“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🤡 "fucking magnets how do they work" 🤡 is much less funny when the president says it, turns out good thing we've severely limited science funding in the US for everything, except for AI 🧪

we can’t even have pasta now??? I’m going to scream

Two-thirds of Democrats say their own party makes them feel frustrated. By far the most commonly cited reason is that the party is not pushing back hard enough against Trump. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

I can’t stop thinking about how the ACA is one of the most impactful pieces of legislation in my lifetime. And they just let them throw it away. I know it’s been long enough that a lot of people don’t remember (or weren’t alive), but I haven’t forgotten what it was like Before.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

BREAKING: Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Democrats are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It's as if Election Day never happened.

After all this they just gave up? What the fuck?

It is 2.30 am in the UK and I cannot believe I’m using a website to fax my reps back in the US the angriest words I can use without getting put on some sort of no fly list.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase? 2256.42%???? TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

“thrown into the air” NYPD cops swerved *into* a Black man on a scooter, and then tried to blame him… until the video dropped

ANGRY CONSTITUENT HERE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If our representatives do not respect us enough to fight for us, we should make it clear to them that the feeling is mutual. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Don’t let up. Let them know that this will never be forgiven or forgotten in no certain terms.

Apparently, it is negotiable!

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

One of the many problems with the elected leadership of the Democratic Party right now is that most of us have no idea why they are doing what they are (apparently) doing. Why would they cave *right now* for essentially nothing? What is the logic, even if it's dogshit logic? Totally unclear. 1/2

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen... & your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati... Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

I know quite a few comrades on the ACA exchange. I used to be on the exchange for years. A doubling or tripling of premium costs will be a death sentence for people who NEED HEALTH INSURANCE to survive. PERIOD. We've heard Democrats say as much for WEEKS. So what the hell??????

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Saddened for all the students applying to the NSF GRFP who feel they can’t bring their full selves to their personal statements this year. Science is better with you in it. I hope you get the funding and keep doing excellent work.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Intersex people deserve legal protection. So far, no state has outright banned nonconsensual intersex surgeries, but multiple have affirmed intersex rights. Youth advocate Tim created a map of state laws—both passed and failed—to educate change-makers. 🔎 bit.ly/intersex-legislation

When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.

Today is #IntersexDayOfRemembrance, a day highlighting the human rights issues faced by intersex people 💜💛 Art by @thefoxfisher 🎨

Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way. I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.

I’m always disappointed when a famous-but-awful person dies and people I otherwise respect come out with stories of “but he was always nice to me” or “here’s this single exception from a group he otherwise hated and disparaged” as if that changes the rest of their behavior. It doesn’t.

His comments were not going out to nowhere. He directly told the brilliant and incredible grad students, postdocs, particularly people he had no reason to fear because they were in vulnerable and low power positions -- that they did not belong in science bsky.app/profile/anal...

particularly all of the people who *left science* because they were not treated the way you have been treated. How many of those contributions have been destroyed by the coddling of men like Watson? We can only imagine. But I was there as a *friend*, not a famous scientist, so I know at least some.

While we can reminisce about "delightful dinners," I can tell you that encountering Watson and being trapped by him or sideswiped by his racism in this culture of silence was hell for anyone who was different. OUR dinners were in the basement apartments in CSH (all grads can afford), trying to...

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

Sadly, we continue to reward "ambitious, arrogant, misogynistic, and opportunistic" people like Watson, who "managed to get himself into the right place at the right time." We should reward careful, methodical researchers and not just narcissists in a hurry who would rather be wrong than be last.

great to see Watson getting absolutely slagged, but no one seems to quote the postcard that he, age 40, having just wed Radcliffe junior Elizabeth Lewis, sent from their 1968 honeymoon in La Jolla to Paul Doty at Harvard: "Nineteen year old now mine." [Victor McElheny, Watson and DNA, p141]

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Even the worst misogynists sometimes support certain women. I don’t doubt Hopkins when she says Watson was a good mentor to her. The more important question is how many women did he harass/disparage/discourage and thus push them out of science?

there’s a long history of white ppl stealing language created by Black ppl - esp Black women - & then when its use by white ppl becomes mainstream, attributing it to “the kids” this is not dunking on GenZ (why are we doing that anyway??), this is depicting AAVE as a joke / not “real” language

I saw him give a talk at Harvard. He opened by saying he'd taught there so he could marry a rich younger woman, and it had worked. Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust. The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.