. Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat - by Jeffrey Mervis | 22 May, 2026 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor... cen.acs.org/people/profi...

Scientific American has an outstanding article about what has been happening to our scientific research enterprise that is aimed at the lay public. Worth sharing widely. www.yahoo.com/news/science...

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

Lysenkoism of the '40s caused devastating famines, 15-25M deaths, lost scientific advancement & brain drain. What an expensive mistake. At stake in 2026- The loss of scientific advancement, our ability to address health challenges & more. An important read. 🧪🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

voting was absolutely enough to elect Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York, which was the specific reason the New York Gay Men's Choir was singing that song about voting

AI proponents never talk how their "disruption" harms productivity. we have to do captchas on most websites now and wade through fake studies and spam. the end of free, reliable search. having to double check AI users' work (because they rarely do). it's absurd to presume AI is good for productivity

Oldest was finally old enough to get the first onel and they started into the spiel and I was like “you do NOT have to sell me, do it”. Genuinely unbelievable that all that’s standing between your child and preventing an UNBELIEVABLE amount of cancers is 3 shots and people are trying to stop it????

The remake of just one of the movies she starred in made over a billion dollars last year alone, and she still died in poverty from an extremely preventable infection. We need universal healthcare or we don’t have basic human rights.

what amazes me about everyone being all pikachu-faced about this is that we've got half a century of research and documentation on this already...from the airline industry autopilot poses much the same problems in pilot training, except of course autopiot is genuinely useful

Happy Juneteenth from the Trump administration...

Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.

The 80s saw the horror of AIDS. Science Magazine recognized Lenacapavir as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year. These type of breakthroughs, w/ humble beginnings in academic labs, would not see the light of day if it weren’t for #NIH funding. 🧪 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/lena...

It is so good to have a coworker again!

Just paid a big ole estimated tax payment to the City of New York. Feels good! Hell yeah, tax my ass, NYC! Freeze the rent! Feed the babies! Teach the kids! Make the buses free!

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

it took me decades to figure out that comedy is a freakishly powerful weapon if you’re outmatched and outgunned and outnumbered in mine youth I was grim and doomery pretty much 24/7. now I try to log the fuck off when I feel it coming on, because it means I can’t throw a good punch

The thing that kind of low key blew my mind when I found out about it is that his whole schtick has been massively rude to the working class since the goddamn beginning. Hillbilly Elegy is *incredibly* condescending! Hateful even!

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

the position of the trump administration is any black student is one too many and that any method to diversify a class is suspect if it results in black students thecollegeinvestor.com/82214/doj-fi...

Right, it’s terrifying to consider the possibility of kids not reporting groomers and abusers if they’re afraid THEY will get in trouble for defying age verification laws.