There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Since I can’t sleep, here’s another hot take: The world would be a better place if everyone‘s science literacy was much better. There should be more emphasis on teaching basic science at all levels in school. Science isn’t just something nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

Gov. Wes Moore signed the emergency bill Tuesday to make it the first law enacted from the 2026 legislative session. The law will immediately end so-called 287(g) programs in nine counties. buff.ly/FlkLblY

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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This action "is a ringing alarm bell warning all of us of the extent to which this administration has succeeded in degrading our governing institutions in such a short period of time." My statement progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/epa...

One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

America has a rich people problem, which, as far as policy design goes, is remarkably easy to solve

Baltimore turned out.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

It could take a generation to recover the talent lost from federal science. But it doesn't have to. We should be ready to scale up the Presidential Management Fellowship program to triple what it once was and rebuild U.S. capacity by 2030.

Baltimorioles protesting in force outside the ICE field office. #Baltimore

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I learned so much about platypuses w/this episode. I look for ways to be optimistic about the future & seeing @ologies.bsky.social at the top of science podcasts helps. Thoughtful & fun interviews w/scientists from all backgrounds, often mentions Indigenous ppl, dispels misinformation, I 💜 Ologies.

“I can’t see a rational reason to move inmates that have been compliant in an environment to a more restrictive environment,” says the former president of the American Correctional Association.

There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

What this really translates to...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

This is, of course, an extraordinary new administrative burden for park workers. They will have ask *every visitor* for proof of residency. A small friction for most people (and occasionally a hassle for people who can't find their drivers license or passport) adds up to huge delays for all.

A big sign that Trump’s bullying tactics don’t work. China’s trade surplus topped $1 trillion for the first time ever, driven by a strong rebound in exports despite weak domestic demand. US shipments plunged 29% under Trump’s tariffs while exports to Southeast Asia and Europe surged. (FT)

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Yikes. www.404media.co/a-researcher...

On international students:

The Trump regime is literally allowing this stuff to be sprayed on our food.

This is the kind of stuff that really radicalizes me and should infuriate any decent person: Big Pharma’s abuse of the patent system. I know this sounds naive, but something has got to change… there’s no constituency for Big Pharma! And no one, except for the lobbyists, wants higher drug prices.

We don't have to spread poison everywhere. It's a choice made for convenience and profit.

"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen." Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder. The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.

A straightforwardly reasonable and good use of government power that nevertheless feels inconceivable in the US because we can’t fathom infringing on the freedom of people to get rich by making shit worse for everyone else

"symptoms included a high fever, confusion and trouble breathing" There have been three severe #H5N1 conf cases in North America 2 died and 3rd was hospitalized 2 months First #H5N5 human case is severe www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Yikes. Banning people for activities such as co-authorship and advising a graduate student is completely unreasonable in a modern research environment. And a retroactive 5 year ban is wildly unfair.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Countries that provide strong social safety nets have fewer violent crimes. (worth noting this is not actually an "opinion" but a research-backed fact. 😆 And yet!)

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."