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Again, folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst & most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well 👇🤷‍♂️ If a Democrat tried this, the impeachment/removal would already have happened

Dr Mike telling it... "For the sake of our children, frontline health workers, scientists, and every family that deserves accurate healthcare guidance, we must demand his immediate resignation." #RFKMustGo #StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience youtu.be/i0q_Oj425cU?...

this looks like what they put you in before they drown you for being a witch

Look I’m not saying Ro Khanna is a plant working to sabotage the party from the inside I am just asking what he would be doing differently if he WERE

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

This is corrupt. We all know that. So...why can't people -- msm -- say it? www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

Random question from a convo earlier: What is Santorini's source of fresh water? ⚒️

These two orders combine to provide DOGE with both access to extremely sensitive information and protections against accountability. 1. Access: bsky.app/profile/chri...

95% of hEDS patients are misdiagnosed with a psychiatric disorder per new research Among 429 patients, 405 (94.4%) were misdiagnosed — only 24 (5.6%) were not misdiagnosed with psychiatric illnesses Medicine has a major psych bias problem www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/12...

So to review: 1. He never should have been deported. The admin admitted that. 2. The admin said he was an MS-13 member and also they couldn’t get him back. They lied. 3. They are now charging him with a crime that they did not mention until literally now.

BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives block discovery relating to DOGE as part of a lawsuit over public records requests into the entity. The action was taken over the objections of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson.

I'm starting to think elected Democrats may not be the most morally consistent bunch

Lucre is the leading promoter of the "Mike Obama" conspiracy theory (alleging that Michelle Obama was born a man and the Obama kids aren't hers). He also regularly alleges that the Clintons and Obamas are responsible for numerous murders. A fawning media story about him is deplorable.

'The US health care system was deliberately built this way. Insurers profit from obscurity. Politicians reap campaign contributions and avoid blame. Patients – especially the uninsured and underinsured – are left to make impossible choices.' #ChangeTheSystem! theconversation.com/us-health-ca...

Although many hoped otherwise, we do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets. Every election is now existential www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I fixed it for the NYT. “Dom Lucre makes 5-figures spreading emotionally-activating lies that cause great personal harm while advancing the anti-institutional, fascistic politics today’s oligarchs cynically use to eviscerate institutions like the NYT as well as middle class people like him.”

When we make life better for poor people, everyone's quality of life improves. When we make life worse for poor people, everyone else suffers too. Cruelty is self-defeating.

this!!!! it may be hard for some to accept that the government could be this cruel (especially when they've largely had positive interactions with law enforcement) but federal agents are, in fact, the one terrorizing immigrant communities right now.

“Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems…The UC system is the state’s third largest employer, and both systems are major engines of research…”

If a Democratic president cut off one of the red states dependent on federal funding, it would be a political scandal. But cutting off California -- the single biggest "donor state" in the nation, one that sends in to the fed'l gov't ~$80 billion more than it gets back -- is straight-up theft.

100% this. Anyone who's (unfortunately) been up close to someone with severe narcissism issues knew all along that this was always how their relationship was going to end. Neither of them have enough impulse control to be carrying out any sort of clever scheme here. It's just two asshats scuffling.

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“The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.” One dollar. I had a dollar! craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

WHAT? Home sewing, aside from being out of style, is seen as women's business, it's not considered to be important. But these patterns comprise a cultural, business, and a technological heritage. The patterns with the business records should be held by the Library of Congress or Smithsonian.

I’m joining the war on woke… on the side of woke, and this is the general I’m serving under. Super inspired by this project!

OTD 45 yrs ago at 1:38 P.M.—for the second time in three days—a faulty 46¢ circuit in a NORAD communications multiplexer generated false warnings of a Soviet nuclear attack: 2,000 inbound ICBMs on SAC displays and 2,020 at the ANMCC/Site R. SAC ordered all alert bomber crews to start their engines.

I honestly don’t know how any party that accepts this — and not saying the dems have — can ever again be competitive enough to overcome gerrymandering and voter inertia. The man did a Nazi salute. What are we doing here??

I'm not sure I've ever seen so many layers in a single tweet.

What is stunning to me are the number of people in the replies saying that because the driver was old he should not face consequences for killing a child with a car, and I remain absolutely boggled at how car-brained our society is that there’s a defense of letting this person continue to drive

15th-century astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, printer-publisher Johannes Müller, aka Regiomontanus, was born 6 June 1436 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/t...

THIS IS EUGENICS. www.thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-says-p...

Elon Musk is calling for Donald Trump to be impeached. Donald Trump is calling for Elon Musk to be deported. Both sides have a point.

We, as scientists, should really lean into threats of villainy (in the form of things conservatives don't like) in response to the proposed funding cuts. "No funding? Well, guess I'll have to go develop more addictive algorithms for social media companies. Or create more unnatural food additives"

This is a funnier internet beef than the billionaires fighting

decent chance Trump gets to tweet “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW” at Elon

This is me, and yet also I’m going to bed bc I’m working in the wrong time zone! 😭 I hope there’s still schadenfreude & popcorn in the morning???

Ima be real. I don’t think Trump has the balls to order the hit on Elon.

Been loving the NYT live updates as our nation’s two biggest 🤡 🤡 throw pies at each other.

just leaving this here www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

this

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…