"I admire Senate Democrats’ soft hearts but not their soft heads." says Reich in this Substack short piece. But I'm not sure their soft hearts even make any sense any more.

Can you imagine how traumatized this child will be? Is this how "real Americans" behave? Does this make you proud to be American?

Lesson for today: Recording artists, don't record anything to blithely cheerful, or exhausted shoppers with whining children and 5 AM MacDonald's coffee drinkers (my situation) will curse you for forcing them to listen to this over and over.

What happens when somebody actually bothers to multiply it out. The math is straightforward.

Tell me this is AI, please. It's gotta be—right?

A very good night for women in the Democratic party! Yay!

As a resident of Orlando myself, this is music to my ears!!! 💙🎶

A nice Dem flip in the (US) state of Georgia, a sign of things to come.

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

Look at this amazing shift for voters in one year! Whooohooo! Virginia Governor Election Results map from the NYTimes as of 5:25 am Eastern standard time Wednesday 5 Nov 2025.

Same inability to stick to a single thought or line of thinking that he had in the debates prior to the 2016 election. How can intelligent people not see this as a defect? Does this mean American voters are not very smart? I suspect so.

TODAY: Don't BOO... VOTE! ✅ CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back! NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅ VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅ GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅ Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!

Friday 11/7 at 5:30, join NEBS to hear a talk by Dr. Chris Martine! Dr. Martine is a David Burpee Professor of Plant Genetics and Research and Director of the Manning Herbarium at Bucknell University AND President-Elect of the Botanical Society of America. For details and to register: rhodora.org

I’m excited for this visit. (And a few hours in the #herbarium.) #iamabotanist

“We have a racist shortage in this country like you wouldn’t believe,” Trump told reporters. “When I was putting together my Cabinet, there were barely enough racists to fill all the positions.”

Great things can happen when post doc researchers chat about their projects and come up with a way to collaborate. The second point is that all science research is important, many discoveries come from unexpected results, so it's critical to continue to fund basic science research.

Great thread of rants about intrusive AI in software starting with Emma Thompson ranting on Colbert's show, a feeling that is widely shared!

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.

Come work with us! We have three openings right now.

Massachusetts folks: I'm doing a free book talk at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln next Saturday at 2pm www.massaudubon.org/programs/dru...

The Republican Party in a single tweet.

ICE agents picking up children walking to school and detaining them. It could happen anywhere now, exposing the deep sickness in this administration. Disgusting!

Study shows recent anti-Trump protests have a greater geographic spread than Black Lives Matter, and this was before October 18th No Kings Day. The Resistance Reaches into Trump Country ash.harvard.edu/resources/th...

From the #NoKings protest Saturday. Very clever. And it's catching on at Esty and other sites with merch.

Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes explains why she is suing Mike Johnson for not swearing Adelita Grijalva into office. "By not swearing her in he's depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation. That's called taxation without representation. We fought a revolutionary war over that."

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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

My new favorite sign. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Everything this motherfucker touches dies. Look at what he’s done to the White House 😞

Here is a splendid opportunity for a doctoral student in ecology in a very strong lab.

Monterey CA

Impressive!

Yes, exactly!

Perhaps a bit subtle, but certainly matches my feelings!

There’s quite a lot of this going on today in Nashville #NoKings

Trump brought more than 7 million people across the country into the streets. No one thought it was possible. They said it couldn't be done, but Donald Trump did it!

I would have said, 1930,1931,1932. The parallels between Nazi party actions in that time and the current Republican party are stunning. Study that history and you will understand the risk we now face.

Yes yes yes

IMHO there's a psychological connection to the sexually repressed, prudish, puritanical white Christian culture and this type of absurd police state action. This is connected to fear of female sexuality and banning abortions.

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

Wow!

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

This was my favorite sign in Havertown

I lived a few miles away from Nanuet for many years, and this is beyond amazing. #NoKings

turnout even greater now — very heartening and even inspiring to be here…

The amazing Cabot Trail in Cape Breton on 17 Oct 2025.

Thanks to the BBC for this work which also features analysis and comments by @hausfath.bsky.social.

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