There is no valid position that is "My opponents are a bunch of heartless psychos that starve children for fun but also I think they are fundamentally legitimate rulers who should not be removed from office and thrown in prison."

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

“Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects, the former senior official said, ‘which is in itself appalling.’”

Marisa Kabas wrote a great article recently about the people affected by SNAP's funding. I suggest people read it and then decide what things they are confident letting others sacrifice for.

I am just going to reiterate this is why it is so important to make sure that when something needs to be done, such as removing this fascist regime, you need to just directly call for what you want and explain why. Because politics is power. And this affects millions if not billions of lives.

We're letting Trump build an army of secret police and install troops in every city and make Musk a trillionaire, but we might temporarily extend some healthcare benefits

Remove the regime.

So, uh, what exactly is our defense posture? Does anyone know what our China policy is? Will we have any generals to implement it?

“Mr. Hegseth’s moves have fed the impression that there are pro-Trump and anti-Trump generals, officials said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

I just cannot get over how many lives these powerful assholes are ruining to give themselves the courage we literally pay them to have.

I sent my former boss an email about how farcical this shutdown is and how she is violating her oath. She knows.

It really wasn't that politically costly to call for Trump's removal on day one. Instead every single senator voted to make Marco Rubio Secretary of State and immediately started fast tracking all his nominees and his agenda like fucking cowards.

I am certain there are tons of people in the Congress right now who are doing all these elaborate games to force Trump's removal and are waiting till people are five steps away from armed revolt to "heroically" save the day and to them I say go fuck yourself.

This is genuinely nuts. They have convinced themselves that polls says talking about immigration is bad. The "polls" they are reading says it is bad because they are taking money from the people profiting from mass deportation.

This line is what everyone needs to listen to when your members of congress try to gaslight you with nonsense.

He also shifted staff resources away from other things and started war-gaming an impeachment fight. But sure, say again this doesn't do anything. No one likes their bosses threatening to fire them.

"Oh we don't have the votes, impeachment won't do anything". Literally a single member of Congress introduced impeachment articles in late April and it freaked out Trump so much he made a rapid shift towards the midterms, miscalculated, and got Brian Kemp to announce he wasn't running for Senate.

Folks, this could not be more obvious. Impeachment is the bare minimum and none of these people are going to like what comes after they removed the only legal mechanism to remove a child rapist, fascist, insurrectionist man-child that they all helped install.

I don't have time to do it but if I listed out all the insane things this Congress has done because of fear of having to work Fridays, there would be mass revolts in the street within hours.

People are literally getting kidnapped and tortured because of Congress's inaction and these people are complaining about having to work a long weekend.

My experience with Congress taught me why shorter work weeks are so important because these people so furiously defend their relaxation time that they will literally ruin the lives of millions of people to avoid working Fridays.

So amazingly, the impeachment movement is blowing up massively and there is going to be a huge rally on the national mall to push for it. Dropkick Murphys are going to be there! You should come!

Trump's secret police in action.

Maaaaaany graduate students at CSHL have stories. I'll send them your way. I tweeted once about him and was immediately called out by our PR. They sat me down and told me they knew he was problematic but that he brought in too much donor money for us to say anything bad about him.

If you have a James Watson story you'd like to share with me, DM me here or msg me on signal, dsamorod.25

We are in the midst of an all-out attempt to exclude the global majority from science. Watson was clear about where he fell on that. I would trade every single dinner, meeting, seminar, fancy campus, and prestigious donor for my incredible friends to be safer. Their science is worth far more.

And in fact, there are very visible and extremely influential movements happening *right now* directly making our colleagues less safe, and people like my wife and I less safe in science, because of this man bsky.app/profile/mich...

When I was a postdoc, CSHL held a Burns poetry night, which Watson attended. I did a dramatic reading of Ice Ice Baby. I hope he found it deeply offensive, and that the graduate students (many of whom he told didn't belong there) found it at least mildly entertaining. This is a good day for CSHL.

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

He is literally passing as a conservative. I am dead, y’all,

I had actually been reading his Master’s Thesis, because hedoes a good job of tracing naming practices amongst enslaved Americans. Literally, I had no idea it was the same guy, until I read Freeman’s article. DUDE, HAS A PH.D IN WOKE BLACK HISTORY, and is running around erasing it.

Funny but true: The President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, wrote his PH.D on enslaved African Americans in Louisiana. Indeed, his master’s thesis was entitled, African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms Among Slaves in Virginia, 1740–1870.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

NYT: Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 By Alex Williams Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music. Gift link1

Because of Trump, my state ID no longer matches any federal records, and I cannot change those. My passport expired years ago. I am, nominally, an American citizen, but I can't get on a plane for even a domestic flight; if I left the country on foot I could not reenter. *The cruelty is the point*

Watson was the only biologist, having received his PhD in genetics with Salvador Luria. He did not know much crystallography or biochemistry, but he knew the literature and latest experiments about the likely nature of the genetic material. He was convinced that it was DNA (and not protein). 13/41

Bluetorial-Jim Watson I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions. What follows is my personal perspective. 1/41

Wait until Axios finds out who Jesus hung out with. :)

After housing markets near universities, the biggest reason that the grad/postdoc union movement exists is because of men like him.

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday

Your regular reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from Trump to torture/GWB to Iran-Contra to Watergate to EO9066 all the way back to 1865 - is because there are never any consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics.

I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.

So CO₂ is not plant food after all? Sad.

Republicans (shrieking): STOP OPPRESSING CHRISTIANS WE ARE SO PERSECUTED WE JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO PRAY IN PUBLIC WITHOUT YOUR SCORN Also Republicans:

1/2 ICE/CPB thugs tackled a nonverbal autistic man outside a Family Dollar in Chicago’s Little Village claiming he was “noncompliant.” Witnesses begged them to stop. “Why they beating up this special boy?” one worker cried. “He comes in every day for a treat. He has the mind of a child.” 🤬🤬🤬

It's not even strictly partisan, Democrats who suck up to him can get in on it too (Blagojevich did, good chance Menendez will). No need for any pretense a prosecution was flawed in some way. It's official policy that Trump just straight-up hates the idea corruption should be illegal and punished.

Watch to the end