Fascinating article on research productivity vs. innovation in the AI era. The danger: If used without critical thinking, AI might lead to a vast increase in research publications, while actual scientific progress stagnates. Quality over quantity matters! www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s... 🧪

Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders. The candidates have grown tired of lawmakers holding office past their prime and say fresh faces can reach more voters.

25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting. It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.

"some of these AI experts appear to mirror their products: they are able to produce remarkable results while having an understanding of them that is, at best, skin deep and brittle." @philipcball.bsky.social nails it! Elected representatives and educ. administrators must stop falling 4 the grift.

If R are just now getting upset about this… they’re a bit late to the game

As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.

WSJ editorial board: “The President is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn’t like. It’s a low move in a free country with a free press.” www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes being tortured in the El Salvador mega prison, where Trump sent him without due process — admittedly by mistake. As un-American as it gets. And others are still there.

In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

Today, we celebrate 60 years of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an agency dedicated to protecting workers from discrimination and promoting equal opportunity for everyone.

This may be the dumbest thing I’ve read.

"They'll get over it" - Mitch McConnell  "Everybody dies" - Joni Ernst "Minutiae" - JD Vance MAGA politicians have zero empathy for the plight of ordinary Americans who depend on these programs. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to an analysis published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years. The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

absolutely massive red flag when the only way you can get the straggler on board with your trash fire bill is to promise it doesn't apply to their state

How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?

“Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C… But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.”

#NoKings in Vienna VA. DC suburb. Not sure

😬 La manifestation is what I learned about real quick living in Paris. They happen for any labor dispute. I’ve always thought we could learn a lot from our French brethren.

“Defund the police” was in fact a great slogan.

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

“Defund the police” is also a climate justice issue because LAPD helicopters alone burn 761,000 gallons of jet fuel in a year per a jalopnik article from 2023. www.jalopnik.com/lapd-spends-...

The more I understand the forthcoming climate disaster and how absolutely beneficial migration is for economics. Open borders just make sense

The correct response to state violence is more protest, more people. Make it clear that a free people cannot and will not be oppressed.

This should have been illegal (it’s been independent since 1998 by law and Presidents don’t have the authority to dismantle). It’s horrific the silence on it. We are literally 🔥 all soft power here. Aid, Science, education, health, & more… sacrificed for billionaires tax cuts

War on Nature Is Up Against a Powerful New Resistance Movement. #RightsofNature offers philosophical grounds for resistance to the administration’s shortsighted drive to gut environmental regulation and reduce the natural world to 🤑. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social 💚

If you see reactionary centrist takes that universities did this to themselves by being too woke, or not being friendly enough to conservatives, remember there are always people willing to make the arguments of the authoritarian respectable

Damn. This is dramatic. I had heard a couple days ago that a Nadler staffer had been arrested but was waiting for confirmation. So now we know what happened; ICE officers barged into the district office trying to arrest other people, handcuffed a staffer who pushed back, then let her go, no arrest.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪

Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change

All policy is climate policy. Cuts that make people poorer also make them more vulnerable to baking in their homes; programs that keep people out of poverty help them avoid meeting that fate. https://trib.al/zZIu4b1

If this isn’t a strong enough argument against big oil, I don’t know what is.

Chinese banks rise to claim top spots among largest lenders to “forest-risk” businesses. They poured $23B+ into forest-risk companies since 2018 yet most have no zero-deforestation policies. @globalwitness.org warns about blind spot in China’s green finance agenda globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Not at all climate change being real and happening right now

This is utterly stupid dumb and short sighted. Particularly with us staring down a bird flu pandemic

Reposting with alt text: letter from 1100 Israeli academics write a strong letter demanding an end to the massacres and expressing responsibility Read

Take all the time you need with this because you’ve got 3½ more years to ponder: If you sat out the 2024 election, you voted against your own interests too— by way of abstention.

Exactly what the donor class has been asking for

Why are accepting this? Secret police?

"Joe Biden’s fitness for office is not the most pressing issue facing the country now, in 2026, or in 2028. This is trivially obvious. But the fact that the media, and some Democrats, continue to be obsessed with the last election points to some real problems going forward." — @nberlat.bsky.social

About fraking time. DOGE had no authority

One of the disturbing truths it's taken me a long time to fully internalize: the person who calls upon us to be better attracts *vastly* more resentment & rage than the person who unapologetically wallows in sin. You see this at the micro & the macro level.

Corrupt shit that proves cruelty is the point. Yet the R Congress is busy passing bills to institutionalize the cruelty rather than stopping it… cowards

Corrupt shit

Giving political donors “dedicated VIP experiences” with the US military is not only corrupt, it will damagingly make Americans think of our military as partisan. Congress should prevent this.

🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️ OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid