Insane that our President just published a fake news report in which he falsely claims a major public program based on entirely fake technology.

In a shocking moment, Speaker Johnson refuses to swear in newly-elected Democratic Rep. Grijalva, who is the decisive 218th vote to sign a discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

Nothing says colorblindness like demanding race data

they like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

The thing he's said about running anti-abortion Dems in red states is a great example of this, since of course deep red states have voted over & over to protect abortion rights. He's uniquely poorly situated to talk about this insofar as the problem might be mainly social identity, not policy.

Your war correspondent on the ground in battle-ravaged inner northeast Portland

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

Will we get a Monday morning “Analysis” piece in the Times’s house style musing about the President’s use—in all seriousness—of the phrase “war ravaged Portland” in connection with sending troops there authorized to kill people? Will it consult experts about how such a statement might be construed?

the interesting question here, if Elon is telling the truth, is why? did you know what happened on the island? did you tell anyone? no? then why’d you “REFUSE”?

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

I wish I was making this up. It was literally like “they have abortions because they want to see more operas.”

More kids are severely ill or dying from the flu, CDC reports www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Aaand it's out! Meet MITE - the natural product tailoring enzyme database, just published in @narjournal.bsky.social! MITE DB captures the substrate- and reaction-specificity of tailoring enzymes, allowing to capture this information in a human- and machine-readable way! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Every Living Former Fed Chair is Urging the Supreme Court to Stop Trump from Removing Lisa Cook talkingpointsmemo.com/news/former-...

See, when we all collectively decided to stand up to fascism, we can push it back. Our fate isn't inevitable. But it's up to enough of us to care enough, and consistently so, to prevent a permanent authoritarian fascist future.

welp tonight i'm reading a 1975 paper that uses iron lung patients as an example group of people who care a lot about electricity reliability and just...thank fuck I haven't had to worry about polio in my life, and also bloody hell, do we need to worry about polio again???

This is wild. Hotelling's 1930 unpublished work (later provided by Ore) detailing differential geometric approach to describe statistical distributions used population genetics as its first example application. Perhaps not that surprising given his communications with Fisher, but still neat!

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

VERY good piece, as always, by the brilliant @gidmk.bsky.social "The data thus far, especially the highest-quality studies out there, does not show that acetaminophen causes autism. It doesn’t even show a consistent association." gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

Well don't I feel stupid

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

As I physician and infectious disease epidemiologist I’d just like to note that this is absolute shit advice. All of it.

I wrote about one of the most terrifying days of my life. www.pbump.net/o/taking-tyl...

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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

a boston tea party-style protest called the bonfire of the vanities

A tiny white-petalled weed beloved of plant biologists has received a CRISPR-fueled makeover, turning it into a supersized ruby-colored bloom www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Everybody saying that Democrats need to moderate on this or that issue in order to win is engaging in historical revisionism. Harris barely spoke about climate or LGBTQ issues, she was conservative on immigration, and her abortion rhetoric was mainly limited to restoring Roe.

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

say hello to my little friend! DTX bus! haters are gonna hate on this one but the fact it takes currently 25+ minutes via transit is ridiculous. if the tunnel ain't built yet we can at least run this.

Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

This sure sounds like a plan designed to kill a lot of people right quick

It’s past time for Democrats to launch a serious perjury investigation into Emil Bove, who very clearly lied before Congress (unlike James Comey) to cover up his own egregious, unlawful misconduct (unlike Comey). His robes should not shield him from consequences for his brazen law-breaking.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

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Coincidentally, another group published results today on a very similar question: What research wouldn't have gotten done had the NIH's budget been cut by 40%, as Trump proposed? Under that scenario, NIH-funded research on more than half of 557 drugs approved 2000-2023 would have never happened!

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.