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Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

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An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

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Hahahahaha oh no xkcd is roasting us xkcd.com/3103/

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BREAKING: The American Bar Association has sued the Trump administration on behalf of its members to put an end to Donald Trump's law firm intimidation project, calling Trump's efforts "unprecedented and uniquely dangerous to the rule of law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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TOI-3884 b is a planet around an M dwarf whose transits show persistent spot crossings. We show that the star's rotational and spot-crossing variations can be modeled with a misaligned planet transiting a large polar spot (confirming last week's results from Mori et al.) arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998

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The Los Angeles Press Club says law enforcement officers have violated press freedoms of reporters covering anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles more than three dozen times. https://n.pr/3Zw0tPg

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“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard so many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

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Molly made a good video looking into the sources used for this article youtu.be/qYkRSITTHpo

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Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 4 days ago • 1097 comments

perfectunion Industry analysts worry these digital labels will let companies raise prices at a moment’s notice, making greater profits off essential items at the grocery store.

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

mood

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Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

submitted 4 days ago • 180 comments

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses. #NoKings

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ICE is going to parks in Los Angeles and kidnapping nannies who are caring for small children The children are witnessing these kidnappings and being held in custody until their parents are contacted Women and children in parks

submitted 4 days ago • 305 comments

Respond to this ever-metastasizing bastardization of the American project with the "someone is wrong on the internet" energy it deserves, godammit.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

the clear message of this administration is that if your city or state didn’t vote for Donald Trump you do not have the right to self-governance and that will be enforced by the United States military we know what they are

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

My new paper with Emma Miles is out, which shows how giant planets beyond the snow line can scatter material to inner planets as a function of multiplicity and eccentricity, and the potential influence on terrestrial planet volatile inventories. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08088

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 7 days ago • 312 comments

Trump's apocalyptic NASA budget request in 7 scary charts, put together by The Planetary Society: www.planetary.org/articles/nas...

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HUGE MEDIA NEWS: POLITICO is launching a new spin-off publication, POLITICO Weimar! If you sign up now, each morning you can get its “Reich Chancellery Playbook” newsletter delivered to your inbox as a bonus!!

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

submitted 7 days ago • 718 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 8 days ago • 1033 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 8 days ago • 581 comments

All we want is healthcare.

submitted 10 days ago • 733 comments

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

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cute! (from arxiv.org/abs/2506.01634)

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Oh man, you guys. This is so important. Drosophila have led to so much in terms of what we understand about how genes work.

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Tapping the sign

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Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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This afternoon Yao Tang will be defending his PhD at UC Santa Cruz on the physics of the mass loss and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets. Yao has flown a little under the radar so far, but he is an exceptional physicist who is doing amazing science. A few main findings of his work:

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Very honored to receive the Pastoor Schmeits prize for Astronomy research in The Netherlands 😊!! Thanks to my group and all the amazing collaborators that helped me to do incredible research these last years 😊😊😊

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-house-...

submitted 26 days ago • 93 comments

👋 HI. HELLO. This is fascism. Hope that helps!

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

submitted 27 days ago • 34 comments

MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

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"Judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release Rumeysa Ozturk a Tufts University student whose sudden arrest in March led to a public outcry" Judge Sessions: “These are very substantial claims of both due process and first amendment violations" h/t @garygrumbach.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 45 days ago • 249 comments

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

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