Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

attacking trans girls' right to play sports was always a reactionary Trojan Horse for dismantling Title IX, part 243248978796

Okay so there are a small handful of potential reasons why he isn't rushing to throw Katz overboard and I'm being very serious when I say the one that makes Mamdani look *best* is that he's a deeply poor judge of character and stupid as fuck.

STOP SCROLLING. As you no doubt know, this is Fiorello. If YOU SPECIFICALLY do not sign this letter in support of the Scientific American union in their fight against Springer Nature, I will have no choice but to never post Fiorello again, and also I will sell him to the zoo wgaea.st/sciam-letter

cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

If Trump and his Republican enablers didn’t fire all my federal scientists colleagues and make it impossible to get science funding, I wouldn’t have so much time to spend on here celebrating their deaths.

Lindsey Graham won't see you calling him a spineless ass-kisser who sold his soul to a con man, but all the other Republicans will.

Something you can do? Push your elected officials to pay their interns, and don't just try and give them school credit. I worked for an org focused on this issue for a long time, but by the time we left, not enough change had been made still.

Lateral point, but one of the reasons you get nepo trust-fund babies dominating these spaces, is because public service pays badly, and if you're from an underrepresented community, it's hard to break in. This starts with unpaid internships and goes all the way up.

It matters that Moraff's grandfather founded Toys R Us. Platner's campaign, like much of our "populist" movement, was people of eye-watering generational wealth. It's not about helping the poors. It's resentful elites who thought they deserved more, punching at the "center" who denied them. 2/

Politics is personal. Dan Moraff who recruited Platner and fed him rants about "the establishment", was a child of extreme wealth who got canceled for sexual misconduct. Platner was his revenge, his way back in power. You have to see: Platner's campaign was about intra-elite resentments. 1/

People are debating whether Platner belongs to the dirtbag left or the normie libs, and that's not the axis on which this revolves. He was backed by guys who thought "identity politics" was Mommy trying to make them take their diarrhea medicine, and that's a broad swath with members in both camps.

If there was a ever a "lib-punching left," DeBoer was certainly a part of it. A man who claimed leftist anticaptialist politics, calls himself a Marxist, but blamed all the women and queers for corrupting it with our SJW/identity politicking. Platner appealed to this Type of Guy.

Maine is a mess but without Peltola on the ballot in AK the Dems would have no shot at the Senate and she could have had an easy shot at governor instead.

off the top of my head, Robert A. Heinlein Lois McMaster Bujold Ursula K. Le Guin Seanan McGuire Anne McCaffrey Terry Pratchett Elizabeth Bear Mercedes Lackey Tamora Pierce probably some others tbh, I trend completist

The US global dominance in higher ed & scientific innovation was based on strong govt investment and an ability to attract top international talent. Trump is weakening both: "In this century, overall, the émigré fraction for U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent."

I must reiterate that “Nazis bad” is a good red line to have, not merely morally but also strategically

really, REALLY wish there had been more discussion at the time he covered up the tattoo that he did so with... other, slightly more obscure white nationalist symbology.

This fuckin' guy. Platner is likely to keep radicalising and trying for the podcast grifter circuit. Given that some of the other left-adjacent fellow travellers in this circle like TYT have been going more mask off with their antisemitism, we should be on the lookout for that too.

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

Vol. 2, no. 4 of the CO2 Newsletter, April-May 1981 is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles. All 18 issues are heart-breakers. 1/9 allouryesterdays.info/2026/07/08/c...

ah so this is the plan, claim that while Platner really wants to take responsibility and drop out, morally he just can't because the evil establishment isn't "anti-genocide" and so regretfully he must solider on because after all whats a little rape against GENOCIDE!

leftism and centrism are plagued by the exact same misogyny and antisemitism as any other segment of society theyre just more in denial about it

People always want to blame "developers" for the ugly, generic buildings that get built in cities these days, but the fact is, they are basically mandated by law & regulation. Just wild the way cities punch themselves in the face.

To be clear, this is also rape. Graham Platner is a serial rapist, which should not surprise anyone who read his long internet history of blaming women for rape.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Nobody could have predicted this except for people who thought the war criminal Blackwater mercenary Nazi misogynist racist alcoholic philanderer antisemite was bad. We unfairly prejudged him for the words he said, actions he committed, and tattoos he kept. Everyone else had no way of knowing.

Sorry to be ungracious but I am just not going to tolerate any "who could possibly have seen this coming?" revisionism on this

This would’ve been a spectacularly fun year under President Harris. Winter Olympics, World Cup, America 250. Would’ve been great.

It was never "just a tattoo," it was the absolutely guaranteed tattoo comorbidities. The tattoo *means* something. That's why people get them

ALSO "not getting elected to the United States Senate, a position of public trust" is not uh that's not the same as being stoned to death they're very different things

Ecovoltaic - rebuilding soil health while restoring natural habitats and native plant species 2 GW agrivoltaic project in China cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/m... Still, I'd like to see an independent environmental risk assessment however much I enjoy learning about the concept & the word

Less a chess move than the only rational response to all the very obvious signs of his poor judgment and low moral character. It's the behavior of Sanders, Warren, Gallego, the Pod Save Boys et al that has been truly remarkable (derogatory).

this includes the senators who put their personal reputations on the line and they all owe their constituents an apology, at absolute minimum

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I see Graham Platner is now confirmed as a rapist so I'd like to formally announce a very "go fuck yourself" to every man on here who blocked or mocked me about it, and suggest a very "take women seriously" about it

There is a bakery called Miette in the Ferry Building. Without fail, when I bring home anything, my fiancee says, "you EAT miette? you chew her body like the cookie?!?"

There's this whole constellation of people who owe their careers to the endless attention and affirmation you can receive complaining about The Democratic Establishment. But there are, it turns out, much worse things in politics than The Democratic Establishment

If Platner must crash and burn and take the US Senate and US judiciary with him, can he please, for the love of god, at least take Ryan Grim, the Pod Save bros, and Morris Katz too

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

no, actually, i do *not* think the public should have direct say over discretionary budgeting, this is what we vote councilors and the mayor into office to do, a not-insubstantial part of our city’s revenue and spending woes are the result of ballot initiatives

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

Fuck everyone who decided to manufacture dangerous conditions, again, for the normal-ass people who call DC home.

Friends with children made a point of getting out of DC before the fireworks. They were right:

My more serious Fourth of July take is that I think America being explicitly founded upon enlightenment values does make it’s hypocrisies and shortcomings more jarring, but the only way to not have hypocrisy is to not believe in anything worthwhile.

This is the heart of it. The privatize everything crowd pretends industry is an alternative to government funded academic research when in reality it relies on academia. Industry gets free training, preliminary research, and a lab supplies market from academia but now they want to burn it all down!

Win or lose in the end, Platner is running *behind* the internet’s much-vilified Democratic party. He is less popular than Generic Dem, and no, that’s not normal, it’s different from all the other big Senate candidates. I don’t think it’s the tattoos. I think we should consider it’s the politics.

3rd of July is a great holiday because the Confederacy got the ass kicking they deserved. Fuck them and their disciples.

this framing does seem odd, the response (excommunicating all adherents while welcoming lay people, not priests, to return to communion) seems a lot more like the vatican firing a "you wanna go let's go" shot across the bow of other traditionalists than bunkering down in a crisis