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Does anybody know anything about this? www.cape.co

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French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

submitted 23 days ago • 109 comments

Trump and Musk are going after Columbia for "antisemitism" and Hopkins for "DEI" and Penn for "trans spts". Why those issues? Because this is the start of an authoritarian soft takeover of ALL universities. Those issues are just politically convenient because they draw some support from Dems. 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

One of the hardest things about being a progressive in 2025 is not realizing that certain people you love would have been Nazis in the 1940s, but that they would have been one of the German citizens who had to be dragged to the concentration camps before they believed the Nazis had been that bad.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating that someone as single-mindedly power hungry as Gavin Newsom was incapable of recognizing that he COULD have become an extremely powerful anti-Trump warlord almost instantly if he’d gone hard in that direction. Instead, he irretrievably shot himself in the dick by starting a podcast.

submitted 24 days ago • 127 comments

Should be a clear lesson from reconstruction, imo

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 23 days ago • 83 comments

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

submitted 25 days ago • 644 comments

That is exactly the right take. Advocating for things like Universal Healthcare (aka, everyone getting to benefit from our labor) is critical to regain public trust in our guild.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States. International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise. Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 25 days ago • 43 comments

Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to. That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

republicans are treating blue cities and states like we're conquered territory to be plundered and destroyed. looted. it's an intolerable situation and the idea that any democrats are willing to vote for this is outrageous.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

She doesn't mention cloture specifically. But I think it's clear what Pelosi is saying here. And I think her saying it is a pretty big deal.

submitted 28 days ago • 368 comments

serious answer: the sabotage of reconstruction

submitted 29 days ago • 38 comments

Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.

submitted 28 days ago • 67 comments

Awesome to see my good friend & amazing scientist Jeff Dangl share with Jonathan Jones and Brian Staskawicz the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for their pioneering work on plant disease resistance 🧪1/n wolffund.org.il/jeffery-l-da...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

When the occasion demands the Machiavellianism of a McConnell but all you have to offer is the ‘make nice’ of a Schumer Like I’ve said before… Disney characters who don’t know they’re trapped in a Tarantino film

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Note the HHS letterhead.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Out of genuine historical curiosity, what would happen if someone were to assassinate Chuck Schumer?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Actually take a breath. Get out of the headspace of the takes and the moment to moment villains and arguments. They have clearly demonstrated this is a fascist coup. Schumer is saying "we want to be part of this fascist government". Everything else is noise. They want a king too

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

This is 24 hours apart. Never forget this. They are liars. Their resistance is fake. They want to be powerless so they can reap the rewards of pretending to resist while risking nothing and attempting nothing. They are the reason the country is where it is and we won't be safe until they're gone.

submitted 28 days ago • 50 comments

in the united states of america you can choose between the party that wields power even when they haven’t won it and the party that refuses to wield power even when they have

submitted 148 days ago • 5 comments

It is time to get creative in torturing US Senators. They presumably go to restaurants, get on planes, go in and out of cars, and other tasks that leave them publicly available. Every minute of that (yes, even with their families) should be the greatest misery anyone has ever known without violence.

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.

submitted 28 days ago • 220 comments

i'll eat shit, i genuinely did not think schumer would force members of the caucus to go out on limbs for days and then fuck them, even if i think he makes good arguments for it. incredibly poor leadership, and i don't think he can lead the caucus, especially if we ever get the majority back.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Sen. Adam Schiff on the House-passed funding bill: "One thing is certain, if we pass this continuing resolution for the next half year, we will own what the president does. I am not willing to take ownership of that."

submitted 28 days ago • 106 comments

@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.

submitted 28 days ago • 961 comments

this is what they may say in a matter of months in order to enact a ban on federal funding from going to anyone who provides gender affirming care — hospitals, doctors, insurers.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE. To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

in the runup to the Ukraine war, US conservatives were jacking themselves off to footage of Russian VDV guys doing hand to hand combat. Then 90% of those guys were wiped out in the first day of the war because it turns out hand to hand combat isn't very important if they shoot your helicopter down

submitted 58 days ago • 34 comments

I fixed NSF's flowchart...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 59 days ago • 201 comments

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This is really good.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you for putting this together.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

genuinely incredible that it's this high when the media most centrists and liberals consume is still insisting on "wow! nation amazed by the manly muscular moves of musk's team of geniuses" with "nerd scolds warn trump's moves may violate protocol" on A17

submitted 61 days ago • 78 comments

1000%. There is no one coming to the rescue except ourselves. I did something unique this week but i didn't do it alone and i was guided by the knowledge (however terrifying) that no one else was going to act if I didn't and so i did everything in my power to stop the biggest of the crises

submitted 62 days ago • 17 comments

Great post by former HHS General Counsel @sbagen.bsky.social — a must-follow on our current predicament and a must-contact for journos writing about Trump health moves such as this one, NIH’s effort to slash allowable “indirect costs” on grant awards. I have two further thoughts below. 🧵

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

💪

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

"One cannot turn back the clock but one can move it forward."

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

People sitting in these study sections - ask why these applications are being taken out? If provided no answer by the SRO, ask bluntly if these applicants are being taken out on the basis of their race. If no answer, refuse to move forward with the review until an answer is provided...

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Yes. "Anti-DEI" is just another word for segregation. I hope that programs, schools, and PIs at my school and elsewhere will stand up for all their students with whatever power they have.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The key is that we don't all have to do the same things but we all have to do something, our part.

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