If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

⚡️ Update: Putin falsely claims Russia 'did not start this war,' denies responsibility for deaths. "We do not consider ourselves responsible for the deaths of people because we did not start this war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

everybody is 12

One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.” Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.

It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.

Anaconda.org and conda adopt sharded repodata! 🚀 CEP 16, introduced by @prefix.dev, splits the massive repodata files into per-project shards. This allows clients to only fetch what they need, resulting in significant speedups! Instructions to opt-in and benchmarks at buff.ly/XUSXp9h

Just looking at the Comey indictment mess, would you wager that this same DOJ has a solid legal justification for the killing spree at sea?

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

For Python package management I use a mixture of pixi, uv and conda depending on the task I'm doing. I wrote up a long form post about the history of these tools, why each one exists, and why I settled on these choices in my workflow. jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/p...

"decision-based evidence-making" Chilling. Perfect description.

The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

I’m running for governor. For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare. But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again. Join us: ginafortexas.com

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids." The case is Illinois v. FEMA On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

Untreated learning disabilities can result in poor coping skills, poor self esteem, and other psychological issues. This is why funding for education is important.

Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?

A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could: A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide or B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures. Right now, he’s choosing B.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

BIG: A new investigation by @propublica and @TexasTribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated Texas laws had the schools been public.

The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A military parade in Washington for the President’s birthday is a misuse of taxpayer funds and an abuse of power by the commander in chief. This comes at the same time that the GOP are pushing through tax cuts for the rich on the backs of Medicaid, SNAP and Medicare cuts for working class Americans.

This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

Anaconda has been deeply involved in climate and weather science data initiatives for nearly a decade now, and so it's nice to be able to showcase some of this work for #EarthDay 🌎, using my team's newest tool, Lumen AI! sprou.tt/1207Juzuy49

1/ 💡 Our latest blog post in the fundamentals series, written by @tegnicholas.bsky.social, demystifies cloud-optimized scientific data formats! Read more: earthmover.io/blog/fundame...

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

A play in two acts.

Oof. 🧵

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

And honestly I do kind of blame everyone else who DOESN'T create science miracles on a shoestring budget for simply not caring to understand where it comes from like. Science isn't perfect etc but if you're shitting on PhDs working 80+ hour weeks to cure cancer rn idk what to tell you....

chef’s kiss

Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.” Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸

Fun reading for anyone interested in what the US government chooses to cover up: pirsquared.org/blog/diff-jf...

blog.holoviz.org/posts/lumen_... Is a game changer

Finally ready to announce the newest HoloViz.org tool: Lumen is an open-source no-code AI agent, extensible in Python, for analyzing and plotting data. Use it to build a custom AI tool for you and your colleagues, easily extending and adapting it to meet your needs. www.anaconda.com/blog/anacond...

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

The official portraits of the 17 House Republicans elected to chair committees in the 119th Congress:

Soon-Shiong saying "the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story" is among the scariest and stupidest things I've ever heard. There'd be an alternative version of each story written by AI in Trumpese??? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...