IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thank you to all who called or emailed to complain. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

UT Austin implements the #txlege demand that faculty not have an actual elected voice; instead the “faculty advisory board” will be picked by the administration. This should, in a functioning system, put UT’s accreditation at risk.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The current US Government doesn’t care about facts. They will make everything fit their narrative

Given Sinclair’s stance, I think I will go back to picking up #Cubs games on the radio or just bootlegging.

Quick, make like Kash and delete the evidence!

Here’s another case of a professor (never met and do not know him) intimidated and harassed by Professor Watchlist. Chilling:

The fact that this whole interaction was recorded screams “set up”. Instead of just dropping the class, the student chose to deliberately make a story. And the fact that the prof was a NTT faculty member is a sad warning to everyone.

I do not understand the geologists who are all "environmental stuff" or "ecological stuff" is not geology. "Present is the key to the past" and all that *should* make a good geologist at the very least appreciative of all the things....

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

Every Chicagoan rn:

🐟 Bite by bite: @umich.edu researchers traced how jaws fueled the rise of vertebrates. In the Devonian, lobe-finned fishes (ancestors of today’s coelacanths & lungfish) drove jaw innovation—before stalling out. #Science news.umich.edu/bite-by-bite...

Our Dear Leader can’t handle a little criticism. Here’s hoping the international broadcasters are not so accommodating

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Blistering op-ed by fired CDC director Susan Monarez: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov you both seen what WA, CA, OR, & HI are doing? Can we in the Midwest get this too? (And make folks from FL show proof of vaccine to come visit?) governor.wa.gov/news/2025/ha...

The deployment, and threats of the National Guard, come as a @wbez.org analysis has found that a three-month summer span saw the fewest murders in 60 years in Chicago while overall violent crime remained near its lowest point in at least four decades — from @chipmitchell1.bsky.social

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

"Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don’t?" @naomioreskes.bsky.social provides some answers

It never was about making us healthier. It was about making us desperate for everything; and everything we have to pay for. The sicker we are, the less we can fight back. People die sooner, less retirement to payout. This was a deliberate plan that we all let come to fruition

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

Some good news today. Justice was served… on a platter of cold cuts with some mayo on a bun.

Keep in mind folks, this is what they tout as the “future of teaching”. When they replace your kid’s teacher with an “AI tutor” and your kid asks about topics like this… this is the result.

Or a long needed move in a city where the FOP has only caused pain and suffering for Chicagoans

I am still convinced all those DOGE tech bro/Edge Lord little boys saw “Office Space” and found a way to pull this off but with our money just to prove how clever they were. youtu.be/yZjCQ3T5yXo?...

Who coined the name “Great Khan of the Plains”? Because as political nicknames go, that slaps.

you know what assholes write your own goddamn emails and ditch your clanker girlfriend chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

The University of Chicago is no longer accepting PhD students in Humanities subjects. Full stop. This should be grounds for loss of accreditation.

Looks like I'm gonna have to tap the sign again today

I only have one question for the IL Dem Senate primary candidates: @julianastratton.bsky.social @rajaforil.bsky.social @robinlynnekelly.bsky.social Which of you are willing to commit to abolishing & disbanding ICE *and* prosecuting all those who participated (no Nuremberg Defense)?

Every time one of this admin talks about coming into another city, this is all I see/hear and want to tell them..

This isn’t vetting, it’s an attempt to *create* a bunch of “illegal” immigrants. Nothing has ever been more transparent in the world. They’re gonna revoke visas of people who like Kamala Harris on Facebook.

Or maybe you could teach your kids to treat all people as deserving of respect and dignity. And maybe you could talk to your kids about homelessness, the unaffordability of housing and healthcare, the stigma around mental illness, and why it's not okay to call people crazy.

If you read the article, the “justification” given by the Yankees for this was “he’ll sign for under-slot”. In the MLB draft, every pick is assigned an amt of $$$ to offer as a bonus. Teams can go over or under. Yankees took this guy because they could save money and sign him for less.

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Donald Trump is a loser and a coward. He’s attacking mail in voting because he wants it to be harder for people to vote his cronies out. I led the fight to create early voting in Illinois, and I’ll continue fighting for the John R Lewis Advancement Act because our votes are still sacred.

Criminal networks of editors and authors are now faking scientific studies on an "industrial scale" (PNAS) - the literature in some fields may have been "irreparably damaged by fraud" ... "the integity of the extant scientific record and of future science is being undermined"

Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!

Criminal. This is destroying one of the jewels of American science and innovation. Slowly dissolve it so Elon can take over its role for profit.

Hurricane Erin blew up into a Cat 5 only 24 hours after first developing into a hurricane. Incredible.

You called up Cassie only to sit him in back to back games? C’mon #Cubs he can’t do any worse. Play the kid or send him back to AAA so he can develop.

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

I joked during his first term he was gonna offer to sell Alaska back to pay for his border wall… Dang this is close enough. Really didn’t want to be right

Right now, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are quietly creating problems for Social Security so they can later hand it off to their private equity buddies.

If you find yourself talking about “good eugenics” then something has gone horribly wrong.