To writers who use AI even just for research, I strongly recommend reading the @authorsguild.org guide: "AI Best Practices For Authors" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... (via @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social buff.ly/IblvLDa)

Ya. That was a wink and a nod from Trump to Xi.

I hope someone is making them aware of his rap sheet: www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/

This was always a potential outcome, not because the VA court is acting out of partisanship, but because VA previously banned partisan gerrymandering and it has a complex process for constitutional amendments.

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Thread.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

To seek out or hide from sunlight, chloroplasts can move. Their optimized packing helps them photosynthesize while avoiding sun damage. www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-m...

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

Don't worry, nobody has ever gone wrong arguing from personal incredulity

Medicare. MEDICARE. He thinks your meemaw should be down in the mines.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

Kagan is right. The Roberts Court has demolished the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that ended Jim Crow restrictions & restored democracy to the South. 1/

"Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."

"It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives…

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in

Next Mon I have to give a presentation about my year of learning about AI, and I am not sure the admin at my school are ready for how negative it's going to be. "I learned a lot this year, and I went from being mildly annoyed by AI to thinking it is the oncoming apocalypse and must be destroyed."

i hate that these people keep making me say (relatively) positive things about bush but i think its so stark how will ferrell literally made his career shitting on bush and bush never called for snl to be canceled over it

In addition to continually getting cheaper, solar panels are also continually getting better, along pretty much every dimension. Even efficiency -- squeezed by decades of research -- is still rising:

oh COME ON

see also: the 35 years and $32 billion in funding of basic research that gave us mRNA vaccines

Beautiful.

At 33 points, Trump’s approval rating is official lower than his felony count.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

I implore the people of the US to really understand what is happening here—and I know that most people reading this do. But this isn’t “routine”. Coupled with RFK Jr. saying to Congress that immigrants are to blame for U.S. infectious disease outbreaks, we are in a dangerous situation.

This action should be raising alarm bells across the country. It’s not an annoyance. It’s a willful and malicious action to deprive the people of the United States of critical health information in order to prop up a government disinformation campaign against vaccines.

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

This isn’t a scientific debate. This is government censorship. This is Lysenkoism, as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social pointed out last year. And this will not end well. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

yiiiikes

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump. – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living. apnorc.org/projects/few...

Because you always want to make sure your troops might be incapacitated with a preventable illness in the middle of a war…

and often there just isn’t a simple, just-so story to tell

it’s not that the broad center-left/democratic party is blameless or that the political right is never reacting to changes/provocations or the like, but that victory and defeat, success and failure are shaped by actors on both sides, as well as broad forces and the contingency of human events

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients. The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war. If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.

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