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Funny thing about MAGA trolling w/ "we're a republic, not a democracy" is that "republic" just means we have elected representatives, not a king. Says nothing about the Electoral College. Funnier - they're now in service to a self-declared "king". Republicans are the least "republican" Americans.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 1 day ago • 163 comments

Attention all college/university administrators and general counsel: here, legal analysis grounding current diversity programs firmly in federal law, demonstrating the illegality of executive orders to the contrary. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The American right was always at real risk of turning into a personality cult, but you'd think they could've mustered the pride and self-respect to pick a less stupid personality.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 2 days ago • 261 comments

I'm at a Women & Engineering event at Washington University. Thanks to Dean Bobick for starting with a pledge that inclusion is a core value of Wash U, and that Wash U will not obey in advance.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

AHA Exec. Director Fish Stark will be a panelist on one of @americansunited.bsky.social’s SRF365 webinars on March 5 from 7:30-8:30 pm ET. The webinar will cover what's being done across the country to protect church-state separation & inclusive religious freedom. www.mobilize.us/srf/event/75...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Washington U. students are urging university leadership, especially the chancellor, to speak out forcefully and publicly against the Trump administration’s threats to research.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is a friend IRL. I initially thought that his plans to be out of the country were understandable but unlikely to be necessary. But I was wrong, and Ryan did the right thing to plan ahead and be prepared. This is not a safe country any more.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A sovereign democracy in Europe was invaded by Putin. His forces have inflicted immeasurable destruction, pain and deaths upon Ukraine and its people. The notion that Ukraine should surrender land or pay US ANYTHING for providing help for Ukraine to defend itself is obscene.

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

Fuck Putin. Fuck trump. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸.

submitted 4 days ago • 561 comments

And people who will happily pronounce it "jot" will _insist_ that "gif" has to be pronounced with a hard 'g' because of "graphics".

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Publicly abandoning American and Ukranian democracy on the same day.

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

I love that Judge Reyes is bring facts here. Way too many are assuming that the biology overview they learned in 3rd grade is all that anyone has ever learned.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Now with more complete alt text!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed private citizen with access to classified information, financial systems, and federal policy decisions—all while running companies that directly profit from government contracts. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

A John Mulaney sketch parody of Les Miz's "Confrontation". I... never knew what my life was missing before now.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This SNL "Nothing Compares 2 U" performance is a nice tribute to Sinead, I guess. But couldn't Lorne Michaels have done something like this to apologize for shunning her _before_ she died?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1539 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

Homemade Rotkohl, Spätzle, and Bretzeln with Senf. Thanks to Jennifer and Matthew for our sehr Deutsch dinner!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

absolutely so fucking mad that we're shredding Atlanticism, abandoning the Atlantic Charter, all for absolutely fucking nothing

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 509 comments

Getting my science on with evolutionary biologists @nshubin.bsky.social and Jonathan Lasos at @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

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