One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Awesome thread for insights about vinyl manufacturing.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Federal science workforce in 2025: NSF down over 30% USGS, NOAA, and NIH down 20% DOE down 17% NIST down 15% NASA down 12% By comparison, the total federal civilian workforce was down approximately 10% last year. www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Trump has reportedly been in conversation with Paramount and his billionaire ally Larry Ellison about a potential takeover of CNN that would include firing journalists he dislikes. Billionaire control of the media is a danger to us all.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

I spoke with Laura Schenkman at The Transmitter about my candidacy for the House! Going from the lab to public life is a huge transition. From a lifetime of research to biotech to democracy to running for office, here’s the story of one scientist: www.thetransmitter.org/policy/is-th...

Trump's self-dealing is truly off the scales — eclipsing even the biggest corruption scandal of the First Gilded Age. It's a new Golden Age for grifting. [@brennancenter.org]

I, for one, am tired of winning... See the impact of the Trump assault on the American economy. Turns out that Mafia-style bustouts are not so great for anyone but the thieves involved.

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Representing the United States comes with the responsibility of opposing fascism. In the present time, patriotism MEANS opposing this president. Quinn needs to ask his fans in Minnesota how they feel about fascism.

John Oliver and team do a great job here of explaining how Twitter/X is a cesspool and why you shouldn’t go anywhere near it. Only thing it misses is new research showing that its right-biased algorithm “works” in that it shifts users’ views rightward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG...

Glad to see this.

Fantastic interview from @seamus.bsky.social Truths no matter what people choose to believe. gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

Joe Gall was a very prominent cell biologist, and also famous for being a mentor to many female PhD students who went on to have very successful careers this little anecdote really says it all pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Very curious to hear how this incarnation of the band is going to sound.

Some people really have a way with words. Me not have way here Dean with. gamesbeat.com/what-an-xbox...

The FBI claimed Kash Patel didn't spend $75,000 in taxpayer funds to fly on a private jet to watch the Olympics. Today, Patel was spotted partying in Team USA's locker room.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

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As the US men's hockey team—chockfull of Trumpers—takes on Sweden at the Milano Cortina Olympics today, it's interesting to look at this data on the overall right-wing tilt of the NHL where many of these guys play. ~44% of NHL players are Republicans, only 5.6% are Dems votehub.com/2026/01/20/t...

Well, it was a fun few hours of patriotism while that lasted. Any hockey team that doesn't pull this fucking dweeb's shirt over his head and bash the shit out of him doesn't deserve to be on the ice.

This is disappointing for a number of reasons. Team USA should represent the ideals of the nation, not fascism. It was very hard to fully support defeating a team representing a nation whose sovereignty our government repeatedly threatens. The administration should have no part of Team USA.

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundle.com deal that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane.bsky.social and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

My quote of the day Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

You’ve heard the old real estate adage: Location, location, location! Bosilikja Tasic, a “biological cartographer,” says this is true for the brain too. Tasic used AI to build amazingly detailed maps of the mouse brain. “Location is everything,” she said.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

Sen Ramirez: "Let me remind you, you will not always be in power. One day, you will be held accountable for your role in this dark day in America."

Seattle has won the sportsball. As it should be. 🤘

I’m supporting @samwang.bsky.social (even though I don’t live New Jersey) - because he’s the type of scientist-as policy-maker that we so desperately need. Join me in helping him succeed!

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

#DearGentleReader perhaps it is time to recall that, once enough of the facts are come to light, one does not need the last tiny scrap of lurid outrageous detail to understand the character of the man. One can simply apply the law, impeach, try, and imprison based on the evidence already in hand.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

Graham objected to unanimous consent. And he blocked the business of the Senate. Any Senate Democrat could do this.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries might go down as the worst leaders of any party in modern history. I can't think of anyone who comes close to their ineptness, foolishness, ineffectiveness, and weakness. I don't know that they could be worse or do worse if they tried.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller