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Important thread. What it does. What it doesn't.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

There are real, loyal, committed US civil servants whose lives are being upended by the Republicans and the administration without even vague assurances they will be made whole. The principles are out of control, and the Republican Congress has collapsed into complicity.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

In just 16 days, NIH has shifted from actively including folks to expressly, explicitly & openly violating the constitution & anti-discrimination laws. I have no doubt there’ll be an injunction—but undoubtedly they’ve already marked all the apps that hadn’t been disqualified based on race & gender

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

If you're in DC today, here's a place to be at 4:00 OM.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This is the exact proper and correct response. Murphy is an exemplary leader at a time when Dems seem rudderless.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The thing about the Colombia, Mexico, and Canada traffic posturing is that if Trump is going to back off when countries do what they were already doing and claim victory to prop up his flaccid ego, then maybe that will be a vector of humiliation and national degradation but not total economic ruin.

submitted 46 days ago • 68 comments

Follow these folks. They're doing the hard work of democracy and leading by example.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 48 days ago • 726 comments

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

submitted 48 days ago • 8640 comments

It’s a major surprise to me that this is the first time it’s happened. The methodology in defining a top scientist was to look at the authors of the most cited papers in 129 scientific journals. Since 2020, the number of U.S. top scientists has declined by 14% while it’s up by 77% in China.

submitted 48 days ago • 192 comments