Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.

📊 Tens of thousands of studies depend on it. Every major drug pipeline uses fluorescent reporters. Shimomura, Chalfie, and Tsien shared the 2008 Nobel for making "the previously invisible, visible." All from jellyfish on an NSF grant. #YourTaxDollarsAtWork

🎨 Roger Tsien engineered color variants (mCherry, mOrange, mPlum). Applications cascaded: watching cancer metastasize, tracking neurons, screening drugs, mapping brain circuits. GFP is now one of the most widely used tools in biomedical research.

🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

He Wembanyam what he yam

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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I could have more to do with what the courts told him this week: (1) "No, can't start a $1.7 billion slush fund," (2)"I'm reopening your case against the IRS to look into whether you defrauded the court with your so-called 'settlement'"; and (3) "No, you can't put your name on the Kennedy Center."

Trump’s behavior on social media today is so unhinged even by his standards that I can’t help but wonder what the doctors really told him the other day. This is a deeply unwell person.

I just watched “Chernobyl” and while I was prepared for the horror of the event itself hadn’t anticipated just how much the censorship and politicization of science (and resulting cost to public health) would feel like its own kind of horror, watching from the US right now.

"'We don't know what talents and skills this little boy would have had,' said Pastor Amilcar Morales at Orlin's funeral. 'We don't know what impact he would have had on the world. But we know he was a baby and that his life was sacred.'" DHS set in motion the events that likely killed this baby.

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The Delaney Hall hunger strikers’ number one demand is to meet with Governor Sherrill. She made one attempt to enter, was denied by ICE and never tried again.

How’d it go last time Trump promoted a “wild” event in DC? Anyone remember?

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

The headline does it a disservice, which isn’t on you. But what is on you is using ‘traditional masculinity’. No. Sexist or misogynist masculinity. It’s an ok article, but it lacks understanding or a critical edge. Here’s a book that helps situate Talarico v Paxton. wwnorton.com/books/978163...

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

My criticism is specifically directed at the framing of the headline and social media post. Getting those two things right is vital because it's all most people ever see or respond to! Most people who see the posts don't read the stories!

It’s okay to cover a race from more than one angle? This is a really unfair attack on a good article from a good reporter. bsky.app/profile/dara...

ICYMI: A federal judge opened an inquiry into whether Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund was created by deceiving the court. Trump's lawyers must respond to whether he dismissed his IRS lawsuit to avoid judicial scrutiny of a complaint that may have been "collusive from the start."

Today’s book selection from the library: Vaccinated: From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Hmmm, looks like some Republicans in North Carolina want to legalize domestic homicide, if a man is killing a pregnant woman. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

NJSP’s use of force at Delaney Hall was an unnecessary response to peaceful protest. New Jersey must prioritize the dignity and humanity of all people, including those detained by the mass deportation agenda – not mimic the dangerous and overly militarized tactics of the federal government.

We received hundreds of submissions to our 2-K jingle competition, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Cardi B helped us choose the top 5, and now it's time for New York to vote on a winner. Head to nyc.gov/jingle to pick your favorite, voting is open from now until 10pm on 6/3!

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Almost 20 yrs ago, I started hearing about the medical care here. The head dr actually said that the women got sick because they had sinned and they needed to be saved in Jesus, not have medical care. I'm so proud of the LAJC team who carried this across the line! www.wvtf.org/news/2026-05...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Google had perfected something to the point that its brand name became a common verb and then they decided, wait, let's fuck that up completely.

When I testified in the Oath Keepers J6 trial 3.5 years ago, I could never have predicted that they'd be convicted then pardoned and then (potentially) paid out by the DOJ. Nice to speak with @annabower.bsky.social about it a bit this week on @onthemedia.bsky.social:

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.”

Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year. Earlier this month, Meta began laying off 10% of its workforce. More than 8,000 people will lose jobs as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $215 billion. Second Gilded Age.

Fascinating piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social on how Hungary tells us the way to beat an authoritarian is with an enormous popular movement led by uncorrupted people committed to radical reconstruction. So Indivisible, not establishment Dems. AOC, not Josh Shapiro. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

"For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history." Well played, @mcsweeneys.net. Well played.

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

The important thing to understand about Trump’s pathological narcissism is that he is truly fractured from objective reality. He does not live in the world we live in. He lives in a make-believe world he invents in his own mind and then tries to colonize everyone else into believing is real. 1/

Trump is shoveling millions of taxpayer dollars into private prison companies like GeoGroup that run Delaney Hall. They would rather boost profits of corporations than make groceries or gas more affordable. That's the choice on the ballot this November. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I've said here and there that fathers are rewarded for doing more than nothing, mothers condemned for doing less than everything. Also this from my pandemic-era essay: lithub.com/masculinity-...

The Supreme Court’s earlier rulings on the Voting Rights Act rested on the assumption that progress on racial equality would endure without federal protections. That assumption has been proven wrong, yet the Court plows ahead. bit.ly/3QIYd5B

“My nephew can’t see right now because he was hit on the head with a baton. Prison operators told my nephew and the others on the hunger strike that ICE was going to negotiate on Thursday. They got hit instead.” We cannot afford to look away. #FreeThemAll

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

I have been practicing law for 35 years but I never before had 2 of my cases as the 2 top stories @nytimes.com Hats off to our many @democracydefendersaction.org & @democracydefendersfund.org partners & clients & colleagues including.... 1/2

“Based on the most recent data available, the vast majority of people at the facility have no conviction (88.3%) and the large majority have no criminal history whatsoever (70.5%).”

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

The Constitution is clear: the federal government cannot force local police to do federal work, and the Trump administration cannot force great cities like Boston to serve a cruel political agenda. We are glad that this meritless lawsuit has been dismissed. www.wbur.org/news/2026/05...

This is part of the reason why CEO pay is up 54% while worker pay is down 12%. Working people are producing more, working harder, & still falling further behind while #GreedyCEOs cash in. That’s why we organize at work & the ballot box. That’s why we build worker power. That’s why our unions matter.

Indeed. It's important to recall that this whole mess comes out of Stephen Miller treating "trans" as a vicious insult and elevating Ken Paxton (corrupt, adulterous, abusive toward LGBTQ people) as a Real Man, as I try to argue in here.