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there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT

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Arizona’s public lands are unmatched—deserts, forests, mountains, canyons. They belong to all of us. But Republicans want to sell them off to private buyers to fund tax breaks for Trump’s billionaire buddies. We can’t let that happen. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-wh...

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It's a joke that Alex Garland's "Civil War" pits California and Texas against a Trump stand-in, but given the way I've seen east coast folk talk about Mike Lee's bill to plunder the entire American west, it does seem that Lee & the Admin is facing opposition from every mountain west constituency

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BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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AOC files articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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That is a shocking drop, and if it's in any way indicative of drops in other types of activity, it represents a massive impediment to the very function of LA—or any city. Fundamentally, the power of a city arises from people getting out and doing, whether it's work, socializing, or anything else.

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honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

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Important to point out: this deployment isn’t just unnecessary, it’s expensive. That’s the equivalent of funding 50 NIH R01 grants for cancer, Alzheimer’s, or pain research.🧐 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

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It's really easy to be negative about social media - the platforms deserve every bit of criticism they get - but I've met so many truly lovely, wonderful, interesting, mind-expanding people through Twitter, Instagram, and now Bluesky.

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Also the thing about quoting Lyman Stone as a "pro-natalist" is he's on record saying he'd prefer the world end in nuclear conflagration if the alternative is China winning a war over Taiwan, so his promotion of the well being of families comes with some thermonuclear caveats.

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Leading economists argue that Zohran Mamdani's mayoral platform is a bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most urgent challenges—above all, the cost of living.

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One of many reasons the “we need to sell federal lands to improve home affordability” gambit is failing politically is that there’s already 50% tariffs on steel and the Trump admin is prepping tariffs on lumber too—it’s clear they don’t actually care about construction costs!

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Worry about falling birthrates invariably fails to acknowledge the single greatest decline (drastic reduction in teen pregnancy rates) or make the case for how to boost birthrates beyond reproductive coercion. We can & should ease burdens of choosing to parent w/o expectation of birthrate increase.

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Harry Enten: "I think we can say Donald Trump has lost the political battle when it comes to what has happened in Los Angeles. Trump's net approval rating on LA - way, way underwater at -15 points... this is happening on what should be on Donald Trump's best issue ... he's losing on his core issue"

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A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

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June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org

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If he wins, people are not prepared for just how unpopular Andrew Cuomo will be and how quickly it will happen. There's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse, not among the billionaire class, but among regular people who weren't paying attention. Kinda like what happened with Trump!

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"By formalizing political control over agency science, the EO institutionalizes a 'doubt science' approach to shaping policy." Important new op-ed in @science.org from @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social and @progressivereform.bsky.social schola Wendy Wagner www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Failing and flailing lame duck

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ENTEN: “.. Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue.” @cnn.com

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It's not even THAT HOT, you spoiled beast

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Thank you, Justice Jackson. Textualists claim their methodology constrains them. But it doesn't meaningfully do so.

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Not the only thing to bear in mind here but endorsing a known sexual harasser sends an awful message to your own staff and everyone else who works in Congress and in the party.

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The Economist has a new state-by-state estimate of Trump’s approval out this week (built in small part on a MRP model I wrote while I worked there). Trump is underwater in 15 states he won in 2024, including: WI -8 MI -8 PA -7 NV -5 GA -4 NC -4 AZ -4 www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...

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Steve Woloshin has for years taught journalists how to read and interpret scientific studies accurately. Ironic to see one of his own papers is mis-cited and misrepresented in the MAHA report on the health of children. www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/m...

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The Democratic Party is in open warfare against its own relevance and yet every day we're fed a stream of columns and podcasts about how it's really the fault of trans people and immigrants

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I have a letter to the editor in today's @wsj.com about how the collusive lawsuit DOJ filed (and quickly settled) in Texas effectively blocking in-state tuition benefits for Dreamers is even more disturbing than the WSJ Editorial Board already made it out to be: www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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The growing politicization of vaccines isn't going to serve the United States well, six former #ACIP chairs warn in an opinion piece in @statnews.com. The result will be more illness and deaths from preventable diseases & an erosion of #pandemic preparedness. www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/a...

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Nicole Verdun, director of the office that reviews cell and gene therapies at the Food and Drug Administration, and her deputy Rachael Anatol have been placed on administrative leave and escorted out of the agency. www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/t...

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I’m thrilled to have been selected as an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, along with my wonderful #PMB colleague @doctheagrif.bsky.social Excited for what’s to come - we’re just getting started! 🚀 @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucd-physiology.bsky.social health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

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Democratic voters, 18-39 Biggest gap between young Dems' prioritization of an issue and their belief that the party is also prioritizing it: Limiting money in politics: +18 Paid family leave: +18 Affordable child care: +17 Higher taxes on the rich: +17 Universal health care: +15

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Almost a quarter of light-duty vehicles sold in the US this spring were “new energy” in one form or another—read the full article by clicking the link in the comment to Chartbook Top Link.

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Cuomo Super PAC now running ads quoting the NY Times non-endorsement to attack Mamdani.

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‘Throwing us off a cliff': Megabill could derail hundreds of planned clean energy projects www.politico.com/news/2025/06... POLITICO analysis: 794 planned clean electricity generation facilities — 3/4 in GOP districts — that could lose subsidies under the House bill. The Senate is debating changes.

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DHS agents at the Rose Bowl shuttle bus stop before the PSG-Botafogo Club World Cup game

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Wanted - help identifying this strange thing found in Aspen, CO. Found by a high school friend of mine who says she "Found it outside on the concrete slab below our garage door in Aspen."

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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obvi not the main point but “Zohran does not own a car” is one of the reasons people like him more than the guy from the suburbs who keeps speeding in school zones

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Happy Juneteenth

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One year ago, biopharmaceutical executives and investors at the BIO International Convention were abuzz with talk of a return to the glory days when companies were regularly acquired for billions of dollars a pop. 🧵

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Intra-phage immunity: Set a (pro)phage to catch a phage: @fnobrega.bsky.social highlights work screening temperate phages for defenses against other temperate phages, uncovering array of prophage-encoded immune systems in E. coli. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

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Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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the mafia was the original woke mob

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@saramostafavi.bsky.social (@Genentech) & I (@Stanford) r excited to announce co-advised postdoc positions for candidates with deep expertise in ML for bio (especially sequence to function models, causal perturbational models & single cell models). See details below. Pls RT 1/

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So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later. Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

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Barbara Lee's successor, Lateefah Simon, announced yesterday she's signing on to cosponsor a bipartisan resolution (introduced by Massie and Khanna) directing the president to remove U.S. armed forces from Iran under the War Powers Resolution. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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