ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Waiting for more...

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

trans rights are human rights and nothing will change that, no matter what a bunch of unelected law wizards and bigoted legislators say

Our country has long held that children born on U.S. soil or U.S. territories are citizens. Today they no longer have to worry about an administration who tried to deny them this right.

If you're born in America, you're an American. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Today's decision is a victory but also a reminder that our constitutional values are under fierce attack by far-right extremists. Democracy is an action. Use your voice and your vote to protect American democracy.

It’s five years this week since the PNW heat wave killed hundreds, wreaked havoc on ecosystems, and left Lytton BC in ashes after hitting 49.6 °C / 121.3 °F. As adaptation and mitigation lag, loss and damage - the things climate change takes from us that we can’t get back - will continue to grow.

I’m sick and tired of trans people being used as targets for political attacks. The trans community’s joy and freedom are not a threat to anyone else’s. Democrats must stand up for our trans loved ones – it's the right thing to do.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Large hailstones the size of small hailstones but bigger.

Newhalem Visitor Center, North Cascades National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #NorthCascadesNationalPark

This is a very rigorous analysis (with transparent methodology - one can test the data on their own) and it shows NYT coverage has become more hostile to trans people over the last five years. Data. Facts.

ok who says that last one

Be best.

Moderation and algorithms should serve user communities by giving good content a leg up; banning this slop would be a great way to do that.

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

Against my better judgment I commented on that OMB attack on the NIH. I addressed two issues in paragraphs of three sentences. That's it. I totally understand if you cannot bring yourself to do this. I came damn close to not bothering.

it is difficult to argue truths with people whose diet consists of lies

One thing that people don't get about these DNA "services" is that you're not just sending your DNA, you're sending basically your entire family's. You have a genetic predisposition to a disease? So do your entire family and none of them have consented to having it in a database.

Doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well as some other versions but...

A proposed OMB rule would allow political appointees to override scientific peer review when making federal research funding decisions. For ECRS, this isn’t abstract. It affects training, jobs, and future discoveries. Read more ⬇️ sciencepolitics.org/2026/06/05/w... From us @snapcoalition.org

Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, Helen Lewis writes: theatln.tc/2o9Bb9hL 📸: Martyn Goodacre / Getty

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

A proposed Trump policy would put Russ Vought in charge of American science. Its an example of the slow creep of politicization into processes that both parties traditionally understood as needing nonpartisan and expert guidance. What can you do about it? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-...

This is right on target. If you know anyone in biotech and pharma, please speak with them www.biocentury.com/article/659615

What I understand from contacts is that the strategy now is to try to buy Chinese or Indian assets on the cheap and do any necessary development in Asia. Basically this is the death of the US pharma start-up infrastructure. Start-ups are being acquired or folding altogether with no funding.

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

This sounds like an important job: "STAT is seeking an ambitious and intellectually curious reporter to cover one of the defining issues in medicine, science, and public health today: declining trust in science… This is a new role at STAT.”

Good thread on a big part of being a human.

Can picture someone in the administration (many, actually) scoffing about "what use are bees?"

Another way to fuck over farmers and you know…people who eat food

The inclusion of donations from readers effectively transfers The Spokesman-Review from "a community newspaper" to "the community’s newspaper." Interested in local news? Read on, because another one of these creatures is headed toward nonprofit status in Spokane. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

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This piece ( open.substack.com/pub/understa...) by @binarybits.bsky.social made me think of something kind of similar @doctorow.pluralistic.net shared a little while ago about process knowledge. pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p.... Both asking about knowledge that's less articulated but still valuable.

But, as Dayen points out, there are dozens of Democratic state Attorneys General who can kill Trump's sweetheart deal for Agri Stats using the Tunney Act, which gives them standing to sue to force a federal judge to review the settlement and determine whether it is fair. 27/

This was my immediate thought too!

Who knew muppets started their lives in cows' rumens?

One thing people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use Medicaid—even if you never would use Medicaid—your ability to access care, and your ability to access healthcare providers like me, will be affected in some way or another by every cut or barrier to Medicaid. Nobody will be unaffected.

The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't. This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop. I have no intention of letting this stand.

A sense of shame in our political leaders.

Horrible. Why?

Through March 31, the number of grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year, a Post analysis found. There are also fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health, the analysis found. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

This morning, I posted two important stories based on insider information from the FBI and SCOTUS, published in @theatlantic.com and @nytimes.com respectively. This doesn’t happen by accident. The source(s) have to know they’ll be protected, even if the reporters are threatened with jail.

I thought foxes went into the Fox Boxes. Have I been doing Bear Boxes in Washington State all wrong?

War is logistics.

This seems like those odd circular funding/GPU purchase deals going on in #AI but with Cylon trucks.