To a sociopath, empathy is a flaw. To a everyone else, empathy is part of being human.

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers. n.pr/4obhR5w

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥”? Back on August 28, 2014 President Obama wore a perfectly normal light-colored suit. Fox News and its conservative pundits lost their minds, calling it “un-presidential,” “one of the ugliest suits in history,” even saying it "showed weakness to America’s enemies."

Remember when Trump fired the head of BLS after she released the July 2025 jobs report? Now ADP has revised August jobs from +54,000 down to −3,000, and is reporting −32,000 for Sept. I can’t trust anything that comes out of our government (jobs, inflation, tariffs, vaccines, even Tylenol).

Why is the government shut down? Republicans want to gut Obamacare, rip healthcare away from millions, funnel money into an ever-expanding ICE budget, shower oligarchs with more tax breaks, and build more detention camps. Democrats don't want them to do that.

This week I was busy on a new project (details to come). I fell behind on the wrecking ball news about US science. So I put together a round-up of cuts and chaos in my email newsletter today. (Plus some nice news and cheery photos to keep things from getting too dark.) buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

Dude puts tariffs on virtually the entire world, with one notable exception! Care to guess which country?

A Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned by President Trump and released from prison last week is being sought on preexisting charges in Texas of soliciting a minor online.