Not remotely enough--hundreds of children are imprisoned and you think training will help? We're ready to replace leadership and members who haven't understood the gravity of this issue

I am regularly asked what specifically blue states and Congress should do to protect the midterm elections. Here you go, I list and explain them one by one. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

It's at the foundation of everything going on in the world today. Democracies eating themselves alive because guys who have two cars and five TVs are mad at some grad student named Rainbow

Lindsay Vonn gives her first statement since her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill

"Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Gospel of JD" snyder.substack.com/p/hate-thy-n...

Not only does California's 22GW of solar have reliability similar to US coal, but CA also has 15.8GW/63.2GWh of batteries, which can store 63.2GWh/d of PV and then discharge 3.95GW of flat output for 16h So PV+batteries can provide ~2x the baseload output of nuclear in CA (2.2GW) for 24 h in a day

Image almost exactly like the statue in Prometheus. 👀

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people. The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Muere Rafael Amador, gigante de la fusión flamenca con Pata Negra, a los 66 años Se nos va un trozo de alma, de Inspiración y Locura, un artista único e irrepetible. Uno de los grandes de verdad... elpais.com/cultura/2026...

The performance was political from the first image to the last. I don’t even know how to explain this to someone who so thoroughly didn’t understand it

🧪🧬New preprint We present cryo-EM structures of reconstituted CTCF–nucleosome complexes, showing CTCF dimerization drives nucleosome oligomerization into defined higher-order assemblies. Disrupting CTCF–CTCF interfaces in mESCs reduces looping and impairs differentiation. tinyurl.com/CTCF-nucleos...

This is a powerful message from Freeman Hrabowski. 🧵 1/12

It seems only fair this morning, since they renamed themselves Mayenard, that an appropriate Seattle suburb can come and sack the town

Um... excuse me? I'm. In. The. Bath.

Is Bad Bunny’s Superbowl halftime show Trump’s Jesse Owens moment? open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

Siri, what is a stronger word than “graffiti”?

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Guys guys I saw a picture of the Pro Billionaire March

/2 Bad Bunny stands for “immigration” because he’s not white. His existence within the United States — and particularly his broad popularity and great success — are an affront to Trumpian white nationalist values. That’s the WaPo message, brought to you with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon smile.

MN ICE WAREHOUSE CANCELED! bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

Check out my first @prelights.bsky.social article, based on some great work done by Dr. Tejashree Waingankar & @samlewis.bsky.social at UC Berkeley 🔬🧬🧠 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

What happened before the last universal common ancestor? Pre-LUCA evolution is hard to study. In our new Cell Genomics Perspective we spotlight how paralogous proteins open a window onto the deepest chapters of evolution. 🧬🌍 Out today! --> www.cell.com/cell-genomic... @cellpress.bsky.social

Sad to read of the death of Steve Long who contributed a huge amount to #plantscience

New Preprint 📢 from our team 🔎 Critical assessment of #intratumor and #low #biomass #microbiome using #longread sequencing Some studies suggest bacteria 🦠 live inside tumors and influence cancer treatment. But there’s also been a major #debate: in these very​ low-microbe tissue samples, how much 1/

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced

Every American needs to watch this:

Too much data, too little thinking. A important essay from Ruslan Medzhitov on the importance of understanding data, not just generating it. A must read. @Yale www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

More on NSF funding data A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate. 1/9

I’m excited to share my first-author paper, with co-first author @rongqinxiaoxiao.bsky.social, now out in @nature.com. We developed a live-cell single-particle tracking platform to see how TRiC & prefoldin engage proteins during co- and post-translational folding. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

He’s emailing through it yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

These are all totally reasonable. My hope is that when the Republicans reject them - as they are very likely to - that Schumer and Jeffries just walk out until they’re met. My fear is instead that they’ll use this list as a starting point and negotiate a lot of it away before caving.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

I voted against funding for ICE today for the second time. The East Bay has made clear at the Alameda County and city level that we will hold the line against a violent ICE force and support our immigrant communities – I will continue to hold the line and our values with my votes in Congress.

This is a red alert moment. We need to defund and abolish ICE.

And, finally, WE ARE WINNING. They're crumbling, and the full firepower of the Minnesota bar isn't close to online yet. The combined might of our state's attorneys will soon be able to double, triple, 10x, the number of filings. They can't cope.

Last week the story was that TikTok censored anti-Trump/ICE/Pretti videos after the U.S. ownership change. We investigated with a large set of US TikTok data and found some interesting results, short thread...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

"Wolfe’s LinkedIn profile currently describes him as a Visiting Scholar at the Quake Lab in Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering." Soooo currently affiliated with Stanford

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS

Your rulers are rogues And cronies of thieves, Every one avid for presents And greedy for gifts; They do not judge the case of the orphan, And the widow’s cause never reaches them. —Isaiah 1:23