Elon Musk tops list of 2024 political donors, but five others gave more than $100 million • OpenSecrets www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/03...

Russian state media openly says what I and others warned about, which Trump/Vance/Musk and fans—along with Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, and their end of the horseshoe—get badly wrong: Russia is after conquest, not peace. US weakening Ukraine encourages more Russian attacks, not Russian negotiations.

We need to talk more about how people are violating oaths & about how the awful policy choices kill people. We spend far too much time dancing around these things out of norms of politeness that are simply no longer appropriate in the face of overt fascism & nihilistic destruction of state capacity.

The Boer Must Go

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

don’t let this coup happen while the world tells you “log off for your mental health." fascism takes hold when we sit idly by. instead, - protect vulnerable ppl - call/email reps (5 Calls app) - protest, demonstrate - organize w friends - scream online don't believe him; don't accept this. resist.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

“Systemic” has also been “forbidden” in grant applications by the “free speech” warriors.

Don’t let the media convince you that we’re not out there protesting. There were thousands of us out today in NYC.

Qui a ce discours, déjà, chez nous? "Si quelqu’un parle de « submersion migratoire » ou de « Grand Remplacement », « c’est un bon indice » qu’on a affaire à un discours d’extrême droite, dit Ruth Dassonneville, professeure de science po." www.lapresse.ca/contexte/l-a...

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

Republicans for much of 2024: "How DARE you call our candidate Mr Trump a fascist?" *President* Trump in 2025:

He's preparing to do something really bad.

In light of Trump II’s first 18 days of mayhem — including his and Musk’s coup against our system of government — many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list, in rough order of importance.

Who wants to be the 51st version of this?

Congrats to rfk jr www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/t...

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

BREAKING: Over 500,000 Palestinians have returned to north Gaza in 72 hours, says Gaza’s Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n1pqhk

“Là où il y a pouvoir, il y a résistance” - Foucault dans La Volonté de savoir J’ai cette citation de tatouer sur la cheville depuis 15 ans.

Ain't nobody scared of dumbo jr.

This is what happens to trans women placed in men's prisons. They are subjected to daily horrific rapes and used as human chattel to pacify aggressive and violent inmates. It's called v coding.

AI apps like ChatGPT generate fake references to papers that don't exist. So, researchers at the University of Washington built OpenScholar. It's a large language model integrated with millions of research papers. And it's totally free. Here's how to use it:

This poster is from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Download and spread this image. We have to recognize these signs before it's too late.

Trump reinstated the global gag rule (aka the Mexico City Policy)—from now on, all overseas NGOs that receive US federal funds are banned from performing or counseling women about abortion But research shows that the gag rule is linked to an INCREASE in abortions www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

An unqualified former Fox host, accused in an affidavit of being "abusive" toward his second wife, of being perpetually drunk, and allegedly screaming "Kill all Muslims! Kill all Muslims!" just got confirmed as the US Defense Secretary (!) by a tie-break vote in the Senate.

And foreign assistance websites that held data on foreign aid have been down for a week it appears; including aidscape.usaid.gov and www.foreignassistance.gov

i genuinely wonder if a huge part of this is World War 2 slowly passing out out of living memory, so people don't get why the international global system exists

Listen up.

This level of wealth concentration is indefensible

It has been apparent for several months that the incoming Administration will order the mass seizure and removal of US citizens. When I pointed out this fact I was called alarmist.

A historic photo: The great Daraa, the cradle of the Syrian revolution.

No way 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We’ve heard of statues being destroyed or smashed, but sitting on them and tying them to a car? That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.

Let's make this clear: My mom's test results for nearly two years indicated possible cancer, but neither she nor her doctors knew this because of a private agreement between her insurer and pathologists to occasionally lie about abnormal or ambiguous test results and falsely report them as normal.

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

If you listen to Syrians, you'll see there is a huge focus on the prisons. Thousands of people are now being released from these slaughter houses, some of them had been there since 1982. #Syria

Assad statues are being toppled. People are dancing in the streets.

"Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 [air pollution] fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people."

Here’s video of an activists protesting at COP29 today. There’s something really sad about reading about the ‘dozens of activists protesting’ at COP29 vs the 100k plus we saw at earlier COPs when civil society was granted access to participate meaningfully.

Today marks 14 years since Tamir Rice was extrajudicially murdered. Thinking of him & also his sister, Tajai, who witnessed her brother's killing, was tackled & handcuffed by cops & deeply traumatized. Holding Tamir, Tajai & Samaria Rice today. Abolish the police. new.finalcall.com/2024/11/19/n...

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. -W.E.B. Du Bois

Same damn energy.

The ICC has finally issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity.

Global mean sea surface temperature anomalies (departure from average) so far this year ➡️ highest on record Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 averaged over January to October.

Family includes everyone! ❤️

Vaccines are one of the most important inventions humans have ever made. Period.

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪