“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.” 👏👏👏

THIS IS THE ACA EXCHANGE SYSTEM YALL MOTHERFUCKERS FORCED ONTO US INSTEAD OF A PUBLIC OPTION

MAGA coalition must be in shambles huh

The Trump admin submitted a sworn declaration under oath that Costa Rica had changed its mind and would no longer take Mr. Abrego. Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.

The 5th circuit so fucking online jfc

Do you think this ERO guy realizes he was "promoted" in order to be scapegoated and hung out to dry by his superiors?

You voted for it??? Were you in a fugue state? Do you know where you are right now?

JFC they still haven't been able to produce the final order of removal? The people working on the 3rd country removal haven't even seen it? What the fuck is happening at DHS?

The alleged Kirk murderer isn't even left-wing! He's a terminally online white Mormon kid grown up in right-wing gun culture!

I thought we all decided after Kirk's murder that political violence is bad?

What additional briefing is necessary? The indictment was never presented to the grand jury. There's no true bill. Dismiss the charges.

I mean, the judge is gonna just dismiss by end of day then right? If the charges filed weren't voted out by the grand jury then there's no true bill.

Exactly how many times can Witkoff re-heat the exact same DOA maximalist demands from Putin and think they can just strongarm Zelensky into surrendering? Will the 12th time be the charm?

The only way we get out from under gerrymandering is to make the consequences of political gerrymandering so painful for Republicans that they agree to ban it at the national level. Democrats need to internalize that the only stimulus Republican pols and voters respond to is pain.

Can confirm the job centers in the suburbs thing. I'm in a big pharma biotech lab-based role so I get maybe one day a week working from home, 4-5 days onsite. Our lab sites are all located in the suburbs, and I live downtown in a major I95 city doing at 40 min reverse commute.

New to me and interesting: DARPA goal is satellites in the 100-200km range that 'harvest' the thin atmosphere, ionize the molecules, and accelerate them out electrically to create a bit of thrust to counter the drag. Like xenon ion thrusters, but self fueling.

I'm sorry but if you try to use an LLM to do your taxes you deserve all the pain coming to you when it fucks everything up.

TBC prepatch jan 13, get those PTO requests in boys

Wait Toys R Us retail stores exist again?

It's always the ones you most suspect

Having email conversations with Epstein about Lolita and My Antonia in 2018 is.....a choice

Guess we're shutting down again in January. Great job Tim Kaine.

He's looking and sounding like death warmed over in these afternoon pressers. They really gotta move them to the evenings like his AF1 gaggles where he's acting like he's on uppers if they wanna squash the rumors of him dying from congestive heart failure.

Whip counted a veto-proof majority and Trump had to pivot on Sunday.

Lololol Halligan filed a different indictment from the one presented to the grand jury. This is so egregious even the Florida Bar Association might have to sanction her. Comey is going to win such a big lawsuit her grandchildren are going to be getting garnished

@runforsomething.net @amandalitman.bsky.social wonder if state bar association elections are on your radar?

Her editor must hate her living guts lmao

@miawong.bsky.social KMT continues to be in the bag for Beijing sigh

Fantastic viral epidemiology reporting

The new "I can't release my tax returns, I'm under an IRS audit"

So, I guess I just wonder why they think lying about prices will work for them when they took advantage firsthand of the electorate not believing Biden's claims about economic strength

6/🧵 Why does conventional wisdom miss this? We confuse electoral swings with attitude changes. Gen Z shifted 6 points toward Trump in 2024, suddenly pundits say they're "the most conservative generation in 50 years." Only 42% of Gen Z voted. We mistake turnout shifts for ideological transformation.

They put the casino on the phones and people stopped going to the casino. Who could've seen this coming???

Why is the felon currently incarcerated in federal prison allowed to tweet?

The Roberts Court deciding that law doesn’t apply to the president, at least this one, even when he’s out of office, was a bad idea. They should not have done that. It has had foreseeable negative consequences. They should have gone with the Constitution and over two centuries of precedent instead.

Any Dem presidential hopefuls need to come out from the blocks with a policy that all Trump hires after the Schedule F changes will be terminated on Jan 21, the original Schedule F rules will be re-implemented, and anyone who wants to is welcome to re-apply.

Guess we're not letting up on the gas on the MTG feud.

MTG jumping ship is the canary in the coal mine they know this whole admin is going to be untouchable radiation by 2028

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

12 million people is 0.25% of the population. Claiming that migrants have anything to do with housing unaffordability is laughable.

Dear Texas A&M students (and alumni): every hiring manager will now be looking sideways at your resume, and questioning your skills & education by association with A&M. Your degree just lost a ton of value. Call your alma mater and tell them how you feel about that.

Memerson out here memeing again.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME BLUESKY

And the counterargument to this is that you're fucking awful at politics Angus: if Republicans really wanted to do those things they could get 50 votes to abolish the filibuster to do them any time they want!

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

This is gonna wind up with Halligan DQ'd, the charges thrown out w/o prejudice, and Blanche or Bondi having to go back to a grand jury personally because nobody more junior than them will put their license on the line to do it. Odds another grand jury would even return a true bill? Low imo.