Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people don’t have to rush to say, “Please be polite!”

People comfortable with pretzeling their positioning have thrived in the Trump era. And no one had more capacity to pretzel themselves than Graham.

people have known Fox is just propaganda since the beginning, yet people watch Fox got sued for $1 billion for lying they settled out of court so the other nearly 8,000 times they lied would not be entered into court records yet dumbasses still watch, it's just what they want to see n hear

And the beard thing is just the latest -- he's purged racial minorities, women, and LGBT folks from important positions they earned in a meritocratic institution under the premise of doing away with "DEI" policies. We're all less safe and secure so this toddler could play with his action figures.

it wasn't long ago that we had FBI directors who didn't post like jilted pre-pubescent boys

There's only one kind of affirmative action program that conservatives love, and it's their own crusade to prop up their unpopular ideas and force them on college students. Massive funding, entire programs devoted to the cause, even mandated courses now. And it's still not working.

A heatwave cartoon for @newscientist.com

The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it.

I will never understand why the entire Democratic Party isn't running on this. There's an abundance of evidence that for the last 50 years at least Dems are MUCH better for the economy. They need a unified message, simple and full of facts, and all of them need to repeat it over and over again.

This is the Big Beautiful Bill’s impact: 💰$1T+ in tax cuts for the top 1% ✂️$1T+ slashed from Medicaid & food stamps 📉80% of families worse off (with Trump's tariffs) 💵Next year, a family making $50K will get < $2 a day from tax cuts, while the top 0.1% will get +$300K

We could be smarter....but no.

Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today

By the numbers, Clarence Thomas has been treated to: • At least 38 destination vacations; • 26 private jet flights; • 12 VIP passes to pro & college sporting events; • 2 stays at luxury resorts; • 1 standing invite to an uber-exclusive golf club (Published 2023)

Trump offering to help your sports team-

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Potential kinetic energy batteries are nuts

I think the most tragic part of this Trump red card fiasco is that now we won’t be able to look at FIFA as the impartial paragon of fairness we used to…

“I think the secretary has caused a lot of irreparable harm, and when you look at many of the polls out there, the trust in public health, specifically CDC, has decreased dramatically, over 20 points in many polls." thehill.com/policy/healt...

Because you’re lying

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

Anytime someone asks me how I’m doing I mutter the only way out is through

We’ve had our share of shitshow years but this is almost certainly the tackiest.

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

Would you like to listen to a good Presidential speech about America? Attend: In 2015, Rudy Giuliani, some time before he was disbarred, said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.” www.politico.com/story/2015/0...

US history is relatively short in comparison to other nations, but our government is ancient. Nearly every country on earth has had a governmental reboot, sometimes several, during this period. Most reboots suck. We need to think of better ones if we want another 250 years.

#OTD 1857 John Snow shows again the thinking that made him one of the founders of epidemiology. In a letter to the Lancet, he suggests that the routine adulteration of bread with alum might be a cause of rickets, a mechanistic hypothesis to explain it, then a case-control design to test it. 1/5🧵

Happy birthday, USA!! Our best accomplishments: - modern constitutional democracy, - helping defeat Nazism, - sci, tech & cultural innovation, - American Dream, - separate church & state, - _____? Let's strengthen our virtues, dim our vices, seize our opportunities, & repair our harms.

The show Silicon Valley was brutal about how weird, dumb, and dangerous these billionaires are. And now reality has surpassed the satire.

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

i just filled all the squares on my don’t threaten me with a good time bingo card

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn -- Norm Eisen, Democracy Defenders Fund & Mary Dohrmann, Washington Litigation Group

Abolishing the NIH has always been this admin’s plan. They told us in Project 2025. They’ve SHOWN us with their actions over the past 18 months. This is why a heads down approach will not work. The scientific community has 2 options: oppose this with all we’ve got, or let them carry out their plan.

Trump claims he's profiting so much because "the stock market’s going up" and "everybody's profiting." That is BS. Trump made $2.2 BILLION last year making shady stock trades and corrupt crypto deals—while workers struggled to afford basic needs. When will enough be enough?

"When Democrats retake control of the government... we have to decide if we want to win symbolic victories and simply get caught trying or if we actually want to make permanent, meaningful change. If it’s the latter, then inherently, that requires us to expand the Supreme Court.”

Currently re-reading @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social 2015 novel ‘The Water Knife’ for about the 5th time and continue to marvel at how terrifyingly prescient it is. One of my all time #favouritebooks

given the small size of our field we're also the worst there is at what we do, but we like to focus on the positive qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Thank you for your service. (Such strawman articles are irritating.) Obligatory pic (zenodo.org/records/1808...) And no, so far we've not done better than randomisation but we can, sometimes, do as well.

But I'm afraid that people will read this differently as a claim that RCTs are not the best tool available to arrive at an unbiased estimate of the effects of a clearly defined medical intervention, and that observational causal inference has gotten so good they've become superfluous. They haven't!

Had to read this one to figure out whether it's as click-bait-y as the title. As somebody who has written a lot about causal inference with observational data, I'm quite conflicted about it.> asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-case-a...

Appeasement doesn't work. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

We must also not lose sight of the disastrous rulings handed down by the Roberts Court this term, including attacks on: -Voting rights -Syrian and Haitian migrants -Transgender students -Campaign finance law -Independent regulatory agencies -The ability to hold corporations accountable

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📅 Jun 30, 1812 Pierre Simon Laplace presented his analytical theory of probabilities to the Academy of Sciences, a milestone in mathematical statistics

Trans rights are human rights. If we cannot protect the rights of the most vulnerable population of society, not a single one of us has rights.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.