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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I don't know about?

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 727 comments

Here's a very good boy at a #50501 protest today. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Absolutely this

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

WOW! Cory Booker isn't holding back! "There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

submitted 12 days ago • 379 comments

We’ve had checks & balances & separation of powers embedded into the founding of our national govt specifically because the Framers anticipated that some day an executive might come along like Trump. For over 2 centuries we have also had judicial review. It’s all under siege now.

submitted 13 days ago • 844 comments

This kind of buries the lede - he's freezing aid to South Africa because of apartheid reparations.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Thank goodness for @bodegacats.bsky.social for being the timeline cleanse I always seem to need 😻

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 19 days ago • 207 comments

😢

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Colorado’s top import markets: 1. Canada ($374M) 2. China ($150M) 4. Mexico ($88.6M) Colorado’s top export markets: 1. Mexico ($148M) 2. Canada ($104M) 4. China ($55.4M) Source: OEC, Oct 2024

submitted 21 days ago • 39 comments

Heroes www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Pentagon is making changes to the resident Press Corps (outlets with physical workspaces in the building): OUT: New York Times, NBC News, NPR, Politico IN: New York Post, OANN, Breitbart, HuffPost

submitted 22 days ago • 113 comments

autisticadvocacy.org/2024/11/asan...

submitted 24 days ago • 296 comments

Something I think a lot of people don’t know about grad students-at least in the life sciences-is that it’s a job. Technically you’re a student, but really it’s more of an apprenticeship. You work in the lab, you teach.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is so bad it’s almost laughable but racism in medicine is still very real, and leads to worse outcomes and more death & disease. America is diverse. How can you claim to want to make America healthy when you think other races and ethnicities should only be able to receive disparate healthcare?

submitted 23 days ago • 23 comments

Bernie Sanders: "The key point here is that what Trump did is illegal and unconstitutional. The power of the purse rests with Congress and not with the executive."

submitted 23 days ago • 201 comments

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

submitted 23 days ago • 73 comments

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

submitted 26 days ago • 226 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 26 days ago • 1664 comments

Hey science friends? I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking. But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it. And advocating for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking is not unprofessional advocacy.

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

submitted 26 days ago • 69 comments

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

submitted 31 days ago • 321 comments

This is a remarkable moment. Trump and Vance sit there in silence, as a bishop pleas with them to lean on their better angels and not follow through with their depraved campaign promises that target the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. Never seen anything like this.

submitted 32 days ago • 192 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_...

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

um

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submitted 35 days ago • 29 comments

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

submitted 36 days ago • 121 comments

I keel like today’s NYT Strands is just rage bait

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...