“It’s dystopian. It’s like Black Mirror stuff.” This is Mobile Fortify, an app used by DHS that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query databases for matches against passport records, visa files, and border entry photos. Our latest with @france24.com:

Nice to know I'm not crazy

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Let's talk about some history of another oppressed group of people in America. Women. Did you know that some of the loudest voices against women's suffrage were other women?(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.npr.org/sections/npr...

Me everyday for at least a decade

“I think what [the EPA has] been trying to eliminate is the kind of work that points out that there are still problems,” This is such essential work - we can't protect ourselves from things we aren't aware of.

The EPA informed Congress on Feb. 13 that it is eliminating the Office of Research and Development (ORD). Opponents worry that the closure marks the end of independent research at the agency. #chemsky 🧪

RAJU: You'll concede this is war? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

Thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Levine, Pediatrician and former Assistant Secretary for Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, will be speaking at the March 7 Stand Up for Science rally at Allegheny Landing!

Finalized speaker list is up for our rally at Allegheny Landing on Saturday - check it out!! fight2win.standupforscience.net/Pittsburgh-M...

If you’re anywhere near Pittsburgh on Friday night, come out to Braddock to hear Michael Fanone. He put his life on the line for people like me and he still isn’t giving up. See you there. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?" Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely." "Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers … That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

This is what fascism looks like. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart. www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

“Based on their projections, $41.1 million would be needed each year to cover patients’ basic medical needs, including health insurance, & $947 million for public health response efforts such as surveillance & contact tracing. Lost productivity in the workforce… could reach $510.4 million each year”

Nobody knows how to vacation like these dogs do

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It’s not the way it has to be. This fat fucking POS is getting off on troops dying. I have a spouse serving and I feel sick to my stomach. Troops didn’t enlist to die for fucking Israel’s bullshit wars.

This is so good and necessary. Thank you, Bob.

Worst thing about PA - our senators are such garbage

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

We were going to post on CWA today, but with Iran, we instead thought it was better to share the following: “While the human cost of war is undeniable and profound, the environment also suffers immense and often-overlooked consequences.” No one wins www.un.org/en/peace-and....

ON 3/7, WE RALLY & MARCH to oppose the harms caused by aggressive immigration enforcement on our STEM, healthcare, & education communities! Speakers include: @councilmemberjg.bsky.social, @aaup.org's Dr. Todd Wolfson, @pjsn.bsky.social's Miriam Oppenheimer, & more! 📍North side of City Hall 🕚 11 AM

A primary school in southern Iran was struck during Sat’s joint US-Israeli military operation, killing at least 108 people who were mostly schoolgirls, according to Iran. The attack came as the US and Israel launched joint military action against Iran on Saturday, beginning in Tehran and

A strike in Iran hit a Girls school in Manib with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting more than 80, including children, were killed. This strike was geolocated by researchers including @ntabrizy.bsky.social , @chrisosieck.bsky.social and @annonemo.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

The sober, careful researchers of @bellingcat.com are highly experienced at examining breaking news imagery and verifying what's initially known. They will authenticate images, establish the geographic location of events, and examine imagery of locations prior to incidents. U.S.-Israel strikes 🧵:

The lives of girls do matter. Excellent, ambitious, smart, determined girls become excellent, ambitious, smart, determined women, and they're making the US and the world a better place.

Trump's view is that the lives of girls don't matter if they're "in the way" of his regime change and the lives of girls don't matter if they're at odds with his billionaire friends. The lives of girls don't matter.

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Trump's CBP abandons a nearly blind Burmese refugee in the Buffalo cold. He is found dead 5 days later. I break down the disturbing details & offer background to his case. I am calling for accountability for Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death & answers for his grieving family. youtu.be/PYoBh1Q6GdE?...

I store all my photos in the clown

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Carrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social explores how PFAS move, bind, and transform within us – redefining what exposure really means theanalyticalscientist.com/issues/2026/...

“The distribution of power and privilege was not random,” she said, “so the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit."

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

It really is absolutely wild how little we know about the chemicals in everyday products... I have to use advanced instrumentation to find them, when the manufacturer probably already knows they're there... this is especially concerning for "forever chemicals" that don't break down

Drawing as fast as my stupid little paws will go, making the silliest educational coloring pages I can make, apple pencil go zoom, make this draft a coloring page let's go

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

So many men actually, literally hate us.

"Critics" isn't a term you can use to define "anyone who doesn't have a financial stake in the environmentally catastrophic mass plagiarism black box hallucination Clippy"

Take your dog to work day (don't worry she hasn't lifted a finger)

Much like The Onion, NYT Pitchbot is unable to effectively satirize an increasingly unhinged reality.

Funding rates for investigators seeking research grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health dropped sharply in 2025, according to recently released data. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4s76GwK