"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system." This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

Trump is saying if Democrats don't bend the knee and let him take health care away from millions, he's just going to turn around and inflict pain by firing American workers and withholding funding from our communities. That’s not governing. That’s a wannabe king taking hostages.

Is to understand in a very visceral, very human way the profound cruelty of a policy that seems to interrupt and complicate and brutalize the lives of ordinary people for the sheer sadistic pleasure of it. Each detention radiates out in its harm and disruption: the two-year-old traumatized, ...

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Dutch late night TV has its take

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

"Guess Stop O"

Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance: "What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."

The gentleman from Kentucky is right.

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be? LADAPO: Absolutely not T: You didn't even do a projection? L: It's an issue of right & wrong

False. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

a heartbreaking - gutting - overview of the scientists we have lost so far under this administration by my colleagues @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @pratheekrebala.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Do other academics have the pleasure of attending an annual retreat where you hear about all of the problems facing the dept, college, university, nation and leave feeling more 😔 than when you arrived? We’re only slide 10 into 80 and wow, this is gonna be a long morning.

Ahahaha. The provost at my university decided to centralize post award support in her office. My college has asked for this kind of college level support for 5 years. Nope. 😂

📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.

New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is dark. The far-right whitewashing of history and indoctrination of kids is well underway. www.vox.com/today-explai...

Already seeing hallucinated references in peer-reviewed papers with otherwise good quality, i.e. researchers using AI for literature review portions. Add it to the already massive pile of problems with our publishing norms.

People in NYC/NJ seem — yes that was an earthquake. A small one, but still. Tell USGS if you felt it here: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels. Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

Just a few months ago, I did an entire piece about how the Trump administration is completely gutting our tsunami warning infrastructure and endangering lives… heatmap.news/adaptation/t...

A revision to M8.8 by the USGS. This earthquake off the coast of Russia is now the strongest observed across the globe since 2010. Only 5 stronger earthquakes have been measured by humans. Tsunami Warning remains in effect for Hawaii with an ETA of 7:17pm HST

Woah. FEMA posted the NOFO for 2025. I am so surprised I nearly fell out of my seat.

Just in case anyone was wondering where science funding is going...

"Warm nighttime temperatures, especially 80F or warmer, do not allow people to recover from daytime heat. When warm low temperatures are combined with high humidity, conditions can become dangerous, if not deadly, even in the middle of the night." #ClimateSky #heatwave weather.com/safety/heat/...

It's terrible that so many local authorities primarily attempt to communicate to the public via Twitter and Facebook, even for emergency alerts. A long read by @faineg.bsky.social little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-s...

Why this comment has weight: Historically AccuWeather's politics have been right-wing. As Sen, Rick Santorum tried to forbid Natl Weather Service from making "consumer-friendly" forecasts, so AccuWeather could sell them. Trump tried to appoint AcWx head to run NOAA www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/p...

Attending the Natural Hazards Workshop this week... missed it last year to hang out with a friend in Quebec... thought about missing it this year because, well, things in DC. Now, I'm just hopeful that it feels like a sort of support group for people who have research evidence that's ignored.

Ok. Adding volcano activity to the extreme weather occurring across the country was not in my list of expected risks for this week.

A great piece of reporting about the floods in Texas that includes solutions. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Texas really said we’re going to send you alerts over the same channel we use for flood evacuations and tornado warnings every time a policeman is sad and so everyone stopped listening to them

I have spent the last 24 hours looking at media reports and social media posts about the Texas Hill County tragedy and being appalled by the level of misinformation I am seeing. I have tried to put together an updated, more reasoned summary I hope you'll read. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Sure, a lot of rural hospitals and nursing homes will close, but think of all the new concentration camps we're going to open!

Woah. Makes you wonder what exactly is the role of a publisher of text books. Certainly not the ensure accuracy (of references) in this example from Springer Nature.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." A history professor explains how Orwell's warnings about historical revisionism are all–too-relevant today: buff.ly/3xV61hh #1984 By @fieryparticle.bsky.social, American University 🗃️📚#booksky

That's the punchline of my slidedeck... that their "participatory propaganda" is a kind of improvisational theater, and Vance is one of the main performers on that stage. Trump is the star. If you have time, here's my full talk. The performance stuff is near the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

writing is a tool for thinking. it’s not controversial to say if you want to think at a complex level you have to use writing.

For Day50 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution Celebrating 90yrs of mollusk research at PRI! John is joined by a number of other H. sapiens who love science (and fun)-tag them all! 🧪🦑⚒️🐌 #fossils #savePRI

Important further info: the email was sent only to ICE HSI, the arm of ICE more traditionally involved in worksite raids. It applies to any agricultural facility, restaurants, and hotels, and bars arresting workers, really. Other businesses, including factories, are presumably still fair game.

In context of the 3,000 arrests/day mandate, this means turbocharging arrests in construction, child&elder care, delivery services, transport, manufacturing. It also means desperate ICE agents prowling the streets for victims. Courts, check-ins, and interviews will be ground zero for arrests...

What's it like inside the National Weather Service right now? @evanbush.bsky.social and @chasecain.bsky.social got a rare look inside one local NWS office. They found dedicated people committed to the mission but an office that is unquestionably short-staffed. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Apropos of nothing, I need all of you to promise never to use ChatGPT to learn about Mount St. Helens. That is, unless you want to learn about Reid Johnston and how his helicopter was caught in the blast. A last radio transmission, "It's coming. It's coming." It's a throne of lies.

Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mullin is lying. Sorkin knows he's lying yet instead of fact checking the claim, we gotta get to that next pre-planned question. What @cnbc.com failed to tell it's viewers: the CBO says the GOP bill would impose about $700 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid.

"Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death" ... 300k dead children and counting. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The NSF cuts are nothing short of a scorched-earth attack on US science, orchestrated w/political cynicism & total disregard for US scientific leadership. A 7% success rate doesn’t incentivize innovation; it tells researchers to take their talent elsewhere. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Yes, "we are all going to die," but most people would prefer it be later rather than sooner. It's hard to understand why some Republicans don't seem to grasp that.