tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

This is just corrupt as fuck, obvious as hell, and any republican who wouldn’t impeach and remove Trump for it should be tarred and feathered have rotten fruit thrown at them. And that’s the moderate position.

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

Here's a tip for all press photographers from one content creator to another: when you're photographing these thugs, attach an action cam to your cold shoe (i.e. the top of the camera); you need video of their atrocities too.

Gee, maybe allowing our privacy to be burned to ash was a bad idea.

“.. Since I retired, I often wondered what would happen to ‘60 Minutes,’” Steve Kroft, the former longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent, told me Thursday. “But I never expected it would be executed by the President of the United States.” @oliverdarcy.bsky.social

“I am not asking you to sit here through late nights to vote on these bills that we’re dragging out,” said state Sen. Megan Hunt as a GOP colleague complained about a missed family event. “I’m asking you to love your family more than you hate mine.” www.commondreams.org/news/nebrask...

Anne Applebaum exposes how the #TrumpCrimeFamily is trampling on the constitution and breaking our institutions all while they loot the treasury and set themselves up to trade on stocks that the government is doing business with. Come November vote every Republican out.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

EPB: “.. Real personal income per capita is falling apart. .. It's now $3,842 below the 2009-2020 trend and accelerating lower.”

Notably, while The NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Guardian, NBC, AP, etc covered Bari Weiss blowing up "60 Minutes" today, one major outlet did not: CNN. The network—on the brink of being taken over by David Ellison—did not mention it once on air or online.

This carefully worded statement is consistent with subsequent reporting that Boutros is actually investigating Reid Hoffman’s charity.

The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out: “The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying.”

Damn.

This is the fucker whose putatively anti-AI book has a bunch of AI-hallucinated quotes. So in addition for not speaking for me as a writer in any way whatsoever he's a sad piece of shit projecting his own weakness and ineptness on others. bsky.app/profile/jonb...

Trump may not have attended his son's wedding, but now we know his wedding present: $600 million of your tax dollars to one of his companies. The Trump family grift knows no bounds, and neither should our resolve to stop it. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Follow this: First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock. Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.” Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” the person said.  About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: “I think Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General we've had in my lifetime.”

"Talarico is a vegan." "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Uh, well, Talarico says God is nonbinary or something?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Um, Talarico is, uh, low T?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Talarico is going to institute sharia law!" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile."

The conduct of US Attorney Andrew Boutros in the Broadview Six case has raised serious concerns about the integrity of the office he leads. Prosecutorial credibility is based on public trust — and Boutros has shattered that trust. He should resign.

/2 Federal perjury investigations for testimony in civil cases are incredibly rare. Nearly unheard of. And I have absolutely never heard of one launched against the prevailing party in a case. Wanton and open corruption.

Worth noting that the possible perjury is NOT about the substance of either of the cases E. Jean Carroll won against Trump. The only issue is whether Carroll knew who was funding her attorneys. This doesn’t dispute that Trump is a rapist. Or that he defamed Carroll. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”

my god

As someone who has been working in government benefit agencies for 15 years, the technical legal term for this is "lying horseshit." Cc: @donmoyn.bsky.social , @pamherd.bsky.social and all their hard work on administrative burdens.

This was shortly after she took Ken back and supported him during his impeachment trial where one of the charges was that someone his office was investigating got the case dropped after he remodeled Ken’s other mistresses’ kitchen. Ken started a new affair not long after.

can some body with wikipedia access replace the official ted cruz photo with this one

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Going to the hospital to pick up someone after an ER visit and some utter moron makes a U-turn on the highway. Apparently I should be dropping off instead.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

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Taking the L … And Trump’s Long Iran Walk Into the Twilight talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/takin...

It does not diminish in the slightest the sacrifice of those who volunteered, or were drafted, to serve our country, to acknowledge that these two also sought to defend our country, and without recompense.

President Trump is seeking to create state-by-state citizenship lists, saying they are necessary to block noncitizens from voting, a virtually nonexistent issue that the president has described as widespread despite his own administration’s inability to substantiate the claim. Here's what to know.

Also, that choice of color on that body shape just screams Grimace.

Here is the article. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.

1) None of these states, especially Saudi, will sign onto the Abraham Accords until/unless there’s actual progress for the Palestinians. Not because the leaders actually care, but because enough of their subjects do. You want to see the Ikhwan go after MBS, have him sign the Abraham Accords. 1/

We haven't had to fire any shots so it's not obvious but a blockade of this magnitude would generally be considered an act of war. We did not do this in the 1962 missile crisis, we allowed ships not carrying weapons to proceed to Cuba

Having vigorous disagreements is not the only valuable kind of socializing, nor is it the only way to learn anything. Hope this helps.

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social — maybe an update to Mandatorily Requesting Hat?

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.