Anyone not running on reforming the Supreme Court cant be the leader of anything moving forward. It's an unhinged gang of extremists unrestrained by anything or anyone.

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

pandering to trump's election denialism is such a sure sign that the person is a fucking worm

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

A court that was merely conservative, even pretty hardline conservative, would look a lot different from a court of sloppy partisan Republicans playing Calvinball. The latter is what we have even if that works out to only being a 90% rubber stamp for Trump instead of literally 100%.

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

There is literally nothing Biden could've said that would be crazier, more hateful and more indicative of severe dementia than what Trump posts hourly on social media

Ossoff: While the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself. While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold. Where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick…

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

It's been over seven months now and they still haven't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

This is the era of grifters attacking scientists, mediocrities attacking experts, and the most objectively loathsome men in the history of loathsome men attacking the ones who are fundamentally decent. Total moral/intellectual inversion.

In an unlikely, unwalkable city, two cultures came together, united by the beautiful game.

Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Touch the reflecting pool: criminal. Attack police for Trump: hero patriot and pardoned.

They know they'll never get a conviction. They don't care because *the process is the punishment.*

Yes, idiotic and laughable. Still, deploying the military in service of the Leader’s pet projects is also a marker of authoritarianism.

The great axiom of the second Trump term will be "Had he just done nothing, everything would be so much better." nod to @asharangappa.bsky.social

ah a classic post from the man i’m told was a patriot who loved all americans

congratulations to trump for signing and celebrating an agreement that contained a central condition he has no real power to satisfy, instantly validating the exercise of leverage against him. art of the deal

There are going to be people, years from now, that will look you dead in the eye and tell you Trump wasn't as bad as you said he was because things like this ultimately ended up getting stopped

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

The key to Trump is that he is faithless, totally devoid of principle. When he finds himself on the losing team his FIRST instinct is to switch sides. That’s why it’s perfectly predictable that after losing a war with Iran, he’d team up with their regime to sell out everyone else.

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

For all of the folks who looked at US foreign policy and thought, "this is easy, any idiot could do better" - any idiot has now tried and it turns out that, no, they didn't do any better. Although I'm excited to see how the populists attribute this to the establishment over the next few years.

Just a friendly reminder. If the US had taken only a small fraction of the money and military equipment it has squandered fighting and losing to Iran, and instead helped Ukraine, the Middle East would be more stable and Russia would be facing defeat.

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

The utter failure of this war - and the surrender document Trump just signed - was completely predictable. This war was unwinnable and that's why so many of us opposed it from the start.

There is, literally, always a tweet.

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

I have read and reread the US-Iran draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) supposed to be signed on June 19. It looks as if the Iranians formulated their most outlandish wishlist & Trump just approved it. /1

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

This is a good point. The oligarchs, who if anything had it pretty easy under democracy, have thrown us to the fascist wolves. And they had another option. Let's remember that when reconstruction time arrives.

March 1: White House says it attacked Iran to "destroy its ballistic missile arsenal." June 17: Trump says it's "unfair" if Iran doesn't have ballistic missiles 🤷‍♂️

I don't know if any sitting president has ever said such a ghoulish thing about being responsible for a strike that killed over 100 kids.

"Corruption and the destruction of our governing institutions are not separate from cost of living. Corruption and government lawlessness are a tax on everyday Americans." My latest w/ @shikhadalmia.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net :

These are all amazing, but the Ted Cruz one is perfection.

I’ll say it again: The folks in our public life most vocally obsessed with the idea of masculinity all very conspicuously act like an adolescent boy’s idea of a man, not an actual grown ass man.

"An Entire Civilization Will Die Tonight" is going to be eagerly memoryholed by Trump's enablers in the media and hawks in the Democratic party and I propose: not letting them do that.

This Reflecting Pool fiasco is just a step or two away from becoming the perfect metaphor for this administration's entire approach to science washingtonian.com/2026/06/16/n...

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

They hate gender studies for the same reason they hate legitimate journalism: They don’t like people pointing out what they’re doing.

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

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“Conservative evangelicals” talk all the time about the need to speak out on moral issues. Yet when they had a once in a lifetime chance to show that their values mattered more than their political allegiance, they resoundingly failed the test. Makes it hard to believe anything they say now.