Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

This is what happens when you fuck with the money. Disney lost the theme park adults and freaked. Sinclair noticed people doing the thing people never do - calling their sponsors. REMEMBER THIS FOR THE NEXT TIME. Speedrun that shit.

The Trump administration's illegal leak of my records — including my Social Security Number — to Jack’s campaign isn't just about me. It's about any veteran who's considering standing up, and the chilling effect this will have.

This is 100% correct. If you don’t have documents proving legal status, we don’t issue an SSN. No SSN, no benefits. And we don’t just assume the documents are valid. Every applicant’s status is verified with immigration. Every. Single. Time. Period. Don’t believe their lies. Tell your friends.

Pro tip for anyone who wants to look respectable while infiltrating the academic community: serious places usually identify visiting speakers by their names and institutions, not by their pseudonymous Twitter handles.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

Shady, shady stuff in #NJGov race. Someone at Trump's National Archives illegally gave unredacted military records about Mikie Sherrill - including her Social Security Number - to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. www.cbsnews.com/news/nationa...

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

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history. "The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Stillbirth Prevention Effort “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said. By @deldeib.bsky.social

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

Recommended reading: Rudolph Herzog's book about humor — what jokes were allowed, what jokes weren't, what jokes could get you imprisoned, what jokes could get you shot — during the Third Reich. It's sobering reading right now, as Trump attacks comedians, late night talk show hosts, and actors.

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs: "One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

🚨HEY NASHVILLE — THERE’S A SPECIAL ELECTION GOING ON — WHY ARE Y’ALL NOT VOTING? All schools in Davidson County will be closed on October 7th and Dec 2nd for an election… no one is showing up to? (H/T @LisaQuigleyTN)

As my PhD student @mikesenters.bsky.social says, everything is gamergate (and these men from gamergate have been activated by the right). This is the tail of Bannon and Milo’s work beginning 2015…

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

While we are calling on the gov to help the public in harm's way, their only focus is finding out "Who Said That?!" instead of actually listening & helping. If they took as much interest in doing the work as they do punishing your civil servants, letters wouldn't be necessary in the first place.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Two migrants were killed, and the White House is politicizing their deaths at the Dallas ICE detention center as an attack on ICE. They blame immigrants for everything wrong with the country, and even when they’re killed, they won’t give them simple recognition.

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

The greatest minds of the right wing intellectual dark web think tank cannot -- or won't -- distinguish between "comic gets yelled at in comedy club for telling shitty joke about trans people" and "federal government forces corporation to pull comedian off the air for mocking President"

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

This is the technology RFK Jr has banned in the US

Many thanks to my much more popular buddy for sharing this work. Whoulda thunk that a city of renters paying too much for rundown effluence from the 1920-70s would want more housing?

Jimmy Kimmel: "The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from their job. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke."

I have some personal good news...I can continue having my job for at least another year; our PI has achieved some fund-raising magic. Of the 8 of us facing a layoff, 3 are already gone, and 2 more have decided to go, leaving 3 of us at FlyBase-Harvard.

You just don’t expect random philosophical questions at the supermarket.

Ruin a band with law Voir Dire Straits

A good ad on the DC Metro

Sinclair is refusing to air Kimmel. @Disney needs to pull their programming. High Potential Abbott Elementary The Rookie Shifting Gears 9-1-1 Will Trent Grey’s Anatomy Dancing with the Stars. PULL THEM ALL FROM SINCLAIR. Leave a gaping hole in their schedule where their ethics aren't.

It should come as a shock to nobody but the #privatization of #medicine results in people dying #publichealthcare #abpoli #cdnpoli hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-...

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

What if the rapture happened a long time ago but only Amelia Earhart made the cut?

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

“If benefits make more money than they cost, why don’t we just give everyone money?” Actually, UBI is advocated by many to do this… And the cost of poverty is far higher than the cost of giving people enough money to be out to poverty. They just don’t want you to know that.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

I loathe that we are at the point where we have to say, "Here’s the data as to why this life-saving treatment/preventative doesn’t cause autism" on two different levels. One: it’s freaking life-saving! Two: WHO THE FUCK CARES IF IT DID, it’s still FREAKING LIFE-SAVING! But here we are.

Abolish ICE

On Monday, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees gave the Republican president new powers to fire Democratic appointees of federal agencies — via the shadow docket and contrary to a 90-year-old precedent. That’s allowed now, though, apparently. For Trump, at least. Law Dork:

If you’re in the Eastern District of Virginia and you get a jury summons, maybe don’t sit this one out. You could end up on a Jim Comey or Tish James case.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Two gun rights champions sitting safely behind bulletproof glass at a memorial for a gun rights advocate killed by a gun. The irony writes itself.

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...