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Finally some good news today. EVERYONE deported to CECOT is now part of a single class action case.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

We are now risking lives and actively letting people die because they can't afford inhalers. Why? Because insurance companies are emboldened to not cover them under Trump. Cole Schmidtknecht died because of price-gouging — and he didn't have to.

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 644 comments

Let me suggest that when a federal judge spends the first full page of the opinion summarizing Kafka, it's not a good sign for the government

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Many thanks @weillcornell.bsky.social Pediatrics for the nice mention about our work debunking vaccine autism links weillcornell.org/news/here%E2...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic long read on the scientific tensions, professional feuds, and ego clashes in the fascinating field of Palaeoarchaeology Having just cowritten a children’s book about the Stone Age, all of this is VERY familiar 😆 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

How strange that the details on this recent e. coli outbreak didn’t magically surface themselves! It’s almost like we need scientists to figure out what’s up, communicators to tell us about it, and regulators to make sure it doesn’t happen again… @altfda.Altgov.info (Gift article) wapo.st/4jkquI0

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

It would be nice if there were more support groups for what’s happening to scientists right now. I don’t need more information firehose or more suggestions for ways to take action; I’m set on both. I just want to talk to other new PI’s about how hard it is right now

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

The nurses at UPMC Magee provide essential care for our region's moms, babies and others. As a union, they will have a seat at the table, helping ensure care decisions are based on patient health, not hospital profits. What's good for nurses is good for Pgh and SW PA. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe endured 900 years of decay and poverty, but at the end of those 900 years, the Renaissance, a time of remarkable artistic and scientific invention, began. Could the same thing happen here?

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

International enrollment, at public universities in states that Trump won in 2024: Univ of South Florida: > 5,000 students Ohio State: 6,300 students Georgia Tech: > 13,500 students Arizona State: > 15,000 students Univ of Michigan: 8,635 students Penn State: 9,400 students

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

Israeli soldiers gunned down Amer Rabee, a 14-year-old Palestinian American boy who was born in New Jersey, last month in the West Bank. His death has spurred anger over soldiers’ use of force and an apparent lack of accountability. nyti.ms/3ZzbQ8Q

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

Harvard University will relinquish its ownership of two haunting images of an enslaved father and his daughter after settling a six-year legal battle with a woman who says she is their descendant.

submitted 16 days ago • 77 comments

Longest lasting democracies in history. I sort of doubt we’ll make it to number one. open.substack.com/pub/broadstr...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

submitted 17 days ago • 161 comments

Meta's AI teams need more than a reorg. www.platformer.news/meta-antitru...

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Hot take: Jesus would not like this.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

A special Memorial Day moment to remember our LGBTQ+ siblings in arms. They serve with honor and patriotism, and are again under attack by political assholes who have never served. Below is a photo Leonard Matlovich’s gravestone. #MemorialDay #LGBTQ

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Mia Griffin grew up thinking she was abandoned on a street by her Chinese birth family. Then she learned a hard truth: she was stolen from them.

submitted 17 days ago • 43 comments

The German verb 'lassen' looks a lot like French 'laisser'. They even have the same meaning: "to let". However, that's a coincidence. These words are entirely unrelated etymologically. 'Lassen' is related to English 'to let', while 'laisser' is related to 'lax'. Click my new graphic for more:

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We love to see it.

submitted 18 days ago • 128 comments

Harmeet Dhillon, a top Justice Department official, retweets a post claiming that “Elon Musk’s DOGE” has removed people from the U.S. social security database. The Justice Department has told multiple federal judges that Musk does not lead DOGE and that he’s “not part of” the U.S. DOGE Service.

submitted 18 days ago • 75 comments

We are a sick, sick society. And I don't mean physically. I mean spiritually and morally. I quite literally can't relate on any level to this kind of thinking.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

#Memorialday: Cuts to the VA Will Leave #Veterans Without the Benefits They Were Promised - Center for American Progress www.americanprogress.org/article/cuts...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

President Trump pardoned a man sentenced for tax crimes after his mother went to a $1 million-per-plate dinner at Mar-a-Lago. His pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

The starvation of and direct military attacks on civilians in Gaza right now are so sickening it’s hard to even know what to say, or whom to appeal to for help

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Do not wear one of these to Military Academy graduations. It is very tacky.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 18 days ago • 764 comments

Getting ready for another week of fighting for democracy in court.

submitted 17 days ago • 746 comments

“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us."

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

As famine looms in Gaza, a new aid plan backed by the U.S. and Israel faces internal collapse and accusations of violating humanitarian norms.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Small business owners have been one of the nation’s most solidly Republican voting blocks for generations. After Trump’s tariffs bankrupt all of them, that probably won’t change.

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

10/10 for me but some of them required a pretty careful look. The analysis of what to look for in each was useful, though there’s no guarantees the “tells” will persist as the image generator algorithms improve, and even now not all generated images have them.

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

SpaceX's Starship 9 is scheduled to launch tonight. The last two Starship launches resulted in explosions and rained debris over the Caribbean, which will also be in flight path for this launch. UK officials tried — to no avail — to get the FAA to change the rocket's flight plans.

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

NPR sues Trump over executive order cutting funding for public broadcasting

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this is really, really not good

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Over five years, Allison said, he made and posted around 120 videos. There were images of riots, burning cities and Black people brutalizing white people. There was GoPro footage of massacres filmed by white killers as they murdered people of color.

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

Investors in nations with tax regimes that the US deems unfair would face higher tax rates on income earned in the US if the tax bill that’s making its way to the Senate becomes law

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments