Good news for blow-addicted right wing chuds everywhere.

Happy Shut The Fuck Up Friday, memorize the script 👇 and STFU

I suspect he never saw himself as the one to pay the price and that his wealth and influence would insulate him. But sometimes that's not enough to protect you in the lottery you endorsed.

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.

Sit on your posting hands if you have to, ok?

I'm hearing the FBI is looking for a man in Utah with a rifle, so they must have some really clear footage helping them narrow it down

A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Trump’s tariffs on imports were officially enacted Aug. 7, ranging between 10% and 50%, depending on the country and product. While the tariffs were levied on all manner of imported goods, they may be particularly undigestible in the food sector.

It's hard to stomach sometimes how much I resent people I know who voted for this.

Complexity science indirectly discovers democratic municipalism as an optimal solution to democratic governance. cool work by the folks at @vcsi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... may be of interest @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social

This is a good piece and scientists should read it. The bit about research design goes by quick, but it shouldn’t be missed. There is so often a failure to tangle with thorny questions like “what am I trying to learn?” and “why is it important that I learn it?”

ICE's average annual budget through FY 2029 is now going to be $27.6 billion, which makes it a higher-funded agency than the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, and Bureau of Prisons combined. We are looking at a level of federal law enforcement in communities not seen in generations.

That’s it. The rapid establishment of ICE as an all-purpose, super well-funded secret police with zero accountability is *the* main story right now.

Modern conservative thought in the US is tipping over from "Calling Trump an authoritarian is an unserious overreaction" to "Hey, you know what's cool? Authoritarianism."

Gambling is Illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice.

Ghouls and crooks.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

This thread gets at what I think is (currently, anyway) a fundamental problem with LLM chatbots: they do not (and really _can_ not) ever say "your question is bullshit; the fact that you are asking it means you have a fundamental misapprehension of facts outside of the question's direct scope."

At this point, every dipshit billionaire pushing LLMs as the future of education for the human race needs to be tried at the Hague.

The proposal was to use ancient DNA records to improve biodiversity forecasting models, to help us to understand some of our most pressing questions about life on our planet. There are no other programs to send this to. Almost no programs fund research infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the US barely has any ancient DNA research capacity. We’re horribly behind Europe. What an enormous waste. I feel so lost. So angry at this destructive, hateful, evil administration and everyone who enables it. It’s a small thing in the bigger picture. But it’s still a gut punch.

Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

Trump's DOJ makes sweeping demand for Colorado election data www.npr.org/2025/06/11/n...

Trump wants all of us on the left to think that if he bays for our deaths, the military will jump at the opportunity. But I don't think the majority of Troops are chomping at the bit to gun down US citizens. And I think giving that seemingly inevitable order to do so may cause ranks to break.

“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”

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I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

I don't understand how someone can say this in all sincerity and not burst into flames.

These are the guys who want to take over our universities

Social Murder. Read your Engels people.

One of Sen. Ernst's constituents points out that people are going to die if Republicans' cuts to Medicaid go through. Ernst's response? "Well, we all are going to die." Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

Absolutely insane headline. This is what genocide looks like. This is what our ruling classes have decided will be normal.

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More bad news for US science, indirect rates capped at 15% will further gut our research institutions & univerisities www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

the fundamental failure of liberals to understand what guns mean. what police are. what you lose when you outsource your self defense to people who want you dead. if we die this will be what kills us.

"ban assault weapons" "guns mean small dick" and a bunch of similar shibboleths don't change the fundamental reality that if armed people want you dead and you don't have some way of opposing them you fucking die

💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

Did you know that @tayzonday.com is an incredibly astute critical theorist? This podcast series by @jamieloftus.bsky.social is fucking a-mazing.

alright folks, here's my best stab at a roadmap for what to expect out of the next six months to a year of this administration

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

As always, a wise and sober view from @iwriteok.bsky.social of the next 6-12 months. Worth a listen and a follow of this podcast.

Robert Evans (@iwriteok.bsky.social)'s take on the coming months. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...