I for one am amazed that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s golf buddy with zero diplomatic experience, could not bring peace to Ukraine

@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx

Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejects request for policy changes

NPR member station photographers documented what they saw at the demonstrations against the Trump administration, from cuts and layoffs to federal departments, to mass deportations.

Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month.

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated.

So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?

British cartoonist Becky Burke who spent 20 days in harsh conditions in a Tacoma detention centre for a trivial visa issue while crossing into America from Canada is finally on her way home. The US needs travel warnings now.

Happy Pi day!

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Report: DOGE staffers energized by potential invasion of Canada because so many of their girlfriends live there.

Can someone please take the car keys away before grandpa totals the economy?

So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

Bankruptcy Man strikes again! www-foxbusiness-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.foxb...

If Harvard is freezing hiring then SJSU must be dropping it into liquid nitrogen

Great blues and soul at The Art Boutiki

To be clear: when Trump says he wants to “stop the killing” in Ukraine he does not mean “of Ukrainian civilians,” whose killing he is aiding and abetting

Conference done!

BREAKING: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has reneged on their commitment to host the @sciencewriters.org annual conference and withdrew their entire financial support. The National Association of Science Writers is now looking for a new venue, sponsors, and partners.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Current mood

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China went into effect last night at midnight so here’s a reminder from Ferris Bueller on how that’s gonna go

Not Russian?! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today we saw the bravest man in the world bullied by a guy who got a podiatrist’s note to avoid the draft

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Tesla vs. Dow Jones

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Game that Federal employees are being forced to play

Inneficiency: canceling opportunities for science & engineering while crying that we don't have a qualified workforce and need H1-B workers. SMH.

When Trump promised to make prices go down I guess he meant stock prices

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:

The Education Department has warned U.S. schools that they risked losing federal funding if they continued to take race into account when making scholarship or hiring decisions — or so much as nodded to race in “all other aspects of student, academic and campus life.”

Trump excluded the Afghan government from the peace talks with the Taliban. That turned out great 🤬 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk warning about an unelected bureaucracy is like watching Drake sing "Not Like Us" at karaoke

You know what else has beaches and needs rebuilding? Los Angeles

Mike Pence texting JD Vance today

Trump declared on Truth Social, “I will soon be announcing a new roster of ballerinas, with an amazing principal ballerina, DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Will watch Super Bowl on Telemundo with the hope that they don’t show DT

Only a Vietnam war draft dodger would think that sending US troops into Gaza would be a good idea

Fun in The City with Dave Yee