By targeting the CFPB, the Trump administration wants this to be the future

Academia in a nutshell

Maybe but also fuck that guy.

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Song et al. have constructed the 464-way whole genome alignment of teleosts, a resource that constitutes the first of its kind for fishes and brings the scope of genomic study for this group on par with other vertebrate lineages. doi.org/10.1016/j.xi... #FISH10k #teleosts #Genomics #phylogeny

Welcome to November 🕳️

Holy crap

I love Fall. The crisp air, the radiant colors, the bleak realization that everything dies

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Dec 2024 - Costa Rican man crosses into U.S. Feb. 2025 - ICE detains him. He talks to his family daily. June - He disappears. Aug - His family finally finds him detained and in a vegetative state. Sept. - He's air ambluenced home. Oct. 26th - He dies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

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Join us! We’re recruiting a PhD researcher to uncover how hedgehogs & other insectivores survive prey toxins. Dive into molecular evolution & protein biochemistry @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social 🦔 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

This is a great analogy – but also Baba Yaga’s “huts with chicken legs” program would address both the housing crisis and the transportation problem.

a sound so strange, long drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand

this is the race i’m watching tonight

conservatives are deeply committed to making the left looking really fucking cool

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I work for @thenation.com and we DGAF, fam.

As @bcdreyer.social said yesterday, "Chuck Schumer is a sentence."

congratulations to her

This is beautiful.

I am biased in that I am currently credited with the in-store selling blurb

Interesting to see mainstream media now using a tactic that was invented by / honed on @thedailyshow.com. We need more of this.

Looks like Cuomo's got the Undead/serial killer vote all sewed up.

Also need a new chapter on the cancer resistance mechanisms of the whale. 📖 🐋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

Ah, gah, I love this book so much. 🏹

Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically. Please subscribe.

If wife’s directing their husband’s work is disqualifying then the entirety of all knowledge produced by American academia prior to the 1970s is suspect.

¡Chinga La Migra! Chicago street vendors are being targeted by ICE & Border Patrol agents. As a result, many are staying home and not able to work. Preorder and $8 per shirt will go towards the Street Vendors Association of Chicago who offer financial assistance to vendors who stay home.

Chuck Schumer is a sentence.

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

The cruelty is the point.

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

"Person who, upon finding out a guest is allergic to sesame dressing, sprints to the FamilyMart to buy a replacement, and then pauses to catch their breath at the traffic light on the way back" x.com/dailyportalz...

finally. baseball is over. we can only hope it has been defeated forever

friendly reminder to set your clocks on fire tonight. time still isn't real!

Argh! Forgot to add the 🏹 emoji.

Re-reading "The Age of Innocence" with the #bsbookclub gang. Only 2 pages in, the main character has barely just arrived at the opera, and I'm again struck by how funny Wharton is.

“A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.”

Mid-Michigan peeps! If you can, please donate to the Greater Lansing Food Bank. Doesn't solve everything, but it helps. greaterlansingfoodbank.org