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I wrote about discovering my grandmother’s hair in Harvard’s Peabody Museum in The Trouble of Color. It still haunts me. I salute Tamara Lanier who persisted in her quest to win control of her ancestor’s images from the same museum — and prevailed! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/h...

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Say no to football stadiums, particularly football stadiums that aren't 100% privately funded. Bowser's plan is only a win for the team and her developer friends. It's a loss for the city and a loss for the local community. #washingtondc

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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 2 days ago • 762 comments

Star Wars opened today in 1977, I'm enormously fond of the first, terrible, trailer 20th Century Fox cut for it. They had no idea how to sell it, or faith in the project, and it it shows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5...

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

There's a great investigative piece - or book! - to be written about who is actually governing in this administration. Who writes the EOs, who decides when they go to Trump, etc. This is a reality TV show masquerading as a presidency.

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

submitted 6 days ago • 101 comments

well well well, if it isn't the thing everyone said would happen

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Astronomer and gay rights leader Frank Kameny was born 100 years ago today. His fight for justice helped foster change in and beyond STEM. doi.org/10.1063/pt.s... #HistSci #Physics #Astronomy

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NEW: Matt Kacsmaryk shouldn't be a judge. He doesn't want to be a judge. He wants to run a right-wing advocacy group. Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/matt-kacsm...

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Unless you're really into Red Scare history, I think its long timespan tends to mush together. Writing this post brought out for me the psychological importance of Condon being targeted in '47/48 while Oppenheimer was held in suspense until '54; and also how accusations could hibernate a long time.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 15 days ago • 488 comments

So whatever happens it will be important to remember that Trump tried to take a half billion dollar bribe in the form of a blinged out pimpmobile 747 from the princes who fund Hamas.

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

It’s not safe to swim in DC’s Rock Creek, but that didn’t stop Health Secretary RFK Jr. who went for a dip in the bacterial waters over the weekend.

submitted 16 days ago • 92 comments

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

submitted 16 days ago • 171 comments

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 1525 comments

I really believe that Katy Perry is 100% Carly Rae Jepsen's Wario, and the fact that Katy Perry is more popular proves we're in the bad timeline.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

It’s National Train Day! Check out our very FIRST Metrorail car. 🤩

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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

submitted 23 days ago • 265 comments

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has made it easy for you to reach out to your local representatives asking them to sign a bipartisan Congressional letter advocating for continued funding of NASA's science portfolio. aas.org/urge-nasa-supp…

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 249 comments

This is being circulated at #NASA regarding new performance evaluations to be done 4x a year. Note: "Faithful Support of Administration of the Law and the President's Policies" are Number 1 criteria for both SES & SL/ST NASA personnel.

submitted 27 days ago • 19 comments

ACAB but ICE are the worst keeptrack.substack.com/p/arrested-j...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Thom Tillis has said many different things that Trump has done or wanted to do have been bothersome. And then voted to support those actions anyway.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Taken by reddit user LokiDMV somewhere in NE DC yip yip yip yip yip yip yip

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This is an active current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

Busta Rhymes we once again should have heeded your wisdom

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

Can confirm: Just spoke to him, and Barber and two others were, in fact, arrested. Story coming.

submitted 30 days ago • 74 comments

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

submitted 56 days ago • 14 comments

Before April 22, I would not have believed a Supreme Court justice would flat out lie- but as the author of the children's book in question, I can confirm that he absolutely did. Thanks @jaywillis.net for reporting on this- more people should be.

submitted 30 days ago • 30 comments

The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

submitted 31 days ago • 94 comments

The judge appeared to have violated no law and did not impede ICE. This really feels like FBI was being used to intimidate judges.

submitted 32 days ago • 27 comments

I've been reading @xkcd.com for I forget how long and I'm not sure I've ever seen Randall get this explicitly political

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

submitted 33 days ago • 84 comments

Rewriting and hiding the history of minorities in a country is a hallmark of fascism

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

At some point in the not too distant future, some of these masked, plainclothes, refusing-to-identify-themselves, no-warrant-having ICE agents grabbing people off the street are going to run into a "good guy with a gun" and it's going to go really poorly for everyone involved

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of Hubble's launch with a data visualization that charts the positions in the sky of the Hubble Space Telescope’s plethora of cosmic targets. 🔭⚛️ #Hubble35

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Ed Martin is a threat to the ability of DC's local court system to function

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

submitted 34 days ago • 47 comments

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 35 days ago • 827 comments

This Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day, friends. 👇

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment