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Science communicator, museum worker and lifelong learner. Views are my own. I have nothing important to say. Expect high doses of science, nerd, pop culture and useless opinions. Also a dad. Oh shit, who let me do this?
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It's June 1 and my heat is still on. This weather is madness.

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

trump's department of homeland security has thus far arrested: a judge a democratic mayor a democratic congresswoman now handcuffing a democratic congressional staffer gothamist.com/news/homelan...

WHY IS IT STILL RAINING!?!

With all due respect to op, in comradely critique, what we see here is that they are facing mass spontaneous resistance to their raids and they need crowd control techniques and tear gas to even do what they want to do. This is a video of increasingly effective resistance, not total police control

Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio) playing drums for the new Yellowcard album is a vibe. Kind of here for it. I love all the new albums coming out from early 00s emo and punk bands. We need it.

Ms Rachel said actually no I will not shut up

The fact that the U.S. is turning inward and potentially set to decimate the science from its own space program while China is offering up its recently returned lunar samples for researchers around the world to analyze speaks volumes as to how the tides of science are going to shift.

They truly do not value people. Human beings to them are commodities to be utilized and discarded.

Analytically this has been our most popular episode on YouTube. BECAUSE it’s true. Everybody hates Elon. Elon Musk Is a Lying About Leaving | TMT #129 youtu.be/bAvmKtwL2Xw

HE’S LYING! But keep printing whatever his PR team is putting out. That didn’t kill hundreds of thousands of people before.

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

Ignoring the first amendment is totally OK because don't worry, it's their religion and it's fine for that one to be forced on people.

This isn’t about ensuring history is “based on facts.” It’s about making sure history aligns with this administration’s narrative. The Trump administration has ordered every national park to post signs encouraging visitors to report anything

I will need to turn my heat on again later. Are we sure it's nearly June?

In a world of Pollocks, my child is a Rothko. 🎨 Zoey's canvas after a paint splatter party. No splatter, all painterly color field. 🎨

Every country in the world who has spent decades inching us away from this impending disaster should isolate the US in trade, partnership or anything else. Leave us behind. Take this for what it is, an attack on the health and wellness of the planet and every human on it.

I love a good chili dog with mustard. The Michigan should be my #1. It's just that I've had a Seattle and they are incredible. People look at me funny here for even knowing it's a thing.

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Elon Musk called empathy a “weakness” of Western civilization. But philosophers argue the opposite: empathy is a hard-won form of knowledge — and essential for understanding others and making informed decisions buff.ly/WTS28lC #PhilSky

The ICE detention center trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were officially dropped this afternoon during a hearing in which a federal judge scolded prosecutors for nearly 10 minutes. Story: newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ju...

Just utter lawlessness from the Trump Administration, with no goal other than to punish institutions for refusing to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

The House budget is a health care cataclysm for America. 15 million Americans will lose their health care. That's the total combined population of: West Virginia Hawaii New Hampshire Wyoming Vermont DC Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Rhode Island Montana Maine

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.

I am appalled by the killing of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington last night and grateful for the quick response from law enforcement. We must all absolutely condemn this heinous act. Violence must have no place in politics.

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Department of Education and ordered the administration to reinstate employees fired in a mass termination. This can't happen without cnogressional approval, she ruled. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I go to Gen Con every year. Great convention once you get how the event works. Highly recommended if you're really into to table top gaming. Its a bit of a pain in the ass to plan for if you havent done it before.