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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Diet His MAHA ideas about food are built on some of the same lies as his antivax campaign.

Some people who think RFK Jr. is crazy wrong on vaccines (he is!) believe he's some kind of north star on food because he says "eat real food" - which EVERYONE in food has always said.

He's mostly crazy wrong about food, too.

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social explains.
www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-ken...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

“.. no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras — just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept.”

@washingtonpost.com #J6
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In this afternoon's filing, Rodriguez's attorneys said the quiet part out loud — they believe she was targeted for being a journalist: “These facts indicate retaliation against Rodríguez in violation of the First Amendment."

Just saw the lovely documentary movie “Piowa” about the making and meaning of pie in Iowa. NPR correspondent Scott Horsley was in it with the “No Pie Refused” RAGBRAI team. I tried to find @titonka.bsky.social in the clips but missed her. I bet she was there somewhere.

Minnesotans fired Kristi Noem.

We can fight the feds with laws you may not know about • Minnesota Reformer If nothing else, you’ll be highlighting the hypocrisy of the administration’s alleged commitment to law and order when it’s clear they are repeatedly breaking the law.

I really love this article, helping us to understand what legal tools we have to fight illegal ICE activity.

Up is down. Black is white

#GildedAge

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

It's publication day! (I signed 240 of these yesterday, before an event with the inimitable Jeff Chang, at San Francisco's Booksmith at the Internet Archive).

After Khamenei, What Now? Iranians want democracy. Trump wants a brief conflict. Neither seems likely.

"Iran has had coherent opposition movements over the decades that have managed to create nationwide movements and strikes. Almost all of them have been systematically destroyed: people arrested; people killed; people exiled."
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

I find the news very frightening right now, but one thing that helps me is noticing the birds all around me

Do you want a reason to spend 10 minutes a day noticing your local birds? Then join me for this spring’s #TenMinMerlin, using the (free) app Merlin to notice birds. No experience needed!

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Run, Chris, Run!

At least Carlin isn’t alive to see this.

"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next.

What a disgrace.

A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.

No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep

This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil

My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Trump ripped up the Iran nuclear deal and created this mess. Now, he's putting servicemembers in harm's way with no clear plan and no Congressional approval. The American people deserve answers — and Congress needs to do its job.

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

Sadly, this is about the next election. He’s laying the groundwork to declare his election “emergency” to change rules and argue to courts they can’t question his national security judgment in war time. And if the Court does, he’s preparing to say that’s beyond their constitutional powers.

Could be worse. Ran 15 miles outside in NE Iowa ❤️ this morning and had to avoid a rabid skunk!!

Green Party wins UK by-election in blow to Starmer The UK's Green Party has won its first ever parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton, dealing a bitter blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The UK's Green Party has won its first ever parliamentary by-election, dealing a bitter blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer

BREAKING: A wonderful speech from Green Party's Hannah Spencer after winning the Gorton and Denton by-election.

Congratulations!