The Supreme Court temporarily restored access to mifepristone. But the truth remains that we shouldn't be one court ruling away from millions of people losing access to safe, effective medication. I won’t stop fighting until modern reproductive healthcare is restored.

Lucky Ducky, in "Fear Itself" (2014)

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

Amazing work by lobbyists for COVID & shingles. Too bad for Americans.

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

A century ago during the 1920s, America experienced what the historian Merle Curti aptly called a "cult of prosperity," an era that -- just like our own -- conflated "rich and powerful" with "brilliant and wise" I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I bet it worked out great for everyone back then.

I write about people who became famous for saying and doing horrible things so I routinely get asked this question. "Did they really believe it?" Look, I get the curiosity, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's in their hearts. They put evil into the world.

#OTD 1834 the first officers and Council of the newly created Statistical Society of London (now Royal Statistical Society) were elected. The Society was founded by Adolph Quetelet, Charles Babbage, Thomas Malthus & Richard Jones. There were 411 members in the first year

1. When was the last time you had to show your ID to walk into a restaurant? 2. If he means to purchase liquor, unlike the SAVE act, I don’t have to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or passport to do that. 3. Going to a restaurant isn’t a right.

Citing high fuel prices and “The Smoke Monster,” Oceanic Airlines shuts down.

Something something about the Democrats needing to tone down their rhetoric. 🙄

Republicans are changing the map despite it being very very close to the midterms. They will do anything they possibly can to avoid free elections

just to put a fine point on it: this is the president of Cornell intentionally hitting a student with his car.

Their goal is to trap women in motherhood. To raise the birthrate, yes, but more importantly, to leave women in the kind of precarious position where they have no choice but to settle for less-than-ideal husbands and/or less-than-ideal jobs.

This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?

It’s kind of messed up that the news media was at panic stations because everything was too quiet and calm with Biden, but daily outrages and bat-shittery with Trump calms them right down.

Worth a read... www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-... 1/5

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

It really is no mystery why conservatives like this guy. He's made a mockery of all their stated policy principles, but none of them ever had any real policy principles anyway! They see themselves in him: seething. Whiny. Endlessly aggrieved. That's the core of it all.

Biden proposed this idea, and Harris endorsed it, too. Congress would have to pass the law, though, so candidates for Congress should be pushing this as well. Here's more info: END/ abovethelaw.com/2023/07/dont...

Dems running for Congress and POTUS must run on Supreme Court reform. A law forcing justices into senior status after 18 years, applicable to the current bench would do the trick. That would force Roberts, Alito, and Thomas into senior status, opening three seats to be filled immediately. 1/

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

The new passports are crazy y'all

Like I said: the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. The most important form of free speech, is the right to vote. Racists don't want Black people to vote. So they wrote down a plan to stack the Supreme Court with people that would make it harder for Black people to vote. It worked

ostracization SOUNDS like it's the process of slowly being turned into an ostrich, but it really just means being excluded from a group. i guess there's two types of ostracization and only one of them is good. qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Once again in danger of snapping, grabbing someone who wants to gut some great Midwestern flagship, or public universities generally, and shaking them till their teeth fall out while shouting “WHY DO YOU THINK ANYONE OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY HAS HEARD OF YOUR STATE”

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥

John Arbuthnot baptised #OTD 1667 (d 27 Feb 1735) ‘Physitian in Ordinary’ to Queen Anne, he developed the first formal significance test of ‘the Exacte Ballance’ of human sex ratios at birth with 82 years of data 1/5 🧵

Is it good when a literal king has to remind Americans that even his monarchy finds all of this groveling a little gross?

Another indictment today of a villain in RW narratives, far less well known than Comey. It does make the Biden pre-emptive pardon of Dr. Fauci look prudent.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

This administration is making health scientists a non-sustainable career. #NIH #academicmedicine

I assume the reason that the entire GOP is slavishly pushing the ballroom nonsense is not that they agree that the ballroom is actually important but they understand Trump is flailing and needs a win, even a pathetic one.

Who is responsible for the dramatic increase in violence and dehumanizing rhetoric in American politics since Donald Trump started running for president in June 2015? Who could it be? It really is a mystery.

All the official WH/GOP accounts are pumping out collective-guilt propaganda blaming Dems/the Left for last night’s incident

So this never happened. The Iranians were saying yesterday this was not going to happen. The Trump WH put out more happy talk on Friday which was dutifully reported by their favorite stenographers in the media, who do this every week. bsky.app/profile/atru...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Apr 24, 1620 John Graunt born in London, England 🇬🇧 1662: His "Natural and Political Observations.." is considered the founding text of both statistics and demography Connor: J. Med. Biog. (2022) bit.ly/43ZdEc0

Here's a #statsmeme I sometimes use to talk about simplistic, uncritical outlier rejection rules But there's another size of the coin: Sometimes the unusual data is a true discovery

Years from now when your loved ones are dying or bankrupted by the results of this…remember who did it and who enabled it

A great chance to discuss new methods, share perspectives and stay current with emerging research. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Register here: bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Happy birthday to the Library of Congress! President John Adams signed legislation 226 years ago today-Apr. 24, 1800-appropriating $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress.” Image: modern reading room in Library of Congress’s Thomas Jefferson Building. LOC photo.

can we impeach someone for crimes against math

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

I just stumbled across this. Warning: it may require deep breathing to get through. The fact that Bhattacharya continues to tout academic freedom after censoring people, science and projects at both NIH and CDC is wildly absurd. His hypocrisy is astounding. 🧵1/? today.usc.edu/nih-director...

Extractive oligarchy has captured our society and is leading us towards the brink. Taxing wealth is essential, but we must also close the loopholes that let the ultra-rich defer taxes on the wealth they hoard away. Stop the flow of dynastic wealth at its source.

What I really needed right now was a giant omniscient machine intelligence second-guessing me.

Musk and Zuck and Thiel and Altman and the rest are some of the unhappiest people to ever live, and they all seem willing to destroy the world in their search for just a moment of contentment. Not great for the rest of us.

While Ohioans are hurting, Jon Husted voted 4 times to continue this reckless war in Iran.