VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

The idea that partisan gerrymandering can defeat claims of racial vote dilution *is* new and does spectacular violence to the statutory scheme. Congress well understood that racial vote dilution and partisan gerrymandering are often inseparable, which is part of the reason for an effects test. (5/7)

When Johnny DuPree won his Mississippi Senate seat in November 2025, it marked the first time Hattiesburg residents would have a Black senator representing them in Jackson, even though 51% of the city’s population is Black. The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the ruling that made that possible.

NC Scientists, Please contact our representatives about the budget for NIH/NSF. A simple example script in comments whosmyrep.org/Senator Thom Tillis, 202-224-6342 Senator Ted Budd, 202-224-3154 Representative Foushee, 202-225-1784 (Chapel Hill Durham) Representative Ross, 202-225-3032 (Raleigh)

Moar.

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

It just speaks to the need for better Democrats. Biden was never a fighter. I mean, I called it back in 2019–and was by no means alone. We need the next administration to be the best, most aggressive public health presidency in history. So we need to identify who the fighters are—and aren’t.

I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.

Also, noteworthy that the call says it only supports work with AI: "Supports postdoctoral fellowships that train early-career scientists to apply AI to biological research, advancing biotechnology innovation while preparing future leaders at the intersection of AI and biology." 👎

The entrepreneurial postdocs funds early career students “so they can participate in innovative entrepreneurial activities at some of the nation’s most promising startup companies.” You know, the ones with millions in venture capital.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

It’s tragic that we have someone so utterly incompetent—with zero public health training (he’s an economist)—leading the nation’s public health agency (the CDC) & health research agency (NIH) His approach to outbreaks is: do nothing, fire CDC staff, let infections spread, let the strong survive

If you want to be an honest prison abolitionist, fine. Just say no one should ever go to prison under any circumstances. That's daft, but at least it's coherent. Saying that Tina Peters didn't deserve a max sentence of nine years in prison for trying to steal our democracy is ridiculous.

We’ve subsidized commercial trucking for way too long; they should pay based on weight and miles driven. They cause all the road damage and regular drivers shouldn’t be subsidizing them. Keep the gas tax but use the proceeds to fund EV tax credits after you hike commercial trucking use taxes.

They are all doing it. federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2...

Everyone involved in posting this should be fired and everyone in the chain of command whose office is subject to impeachment, including the president, should be impeached. Just for this. I am not kidding in the least, and Democrats who let this go by without comment are putting us all in danger.

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

If JD Vance has evidence of fraud, prosecute the fraudsters. Do not punish the seniors, the disabled, and the dying who depend on these services. Let’s talk about who actually gets hurt when $1.3 billion in Medi-Cal funding gets frozen.

Anything finance related using the phrase “first time since 2007/2008” is categorically not good.

Looking at range maps in A Manual of the Mammalia with the 4yo, as one does. Explaining that to get to see most of these animals, we can't drive, we need to take a boat/plane. Then reading about what tenrecs eat. Kiddo: What kinds of vehicles are there? Me: I don't understand your question.

Probably pure coincidence, but more US airline-related fatalities under (reality-TV star, zero aviation experience) Sean Duffy than his predecessors in previous 15+ years combined. Heckuva job, Duffy.

Feels like there was too much focus on racism at the personal interaction level (which was clearly terrible) and not enough on what structural racism looked like / how it could be justified

There’s no medical reason to reduce the use of SSRIs just for the sake of doing so. They save countless lives daily, including mine. The HHS preoccupation with reducing their use is an intentional misdirection away from the true problems facing mental health: the world they’ve created is unlivable.

Highly relevant today with all this Jim Crow 2.0 going on. JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...

2/ We found at least 79 children hurt by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation blitz. It’s likely a vast underestimate. Kids were at home, sitting in strollers or attending a daytime protest with their parents. Then, chemicals left them gasping for air.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

DID YOU KNOW? The states currently gerrymandering to remove Black political representation are also states that do not have bans on segregation in public accommodations? Once they finally overturn the Civil Rights Act of 1964 they’ll be free to fully live out their racial segregationist fantasies…

Given the nearly instantaneous gerrymandering to eliminate black elected representatives, I’d say it’s resegregation both de facto AND de jure. How long before states start legalizing segregated schools all over again?

Follow up to this. It is typical for there to be a video of a congratulations from the current president and an in-person appearance from an upper level cabinet member (often several). The current administration had 0 presence this year and there was no video from Trump.

Being a Sammies finalist was a transformative experience. It isn't surprising that agencies didn't nominate many people, either due to no time from understaffing or not wanting to draw attention to employees (esp. if they worked on areas the regime disagrees w). www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Being a Sammies finalist was a transformative experience. It isn't surprising that agencies didn't nominate many people, either due to no time from understaffing or not wanting to draw attention to employees (esp. if they worked on areas the regime disagrees w). www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

"I spent a lot of money on it and didn't get large damages. But my wonderful lawyer, Tavengwa Runyowa, said to me, 'Yes, but remember, we're fighting this for a principle, a principle of free speech,'" McLean said." Freedom. Of. Speech. To not be challenged with mean language?

Elon is so « relentlessly focused » on the EV transition that he invested at least $275 million in supporting the most anti-EV president in history and at the same time largely abandoned Tesla’s goal of accelerating the transition to EVs and sustainable energy in favor of robots and Robotaxis

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

I forgot to take the ibuprofen. I was not given a local. It was awful.

"I’ve been told half my life that feminism didn’t do anything, or feminism failed, by people who have no idea how bleak, marginalized, repressed, excluded, the condition of women was in the world into which I was born...I’m 64...& my God, the world I was born into no longer exists."

"This is...tied to the fascist practice of doubling down on gender roles, bc patriarchy, & the idea of families as thr own little authoritarian fiefdoms, are deeply ingrained in fascist projects. We’re seeing that very clearly rn, not only in attacks on trans ppl, but in the misogyny of this moment.

700k owed just in back taxes. But sure, provax folks are the shills rolling in dough.

Damn. Yeah.

In this lab, we no longer say "from posterior to anterior," we say "from booty to snooty."

I mean, let's just keep the abuse rolling. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

I think the Palantir attacks on bureaucrats here is ideological - like the similarly despised professors, they are a potential source of criticism. But it is also practical. The administrative class is tasked with imposing accountability, which Palantir - like the Trump administration - dislikes.

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.

have there been similarly culturally pervasive “everyone needs to start using this tech right now” pushes over such a relatively brief time frame as we’re currently seeing with LLMs? (This is a very genuine question)

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

The President just released his proposed federal budget for the coming year. He said he’d put America first, but he isn’t — instead, he’s deepening our deficit while working families suffer.