Viewpoint diversity

"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Because the school division DEFINITELY KNOWS WHAT IT IS DOING with SRO’s and school safety, they’ve now decided they only need 2 instead of 4. And they still haven’t done any outreach to teachers. This isn’t safety theater at all. Not at all. More here: charlottesvilleschools.org/SROs

Trump’s FCC chair stooge acting like a middle school bully confirming they were lying all along as they distanced themselves from what was always the playbook

The damage from this Hep B change won't be visible for at least 1-2 years but by then it will be irreversible for those infants with liver failure. Kennedy won't care. None of them care. MAHA is pure eugenics.

the administration is simply not opposed to political violence if it hurts or scares the right people

NIH Director’s Pulsing Neck Tumor Announces Cancer Research Cuts

This is how I imagine the students in my health care reform class see me when I’m like, “Joe Califano, DHEW under Carter?? Lee Iacocca???”

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

I’m thrilled to report that we all ODed and died last year.

RFK Jr. has a new ally in the quest to bring back these Oregon Trail-ass diseases. Cholera is making a comeback, baby! www.who.int/news/item/12...

Political violence has actually been declining in recent years—and right wing actors are the largest perpetrators of that violence.

Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.

Dr. @ashishkjha.bsky.social, who led Biden’s coronavirus response, on what the Trump administration’s MAHA report leaves out. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/o...

The long form piece in NYT Magazine is some of the best researched reporting I’ve seen so far on what’s happening at NIH. A deep dive into how the new administration has sown a kind of chaos that is on track to destroy the U.S.’s enviable lead in biomedical innovation beyond repair.

I am deeply saddened and angered by news that more NIH RIFs may happen next week. This is unacceptable, especially after NIH staff have worked nights & weekends to dig out from the backlog created by this admin's incompetence. Tell your Congress people NIH needs its staff to keep delivering cures

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Scenes from the occupied capitol

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Watching my friends in Brazil protecting their democracy by punishing sedition instead of reward it politically.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

dan bongino and kash patel lying unconscious on the ground after bonking their heads together as they both bent down to examine what is later determined to be their own footprints

Baby’s first archival research 🥹

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

They should make a chunky Pepto Bismol for psychopaths.

Today's #WeAreAllDC protest in downtown Washington, D.C. demanding an immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.

I don’t think people realize how much this ignorance enables the spread of the shameless unitary executive agenda the Federalist Society/ Heritage have been shoving down our throats. Get right on your political theory so you at least don’t consent by default to the regime’s authoritarian ideology

I don’t know what you guys are complaining about, the NIH Clinical Center looks great ever since RFK Jr. took over youtu.be/DgqlzYWz98A

NIH now the Academy for the Physick of Ill Humours

2011 prepared me well for this moment youtu.be/-MKhyM1aBrI

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

TODAY—meet Charlottesville School Board candidate @dashadcooper.bsky.social from 5:30-6:30 at Tonsler Park!

Last night’s Charlottesville city council meeting was a victory for democracy on the local scale. Seeing so many familiar faces speak out against an immoral and illiberal policy gave me so much hope for our community.

Activism works. After widespread outrage at a draft ordinance (released over a a holiday weekend) that would criminalize being homeless, Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to table it. Kudos to @livablecville.bsky.social for organizing against it!

And yet…some local officials claim silent majority support for things like the jail renovation, the anti-homeless ordinance, or SRO’s. Listen to a range of opinions when making policy decisions. Duh. But claiming a large community of secret support is disingenuous and leads to bad decision making.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Charlottesville—here’s a chance to meet with one of our School Board candidates, Dashad Cooper, and ask him about his policies around policing in schools. Join us Wednesday, September 3 from 5:30-6:30 at Tonsler Park!

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker. *My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

The public, students, faculty, and staff are invited to gather in an urgent, peaceful one-hour teach-in with speakers explaining the current crisis in UVA governance, + and plans for action! PARKING at UVA Central Grounds Garage - 400 Emmet St. S.

repeatedly emailing tens of millions of people that he is thinking a lot about what will happen when he dies is definitely helping, he should send more of these. i've only gotten like four of these in the last few days, keep it up, sir.

trump is urgently redirecting all scientific funding to a manhattan project scale endeavor focused on making a microscopic camel 🪡

awwww the police chief wants a new ordinance 🥺 as a treat 🥺 while unhoused people are under unprecedented, violent attack merely two hours north of us 🥺 c-ville.com/cpd-chief-wa...