Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Last night, Senate Republicans voted to allow tax cuts for people making over $100 million per year.   ❌And $500 million per year. ❌And $1 billion per year. ❌Then they voted against tax cuts for big corporations.   You just can’t make this stuff up.

Morgan Stanley is stepping in to support Tesla amid its declining share price, framing the drop in sales as a positive development. This move is part of a broader effort by billionaires to control the narrative in pursuit of tax breaks.

Imagine that. 💰

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Facts matter. All these cuts will cost us more than they save in real money, not to mention peoples lives

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

Indirect expenses don’t mean waste or money not spent well

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Hey just a PSA: Weapons grade loser and limp 🍆 busybody Oklahoma State Rep Dusty Deevers is using this chaos to hide passing a law to make writing, reading, selling, owning, & sharing romance novels a felony. #authors #writer #booksky #amwriting #amreading

What a horrible person

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

If you think going on strike = not being able to pay your bills… we get it. But many of us aren’t able to pay them comfortably NOW. That’s why we’re: 🪧 not going on strike until our goal of 3.5% of the US Population joins us. 🪧 working diligently w/ partners & donors to amass a strike fund!

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Family values huh?

During the debates over the Constitution, George Mason warned that the president should not have pardon power lest he pardon crimes advised by himself. James Madison replied that the great security against such an abuse would be Congress's power to impeach and remove him. (Uh-oh...) [Sasha Volokh]

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

For those in Iowa

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Reup: Trump Puts Hundreds of Violent Criminals Back on the Streets www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/21/t...

Hitlers first day

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

I keep opening TikTok out of habit! 😭

Shocked at all the TikTok hate going around. I assume most of those hating never used it. If you did you would understand how great it was and how much it could open up your world and challenge your beliefs. Plus let you find the coolest niche topics and creators. Don’t judge if you never used it!

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

What’s everyone reading these days to escape reality for a little while?

Inaugural post! Thanks for the invite @thanhneville.bsky.social !