This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.

Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

SOUND ON

Olivia Dean: "I guess I want to say I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I wouldn't be here... I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated"

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

Benito's reaction in video form

He would rather knock it down than see us take his name off it.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

Donald Trump on Ted Cruz: “If I nominate him for the United States Supreme Court, I will get 100% of the vote. The Democrats will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out. And the Republicans will vote for him because they want to get him the hell out too.”

Target Center dunkers wear “ICE OUT” t-shirts

Love you KAT.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Disappointed not to get a replay of Melo's reaction from either broadcast

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

THREAD: House Republicans look set to pass a ban on Congressional stock trading today. The bill would ban members of Congress from buying individual stocks. But, at the same time, this deeply flawed bill would also let them keep holding and profiting from stocks they own.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has canceled over 2,000 grants related to substance abuse and mental health services, totaling upwards of $2 billion.

xAI’s decision to create and host a breeding ground for predators to spread nonconsensual sexually explicit AI deepfakes, including images that digitally undress children, is vile. I am calling on the Attorney General to immediately investigate the company and hold xAI accountable.

coerced my locals into running a genesys night! they’d been exploring a second locals a week, but couldn’t fill seats on a weekday, so we just offered an easy 100-point 3-rounder. got 9 tonight, excited to grow a little community 🥰

Damn fucking right.

Y i k e s man

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

A tale in 3 acts: US Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, from skepticism to full embrace of U.S. military involvement in Venezuela

Find someone who loves you as much as Chuck Schumer loves not doing his job

Because of a conspiracy theory-based stunt by a January 6 insurrectionist who was trying to intimidate children and daycare workers, Trump is now freezing ALL childcare payments across the country. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

This student effectively killed this TA’s career and likely feels not a lick of shame about it

Kudos to Sharyn Alfonsi for exposing the truth But Bari Weiss killing the 60 Minutes story about Trump sending innocent immigrants to CECOT is only part of the story The bigger issue is MAGA trying to take over all our broadcast networks and social media to spread their hateful propaganda

They got the secret lair line on the Epstein files I hope the foil bundle doesn’t sell out

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

BREAKING: Justice Department is reportedly rapidly redacting the Epstein files before release tomorrow, per CNN

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

"[M]onetized the dysfunction" is a good way to describe the American health care system too.

Transcriptional responses to proteotoxic stressors are profoundly diverse and tissue-specific https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.694942v1

This is a stupid country

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee today that his agency is “not formally ... independent.”

Look at this claim from the intro: “White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.” Things look very different if you go by numbers: they went from 11 tenure-track positions filled by white men in 2014 to 10 in 2024. A loss of 1.

In a second example of local police securing a path for Bovino's caravan today, Evanston cops just assisted with the feds' departure by blocking and directing traffic.

Earlier this week L.A. TACO’s Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Izzy Rodriguez, and @eltragon.bsky.social joined Harbor Area Peace Patrol for their daily monotoring at Terminal Island, the staging ground for federal immigration agents.

Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of the last remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, won't seek re-election www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Big: GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick just signed the Democratic discharge petition by Hakeem Jeffries for a clean 3-year ACA funding extension. All 214 Dems have signed. Fitzpatrick is 215. Three more Republicans and it has enough support to end-run Mike Johnson and get a House vote.

Wemby on finding out he had a blood clot: "It was 5 minutes of total breakdown. Obviously crying and sadness. Basketball wasn't my priority all of a sudden. It was just the whole motor all summer and I think it's gonna be for the rest of my career"

Everyone should read this incredible first-person piece by Jason Collins (as told to @ramonaespn.bsky.social), on his battle with brain cancer. So much admiration for this man.

NEW: The Trump administration and TSA is sharing all US air traveler's names with Immigrations and Customers Enforcement (ICE) and its departments to find travellers subject to deportation orders, per NYT

Indiana Senate Republicans have just rejected the new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push per AP

Really important that this is out for those waiting for it

"They told me that they dropped me back off, but no, they just dropped me off somewhere random,” the man explains, after being interrogated inside of a vehicle. The full story: lataco.com/cbp-detains-... By @afroxander.bsky.social

Although not financially related here are the FIFA groups announced today.