The Rich and Powerful get away with everything America is lawless

The reports coming out of Delaney Hall right now are sickening. No one should be subjected to the inhumane treatment and conditions we are hearing and seeing from inside that facility. ICE has become a rogue agency that must be reined in.

One thing that a lot of people don't understand about doing mathematics with an LLM assistant: often half or even 90% of the game is knowing *what* to try to prove. Knowing what's likely to interest a particular research community, what's been tried before, what is feasible ... 1/2

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

Not NSF, but our DARPA-funded grant (involving CWRU, UMD and others) for an amazing project to try to develop artificial blood - a biosynthetic whole blood analog intended for use by military medics and in mass casualty incidents - got a stop work order in March and now has been cancelled. 😔

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Manufacturing a scandal: What the FDA’s COVID vaccine pediatric death review actually says After a top FDA official claimed the COVID vaccine killed at least 10 US kids, the actual report noted only 2 as even "probable." Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: ow.ly/TfMY50Z4Vjb

BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

Trump threatened to “blow up” one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East today and I couldn’t find it about it on the homepage of the Times, Journal, or Post

I honestly don’t have words.

Someday an academic will hit the total button on how many lives have been lost because of MAGA Republicans, and the number will show that Trump is a mass murderer.

I've long wondered about that.

We need some way to enforce the requirement that each year on June 1, the President must undergo a physical exam by two physicians, one chosen by Senate Majority Leader and one chosen by the Senate Minority Leader, and the detailed results to be made public by no later than July 1.

Listening to the NPR obit for Sonny Rollins, and I am reminded once again that this style of jazz sounds to me like random noise. I would rather listen to opera, and I hate opera. I confess this, knowing full well that it marks me as having some deep personal failing.

I have to admit that, although there's been a lot of very silly commentary about AI over the years by people like Hubert Dreyfus and Gary N. Smith, there is literally nothing I am less interesting in reading on the subject than a commentary by a pope.

Over 100 police officers were injured. Six died. But let’s make the attackers millionaires. If you see nothing morally wrong with this you are in a cult and have lost your moral compass.

If their goal is to choke off economic advantages from the US’s university system it’s hard to think of a more effective way. Scientists and other academics come to the US to study— then stay in the US often via green cards, to start companies, do unique work, and contribute to the US economy.

Our goal is to simply survive this administration and all of the damage they are doing to our country, the present and future of science. I publish with "foreign scientists" all the time. This is going to be a problem if I cannot cite those papers in my progress reports.

Its very hard to have viewpoints diversity when some viewpoints openly disregard reality and would rob your political voice if given the chance.

Rep. Thomas Massie has conceded. Republican voters have rejected the member of their own party most responsible for forcing the vote to release the Epstein files. All because Trump, a man named in the Epstein files thousands of times, didn't want them released. That says a lot. None of it good.

This sums up the era we’re in.

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I'm so old I remember ihnp4.

Every single day--sometimes by the hour--the Trump admin is openly doing corrupt and illegal and immoral things that would have led to Biden or Obama being impeached with a bipartisan vote.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

The most corrupt act by a president in American history. From this day forward Trump can sue his administration and order his government to pay up

A federal judge also ruled that federal funding was withheld to coerce a pardon for Peters.

<<taps sign>> This an illegal and unconstitutional impoundment, it's what got Trump impeached the first time around, and in any sane world he'd be impeached and removed for it before noon tomorrow.

From @steverattner.bsky.social: “This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.” Gobsmacking corruption no previous president would even try, without getting impeached and removed. 🤯 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If only we had a name for a regime that waived legal consequences for antidemocratic extremists and set up a payroll for its paramilitary wing.

When I taught advanced formal language theory at Waterloo, I used to hand out these laminated 'bar bet' cards, which are based on a fun little paper I wrote in 1999. The list of primes given is minimal. It's a very specific case of a theorem due to Haines (1969).

An event truly meant to unify America would recognize our heritage of religious pluralism. That's not what Trump's Christian Nationalists have in mind with this weekend's "Rededicate 250." That's why the speakers are basically all MAGA Christians. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

It's not just the endless, obvious corruption. It's the destruction of the Justice Department and other checks that would normally immediately prosecute Trump, his sleazy family, and complicit MAGA officials.

As fatal incidents involving air traffic peak, transportation secretary Sean Duffy is generally an absentee leader... but he can always find time to shake down the companies he is supposedly regulating for freebies for himself and his family.

My favourite phrases for when things go wrong… 1. It’s a shitshow at the fuck factory (English) 2. Now the turnips are cooked (Dutch) 3. A donkey is inside another donkey (Persian) 4. The Devil is loose in Salmonstreet (Danish) 5. A finger in the ass and screaming everywhere (Brazilian Portuguese)

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

On Mother's Day, we mourn Marie Ange Blaise, Renee Nicole Good, and all the other mothers who are no longer with us as a consequence of the cruelty and violence of ICE and Border Patrol. Let's organize rapid response networks to defend our communities: crimethinc.com/MNRapidRespo...

Surely the folks who breathlessly covered Biden’s lack of awareness of administration goings-on will be equally vigorous in covering Trump not knowing he was going to fire his FDA Administrator (and is unhinged and incoherent in countless other ways), right? Right??!

Abigail Spanberger, your years working at the CIA were all leading to this moment.

This looks like word salad. Am I wrong? www.researchgate.net/profile/Rich...

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.

From The Atlantic's editor in chief @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: "We will not be intimidated by illegitimate investigations ... we will continue to cover the FBI professionally, fairly, and thoroughly; and we will continue to practice journalism in the public interest."

2 reasons that Republicans in Congress are making taxpayers pay for the ballroom: 1. It is insanely over budget - far more than the $400 million Trump now admits to after he originally said it was $200 million. 2. His exaggerated “donations” don’t come close to covering it.

Louise Arbour is Canada's new Governor General. She was top prosecutor at the international court. She brought charges against President Milošević, secured the first conviction for genocide since 1948, prosecuted sexual assault as a crime against humanity. This is a powerful statement.