i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

This is nuts. Now, when EPA does a cost-benefit analysis of a regulation, it can only consider downsides to industry, not upsides to public health. Even though the latter is the core mission of the EPA. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.

We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

EPA proposes to stop measuring benefits of environmental regulations, just industry costs. Seat belts cost car companies money. Pollution controls on coal plants cost utilities money. Water quality standards cost industry money. EPA says ignore the lives they save. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

When we look back on this year, I'm sure what all of us will remember most is the work we completed on schedule.

Sadly, more relevant than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

"We are already moving down the slippery slope. Please decide where your red line is so you can choose to act before the line is already behind you."

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents. @zeteo.com

I'm looking for a postdoctoral team member to join us at CMU Chemistry to work on HRMS identification, bioaccumulation, and biological transformation of PFASs and PAHs. #chemsky Posting here: lnkd.in/eR66MTdM

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

JD Vance supports murdering American citizens. He's made that perfectly clear today. If he's willing to defend the murder of Renee Good, he would defend your murder, too.

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a U.S. citizen.

"When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come."

I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.

Say her name. Renee Nicole Good.

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

“A research university that censors Plato abandons its obligation to truth, inquiry, and the public trust — and should not be regarded as a serious institution of higher learning.” — AAUP Texas A&M @nytimes.com @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

“I am concerned about genocide against trans people in the United States in the near future,” said Dr. Henry Theriault, who served as president of the International Association of Genocide from 2017 to 2021

“this all stops when enough of us say no”

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Let's go back to some pretty basic basics that we shouldn't have to even spell out: Democracy and the rule of law are good for their own sake. But they also matter quite a bit to the U.S. economy. lnk.thebulwark.com/4srorIa

Today is the last day that the EPA is collecting public comments on a proposed rule that could further roll back wetland protections. Add your 2 cents: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

seems a little insensitive

I'm the driver who saw the light turn red and decided to speed right on through anyway. Didn't see that lady slowly biking through the crosswalk till her head destroyed my windshield...

SO much chaos right now - don’t let this be forgotten. (Call your reps) NASA is closing its largest library this Friday with many important historical docs just being thrown out. (⁉️) 🎁🔗👇 and 🧵 from @denisedwheeler.bsky.social with more background below that)

"Trump and his posse are waging an inexplicable war on science. Is that because they see science as a fount of liberalism, as if reality has a political bias?"

Trump and his gang are deconstructing America. It is the story that must be conveyed to the citizenry.

Quick update for US media: the story is not about Maduro or what’s going on in Venezuela. It’s about the massive rupture in US history where the country now stands for invading and occupying any country it likes. Trump in his press conference made it very clear this is a new age. Did you miss that?

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

They should kidnap our president back.

So it's appropriate to arrest a world leader if you consider them criminal? You can just go get them? Just asking questions here.

Trump is shopping for marble as millions of Americans' health insurance premiums double and triple.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment

We tried so hard to raise the alarm. Is anyone paying attention yet?

Back when this happened, someone showed me the video & said "this is the next mayor of New York City," & I thought "yeah that's great he's never going to get elected." Don't let the past kill your hopes because sometimes, people work very, very, very hard for the good thing, & make it happen ❤️

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

Netanyahu announces that he's awarding the Israel Prize to President Trump. Trump says it's "surprising and very much appreciated"

“When’s the next nationwide protest?” You might be asking yourself. Here’s a big one that’s happening in less than a month! Jan 20th. Free America Walkout. Women’s March, 50501, & More. Be There.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.