I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

The @wsj.com let AI take over their office snacks, and chaos ensued. Reporters convinced the chatbot it was a communist and it gave everything away for free. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

I knew the funds were being rebranded somehow! NOT from #tariff revenue. Instead, it’s coming from already approved congressional funds for troop housing, just rebranded as "coming from him." Not actually #WarriorDividend Bonuses! Link: www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

My colleagues and I share some of our favorite books we read this year. I recommend Ian McEwan's "What We Can Know," a literary page-turner that will linger with you for a while.

I am so grateful to my high school English teachers who challenged me with Moby Dick, Joyce's Dubliners, and T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Hard, yes, but worth it. And I was so well-prepared for college. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...?

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

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No one should have their kid taken from them just because they are poor. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

GIANT FLASHING RED AUTHORITARIAN ALERT apnews.com/article/immi...

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

This baseline is so amazing. RIP Mani Mounfield. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSD1...

ICYMI: We have updated our seemingly unending catalog of Trump's atrocities to include October 2025. Feel free to print out and share with all your relatives this Thanksgiving.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

BREAKING: Federal agents detained at least three people in Durham on Tuesday, chasing them through a shopping center parking lot as stores locked down and shoppers fled.

My wife was just pulled over and surrounded in Durham, NC. ICE fucked around and found out that you do not mess with my wife. ICE and Border Patrol are stopping people at random to see who they can grab. She is fearless and is ok and I am proud of her.

Listen.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

Yes! Fighting back! Replace the entire board. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Once again my political enemies are smearing me by presenting evidence of my crimes

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

NEW: A 12-foot-tall, faux bronze statue of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein skipping and holding hands has magically reappeared in downtown D.C. this morning. A day after Dems released bombshell emails suggesting Trump knew about Epstein's child sex trafficking ring. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Those 8 Democratic senators should be forced to read each post in this thread aloud in public.

California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie. But let’s break down the food produced by the red states: Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Solar + concrete roofs=resilience. I really wish we had pushed solar to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. It's the future for the Caribbean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/c...

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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.

My district is home to thousands of federal workers, and their voices should be heard in the halls of Congress during this shutdown. It's time to end the political games. Republicans need to open the House so we can get to work. (3/3)

"Kathy is a soon-to-be-retired small animal veterinarian in the greater Des Moines area. She was once reviewed as a top veterinarian for rats on a local rat forum. In her office, she has a preserved dog heart suspended in fluid filled with heartworm."

Imagine how many food banks Bloomberg could have funded with that five mil instead of flushing it down the toilet of the Cuomo campaign.

My colleagues are the best. Everyone works so hard and is so committed to the mission.

Who could have ever predicted this?

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

Some really perverse incentives here for people to allow their homes to collapse into the sea rather than removing them proactively. A fix is-no surprise-stalled in the legislature. www.theassemblync.com/environment/...

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

I cannot believe there are still people in my mentions arguing that boycotting an election because the candidates aren’t addressing your issue is a way to get them to pay attention.

I greatly admire these people working quietly for peace, year after year. www.theassemblync.com/place/state-...

This just in: "Charges were suddenly dropped Wednesday against a Tennessee man who had been jailed for more than a month for posting a Trump meme." The reversal came one day after @philinvestigates.com highlighted the case on NewsChannel 5 in Nashville. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Trump is choosing not to release $6 billion in emergency USDA funding that could fund SNAP into November, which is a violation of law, and is profoundly depraved: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

I say "Oh, eye knowwwww." in her honor.