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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu struck a defiant tone in her prepared remarks for a House hearing on immigration enforcement, defending the city’s approach and criticizing the Trump administration’s push to deport undocumented immigrants. Follow live updates: trib.al/3dfcDru

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

No, Democrats, these little auction signs aren't it. You're acting like Wes Anderson characters who don't understand that they're in a Tarantino movie.

submitted 91 days ago • 168 comments

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq

submitted 91 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 91 days ago • 10 comments

I’m headed to a corn and soybean farm in Cannon Falls to hear about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Minnesota farmers.   Farming is a tough job, and it certainly isn’t made any easier by two out-of-touch billionaires cutting off economic opportunities.

submitted 91 days ago • 260 comments

Thank you, Bernie, for standing up and speaking up.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I went to Boston yesterday to give a talk about forgotten airborne science that took place there 90 years ago. Thanks to the Harvard Crimson for this story about how this lost science links tightly to bird flu, NIH cuts, and other current news. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

Some encouraging research on antibiotics for Gram-negative bugs.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone remember Chris Mooney's book, The Republican War on Science, published in 2006? Why is anyone surprised that there are outbreaks of measles, climate change denialism, etc.? Erasing scientific literacy has been a longtime goal of the far-right, and it sure is working!

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