Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I don’t think I’ll get over how this is probably the literal worst outcome possible from the shutdown, and it’s entirely from the Senate Democrats own choice

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him And they should, given this is his fault.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

So the Democrats SWEPT recent elections, and are celebrating their newfound momentum: by caving in to everything the Republicans wants! Wow that sounds like a really great way to mobilize your base and turn out the voter next year‘s election 🙄🙄🙄

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Sending all my love to New York City right now. Fuck yeah. What a great town.

East coast to Trump: DROP DEAD

EXPEDITIOUSLY AT LOUD VOLUME

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

The U.S. government has been shut down for 28 days now. Over 900,000 federal workers have been furloughed. Air traffic controllers are going without paychecks. SNAP benefits to feed people run out on Sunday. The House GOP refuses to meet in session. None of this is normal nor acceptable.

I will repost this forever.

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Ah, yes. I see the Department of Metaphors and Idioms is still fully staffed, despite other government cuts. This one is a little on the nose, but effective.

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

It's important to track how many citizens are kidnapped by ICE. But I'll keep hammering the point that it simply does not matter if someone is native-born or undocumented — NO ONE deserves to be brutalized by glorified rent-a-cops in a fascist state. There are no "innocent" victims. Just victims.

I’d like to stop talking about ICE so I can focus on talking about ice in Greenland, Antarctica, the Arctic, and elsewhere.

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

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@infinitescream.bsky.social I need you

Life news -- starting Fall 2026, I'll be an Assistant Prof in University of Maryland, College Park's Astronomy Department! I'll be starting up a lab to measure all the substellar cloud things 🌤️🪐✨ and continuing alllllll the atmospheric model things Lowkey obsessed with the mascot #FeartheTurtle

Some people would rather bring back acid rain and disrupt global wind/weather patterns instead of installing protected bike lanes & bus priority lanes/signals so we drive less and emit less CO2. This is why I fight so hard for bike lanes and transit

IMO it is completely and totally ethical to lie about comorbidities to get a COVID vaccine. This is not like 2021 where supply was limited and you were jumping the line in front of someone more vulnerable. We have enough vaccines! The restrictions are fake and purely anti-vax bullshit.

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Congrats to @joneskuma.bsky.social, co-winner of the DPS Urey Prize for early career researchers! #EPSCDPS

If you're at #EPSCDPS2025 come to the Aerosols session happening now to hear me talk about this brand new paper! (My talk is in an hour but cool Titan aerosol science currently in progress 🪐)

✨✨✨Another Virga advert✨✨✨ Introducing V2.0, with fractal aggregate clouds! Restricted to spheres no more! We handle the dynamics and the optics self consistently. Led by me and PhD candidate extraordinaire Matt Lodge (who is looking for a postdoc 👀 and is amazing). arxiv.org/abs/2509.06708

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"you're like human Grammarly" - @joneskuma.bsky.social I've never been so flattered tbh

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

The solidarity in this Walgreens this morning to get the COVID booster is off the charts.

I do want your guns taken away, FYI.

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There is a deep ideological investment in The City as a place of danger because the far right desperately needs people to not realize that their rural pastoral paradises are some of the most dangerous places in America.

It might be better for the world if all the money invested in AI companies was just set on fire.

a NASA intern recognized my KCST (King's Crown Shakespeare Troupe) jacket logo and was all excited to meet a fellow NASA theatre nerd alum; excuse me while I weep into my desk

"more efficiently memorialize the dead" I've spent several minutes and more than one draft trying to describe the inhumanity of that phrase, and I'm flailing. When my time comes, hopefully decades from now, please don't outsource what I was about from a human to a fancy word processor.