I watched the 60 Minutes segment on this. The kids are simply remarkable and brilliant. A few things that stood out - (almost?) all kids were of Southeast Asian origin children of immigrants, the funding has been cancelled due to DEI, China and Asian countries have a lot more participants in IGEM.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

This is San Francisco’s maybe biggest problem rn. We must invest in housing and PUBLIC schools

There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.

Palantir has received billions to create a surveillance state. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Donald Trump and the Deconstruction of America Don’t let the daily outrages obscure the big picture. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To kick people out of the USA—many of whom are indigenous to the Americas—they are disregarding the tribal IDs of Native (US) Ameicans, ignoring the treaties of 100+ years standing with the people who are, you know, the REAL Americans.

This is very good, bc @haleaziz.bsky.social is always excellent. What we don’t yet (and may never) know is did the death squad activity that the shooter was recruited by the CIA to do in Afghanistan lead to PTSD fueled murders. Or subsequent radicalization. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW: Livestock graze on millions of acres of Western public lands. Congress dramatically reduced scrutiny of the impacts. As Trump seeks to expand grazing, we look at the consequences. with @highcountrynews.org

In Congress, Pete Hoekstra said tariffs were bad for business and consumers. “The market should dictate the price of steel, not the government,” he testified in 2003. Today, as ambassador to Canada, though, Hoekstra has been a top defender of Trump’s tariffs. @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Seventy years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, and her legacy is often shrunk into that single moment. Detroit, the city where she chose to continue her life, insists on remembering her differently.

Decades after her act of defiance, Rosa Parks galvanized a cadre of activists to protest their own conditions and, though the scope of her legacy for them is still coming into focus, it remains just as powerful.

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Today on @indicator.media's (free) Briefing: A twinkle of optimism on the AI slop front as TikTok and Google roll out tools to filter and detect AI content. I remain bearish about generative AI and info quality. But I’ll celebrate developments that increase user agency and platform transparency.

Major measles outbreaks have repeatedly cropped up in the Southwest this year. Yet at IHS hospitals in the region, agency officials deemed “measles” and “immunizations” a "medium risk" in internal agency emails. Staffers, including doctors, now need to get approval to use them in public messaging

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex. “You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended" time.com/7336204/meta...

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

A 91-year-old woman refused to sell her home of 60 years to make room for a $100 billion Micron superfab. She finally gave up when authorities threatened to take it through eminent domain. from @peard33.bsky.social

The Indian Health Service has placed new restrictions on how staff can speak publicly about vaccines, flagging words like “immunizations” and “vaccines,” according to internal emails reviewed by ProPublica. By @maryhudetz.bsky.social

Who would have guessed that David Sacks would be doing unethical shit in the White House? Not a single guy in that cohort who’s not a raging sociopath www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Are we at war? Did Congress authorize this? Impeach Trump! "American and Syrian forces conduct airstrikes on ISIS weapons storage facilities, US military says" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6GKm5D0Y/b...

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

So Trump still has no idea what part of his body the MRI looked at, but the results were awesome, but he knows it wasn’t his brain because he aced a dementia test. WE NEED THOSE MRI RESULTS.

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached. Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at? Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.

Why is Jared Kushner involved in any government matter? Has he been appointed and was he properly vetted and passed clearance? As I recall, he didn’t pass first term around. trump is openly conducting personal business!

Ditto #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Pinks

Journalists are supposed to speak truth to power. Expose the facts no matter what. If Trump calls a reporter a “very stupid person”… everyone in that room should call him out. They should tell him he must answer the question. They should demand a basic level of decorum. He refuses? Walk out.

Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6

Men are floundering at school and in the workplace. Some conservatives blame a crisis of masculinity, but the problems—and their solutions—are far more complex. http://nyer.cm/68lJqnB

Amazonians battle mercury poisoning in Brazil

'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Indigenous people fight mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil

"Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than full of neighbors to be loved. Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion."

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this just came up on my phone on this date in 2017 so this little prick doesn’t have a security clearance never did

I know someone who seems very sick but refuses to go to the hospital until her Medi-Cal approval comes thru. She cannot afford insurance. I told her they cannot turn her away, but she's too frightened of the bill if she's admitted, which she most certainly would be. Our country is so fucked up.

And we wonder why Democratic veterans felt the need to remind soldiers they didn’t have to follow unlawful orders?

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

Former US ambassador urges Trump to avoid bad Ukraine deal ‘for the sake of signing’

"A CIA trained killer who Trump granted asylum to killed a National Guard member" Dean Obeidallah

More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Impeach, remove and convict M47 (Monster 47) Trump. I hope he and his regime sycophants like the Hague. That's where the Trump regime will be placed on trial for their crimes, and when the verdicts are guilty, they'll be placed in Fuchu Supermax Prison.

. AMERICA, do it - just do it ! It's enough !! 💠 👊 💠

The 3rd Impeachment.

Like Nazis who supported the Third Reich, it's going to take more than a lifetime for MAGA Trump supporters to wash the fucking shame off themselves. 😳👇

What might break up Trump's coalition, and what Mamdani might have clocked, is proving to Americans that an anti-fascist government can make their lives more affordable. lnk.thebulwark.com/4iALUlB

There must be immediate Congressional investigations into Pete Hegseth’s ordering the killings of strike survivors and over 80 people in international waters. Where is my opponent Rep. Ann Wagner? Bible verses and banking regulations aren’t going to save you. Do your job or resign! @wellmanformo

I just had a dude argue that war crimes don't apply during war, and I just don't know if our country can survive this level of stupid.