‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center

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Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

BREAKING: Die Rede von Michel Friedman ist jetzt in voller Länge online! Es ist die Rede seines Lebens. Er will etwas zum Leuchten bringen: die Demokratie als Schutzraum für alle Menschen. Die AfD will die zentrale Lehre aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg brechen. Unbedingt anschauen!

Incarcerated members of the LGBTQ community already face heightened risks for physical and sexual violence, and this directive to disregard the law will only put them further at risk. Human rights don't end at the prison walls.

Trump triple le coût d’entrée des parcs nationaux pour les touristes internationaux, à 250 dollars

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Les pays de l’UE doivent reconnaître un mariage entre personnes de même sexe conclu dans un autre pays

Remembering actor, writer, critic, personality, gay icon, and raconteur QUENTIN CRISP (The Naked Civil Servant, Orlando, How to Have a Lifestyle, Resident Alien) on the anniversary of his death in 1999. More 👇

My favorite moon landing conspiracy is that it was faked but they hired Stanley Kubrick to direct it and he was so dedicated to make it look real he demanded that they shoot on location.

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/af...

#OPENACCESS: Variational calculus approach to Zernike polynomials with application to FCS. Ivan Gligonov and Jörg Enderlein.

Eine beeindruckende Reportage über die hässliche Fratze der deutschen Abschiebepolitik. Entmenschlichung, deutsche Tradition seit mehr als 100 Jahren. Das ist nicht Vergangenheitspolitik, sondern deren Wiederholung... www.kn-online.de/lokales/sege...

There is virtually no doubt that global warming has made Hurricane Melissa as strong as it is.

Ich habe gerade für den NoAfD-Fond gespendet, der mithelfen soll, im nächsten Jahr rechtsextreme AfD-Regierungen bei den Landtagswahlen in Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern zu verhindern. Politischer Widerstand braucht leider auch Geld. aktion.campact.de/s/empf1/lc

Commentary by @needhibhalla.bsky.social et al. on the recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research. Data show that diversity in the science increases creativity & success in tackling challenging problems. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meine Frau @vbohrnmena.bsky.social wird mit Vergewaltigung bedroht. Nicht zum ersten Mal, aber diesmal sehr explizit. Die Polizei würde gerne mehr helfen, aber darf nicht. Weil die Staatsanwaltschaft nicht ermitteln lassen möchte. Hier könnt Ihr mehr dazu lesen: steady.page/de/bohrnundm...

It's funny cause it's true

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103.

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

An AP investigation found that more than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses this year, part of a campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law. https://to.pbs.org/43dxCkD

🔴 Ein Tornado im Großraum Paris! Mindestens ein toter Mensch und mehrere Schwerverletzte bei einem Tornado im Val-d'Oise im Norden von Paris. In der Klimakrise nehmen Extremwetter-Ereignisse immer mehr zu. Die Klimakrise ist jetzt.

Nachtrag: Ursprung und Chronologie einer Radikalisierung.

The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious. Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy. 1/ 🧪#NoKings

Wer wirklich glaubt, dass Merz' Bemerkung zum Stadtbild ein Versehen war, sollte sich diesen Clip aus seiner Rede vom 15.10.2000 in einem Kaufhaus in Neukölln anhören.

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

After Trump directive, Florida removed rainbow crosswalk that honors the 49 people killed at Pulse. Demand the crosswalk be restored and protected! Sign now! a.allout.org/s/P8Egz/

Die Anstalt deckt das Olligopol auf: VW, BMW, Mercedes - 3 Chefs mit dem Namen Olli, die Stütze in Milliardenhöhe suchen, weil sie den Anschluss verpasst haben. Es passt so gut zur aktuellen Debatte 👏

For the first time, Webb catches the before and after of a supernova It's a new era for studying dying stars.

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”. The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

“The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

This is the way www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Just waiting now on the new Washington Post opinion pieces "Why the Nazis weren't so bad" and "Democracy? It's overrated"

Bei kaum einem Thema ist die Debatte von der Realität so abgekoppelt wie beim Bürgergeld. Immer wieder stellen Politiker*innen fast aller Parteien in Talkshows das Bürgergeld als ein Riesenproblem dar und fantasieren wahnwitzige Einsparungen herbei. #skytok @skylight.social

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was * cancelled * #antifa #HigherEd #fascism #research www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The tomb of Robert Badinter was desecrated in Bagneux, just hours before his entry into the Panthéon. He was the driving force behind the abolition of the death penalty in France and decriminalization of homosexuality. www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Canada vs. America

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

still death penalty in most muslim countries for homosexuality and prison in nearly all muslim countries.... open yours eyes Miguel Tio - The ultimate penalty - 2005

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My very dear Jochen Guck, has just passed away and yet I cannot believe it 🥹 Jochen is one of the most brilliant scientist I had ever met, a human being with unlimited qualities, brave and caring, positive (always) and full of ressources, helpful and with - always - the best advices.

Exciting news for #drosophila #connectomics and #neuroscience enthusiasts: the Drosophila male central nervous system connectome is now live for exploration. Find out more at the landing page hosted by our Janelia FlyEM collaborators www.janelia.org/project-team....

#Mifobio2025 Focus on the module 5: 👉 Physical measurements, control and handling -Mechanobiology We are delighted to welcome Professor @salaita.bsky.social @salaitalab.bsky.social Lecture - “May the Force Be Measured : mechano probes reveal the molecular forces generated by cell #GDRimabio

I am super excited to announce that we have a tenure-track faculty position in biophysics open in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon! 🧪 Interfolio link: apply.interfolio.com/174360 PLEASE, share widely across the blue skies! Let me briefly explain what we're looking for: 1/10