Trump isn’t delivering on affordability or healthcare & keeps enriching himself through corruption That’s why the American people are rejecting him He was elected to serve the public, not his own interests I explained on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social👇

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

Is Nicki Minaj the new Kanye?

The Constitution is being shredded by this president and his Project 2025 team now in the White House- from abolishing agencies created by Congress, to seizing spending power, to accepting bribes (emoluments), to war and tariffs without Congress. We must not normalize this.

So 100 years or so of being screwed for basic healthcare. Why do people accept it? No other country in the world bankrupts its citizens for being sick or injured. Life in the USA honestly seems like a nightmare to me.

Of all the statues, why this one?

Google Scholar is loading up with AI hallucinations - does this mean we need to limit ourselves to Scopus (or another library based citation system) for future P&T assessments?

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

If we're going to put his name on something, shouldn't it be a thing he has built (not a thing he is actively destroying)? Some possible candidates: Trump's Alligator Alcatraz The Donald J. Trump ICE Squad The Donald J. Trump Immigrant Detention Center The Donald J. Trump Citizen Detention Center

Gutting research funds to American universities while sending $1.6 million to quacks in Denmark to experiment on vulnerable populations in Guinea-Bissau. RFK Jr really delivering on that America First agenda!

Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.

almost to a student, they reported regular use of AI systems—even the students most loudly and vocally "anti" AI had carved out exceptions—to paint with too broad a brush, students saw their own use of AI as considered, moderate, & defensible while other people’s was lazy, dangerous, condemnable+

NSF bio hour - NSF BIO lost 40% of its staff 😑

Charities are rewriting their mission statements to remove or minimize language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities. Great nonprofit data reporting from @emsimani.bsky.social, gorgeous design by @zisiga.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/dele...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Asa former PO, I can say this level of workload & responsibility would have had me running for the hills. I can't imagine many rotaters nor permanent employees want this & the ones that do want this are definitely NOT the type of scientists you want with this amount of control/power.

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

A cheaper option would be non-gendered toilets, with locks. If we are going to waste time & money on non-issues, let's at least land on cost effective solutions that work for everyone. But of course, this isn't about a real problem or real solutions - it's fear mongering and misogyny.

Their petty outrage continually furthers my education on all sorts of topics! No one talked about CRT 6 yrs ago - now people defend it. I’ve learned tons abt trans medical care bc of their hatred. I had no idea the Calibri default was bc of accessibility. Now I’ll use it more intentionally!!!

In South Korea, my social media feed is packed with 🇨🇦 “come work in Canada” “we want you here” adverts 🇨🇦

While simultaneously waging war domestically on immigrants, science, public health, research, higher education, and facts!

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.

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Unfortunately, our reactive solutions dependent on mutual aid, religious orgs, charity & local efforts reinforces the GOP agenda to destroy federal govn't & national standards for education, healthcare, food assistance, housing, product safety etc. This loss of trust will not be easy to repair.

I get that these super rich dudes don't pump their own gas, or care about what these everyday things cost for their fellow Americans. But regardless of who buys your bananas or pumps your gas, surely he has a smart phone and could look up the price of gas before spouting off absolute nonsense...

Did they learn this from Turning Point’s Professor Watchlist?

What, only 3 years? What happens in years 4 and 5 and 6? Is Northwestern then free to compete for federal research & development funds based on merit alone? Or will Northwestern payments then go straight to the Trump library/foundation, instead of the federal government?

SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership. All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:

DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2

Immigrant doctors, immigrant teachers, immigrant engineers, immigrant farm workers, immigrant restaurant owners, landscapers, scientists, students, computer scientists, nurses, construction workers… Immigrants are the backbone of our workforce, our economy, and our future!

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The 2025 US State Department setting criteria for assessing human rights violations in other countries is laughable

NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.

NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

It's wild that even Mohammed bin Salman is like "can you just allow me to answer", b/c Trump is unprofessional, unhinged, wildly inappropriate - and like 10 words away from claiming credit for it.

Will he welcome them like he welcomed the Korean workers at the Hyundai plant in Georgia in Sept?

There are so many people working in so many places who are quietly watching this corruption cross their desks daily, but so few willing to do what prison nurse Noella Turnage just did by sharing the receipts and accepting the consequences. What an absolute hero www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...

All these victims could have been interviewed last week, last month, last spring, last year. The media, in addition to hoards of political and legal actors, is also responsible for this story taking so long to reach this point

"He will continue teaching" tells you just how much Harvard cares for its students. What's the point of being the most elite university in the U.S. if you cannot quickly jettison bad actors and replace them with superstars?

1. No one stood up to him 2. No one stood up for her 3. If they had pushed back, he would have gotten aggressively out of control & produced an even better story for them These self-serving sycophants are bad humans and bad at the job

How is it that Harvard students and faculty aren’t in the quad protesting & demanding his firing / resignation? Undergraduates currently enrolled in his classes could & should massively disrupt campus on Monday.

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

"Homeland security investigators worked approximately 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases from February through April compared to their average in prior years" A tragic shift with real consequences - just one horrifying example:

This is my hope for the post-Trump/Miller/Vought federal reconstruction!

OMG the public libraries in San Diego are NOT open on Sundays!!!!

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Would love to see MTG do a round of talks about how when she was spouting off right wing nonsense, lefties criticized her but left her alone. The second she pisses off the right wing - death threats. Who’s the party of violence?