It took them 6 hours to get Cesar Chavez off shit and holidays, but them confederate monuments took 678654 years to come down. I'm like damn, ain't never seen y'all hate evil folks like y'all hate evil minorities 😂

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

“The cost of the first week of the Iran war would be more than enough to fully fund the EPA this year (at $8.8bn), the CDC ($9.2bn) ... The $11.3bn is also more than the total amount allocated this year for federal scientific research funding, via the NSF.” 🧪⚛️🔭 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, helped gut the CDC, and his Silicon Valley ties raise questions about protecting the public interest. (1/2🧵)

seeing Chavez’s legacy be swiftly and correctly decimated is a powerful reminder that we as a society could, actually, hold people accountable when credible allegations are made that they are child molesters

Hi all. Adopt a rent was alerted to 2 needs that are back rents for February & March and we do not have donors currently. One is A who was detained by ICE from December to February and thus lost his work permit & job. He owes just over $3000 for back rent including march. Can you chip in or share?

Your money is here, boys

"You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right." Goddamn, Melville could really cook.

That's almost 4 years of funding for the NIH. Across the country, labs are shutting down and the next generation of scientists are seeing their futures destroyed. But let's just go buy a lot of bombs....

The temperature in Tempe AZ is 101 degrees This is the climate catastrophe There are billionaires WHO WANT THIS HEAT In the short-term this permanently opens the northwest passage for shipping & expand Empire They are burning this planet for obscene wealth #NoBillionaires #NoTyrants #NoKings

Kill your heroes. Kill your gods. Keep their ideals. Help the living.

📢‼️ EMERGENCY COMMISSION THREAD HERE📢‼️ [also, if any creatives want to join in and help, feel free to shoot me a message!!!] #ofmd #emergencycommissions #art

Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

"As of March 3, the agency had doled out 74% fewer competitive, or new, awards than the average for the same period in the 2021-2024 fiscal years, according to an analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins." www.statnews.com/2026/03/17/n...

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is a $10B payment from the Ellisons and their buddies to the Treasury. Just for scale, last year they cut all federal funding for PBS and NPR, which "saved" $1B. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/16/t...

Writing out a conversation I’ve been having a lot at this conference: Things in US science are far, far worse than people know. Far worse than even other scientists know. 1/

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

The #NIH budget is <1% of the total federal budget. 99% of FDA approved drugs came from NIH supported work. This also supports generations of scientists. And Hegseth burns through the same amount on superfluous items IN ONE MONTH.🧪

I got excited when I saw that NIH might have received its first apportionment from OMB today. Alas, it's for ARPA-H. OMB still has not given NIH a dime for non-salary, non-emergency expenses from the spending bill that was signed into law on Feb 3.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Your regular reminder that GOP members of Congress are completely okay with what he’s doing…

Tech billionaires are weighing a $500M war chest to counter labor unions and reshape California politics. The proposed endowment, would use investment profits for politics, and work to cement tech’s influence in Sacramento for decades.

One $16k NEH grant at a research library can change the life of a scholar forever while adding to our shared knowledge of history and culture. These depositions will drive me mad

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Into the garbage bin they go, right next to Target. We don’t need your shitty brands! You’re expendable but trans people are not.

California has had about the average amount of rain expected for this time of year, but snowpack is half of normal and melting fast. This is absolutely evidence of #climatechange.

For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran. It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades. Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties. 175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

This is clearly fine with the GOP.

Facemaskstore UK has selected lines for free. What’s available: A variety of masks (selected lines only). The condition: These items have passed their official use-by date but remain in their original, sealed packaging. The cost: Free for the product. You only pay the shipping #COVID #Measles

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Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.

Our government keeps telling us America can't afford universal health care or expanding Medicare for ALL. There's a reason for that.🗽

Today is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. 💛 Today we celebrate abortion providers — the people who show up every day with compassion, courage, and creativity to care for their communities. #CelebrateAbortionProviders

Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.

The most impt change at #NIH and to US science this year is bigger than grant cancellations— it’s how the agency is governed. For 75 years NIH has been largely independent of presidential control. That’s changed this year. New piece from me and @nataliebaviles.bsky.social in @nature.com 🧪

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

I have been trying to get this for months. I live in a red state that stripped all my civil rights, just passed a bill bringing back conversion therapy, no longer counts my ppl in education stats ... I am disabled as well. I really need access to community, too. #MutualAid Thx so much for shares.

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.” -Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!

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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Slyngstad always gets it right…

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.