Trump has appointed former GEO Group executive David Venturella to be the acting director of ICE. GEO Group was the number 1 ICE contractor last year. It has over $2 billion in contracts with ICE, and stands up profit massively from ICE locking up more people.

Look, he's not even pretending at this point. He DOES NOT CARE if you can't afford anything or get by because of his war. And this war wasn't even about the threat of Iran having nuclear weapons because there was NO imminent threat.

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

Carl warned us

Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants

We've known that the proteins in the epigenome control DNA expression, but we thought they were just on-off switches. They're not. They're more. This is pretty remarkable. 🧪🔬🧬 news.ncsu.edu/2026/04/each...

All those Gulf states purchases of Trump crypto tokens paying off now.

Really interesting with lots of useful tips

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.

For 30 years, Congress has fully funded #WIC to ensure all eligible families who apply can receive full benefits. The House agriculture appropriations bill would break this promise: it would underfund WIC & cut benefits for WIC participants in every state. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-a...

Who's going to the first to tell her that brain tissue is actually ... quite soft?

It feels a bit surreal to have just had to send this message to an august US scientific body. But here we are.

Today, House Republicans passed a FISA reauthorization, without the necessary reforms, that will harm the American people. My full statement:

The fact that all 6 conservative SCOTUS judges decided to attend the state dinner for King Charles last night despite the exclusion of their 3 liberal colleagues tells you all you need to know about the corruption of the conservative majority of this court.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Make Istanbul Constantinople Again

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

What would anyone work at Meta? Brutal working conditions and ultra creepy surveillance by a sociopathic CEO who's created a panopticon.

Poll: If we rebrand "mRNA vaccines" as "DIY peptide makers", will more people accept them?

An emerging contageous virus, like a flu virus, will easily spread in the confines of a military base or a military operation…unless the troops are vaccinated. So the brilliant leaders of HHS and DOD decide to stop protecting the troops by no longer requiring flu vaccination. In 1918, before

“The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force”

not good

These are adjudged terrorists.

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon. Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon. NASA went to the moon.

The FY 2027 NASA budget request hides its science cuts by omitting mission names instead of explicitly zeroing them out. We did the work and found 54 missions cancelled in this proposal. This is another extinction-level event for NASA science. Full list: planetary.org/save-nasa-science

The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...

The best and the brightest

Alienating Catholics seems like a well thought out winning midterm strategy

Does anyone have the slightest idea what he's talking about?

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

“There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.” - Garrett M. Graff, author/historian

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day. He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era. Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Pasteur Institute of Iran, founded in 1920 now destroyed by Israel-US bombing😞 It played a pivotal role in developing vaccines & public health services, for over a century, now gone😞 A few days ago a pharmaceutical plant was bombed, accused of making anesthetic fentanyl #War #PasteurInstituteIran

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

What photo? This one? 😏

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

There must be prosecutions. Nobody should get away with crimes just because they were in the government.

RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.

Extremely cool. We haven’t known very much about how localized neuromodulator signaling is. This data — made possible by new molecular sensor tools — is revealing that it’s quite local, just a few cell-widths in extent. #neuroscience 🧪

I fucking hate him.

How do the "death fold domain" proteins in the innate immune system react so quickly and thoroughly, but without needing any driving energy like ATP? A weird but quite believable answer:

This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

RIP Robert Mueller. By me. No paywall. fallows.substack.com/p/one-man-a-...