Fuck this war.

Incredible is the right word.

Fuck Nayib Bukele.

The big man is giving a lot of reasons to many people to just do it.

Welp. My partner who works in manufacturing just got notice of a week-long layoff. Fucking fantastic trade policy.

Breaking immoral laws to protect people from fascist violence is your duty actually.

X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself. He is his own ponzi scheme.

"Architects of fear have converted a wholesome law against conspiracy into an instrument for making association a crime. Pretending to fear government they ask government to outlaw protest. They glorify togetherness when it is theirs & call it conspiracy when it is that of others." - John F. Kennedy

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics. I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

I’m sounding like a broken record, but people need to make contingency plans, and decide what risks they can tolerate for themselves and their loved ones and people they don’t know, for a full-fledged authoritarian dictatorship of the oligarchy, a fascist one even.

I wish I could go on vacation without such immense worry.

the SAMHSA death knell of course wouldn’t be complete without a rug pull of already awarded funding, firing 10k+ workers & a “restructuring”

Out here manufacturing consent, @mprnews.org. We are at work everyday. This is insulting.

It’s worth pointing out that all summer child care sign up dates are long past. It’s really easy to take a lunch break, grab the kids at 3 pm (which is when a lot of camps end the day) and finish work. Extended care isn’t always available and adds expense if it does.

I think an underrated aspect of the current state telework policy is that it allowed talented people with disabilities to join the civil service without having to do the added labor demanded of us by the ADA — disclosure, reasonable accommodations, appeals, etc. — to enjoy an equitable workplace.

Going into the next fiscal biennium with a projected budget deficit and possible recession, your solution is to hail mary subsidize commercial real estate, cut special education transportation, discipline labor, and increase risk-adverse economic behavior.

Kudos to labor traitor Walz for making union solidarity stronger.

For no particular reason, fuck Walz! IYKYK.

Text from a fed employee: “We are truly alone.”

this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

Letter and list of representatives who signed letter here: tran.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

SCOOP: AI scientists partnering with the government are now being told to remove ‘ideological bias’ from powerful models. “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” are no longer required skills. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

"I don’t get paid if there’s a shutdown but shutting the government down and putting up a fight is preferable to giving in." "Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow." "Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."

"They support Hamas" is the new "they're a communist". Clear as fucking day.

Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States. w/ Ken Bensinger www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

BREAKING: A unanimous Fourth Circuit appeals court panel on Friday evening issued an order allowing the Trump administration to again begin enforcing three provisions of Trump's anti-diversity orders that a district judge had blocked nationwide. Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

I'm starting to understand how the Roman Senate continued holding regular meetings until 603 AD

I don't get how conservatives make it through a day

Taking a heroic amount of weed tincture and astral projecting to Chuck Schumer‘s house

If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre. Their phone number is 310-828-5582

the ACLU just released video of ICE arresting Mahmoud Khalil, taken by his pregnant wife. note the plainclothes officers

Glad the Senate voted to keep the government that did this funded! Not sure what would happen if they had to explain to their constituents that the officers who wear Avengers t-shirts to steal a grad student from his pregnant wife can't get paid to irrevocably ruin lives again today :( :( :(

I also want to reiterate that it took every single Democratic Senator to agree to this deal. A single Democratic Senator could have denied unanimous consent, pushed this into Monday, allowed more time for the discontent to fester. Every Senate Democrat is complicit. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

BREAKING—The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) office was just on lockdown for close to an hour while members of the DOGE team tried to enter the building, multiple people have told me. Security has now escorted out remaining staffers who’ve been told to telework until further notice.

NEWS: A true warning sign out of the EPA and DOJ. In the Climate United Fund case over its funding that I discussed over the weekend, the EPA filed a notice on Tuesday that it had "terminated" the fund's grant. Now, that in and of itself sounds retaliatory, but that's just the start.

More to the point, it takes one senator to deny unanimous consent for a time agreement. The House Dems, the federal workers, everyone opposed to the Schumer Surrender would be happy to have additional time to gather 41 no votes on final cloture. Any senator can do it.

SCOOP -- a March 7 letter from Rubio to DHS identified a second green-card holder for revocation & arrest along with Mahmoud Khalil. Here's what we know: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... with @jonathanlemire.bsky.social

If this report is right, the Trump administration was not surprised to discover that Khalil had a green card, but rather knew all along

The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like. Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

If I’m thinking thru the senate rules right (by no means certain), I think a single D senator can force the voting that’s starts tomorrow to last into the beginning of next week by refusing unanimous consent. That can slow things down and allow the backlash to expand.

NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants "I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight." No arrests made.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good