its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

good morning lovelies youtube.com/watch?v=XmIqIVxUuKs

Stephen Miller was in my college cohort and I regret not bullying him to my full potential. This dude threw a 2 year tantrum over being asked to sign a thank you card for the dorm housekeeping staff.

I can't believe we've gone from "If you've got nothing to hide, release the Epstein files" to "If you've got nothing to hide, release the jobs report"

more movies should have guys running around in bathrobes

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Time for our irregular (but increasingly frequent) reminder that voter/voting fraud statistically speaking does not exist, and the few times it is committed, it's always by Republicans

Watch us perform Cult of Personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live! livingcolour.com/home/blog/76...

At a time when skepticism about college is popular, and many suggest trades as an alternative, this should lead some to reassess whether that advice is helpful or harmful to young people looking for guidance. Full post here: blog.waldrn.com/p/the-truth-...

We hear a lot about the promise of middle-skills jobs, with a heavy emphasis on blue collar trades. But in the past four decades, those are the jobs where wages have fallen below the median wage.

Looming over what would otherwise be a beautiful stretch of pacific coastline, this facility represents about 1.5% of the US’s refining capacity. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

The fun thing about power is that while you can use it to silence people smarter than you no amount of it can cure you of being a fucking dipshit

Release the jobs data, and the Epstein files!

Great column. And conclusion: Dems need to fight back harder.

this is glorious

Spanberger+15

The way ICE agents wreak havoc on buildings, take perverse pleasure in doing so, and then lie about everything afterwards is akin to the videos of IDF soldiers wrecking residential complexes in Gaza, and there’s a lot to unpack all around there.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

But also we’re terrified of the subway

Paul Graham wondering why there is so much racism at the Nazi bar and why Elon isn’t doing anything to stop it is almost cute in its naivety

The empire is not insurmountable. They rely on posturing but they’re highly disorganized and fragmented. We are going to win.

we're returning to the social contract natural law doesn't require ratification crush the infamous thing reason doesn't defer to authority the sovereign is us, actually inalienable means non-negotiable universal means you too bsky.app/profile/conj...

The 1986 law EMTALA, signed by Reagan, requires hospitals to provide ER care to people who arrive with an emergency. The reason is if they wait to check insurance or legal status, patients would bleed out and/or die. The law exists to protect Americans, not people here illegally.

No no. The good thing about this is that it has the outside chance that Vance responds in a way that gets him excommunicated.

The raid in South Shore last night feels like an escalation, especially in light of today’s “enemies within” speech. ICE is now breaking down/chainsawing through doors of private homes at night. Did they even have a warrant? abc7chicago.com/amp/post/ice...

Trumpland is full of idiots who believe that economic & military capabilities fall from coconut trees. They're ignorant & arrogant people who obsess over branding & aesthetics. They think they're about hard power & machtpolitik, but they're actually doing the dumbest possible version of soft power.

"Those metrics are down even as New College spends more than 10 times per student what the other 11 members of the State University System spend, on average." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

You should always be clear-eyed about the horrors without being defeatist about them and a lot of people struggle with this delicate balance

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

Yes and you were a republican so you know the media will make it their job to make the public think that.

"But federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering. In order to save our services today, we need to send a message to this Administration that enough is enough.”

I get a lot of strange looks when I say this in meatspace, but I unironically mean it: algorithm discipline is an extraordinarily important skill for navigating modern life without going insane, and it should be taught in K-12 schools.

This is an absolutely extraordinary, revelatory quote. Why is the NBC affiliate in Portland the only place reporting it? www.kgw.com/article/news...

Do you think the President could find Portland on a blank map of the US? Say to within, like, 100 miles? I am gonna say no.

I've shared this cover before I'm sure but the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain does a live version of Heroes with an incredible build and release At the start the audience laughs in that cover song novelty way, but by the end of it they cheer youtu.be/0zCdwBqfmYA

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Portland is "war ravaged" in the same sense that Pete Hegseth embodies a "warrior ethos"

Looking at countries that have experienced democratic backsliding into authoritarianism over the past several decades, we know two things. 1. Most countries eventually recover back to democracy. It is NOT inevitable. It requires vigilance. But vigilance can work. 4/6

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

It was beautiful. This thread was beautiful.

So anyway, turns out plasma in menstrual blood can completely heal wounds in 24 hours. hudson.org.au/news/womb-to...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.” www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

This Is The Whole Point Of Work Requirements