George Lucas’ handwritten notes before starting the rough draft of Star Wars in 1974. Alt text provided. From The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler.

Season 1 was fantastic, I'm really looking forward to season 2! (Though I don't have Peacock, so I'll have to wait for the Blu-ray release 😓)

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it. He is not exempt from the law. Where the fuck is Congress?

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

If you're in congress and you aren't publicly in favor of banning the trading of individual stocks by people in congress, get your head out of your fucking ass.

everything is so stupid and so cruel, my two least favorite qualities of things

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...

This is all so stupid. We could be finding cures for cancer, reversing global warming, ensuring no child grows up in poverty, giving Veterans better health care… Instead we have to resist old Orange Shitface’s attempts to establish himself as king as he’s breaking everything along the way. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😤

HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY! *Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together. 🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨 In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... #standupforscience #handsoff

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.

Folks in the 6th congressional district in Florida: Get out and vote for Josh Weil in the special election today!

You can help Wisconsin Dems and their state Supreme Court candidate from anywhere. Phone banks run all day today. Help get out every last Democratic vote. www.mobilize.us/ctdems/event... Note: Please ignore the image. Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosted a phone bank yesterday. Link is valid today.

Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote. If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.

NY, hope you’ll join me in leaving voicemails today for our NY State Senator, Assemblymember, Senate Majority Leader, Assembly Speaker, and Governor urging them not to pass any type of anti-mask legislation in the state budget! Masks should NOT be criminalized. #NoNYMaskBan

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I'm so angry all of the time.

I showed my wife, a historian, the Kristi Noem video. She said “holy shit!” It’s a lot. A brief thread on bodies. It begins in the alt text below… 1/

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Dear streaming services, I want to be able to look through an alphabetized list of all your offerings, specifically movies. Disney+ and (HBO)Max used to have that feature. It should come back. Thank you, A cinephile who often doesn't know what he wants to watch until he sees it

Libraries and museums are integral to scientific advancement and to our core mission of #scienceforall. Stand Up for Science stands with @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social! Please call your representatives and let them know you STRONGLY oppose this attack on access to knowledge. #standupforscience

I find "listen to the women" excellent advice in this specific case and... in life in general. ♀️ #VoteNO 👎

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Why can’t this dickfuck get hit in the back of the head by a Titleist from the foursome behind him?

I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive the people who voted for this. I'm so angry*. *Word insufficient for the emotion

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races. This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.

Even though Rubio promised life-saving aid wouldn't be interrupted, it has essentially been halted worldwide, interrupting HIV and TB treatment and threatening millions of lives. People are dying today because of these chaotic, inconsistent stop work orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

Here's what I wrote in the comments, if anyone needs inspiration: This body of water should be called the Gulf of Mexico, and has been for nearly 500 years. It is the most commonly used name for this body of water both in the United States, and by the international community. The current ...

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is. They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring. So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

In what universe is this a good idea??? Who does this help?! The answer, I recognize, is "probably a bunch of rich morons" but the stupidity has evidently no bottom limit.