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"If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived."

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

submitted 13 days ago • 51 comments

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

submitted 123 days ago • 18 comments

US Court of International Trade has issued unanimous ruling in case against Trump “liberation day” tariffs ruling also covers case filed by 12 states led by Oregon All tariffs invalidated as beyond scope of executive power; implementation blocked by permanent injunction, per @ilyasomin.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 91 comments

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 60 days ago • 866 comments

reading @leahlitman.bsky.social’s great new book and really struck (as i sometimes am) by the fact that antonin scalia was just a run of the mill gutter bigot

submitted 9 days ago • 204 comments

Trump said this past week that Musk was “a big-time drug addict” which raises the somewhat awkward question of WHY HE GAVE HIM THE KEYS TO THE ENTIRE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

This is how they see ‘the West’. A member of the Heterodox Academy put this up on screen at ARC ‘25. If you squint, you can see Foucault and some drag artists in the picture.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

Health experts came out with a new analysis yesterday concluding the MAGA murder budget will lead to 51,000 preventable deaths from its health care cuts - every single year.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

An inspiring story: U Mich president withdraws his signature on a letter defending academic freedom because he wants to leave and get paid to join Ron DeSantis's war on higher education, and then doesn't get the Florida job because he supports vaccination www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/haha...

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Trans hero

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 587 comments

I can't get over the AI 2027 thing. I reread it this morning, and realized that one of the underlying assumptions is that 'if we run an LLM on a big enough data cluster, it'll somehow develop goal-directed learning, metacognition, and independent innovation, instead of being autocorrect writ large"

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

This is (the science equivalent of) hallowed ground. Should be a national monument (and still a center for continuing research). www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

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The thing to remember about Andrew Cuomo's breakfast order is that he resigned the governorship in disgrace after being credibly accused of sexually harassing at least 11 women with unwanted groping, kissing and sexual comments

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www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Karoline Leavitt said the Trump regime is pushing for the trades while defunding Harvard. Now, they’re defunding Job Corps. They aren’t advocating for trades people. They want uneducated folks with no skills to work for any wage and any condition www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

I was part of the construction team for the Job Corps center outside Manchester, NH. If it comes to pass that this program is killed and that facility closes, it will be another real personal punch in the gut to see something I put my hands on to make possible destroyed - destroyed for no reason.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

From the New York Times, a 5 part podcast ignoring their own role in fomenting a moral panic targeting trans youth.

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

Good to see the NYT still has some columnists objecting to their own paper’s attempt to help Musk launder his image. But: If a somewhat functioning democratic system is to ever again emerge from this mess, reputational damage won’t do. Musk needs to be held accountable in a court of law.

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 10 days ago • 187 comments

Again, authoritarianism as a component of capitalism is about shifting from a society of relative privilege to one where it becomes normal that people will needlessly die, that to protest or speak out means risking death or imprisonment. This has been building for decades.

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submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

no it’s actually because of the slavery

submitted 8 days ago • 777 comments

Scientists on the run again? dst.at/cartoons @derstandard.at @cartoonmovement.com #science #USA #Musk #Trump #freedom #Liberty #cartoon #satire

submitted 96 days ago • 12 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 10 days ago • 463 comments

As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

submitted 11 days ago • 104 comments

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

submitted 11 days ago • 98 comments

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

submitted 9 days ago • 850 comments

What's a pyrocumulonimbus? There was an outbreak of them across northern Alberta on Thursday evening. Check it out 👇 badweatherkyle.com/pyrocumuloni...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

If you text the word "resist" to the number 50409, @resist.bot will quickly & efficiently walk you through the process of writing your senators & rep all at once & send the text to them as an email for free. Do it this way if you don't like to make phone calls. I just did it in less than 3 minutes.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment