Kid1 and I at a shuttle launch 15ish years ago. It was one of the cooler things ive witnessed. Watching this lauch on tv with the kids makes me want to get middle kid to a live launch.

Sounds not great.

My grandpa said i was brainwashed by going to a public university. If I'd gone to a bible college like many in my family and not learned things like the earth is more than 6000 years old, that wouldn't have been brainwashing. Agree with me or you are brainwashed.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

This is no accident. We’ve been asking for clear definitions from NIH & HHS for over a year with no answer. I don’t think we will ever get one. Over-compliance from the scientific community allows them to maximize damage with plausible deniability. We are doing their dirty work for them.

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Peter Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes. (Published 2021)

🧪🦠 I'm testing out Illumina xleap chemistry for 16s/its amplicons. Did a run on miseq i100 with HMP v4, EMP v4, and ITS2. HMP v4 and ITS2 demultiplexed as expected. EMP index (i think is still i7) was mostly G (ithink no base). Tech support just told me that they've seen other EMP indexing fail?

Just a reminder that Trump unilaterally deciding to give TSA money is a fundamental crime against the constitutional order but I guess we're too overstimulated to care

Gerald Ford vetoed naming a post office after himself.

Appropriations levels are law and Trump is violating the constitution by not taking care that they be faithfully executed and he has been since the day he began executing the powers of the presidency in 2025.

Everytime. Sometimes its just a tear or 2. Sometimes ugly crying. tidal.com/track/734738...

It is never ok for the Defense Secretary to be making stock investments in military contractors, ever. Even under normal circumstances, much less planned combat operations.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

WFP endorced Platner.

This is working, 40 t-shirts will be shipping out of here tomorrow. 47 goth girl and 34 Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirts remain in the stock room. Keep it up!!

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

The GOP’s SAVE America Act would have staggering effects on our right to vote with “show me your papers” obstacles that will make it harder for millions of U.S. citizens, particularly Latino communities, to vote this November. #sheshed

LICE protesters at #nokings DC

This shouldn’t be controversial. Defunding cancer research to pay for corporate tax cuts is twisted and wrong.

Chilly no kings rally today. Last speaker focused on ice/dhs atrocities. The system needs to be burned to the ground, all current employees are tainted and must be fired. Which makes me wonder, what qualifications are required to be an immigration judge? They're not real judges (lawyers), right?

Hadn't measured kid1 for a couple of months, I'm no longer the tallest family member.

@bedform.org i didn't realize this is why shutdowns were recent.

An explosion of reported measles cases in Texas’ federal detention facilities broke through to the public last month, infecting at least four El Paso residents who worked in one of the centers, according to emails obtained by The Texas Tribune.

First of all, the Trumpists’ key assertion is that they represent “real America,” that the November election was a referendum that installed Trump as the tribune of “the people.” Anything that helps to dispel such notions – especially in the minds of mainstream elites – matters.

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying. This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you. In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-" Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

For K-12 teachers, please check out the free curriculum based on Matika Wilbur's research and photography project. She was a K-12 teacher, so it was important to her to create curriculum that is free and accurate. www.project562.com/12603431-562...

I grew up in WY. We had 100s of Mexican migrant workers come in every summer for harvests, a few doz stayed year round. A defining event was listening to a church deacon laughing and telling my dad (a farm laborer) how he tore up the pay checks for anyone who couldn't answer questions in English.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

ICE pretended for a year that it could arrest people outside their immigration court hearings at buildings like 26 Federal Plaza in NYC. Turns out they had no authority to do that, and DOJ attorneys just admitted it. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social explains: prospect.org/2026/03/25/i...

The Jetsons lied to us

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

1. Bullshit on a (slightly less random) text generator that confidentally spouts nonsense until questioned as a replacement for a curious human. 2. Even if 1. weren't true, why would you replace all your effort witha machine that you don't control? That an oligarch can hold ransom or shut down?

“In that video, an agent is also seen pressing a knee into Arnoldo’s back, while another restrains him using a head hold. Arnoldo cries out, struggling to speak, telling the agents he is underage and was born in the U.S.” www.ms.now/news/border-...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Wtf

​​We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year. Meta got $13.7 BILLION. Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND. Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them. We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.

Man, if I were the Senate Minority leader this is all I'd be talking about. You're paying higher prices for everything so Trump and his cronies can play a rigged game for billions.

Is it happening again?

What other product have we said can't be held liable for damage it causes?

The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

Human soldiers shot people in My Lai, one by one, up close. Photos were leaked and widely publicized. The massacre was graphically, undeniably caused by human choices. Minab was also caused by human choices, but further removed and hidden behind a veil of automation.

@uconnaaup.bsky.social good thread. Love this procurement article.

I want my town to cut their flock contract