gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

Trying to square a circle here: 1.) Is Platner better for America than Collins? Risky, but I'd wager yes (and it is a wager!) 2.) Are the actions of Platner reprehensible? Also yes! 3.) Is this the same logic evangelicals used to vote for Trump? Yes! It sucks! I wish he didn't run!

Sorry but this is fucked up! You can’t support BDS and then turn around and say this. I mean you can obviously, but I’m gonna narrow my eyes at you in some kinda way about it.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

1. Don't believe the headlines. Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund is not "dead." The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it's dead. But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

Current senate candidate Ken Paxton is a serial adulterer but I don’t recall the New York Times sending me any texts about it.

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

"One friend said he'd be waiting for me at the airport. He said that I had no idea how important this was to all of them. He said that their families could be rich, pay off all their debts, and afford to send their kids to private schools for better lacrosse coaching."

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

Why do I feel like if government goons pepper-sprayed Lindsey Graham during the Biden administration, it would have come before the comma.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

"we need to support families and make having kids attractive" yeah sure "because in 200 years there will only be 30 people" what

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

anyone who beats my donation of ~$150 and proves it, gets a free commissioned 1/48 wood tank or plane of their choosing shipped free.

"hottie with a body" implies the existence of other hotties, hotties beyond our mortal ken. hotties without form or substance

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

Green River Tunnel East, 4/29/2026, 3:54:28 PM

The merged Paramount/Warner Bros company will be 49.5% owned by foreign interests (including the Chinese), and 38.5% owned by Middle Eastern countries Brendan Carr, who was positively apoplectic about foreign ownership of companies like TikTok, won't make a peep about it because he's a hack

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

I have to go to a party with President Kill the Media :( I have to go. I'm very torn about it though. :/ Brb again in a couple days with some brave truth-telling though. Again, I have to go. If that wasn't clear. To the dinner. But I don't like it!

“One German royal family controls 7.3% of the land in —“ You’re literally voting for policies cribbed from Nazi Germany’s homework. Medieval Old Prussian rule would be a step up compared to you! Your primary opponent, Brent Hennrich, wants to Abolish ICE, & you’re busy killing sea lions

If you won't price carbon, carbon will price you.

"No one wants the govt to pay for it, therefore the private actors should do it, but they shouldnt make a profit" is like 90% of problems we have

We’ve attempted to translate 22 points from Alex Karp’s alien words into something more reasonable, like human words from someone who might play him in the biopic.

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Academia can be petty as fuck, you don't respond by helping fascists

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Each individual layoff notice that was issued to a postdoc in May of 2025 was itself a greater degree of direct government censorship than Bhattacharya has experienced in his entire life.

Here’s is the problem with characterizing J6 as viewpoint discrimination: it is not. It was an attempt to overturn a lawful election. We have been here as scholars and we have a choice for history: we cannot rewrite public memory to excuse violent anti-democratic acts.

ICE agents arrested an 85-year-old widow in her nightgown at her late husband’s home and a county probate judge overseeing his estate says that one of his sons was responsible for the arrest. Nick Bogel-Burroughs @porterthereport.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

I'm really tired of a two tiered election system where real candidates have to have real policies and are held to often brutal standards and clown vibe candidates can be caught in print defending war crimes and saying slurs and refuse to cover it or care.

One of these is satire. You can decide which. www.irishstar.com/culture/ente... theonion.com/rfk-jr-i-am-...

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

A clear PR stunt from a "Doordasher from Arkansas" who was also a Doordasher from Nevada when they lobbied for the company last year waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... about.doordash.com/en-us/news/d...

Periodic reminder that the president has lost his fucking mind

Congrats to Hungary on your new constitution.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

🧪🔭🌔🏳️‍⚧️ www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

Science is good. We should fund it.

What I witnessed at the Mesa Gateway ICE holding facility was unacceptable. Detainees crammed into cells that were overcrowded at double the capacity. Sick people denied medical care. Women begging for sanitary napkins. The inhumanity is beyond the pale. Abolish ICE.

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

The contrast in how many media companies have reported on Trump's fake ceasefires (fawning, hearsay, whitewashing) and how they reacted to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan (criticized non-stop for years) has blown me away. Don't think I can un-see it anymore.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.