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The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

The "Trump derangement syndrome" heuristic is so strong. You'd obviously get a weeks-long outrage if Biden's WH did a "King Joe" meme, but the response here will be "of course the loony TDS left is going crazy about this funny joke."

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Believe people when they tell you who they are. Democratic governors need to get tight with their state's National Guard leaders, the party needs to form a shadow government and people need to get mentally prepared. We all sound like lunatic preppers, but Trump isn't joking.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

submitted 3 days ago • 603 comments

Senators can, at any time, tell Trump he has exceeded his power. Instead, they have conceded their power, turning themselves into beggars. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Bacterial Virulence study section which was supposed to be held in person today was first moved to zoom and then canceled 2h before it was supposed to start. It’s true - NIH study sections are not happening.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

If you're going to read one thing today it needs to be this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

I don't know if I'll ever get over the fact that the US threw away 8 decades of postwar prosperity for literally nothing at all, just the whims of a madman, with no benefit to the country in any way whatsoever. Destroying our relationships with all of our allies to absolutely no purpose.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Resigning now will be less humiliating than losing your primary by 20 points to a political novice who simply makes it clear that they’ll actually fight for us.

submitted 5 days ago • 45 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

Still no SS meetings being posted to the Federal Register. www.federalregister.gov/documents/se...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 6 days ago • 382 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5670 comments

No one could’ve predicted that Trump would so many of the things that he said he would do.

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Found this sign I made in my office 8 years ago. Wish it didn't feel so relevant right now

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

seems fitting

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life

submitted 24 days ago • 387 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

submitted 8 days ago • 107 comments

I can’t say I’ve thought about inflation that much since the US Attorney in the district you and I both live in had to resign because the President wanted to make a corrupt deal with the Mayor, backed by the threat of a dangling DOJ prosecution, to terrorize immigrants and people of color here.

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

let's not all rush at once to congratulate RFK Jr on the confirmation

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

all this because they couldn't handle a black president.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Measles and Bird Flu for their big win today!

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

a student in my office saw my pearl jam and foo fighters concert posters and said "oh I like classic rock too" and I died inside

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

we're at the extra-constitutional prison camp stage, for those keeping track at home

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

CORRUPTION: Musk is abusing his position to block investigations into his own corporations⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 134 comments

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending. The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump." These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

In case you wondered if Republicans would ever grow a spine, the answer is a resounding no.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fuckwits like Little Marco are worse than the "true believers". He knows damn well how dangerous and wrong this all is and goes along for the ride for power and money.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

How does the Super Bowl have a marching band pregame show and college football doesn't

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

‘Corporate and educational leaders must not put on a demure face and stay silent while civil society is undermined by the diktat of executive orders. We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance.’

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

submitted 14 days ago • 349 comments

universities need to understand, no matter how much complying in advance they do, the trump dictatorship is still coming for them.

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submitted 15 days ago • 183 comments

When all of these institutions give up these programs without any fight, I think we have to consider the possibility that they didn't really want to do them in the first place...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The Trump Administration's list of censored scientific terms that get NSF grant proposals flagged contains "women” and “female”, but no mention of “men” or “male.” There is “black” and “indigenous” on this list, but no “white.” The only identity not censored is mine. youtu.be/dHXbpj1Z3UU

submitted 15 days ago • 56 comments