ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

If you hear or see something enough times, no matter how repulsive & obviously dangerous & bad for you, you can become conditioned to accept it. Even glamorize it in your mind.

The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.

The Kremlin likes to exercise rhetorical dominance over Trump and they say this in the safe knowledge that we won’t invade or that if we do it will be a disaster. Trump might think of Putin as a friend but that’s not how Russia sees the US. The US is to be humiliated, fragmented, and weakened.

As far as I can tell, the ban on federal funding for researchers who have collaborated with colleagues in China, Iran, Russia North Korea in the past 5 years (www.science.org/content/arti...) did NOT make it into the NDAA that the house just passed, right? armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...

War is peace.

A study by @antsymbiosis.bsky.social and colleagues uses DNA metabarcoding to study how plant foraging differs between co-occurring fungus-gardening ant species. Diet preference appears driven both by species-specific plant preference, and location-specific resource availability. plos.io/4pY5qLh

NSF policy changes - some updates that PIs should be aware of. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Many of us need to keep writing federal grants (both for political reasons and as a Hail Mary to keep people employed) despite the feeling it's a waste of time, so... if you got an NSF or NIH grant funded this year, would you mind bragging about it in the replies, so it feels like the odds are >0%?

this is raw Lysenkoism — using one’s status as a government official to create a false equivalence between scientific facts and nonscientific feelings pushed by grifters

It's embarrassing

"there's a new serif in town"

Impact of demographic change in one image.

Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

If you replace tenured faculty with at-will instructors, no one is going to pay private school prices to go there, and if they do, they won't stay. Sorry. Welcome to how private college works.

Historian here OTD a day that will live in infamy we need to point out that the reconstruction of Japan and Germany proved to be successful after WWII but the Reconstruction of the misbegotten Confederacy was brutally overthrown. We still live with the legacy of that history in the United States.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

apnews.com/article/fran... intercepts illegal drone overflight at nuclear submarine base

Your new CDC:

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Truly the stupidest cult. Obsessed with a drug that doesn't work against an infectious disease that they don't even think is real.

New paper out by the lab- we applied a new method to trying to understand what fungus-gardening ants are feeding their fungus. TLDR; it looks like diet is structured by 1) ants collecting whatever they can find and 2) ant species/fungus might have different tastes dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

Incredibly depressing if the lesson of the US is preemptive institutional surrender

The US is facing a significant loss in international tourism in 2025, with the World Travel & Tourism Council(WTTC) projecting a $12.5 billion drop in international visitor spending. This makes the US the only country out of 184 studied to be projected to see a decline, driven

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

data centers are driving up electricity prices for households — and price relief may not be coming anytime soon… Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according the Energy Information Administration... www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/a...

We get amazing public safety warnings in Utah www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

WTF newrepublic.com/post/203517/... This is like a Maddow fever dream circa 2018

Now, Rubio is denying it had anything to do with the U.S. This is a major foreign policy scandal. 3/3

No solar panels. Only measles

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

President Zelensky: "We are facing one of the most dangerous periods in Ukrainian history, a choice between losing our dignity and freedom and losing US support. We choose dignity. My answer is my oath of office. I did not betray Ukraine in Feb 2022 and we won’t betray in now."

oh dear it's that "I just logged on and people are making vague references to something I haven't figured out yet" feeling

I just think Trump understands Mamdani is not someone he wants to tangle with. Too smart, too charismatic, too New York, too straightforward, too young. Easier targets elsewhere, like everyone who works for him and most of Congress. (1/2)

If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so. www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Important thread

Needs to happen at a minimum www.politico.com/live-updates...

Slowly but surely, Trump will hand victory to Russia. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ukra...

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

It's why I think people should learn languages the old fashioned way.

It's subtle, but they put all three in the same sentence.

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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Not to wade into the Discourse but living abroad (for longer than a semester) is something I wish everyone had the means to do. It’s incredible to see what’s possible in a sane country (gun control, universal health care) and what the US often does better (multiculturalism, friendliness, junk food)

Gov. Greg Abbott is promising to destroy public schools by making it almost impossible for districts to raise taxes. He also said voters should have the power to reduce or eliminate school funding entirely. #txlege www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

A handy translation guide for non-academic speakers.