I wish it didn’t feel so unusual and inspiring to see a leader treating everyone like they matter and saying that we have a responsibility to help each other

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1. Really funny that much of the engagement on her hasn't read the article. 2. This didn't surprise me and I think your conclusion explains a good bit of it. No Kings October was kinda like if they did Women's March 2017 again in July. Yes, the threat is still there, but what purpose does this hold?

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

Seems like a good omen that the ballot drop box at Gas Works was crammed full

Wow

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino) to the Aurora Police following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests So here it is!

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Instant classic, too much stress

Felt compelled

It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.

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BREAKING: Metadata shows the FBI’s ‘raw’ Jeffrey Epstein prison video was likely modified. 🧵

Seattle friends: In a few days, Kevin Gross and I will be having talking about how science works and the importance of teaching science as a social process. The best part: It'll be at Burke Gilman brewing, and we won't be speaking all that long. So you can have beer—and talk back!

Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

Sooooo there's a lot going on this week (don't look at the new Vaccine Council commissioners), but new article I helped piece together came out! Full article: Dynamic networks of negotiation for international climate change cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That was a bit spicy from Newsom

Hegseth threatens marines to LA

Just gonna include this image for my diss outline under the section "Why Qanon still matters in 2025 and beyond"

just checking in on the president before bed… he just reposted some qanon brain rot about how joe biden was secretly executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone and/or robot 👍

I’ve heard from so many people about yesterday’s events at Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill. It’s clear this situation was seriously mishandled by Mayor Harrell’s administration, resulting in unnecessary arrests, injuries, and loss of trust in our city government. 🧵

I spoke with Science about scholars—myself included—self-censoring. In my case, my team and I feared losing our NSF funding for Expert Voices Together (expertvoicestogether.org), a program, ironically, built to support researchers and journalists under attack. www.science.org/content/arti...

Who would Jesus send to an El Salvador torture prison? X user @christfollower1488 thinks he's know the answer.

If the people do "rise up" it will be "no not like that

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Uhhhhhhhhhh

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

I love a feckless party

Fucking hell

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Elon Musk’s temper tantrum lawsuits made me lose my job and then he and Chaya Raichik sent hordes of chuds to harass me and my colleagues who were also laid off. None of us have shut up, so maybe people on the Hill should also do their fucking jobs.

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oh wow a Democrat who knows how to message succinctly and effectively what's happening here why do I smell toast

real Versailles hours up in this bitch

Back to TA'ing, I guess

“We have to meet REAL Americans where they’re at: gun shows and tailgates” - these are the words of completely insular bloodsuckers whose strategy for political communication is to imagine the dumbest yokel they can, and then try to imagine how to talk down to that person

The paradox of our current regime change is straightforward. Trump’s cabal is utterly lawless. And they’re getting away with it because everyone else—from the new probationary hire in the Forest Service to the chairman of the JCS—is following the rules.

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Is this place any good yet?