Ken Jones, a retired San Francisco firefighter, has died from lung cancer after Blue Shield denied his treatment claims Any 2028 candidate who does not champion universal healthcare is a non-starter. I will not vote for someone who kills my neighbors for "shareholder value." You can go burn in hell

Yeah, there we go. I'm a little obsessed with tracking ignored warnings from scientists as they are vindicated.

Think we can get 20 new paid subscribers by midnight 👀

31% of Democrats polled said being transgender is "morally wrong". Five years ago it would have been a fraction of that. The propaganda is working, the silence from Democrats is deafening, & all of this is why every step backward can't go ignored for even a moment. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment www.aaas.org/news/aaas-st...

“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

On OMB's proposal to make all grants political: "Speak up! Now’s the time! Standing by the side of the room, glancing around nervously and hoping that somebody else does something will lead us to disaster. These are not normal times, so stop acting as if they are." www.science.org/content/blog...

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.

here's what i wrote

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

This one has been around for a few years now, but the message is the same #pride #chemsky www.linkedin.com/posts/chemsc...

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

I think this is the most important single action of the Trump era. We need to save American science. Write your comment today. Then share with colleagues in your Department, and urge your university and scientific societies to comment as well. Act now! 7/n

Many of us suffered quietly as we saw the beginning of the war on science. The fear was real; everything unraveled so quickly. We ain’t keeping our heads down. In 2026, staying out of politics leads to our demise. When you protect democracy, you protect science. 🧪 blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...

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Every time I see sharing about him it's like "MAMDANI USHERS IN ERA OF ENDLESS TERROR AND SUFFERING" accompanied by a picture of the friendliest, gentlest looking man you've ever seen

Fox continues to run these segments that seem like free ads for the candidates they are attacking Every one of these policies are broadly popular with voters

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The money was always there for the good things.

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Dawn at Lake Yamanaka, 1931. Coloured Woodblock.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

About a year ago I saw a tiktok where some american dude was saying something about being american and some british dude was like yeah we can tell you're american you have a propeller on your ceiling. I don't think the (Western) european hate against cooling tech is studied enough.

Something the clown (literal) who taught my theater and social change course said that stuck with me is that women around puberty learn to shrink inwards from social pressure and don't learn to stand tall if at all until their late 20s and early 30s and it made me weep

Ms Stenberg wanted to fail me/ keep me from walking at high school graduation for not turning in my alphabet book for senior year English on time. I had mono, couldn't swallow and my neck was thicker than my head. Luckily I had a reputation for taking teachers to the school board already so 🤷🏼‍♀️🎓

Still haven't seen it reported in the state's paper of record, but the People's Lawyer Keith Ellison just put out a press release condemning this bullshit:

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Miller deriding Talarico as having less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett is a real nest of essentialist bigotry resting upon idea that Black women are uniquely unfeminine/strong/don't feel pain/are unrapeable and that's all rooted in rationalizing endemic sexual violence. That's another thread.

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

one of the infinite ways in which the existence of trans people makes the whole world better is the way my transmasc friends have totally reframed for me what masculinity can look like when it busts out of that prison and it’s beautiful actually

I had dinner w/pharma people a while ago and asked if they are discussing internally, the collapse of science. The response was “yeah, all the time. But we figure that the pipeline is about a decade long and we’ll have made our money and be retired by the time it completely collapses”. Me: ……………..

Now is the time to make your thing. Stop motion with LEGO, webcomic, walking sim game, weird Halloween costume, backyard water feature, container garden. This is your sign. Make your thing. Stop waiting. Do it.

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Excellent, concise summary of the threats of recent OMB proposal and suggested action items. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENTS IS JULY 13, 2026 AT 11:59 PM EASTERN TIME elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Calling Stephen Miller an “ugly fuck” has gotten more messaging pickup than 20 years worth of the focus grouped pablum the consultant class has put together and it is scaring the hoes

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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I dunno, just thought I'd throw this into your timelines today for no particular reason 🙄

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

This is why I keep saying that the attacks on American science are attacks on global science because another country is not stepping up to fill the void. China may decide to do so eventually but so far hasn’t indicated that it will.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.