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mcaswell.bsky.social
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 2 days ago • 457 comments

This has to stop. Has to.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

I am at a global health conference this week. I do not think Americans fully understand the degree of harm we have done to our international reputation and to our ability to wield soft power for decades to come.

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Taking credit for other people’s work is par for the course.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Pam Bondi says they have an "anti-semitism task force." Trump's recent "whoever pays the most gets to come" dinner included spopel who had bitcoins named "fuck the Jews." Task force?

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

In some ways an even worse indictment than the use of AI is that simply having a couple of humans read and fact check the report before release cld have mostly or entirely removed the evidence. Just sloppy dumbfucks, basically. The guys who are getting rid of all the vaccines.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Oh

submitted 3 days ago • 1084 comments

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

submitted 4 days ago • 561 comments

Unconscionable.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When you hear Trump regime officials and GOP members of Congress slam the rulings of "unelected judges," please understand that is their way of saying they reject the US Constitution and want Trump as King.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Analysis by Glenn Kessler: There is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over how many people have died. But you can’t call it a lie.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

This is Sumter Bourg, my mother’s high school sweetheart and first husband. I honor him for his service.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

submitted 7 days ago • 110 comments

Horrifying. Netanyahu is a war criminal.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“.. the most brazen use of government office in American history, perhaps eclipsing even Teapot Dome, Watergate .. “.. ‘I’ve been watching and writing about corruption for 50 years, and my head is still spinning’ ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 176 comments

This is amazing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is revolting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

As Budget Chair I got constant Republican lectures to ignore looming climate disaster because of the debt. “The debt, the debt, the DEBT!!” Now they’re in charge and they’re hiking debt limit $4 trillion for tax breaks, mostly to the richest. What a sham.

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

I loathe GenAI. Useless, insulting drivel that’s poisoning the internet ( it’s gotten so much harder to find useful info) and is destroying the environment.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: The Senate parliamentarian advised lawmakers that they couldn't use the Congressional Review Act to revoke California's right to set vehicle standards. But they did it anyway. Expect a legal fight.

submitted 11 days ago • 372 comments

Truth.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The rest of us give a fuck. A big one.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“Another is simply the N-word.” Right this way to dinner with the president, sir!

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 10 days ago • 167 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 11 days ago • 80 comments

Members of the military who oppose fascism, Please keep this phone number where you can find it.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Hypocrites.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

👇🎯 It is also, again, a government that would steal elections in 2026/28

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 10 days ago • 416 comments

What ethics? This administration has none.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Corruption

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Criminal corruption

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Save Social Security and Medicaid.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

We are in an authoritarian state.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Oh fuck all the way off. I want Covid boosters. I want ALL the vaccines.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Go to indivisible.org to find the Sat., June 14, "No Kings" protest near you! It's the day of Trump's taxpayer funded birthday parade.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

submitted 12 days ago • 223 comments