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Scientist watching the world burn from Tahoe. PhD in neuro stuff from Cal. NIH alum. Retired I guess. Have MS and at war with my brain in general. Weather obsessed. Creators, I want to see your creations! Alt text if possible plz! #WxSky #SciSky #ArtSky
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NASA SVS is the source of one of my favorite movies to show students how CO₂ moves around the atmosphere. Tell NASA how important it is to keep this and other materials accessible. 👇🏻 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30515/

I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.

We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @vanhollen.senate.gov

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

If the little community counterdisinfo school I'm teaching for can say "No" to multiple letters from the State Dept. demanding lists of student names and class materials, which we did, then COLUMBIA sure as fuck could have

“Home-growns are next.” I feel sick.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

How long, in minutes, would it have taken the GOP to introduce articles of impeachment against Clinton, Obama, or Biden if they had said they were going to ship American citizens to a prison in El Salvador? 15? Less?

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

What remains when courts no longer carry weight, when moral appeals drown in the applause of power, when a man vanishes in the name of political expediency? Then the rule of law dies, not with a bang, but with a handshake. Say his name…Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Trump's actions (and inaction) in the Abrego Garcia case shock the conscience of former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy of the National Review Institute and contributing editor to the National Review. www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/what...

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Just me, looking out the window with my bird monocular, trying to read the words written in the seal on the unfamiliar SUV and companion car with flashing lights. Gas company. Should have guessed. White SUVs. Yup, totally a thing I've always done. Maybe I should worry more about why they are there?

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Just. Don't. Go.

The US: HAHAHA Xi is portrayed as Winnie-the-Pooh Trump: We're respected again. Check back in 5 min for huge tariff changes. Xi: You are small and unserious and worthless, we will form alliances across the globe and oh, screw your econ in the process. US: Look at this Pooh Bear pic. OMGLOLROFL

I found out last night that one of my neighbors died a few weeks ago. He was forced into early retirement by DOGE & the stress of having to get all the right paperwork back to them on a short & inconsistent time line spiked his BP so much he had a stroke & fucking died. DOGE killed my neighbor.

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported. We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back. That would be the end of democracy.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

They didn't just expel people to El Salvador. They sent people to CECOT where they are imprisoned without trial or sentence and may never be released. They have admitted in filings in the Abrego Garcia case that they can't provide due process. Utterly despicable. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

Just getting to this @nytimes.com article about what a jawdropping bullshit factory, failure and fraud DOGE is. Musk is an historic disgrace, and what they've done is an incredible national scandal. Gift link. READ IT. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

This isn't going to end until the judges start holding lawyers and DOJ officials in contempt and throwing them in jail. Even that might not end it, but there's no point trying to delay the inevitable. They're just getting bolder and more destructive as they go.

So many people have reached out asking for more information about Trump's threatened major tariffs on pharmaceuticals. We do not have more information. I'm not hiding the ball. The chaos and uncertainty is part of their eugenicist fucks' plan to kill disabled people.

So the country that went absolutely fucking nuts about the Elián González custody dispute and how it was carried out are just cool with this kind of thing now. You guys, we're a different country now. I can't think of a way to make anyone notice or realize this. We've become the Good Germans.

The Constitutional crisis all Americans fear is here. A battle between the executive and judicial branches is underway. The Trump regime defiantly refused to meet another court-issued deadline in the case of Kilmar Abrego García. Dismissed was a federal judge’s deadline to disclose steps…