"I’m learning that if protesters are like tumbleweed, so too is the truth. It grows, blooms, shatters, saves."

If this flies in Ohio, expect to see it tried elsewhere

'Totalitarian Nonsense': Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents Over Coverage of Church Protest | "I don’t care what your political beliefs or leanings are, what journalism outlet you represent," said one fellow journalist, "this absolutely cannot stand."​

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

love that one of the basic conventional way of saying “my name is” in Spanish is actually an inherent declaration of the validity of chosen names it’s my name because I said so, motherfucker!!!!

As if there isn't already a shortage of truckers... And, what is it about driving a truck that requires English language proficiency? (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...

Hahaha!

It's a good thing land doesn't vote! Virginia is getting firmly back into the blue column.

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

More people should speak up like this

Wild, wonderful West Virginia is getting wilder and less wonderful. So much for "transparency" We asked who Gov. Morrisey meets with. His office stopped keeping track. share.google/ekxbph3liarv...

I'm going

How the Trump admin blurs reality using kayfabe, controls the narrative, and gaslights away from legitimate allegations of fascism:

Ugh. That is all.

Also, I know that a lot of folks from the US in this field will be unable to share this post due to certain restrictions on what they can and cannot share online these days, so it is up to the rest of us to spread the word and help keep GBO going. After the loss of Arecibo, GBO is critical! 🔭📡 🧪

Today, July 2, is the 249th anniversary of the vote for American independence. 🇺🇸 Since John Adams always considered that the USA’s actual birthday (instead of July 4), please enjoy this reading of the Declaration of Independence from Orson Welles: 🗃️ youtu.be/IbAM8GxWZe0?...

Who's surprised? I'm not!

#ShowYourStripes day Warming stripes for Washington, DC. Do you notice a trend? showyourstripes.info/s/northameri...

Another example of extreme ineptitude from the current administration.

Here's a prime example of why the current administration's vaccine posture is so dangerous ... www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dob...

☀️💧 Water from air in the desert? A new study shows a solar-powered hydrogel device that harvests drinking water in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It works by capturing air moisture using physics-optimised hydrogels. 🔗 www.cell.com/device/fullt... #SciComm #Water 🧪

Not a surprise, but ugh! Why??

Add your name to the list and share widely! I verified at multiple news outlets (NPR, CNN, AP, AHA.org, etc (

Watch the tree that's visible just to the left of the right side of the gate ... And then watch again and pay attention to the ground on the other side of the fence on the right.

Nothing inappropriate about this. Nothing at all 🙄

New research reveals that much of the spring runoff in the Western U.S. is not from recent snowmelt but from snow that fell 3–15 years ago. This challenges existing water models and has significant implications for water management. #Hydrology #Groundwater #WaterResources #ClimateScience 🧪⚒️

Shocking. Not in the least 😞

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I love a good judge! “This purpose amounts to no more than unconstitutional retaliation for plaintiff’s First Amendment protected activity,” she added www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

RISE UP WISCONSIN 💪🏼🇺🇸💙

Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*

This is the person leading our nation's health policy organization. We're doomed to hell (or something like that)

Another casualty of this administration's "war on science and decency"

changes include additions stating there were “discrepancies” in 2020 election results including “sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters and unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Oh, wait, it's just a Russian satellite/probe returning to Earth.

Please watch and, in particular, share this with non-scientists. Researchers are more than aware of the damage that is being done to the NIH, but many in the public simply aren’t aware of its importance. This 60 Minutes piece can help with that. 🧪 #AcademicSky

I hope other universities follow suit

What the actual fuck??

BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove anyone from the United States under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation who is a part of the potential class in the Northern District of Texas case until further order of the court. Only Thomas and Alito note their dissent.

Watch as a herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo protect their calves, Mkhaya and Zuli, during a 5.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Southern California. The animals repeated the behavior during an aftershock, but went back to their daily routines when the situation seemed safe. nyti.ms/3Eo2uW8

In "How Democracies Die," Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt wrote that democratic backsliding "begins at the ballot box." Strongmen get democratically elected, then turn institutions into "political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not."

I love it! More entities need to stand this strongly against government overreach.

❗If you have used topical flea/parasite treatments recently, don't put your pet's fur out for nesting birds. That's recommendation from an expert, reported by @chemistryworld.com: 🧪 www.chemistryworld.com/news/flea-tr...

If people could agree on this ONE things, the world would be a much better place... From the article: As anthropologist Sherwood Washburn wrote in 1944, “If we are to discuss racial matters with the Nazis, we had better be right.”

The first detailed observations of lightning forming inside a cloud suggest it starts with clusters of ice crystals.🧪 nautil.us/detailed-foo...

And the insanity continues ...

no more excuses: concentrated exercise works 💥🏃‍♂️ Weekend workouts may be as healthy as spreading them out. 150 minutes of activity in 1–2 days shows similar reductions in mortality risk as exercising regularly through the week. 🔗 www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #SciComm 🧪

We're so insignificant ...

Scientists and academics ARE speaking up—see Joshua Weitz’s. latest post on what is at stake and what many of us are doing to fight back: 🧪 #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

Gotta love PG!