If Congress maintains high levels of science funding, but ruling party apparatchiks control the granting process, then what happens is corruption. Science is effectively defunded, and a bunch of rich Republicans are suddenly buying more houses and jets.

In which @peteronyisi.bsky.social speaks truth to power.

Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.

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I spent time on Lake Powell about 20 years ago and though it is (was) a massive lake, the rings of past water levels were already way above the waterline.

You realize that once warehouses are converted to concentration camps they aren't going back to warehouses...

Florida: we deported all your hard working employees, but have no fear, we're bringing back child labor to fix it. Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here

This is the last thing you have to do before you finish your degree in physics.

"The unelected Board of Regents will decide what topics students should be taught, how topics should be taught, and what topics to exclude, instead of relying on instructors who know the field and trusting students to explore topics." Alarming for academic freedom not just at UT but across the US

Note the framing here: It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

As the US doubles down on fossil fuels and blocks wind & solar installations, its emissions are ticking up. In contrast, China's emissions appear to have peaked. In the last 2 yrs, they installed more new solar energy each year than the U.S. has in its entire history. More from @carbonbrief.org:

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

I don't know how many times I've told myself that I hate ants, fungus and bacteria.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

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"…because in a few years you will be busy migrating north, scrambling for resources and cobbling together a subsistence lifestyle."

They sent a city into panic, saying no flights were coming in or out for 10 days with no reason, and then changed their minds the same day and reversed the order. Absolute incompetence and buffoonery

At the urging of my office, the FAA is rightfully lifting the Temporary Restricted Airspace. I will again reiterate there is no threat to El Paso or the surrounding areas.

I took a drive through TX Trump country yesterday (places where they voted for Trump 70-80%)--and things did not look like they're going well for them. Houses and trailers falling apart, businesses closed. These are small places, totally run down and with little hope. It's really a shame.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Tenure is what encourages people to live in places they never would even think of setting foot in. www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

Sometime I wish I spent only 4 minutes per week thinking about politics.

A scary fact: The average American spends 4 minute PER WEEK thinking about politics

Real opening for Dems to run as the law and order party. So much corruption. So much abuse of individual rights. So much battery. So much contempt of court. Chaos, disorder. Run as party that will enforce the law against criminal goons. Of course Dems would need to stop funding the criming, too.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

This is why Democrats need to compete EVERYWHERE. We won’t win every race, but it’s stupid and irresponsible to simply forfeit certain races to incumbents. Always but especially now, we need competitive elections. And at the bare minimum, make them spend money defending seats they had won by 17 pts

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to [email protected] to request re-consideration;

everyone is being robbed as these folks strip the copper wiring from the walls of the country

Anne Frank was killed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by epidemic typhus, a virus spread by human body lice in conditions where people cannot bathe and change clothes. This new account from a Texas concentration camp shows the Trump regime is setting up conditions where typhus will thrive.

DHS official: Greg Bovino, you're fired. Press: Bovino has been fired. Bovino: Fire me and I roll on Noem and Miller. They ordered me to do it. WH: He's not fired.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

DHS said ICE is targeting “the worst of the worst,” including people convicted of aggravated assault, false imprisonment & endangering child welfare. Maine’s governor said many of them appeared to involve people with jobs, kids in local schools & no criminal records. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

They can’t defend this horror.

A lot of Trump supporters voted to have masked federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back, yes. Many right-wing influencers have fantasized about things like that for years. But other Trump voters did not. Don't know how many, but it's millions. And that's how the regime falls.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Their numbers are growing, it appears to be completely decentralized, with people shouting out updates like “we’re needed on 4th street!” plus loud cheers when they identify someone in need of help and loud cheers when a vehicle is freed.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying: “Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.” - anonymous NIHer

‘was already restrained’

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.