These were always it's goals (per Project 2025; data access goals were incidental to Heritage). We need to hound every DOGE person legally until their only remaining option versus jail-time is exile in some pariah nation-state.

The challenge was limiting it to four, lol.

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Republicans have shown time-and-time again that it’s not about the economic gains or losses, whether TPS or SNAP or a half-dozen other programs (including education).

For the life of me, I don’t know why this is surprising. None of these people were brought in to manage an agency or make it run better. Their sole goal was to destroy the effectiveness of federal government actions in the public eye. FFS.

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Your Daily Dose of Humanity... A Key West restaurant is serving up free spaghetti sandwiches to those in need during these difficult times. Another look at Key West life from @gwenfilosamedia.bsky.social...

I do give Frontiers some credit for planning to include a statement with each article generated in part with AI. All journals should do so, IMO. However, voluntarily giving them a lab dataset for them to use for generating a paper via their own AI engine? Absolutely the f*ck not.

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In case anyone is wondering: yes, exactly this.

siiiiiiiiiigh

Same principle applies to working waterfronts, which are rapidly disappearing in Florida -- Stock Island off Key West gentrified at a dizzying pace. Don't expect the freshest local seafood if you can't make space for commercial fishing boats.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

“Singles” is always my Gen X go-to. @pearljam.com @screamingtrees.bsky.social and Jane’s Addiction, amongst so many others. I still wonder sometimes about what Mother Love Bone could’ve done.

Someone signed off on this… and that person absolutely knew what permits and other approvals were (or weren’t) given. I have to wonder at this point whether Presidential pardons are simply part of the contact.

The Department of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill is searching for an organismal biologist whose research is focused on resilience. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Evergreen these days. Critical thinking skills matter.

I hope that the lasting legacy of this Congress will be that it -- and it's "leaders" -- has completely abdicated and intentionally "forgotten" that the Branch was Article I of the Constitution for a very specific reason, especially regarding the Presidency.

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

The only way the math works on this unwanted, niche-application product is through massive government spending, not private market profit margins. Everyone’s putting the puzzle pieces together now regarding political spending by Musk, Thiel, et al. now, right?

Sending support and solidarity to my friends and colleagues in the USGS, NOAA, NSF, NPS, State, and Energy.

For my aquatic science colleagues, an "Assistant Professor - Aquatic Biology" faculty position opening in Georgia: bit.ly/4mUpBrG

Bravo, @theoatmeal.bsky.social, and thank you.

The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...

So tired of all the ICE commercials during college and NFL football. Much like AI, the more aggressive the marketing, the worse the product. Proudly serving in federal LE shouldn’t require hiding behind masks. I’ve hope that public sentiment is finally filtering through to their hiring shortfalls.

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Higher Ed forgets this truism at its peril.

I really, really don't like this timeline... RIP, Dr Goodall.

Well said, @sjcfishy.bsky.social. Best thoughts to all my fed colleagues, and please reach out if there’s anything I can do to assist.

Yes, but with the sinking feeling that even if we (as a country) get through a temporary furlough, all the good, experienced folks we’ve nurtured for decades will be gone. We need SCOTUS-proof — CJ Roberts-proof — federal employment agreements.

This is the point all the major media outlets are (intentionally?) missing. SCOTUS has deemed the Impoundment Act irrelevant, so what options remain?

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF Graduate Fellowship announcement is finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... 1/2

I never served in combat, but in my 11 years of military service, I knew in my heart that I did so for the United States, not any particular President. It deeply pains me that a sacred obligation in my family — literally back to Valley Forge with Gen Washington — is also now being corrupted.

*sigh*

Morality aside, Disney just made the grave tactical error of admitting publicly that consumer market choices still do indeed matter. No corporation wants to be the next Target.

Even if the Senate doesn't go along with the House proposal, this is... very bad. Another world-class scientific organization needlessly thrown in the woodchipper to benefit no-one but an anti-government ideology.

This should not need to be said. More people in this country should really give some thought about "strawberries in winter" before posting online.

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#SharksNearMe at the #Buffett festival today in Key West. Almost 5 o’clock!

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

There’s a whole set of reasons why I have my uni students do in-person, handwritten essay-form exams… and this might be number one on that list.

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Absolutely. I do this automatically on the way to class, too. It sure would’ve been nice to leave that habit behind when I ETSed out of the Army.

Finally, a ray of sunshine.

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

I don’t like John Bolton‘s policy positions, or his politics; I can still separate a person from their job. That said, if we’re arguing about John Bolton, we’ve already lost the plot – a frighteningly minuscule number of people even know who he is. This is a shot across the bow for area expertise.

A friendly reminder, if you’re faculty in one of these Southern states. Thanks!

I think daily about how timely mental health services for some key individuals could’ve avoided much of the current dystopia.

The fascinating flip-side is that (perhaps save Newsom) the “DNC establishment” is either actively ignoring or cluelessly missing the groundswell of support towards at least Mamdani’s energy and adversarial opposition.