The Trump regime often claims that its words are "taken out of context." But if the news media included more context – such as reminding the public that these people have long histories of lying – their reports would be even more damning.

the “unitary executive” theory is incompatible with successful science. We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both

RFK Jr.’s hand-picked anti-vax panel has removed any doubt about their obvious bias and destroyed any shred of credibility for their decision-making process. CDC should reject this dangerous suggestion that will simply mean more babies die in the United States.

New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win "Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large. Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

Need something to do at 8AM on a Sunday morning? Come see these Cullen Lab members working on vestibular prosthesis projects at the Vestibular & Visual Prostheses Nanosymposium (Room 23A)!

It was a major mistake that the Senate didn’t hold high-profile hearings and investigations into the corrupt Roberts Court when ProPublica was breaking the scandals. Now that same corrupt Court is blowing up NIH, NSF, and all of US basic science. Our failure to pick a big fight with the Court 1/

Remember, historically judges will almost always take gov't claims at face value. It's an astounding fact that judges are now increasingly realizing that this administration just flat out lies to them constantly. And it's good to see them calling it out (in this case with a Trump-appointed judge).

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed. Tariffs, DOGE bloodbath, federal worker firings, killing of NY-NJ tunnel etc are *abuses of power* that *also* hurt the economy. Dems can say both these things. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

Every bureaucrat involved in this sort of thing needs to either be jailed or guillotined (or both) www.fns.usda.gov

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

In the long Republican tradition of harassing people, especially non-white-people, who might not vote for them. www.npr.org/2024/10/31/n...

It's both. He attained the office by nullifying the part of the Constitution that bans him from office.

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check. It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

A moral society would make guys like this absolute pariahs, basically excommunicated from all sources of social belonging and support. There's no excusing beliefs like this. They're products of an entirely malformed being.

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

It's not about Jimmy Kimmel. It wasn't about Colbert. It wasn't about the CBS interview with Kamala Harris or George Stephanopoulos, either. Trump is finally coming out with it. Don't make him look bad. Or even joke about it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

A lawless and illegitimate regime and its minions are not entitled to the protection of the rule of law.

"Private" schools are a fiction and menace, they are all frauds built upon the persistent theft of public funds and resources intended for the benefit of children. It is the duty of all good and moral people to work towards the complete destruction of private schools.

Minutes before the Israeli military killed him, Anas al-Sharif posted to X: "If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins... and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop."

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

"this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

The flood should remind us -- as the Uvalde school shooting did -- that Republican governance is incompetent & leads to more people dying.

On April 21, Trump told TIME, "I’ve made 200 deals." TIME asked, "You’ve made 200 deals?" Trump said, "100%." If media outlets don't say/write "the Trump admin has repeatedly lied about the trade deals" in every story, they are misleading their readers.

Trump's immigration policies are cruel, unconstitutional, and polling underwater, so of course NYTimes leaps to Trump's rescue with a new story saying Democrats need to go along with him. I dunno maybe resist fascism and seize on your opponent's weakness? Just sayin. chart via @gelliottmorris.com

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

The "proper role of judges" includes acting swiftly and firmly to restrain an Executive who violates the Constitution in multiple ways by kidnapping citizens and dumping them abroad. No amount of hand-waving by you or SCOTUS can justify allowing it to happen to even one person, much less thousands.

A society is only as good as it treats the most vulnerable of our people. Nativity of birth makes you an American. Full stop.

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

All knowledge is a threat to power, and therefore all sources of knowledge are always under threat from power. We need resilient systems, and neither private nor public exclusive ownership of scientific outputs can guarantee that. That has to be shared across countries and institutions.

Public policy is meant to regulate the needs of the here and the now— not just the long run. But, for some in America, the infliction of pain is a public policy prescription itself and it is core to their political identity. The cruelty is an immediate payoff.

Christian Nationalists pretend that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, but the Constitution never mentions Jesus or Christianity. Not even once. Instead, it bans government promotion of *any* religion. Don't be fooled by their lying propaganda.

Tell me: if these dudes show up with guns in an unmarked van to grab someone, why don’t the Second Amendment fans think they should be shot?

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

Break the law.

Willing to bet a very large amount that most of that 413% rise in “assaults” on ICE agents represent unarmed people attacking ICE fists with their faces and boots with their kidneys. Because these people are lying scum.

Also the public *should pay* for the science because then the information belongs to them, not to an institution or company. That’s the whole point!

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

One other point about this chart: Young women, you are right and everyone else is wrong. You deserve a better world than this one. Don't settle for it or the men who made it this way.