"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

The Trump administration is dismantling legal pathways for immigrants and threatening to revoke the citizenship of hundreds of Americans.

Yup.

"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"

1. According to a heartbreaking large new survey, trans youth who desire to obtain hormone therapy and cannot get it face double the suicide attempt risk. Only 10% of trans youth under 18 are on hormone therapy. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-yout...

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

ACTION NEEDED: Trump’s Federal Communications Commission thinks children’s content that depicts trans and non-binary people should be singled out in their ratings. This is nothing but another cruel attempt to erase us. FIGHT BACK NOW: hrc.im/fccletter

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

The corruption by the courts will be studied for decades in America. Democracy is hanging by a thread, and this person has decided that what trump’s minions did 6 years after losing the election is A OK Wow

🧵/1 Matilda Munro, school governor, believes Gislaine Maxwell poses ‘no threat to the public’. She’s also Maxwell’s niece. After her pre-trial letters to the judge were exposed, Munro was asked to step down. #ProudBlue #EpsteinFiles #Maxwell www.dailymail.com/news/article...

❌ Biden did not send troops to polling stations in 15 states during the 2024 election, despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's claim.

. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social with another must read. “…press freedom is a proxy for everything else that is happening right now. It’s at the centre of a Gordian knot of democratic decline and authoritarian takeover…” open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Welcome to blood profits season: where every major fossil fuel company announces windfall profits thanks to mass murder and the 2nd global fossil fuel price crisis this decade. We cannot stay trapped in this cage. Time to escape. New Al Jazeera op-ed live here www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

MEMPHIS SENATOR @raumeshakbari : “This is an act of hate. You cannot call it anything but racism. You cannot sugarcoat this.” Tennessee Republicans are diluting Black representation with white power, stripping their seat in Congress. #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

In striking down the Louisiana voting map as a racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court opened the door for other states to redraw their maps, too, writes the Tribune's Clarence Page.

Lawmakers are investigating whether a Trump-linked Wall Street firm helped underwrite Chinese listings later tied to stock-promotion schemes that wiped out billions in market value. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-towe...

Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.

As Trump turns the Justice Department into an instrument of political retribution, more than a quarter of its lawyers have been fired or quit. Some 3,402 lawyers out of a total of 12,955 left the department since the beginning of last year. @kayewiggins.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a131...

This is killing dreams and human progress. Share it far and wide. A mother at a little league game was telling me about her kid wanting to be a paleontologist. I told her at high volume so other parents could hear that if the USA keeps this up for much longer, then he cannot and will not.

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

The longer the Iran war goes on, the greater the impact on inflation, the US central bank warns - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/longer-iran-war-goes-greater-impact-inflation-us-central-bank-warns

BRENNAN: A blockade is an act of war. Are we at war with Iran? HASSETT: Uhm. You know, I don't know what the definition of war is when we're not shooting and negotiating.

I must be going to different restaurants. I have never been asked to show ID to eat.

BRENNAN: Bank of America says the gas price spike has cost consumers $19b. Goldman Sachs says it offsets the benefits from the tax bill the White House championed. Do you agree with that analysis? HASSETT: No, that analysis is incorrect

"It’s unbelievably shameful that any such ultimatum over Blanche likely comes down to the judgment of Tillis alone, given that the Senate Judiciary Committee is stuffed with supposedly staunch free-speech defenders."

Calling Democrats “treasonous” and “human garbage” would’ve been a big deal in any other era. Now it’s just another fucking Saturday.

Kinda burying the lead here, NPR

For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.

That's $8.6 billion in fast-tracked arms sales—without congressional review

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

These people never take responsibility for anything. Spirit has lost over $2.5 billion over the last several years. Joe Biden didn’t cause them to run a shitty, unprofitable airline. Then they got hit with soaring jet fuel costs from Trump’s war. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Sen. Fetterman, who may defect to the Republican Party before long, is repeating paranoid far-right talking points here - the types of talking points that the Trump regime is trying to use to crack down on its domestic political opposition. There is no “communist resurgence.” It’s nonsense.

Listen, a Misoprostol-only medication abortion is still safe, and practiced around the world (where Miso- is sold OVER THE COUNTER in most places, ahem) -- but a Miso + Mife regimen makes the process simply better for patients--fewer side effects-- and patients deserve better care.

Scientific institutions have consistently insisted on neutrality and clinical remove, reticent at best to wade into political debate. But there will always be those within the sciences who possess neither this ethos nor scruples who will speak falsely for us. Which is why silence isn’t an option.

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"Sir, Maga Christian Nationalists *really* didn't like you posting a pic of you as Jesus healing someone." "Well, then why don't I post a pic of me as Jesus, only saying I sacrificed MORE for humanity than that stupid wuss??? That should win them over!"

The Southern Poverty Law Center is being debanked over a mindless conspiracy theory embedded in an indictment by the Trump regime.

President Donald Trump sought to reshape the Kentucky Senate race to fill the seat of Sen. Mitch McConnell, delivering an endorsement of Rep. Andy Barr moments after offering a rival candidate an ambassadorship as an enticement to leave the race.

I was just contacted by a reporter asking for comment about the whole Pluto planet thing. Hanging on by a thread over here.

As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science.

We told you this was going to happen but at least trump got that ballroom

Americans reject President Trump’s planned White House ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. There is also a notable enthusiasm gap: Nearly three times as many people “strongly” oppose the project as strongly support it. https://wapo.st/4w27NAH

Corn ethanol serves no purpose and is purely a handout to farmers. It costs more and emits more than normal petroleum. And it takes up half as much land area as all urban and suburban land in the US. If we replaced the land with solar, we'd get 3x as much power as the US uses.

But I was told that Trump would be good for the economy

@repschneider.bsky.social Shame on you for voting to reauthorize FISA Section 702. This is another instance of you favoring an abused government power, as you have done multiple times beginning in your first term.

A foreign country that gets billions of US tax dollars committed open piracy in the middle of the ocean, abducting Americans trying to bring aid to a desperate population. Instead of going after the kidnappers, the Trump admin is looking to punish anyone supporting the victims.

Sen. Jon Ossoff on Trump: "I deeply and sincerely regret the immense damage that this incompetent president has done to our standing in the world...to our national power, to our economic power, and to our alliances through his and his team's rank incompetence, and amateurism."

Representative Chrissy Houlahan sharply confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, noting that his opening statement contained more words and more vitriol directed at Democrats than at Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin combined.

Israel just abducted activists, journalists & humanitarians from the Global Sumud Flotilla — including our contributor Alex Colston. Zeteo demands that Israel immediately release those kidnapped & calls on the UN, the US & governments across Europe to take urgent action & hold Israel accountable.