The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

NEW: On heading into year two of the second Trump administration, and the necessity of pushback. The Minnesota pushback to "Operation Metro Surge" shows the power that the people maintain in the face of Trump's authoritarianism. Tonight, at Law Dork:

You know what we used to call "purity tests" before the internet and wreckers fucked everything up? Standards. As Winifred said down thread: if your only standard for a representative is a letter before their name, you will continue to get played.

Translation: don't annoy my donors. Until Democratic leadership visibly sticks to its values & demonstrates integrity, they will continue to languish in low approval and weakness. As others in this thread say, the idea of rich flight has been shown a myth elsewhere eg MA

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

Atwood on the nail #ReneeGood laughed (gently) at Jonathan Ross So he killed her, making sure with 3 shots Then called her a “fucking bitch” as her car veered out of control & crashed A hate crime US #misogyny is as grim as that of the #Taliban Just manifested differently Women die from both

What I call climate 'appeasement' - the idea that climate breakdown isn't actually going to be that bad - is growing fast, and presents as great a threat as climate denial Climate appeasers denigrate reality as alarmism, so fostering inertia and inaction We are in deep, deep, sh*t - fact

Well put.

Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.

Trump is gonna run into the same problem Putin did. He'll get emboldened wrecking a bunch of weaker countries, and then he'll move on to one he shouldn't have fucked with.

So this piece of crap squatting in the White House has decided to engage us in war to gain oil. This is not about drugs. This is about control. This is about him not being held accountable for his crimes. How much does it take until we act against him?

Do y'all know how many PhD students are on food stamps?? And this is a 2024 article www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The "Lost Science" series from the NYT is an infuriating and heartbreaking must-read. What a security disaster -- more Americans are in harms way because of the loss of programs like this one:

THE MARKETS HAVE "CHOSEN" CLEAN TECHNOLOGY. IT IS ONLY GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE PROPPING UP DIRTY ENERGY. STOP VOTING FOR THEM. #GreenParty #BCGreens

Turns out people still actually link climate change to stuff happening in their actual lives and care about action being taken on it, despite the now widespread idea that we need to stop mentioning it to be successful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are allowed to say this out loud now: the people who are pushing for a centrist weakening of climate ambition are serving the fossil fuel industry. Doesn't matter whether they know it or not - what matters is the impact they have. And their impact is a red carpet for coal, oil and gas

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Another brief clip from yesterday's rapid response livestream regarding what's at stake with the potential loss of NCAR, and what we can do about it: "What would we lose if the National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled? Quite a lot."

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Even if you've never been on a boat, and never plan on being on a boat.... This still needs to worry you! 80% of the world's goods are transported by boat at some point in the supply chain. Cargo ships would be impacted by this, and it will then impact our supply of essential goods.

DOJ data shows 97% of people ICE detains in Chicago for deportation have NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Trump vowed to target “violent criminals.” He lied. The past month: 8 immi judges fired, “remigration now” Nazi policy & deportations against court orders. #SEIUPartner #DeICETheseFlights @seiu.org

Maybe we will actually get tired of winning

No one is going to want to come here

People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms? Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people." Anything that punctures that myth helps. +

This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco (and fire maps, and hurricane maps) 2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...

Companies like OpenAI are burning through money at an ungodly rate, while failing to turn an actual profit. If you don't see how these companies view higher-ed (in particular institutional "partnerships" and licensing) as nothing but an emergency cash lifeline, I don't know what to tell you.

Now that it’s been a few months, can anyone recommend the most up to date database/article of climate scientists and/or climate science that was DOGE’d or otherwise gutted by this administration?

Over the weekend, @planet.com captured almost perfect satellite imagery of the 4 November 2025 landslide at Mae Moh Mine in Thailand. eos.org/thelandslide...

Net zero is cheaper than fossil fuel dependence. That was my #1 takeaway from @iea.org's latest World Energy Outlook. Don't let anyone tell you drill baby drill is about affordability. ✍️https://www.iisd.org/articles/explainer/five-lessons-iea-2025-world-energy-outlook

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Absolutely horrific. ICE detained and abducted a minor—a high school student—who the family identified as a US citizen. ICE is terrorizing our communities—I’m fighting for answers and accountability. This is just wrong.

Are we not even making our own disinformation? What happened to American manufacturing?

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4SkkDI

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

We at the #AGU conference need to be careful yet become a safe haven for scientists

The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support. They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast. www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's the law, if anyone wants to read it. It's pretty short, and provides a list of what has to be released and when (heads up that agencies routinely blow past statutory deadlines), lists exceptions (e.g., no publishing of CSAM) and requires reporting to Congress. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

Not only is AI not inevitable, I think its demise is already assured. It’s too monotonous to ever replace human ingenuity 🤷

American citizens pay more towards oil industry executives than they do towards SNAP recipients but for some reason people are more mad about the starving children and not the corporate fat cats giving themselves bonuses while the planet becomes unlivable

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holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...

Great news: Johns Hopkins makes tuition free for most undergraduate students. ($200k/year or less is about 85% of American households.) hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/13/j...