Dana 🌈🔬🪱

6/ Silence from "leaders" is not savvy. It does not help us negotiate. You cannot negotiate with people who aim to destroy science.

Silence from "leaders" is complicity.

It is propping up a regime bent on destroying science.

And fuck the men's team for laughing along with him.

I’m embarrassed that I cheered for this group of absolute assholes.

call me crazy but I think it's bad that cheating-as-a-service is a business model now

Adding that there are many folks outside of NIH whose names you will probably never know who quietly went about their tremendously important work and trained young scientists while fighting for NIH funding with one hand tied behind their back b/c the NIH refused to fix the Ginther gap.

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Us women's hockey team 2026

"unfortunately we have to invite the women too”

And the way there are dudes shrugging their shoulders "it's just a joke, it's not that deep".

The fact misogyny is so casual is exactly why women are pissed.

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

So disappointing(but sadly not surprising)

I have been lawyering for just under 13 years now. (I am old.)

In that time, I have seen dozens of clients have good outcomes from staying silent and asking for a lawyer.

I have seen exactly zero outcomes improved from talking to cops, and dozens of outcomes made worse.

Don't. Talk. To. Cops.

Please shoot me.

UNC and the UNC system have put together a series of actions that together combined will intimidate faculty. We need to push back now.

It used to be you could discuss the carb load of pussy with your BFF convicted child rapist. But the woke mob took all of that.

Come join us! This meeting is going to be awesome!

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

"But he didn't know" okay, great, but did he speak out against an overtly sexist, racist power broker, or did he accept the invitations and the money? Because this culture doesn't just happen. It's created by the consent of the people who have access to those spaces.

19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

if you use AI to write, I think you're a fucking loser

Delroy Lindo Wishes ‘Someone From BAFTA Spoke to Us’ After N-Word Was Shouted While He and Michael B. Jordan Presented: We ‘Did What We Had to Do’ Delroy Lindo says no one from BAFTA contacted him or Michael B. Jordan after the N-word was shouted out loud as they presented an award.

Fuck BAFTA for not nominating him and fuck BAFTA for this and fuck BBC for censoring “free Palestine” and fuck BBC for not censoring the N word

variety.com/2026/film/aw...

Always a great meeting!

Interior to Sell Off Millions of Acres of Public Lands in Alaska The Trump Administration has begun the great public lands sell off in earnest.

"The Trump Administration has begun the great public lands sell off in earnest."

Interior to Sell Off Millions of Acres of Public Lands in Alaska
open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

The FBI director was partying at the Olympics and allegedly sent this message — about the person killed by government officials at Mar-a-Lago — literally as the hockey final was tied and going into overtime.

Did he even know about it, let alone approve or send it?

New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week.

apnews.com/article/tran...

question: is the editor who signed off on this digital art a homophobic middle schooler

@nathithehumbleguy on threads: Ladies if you're always walking around with earphones or headphones on whether jogging or at the mall don't be surprised if no one approaches you. Most guys won't ask you to take them off just to start a conversation. Sometimes you might be blocking more than just the noise

he’s so close to getting it

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."

AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

This article begins "After a year in which the Trump administration has pressed to limit the ways Americans can identify as transgender in public life...".

"Identify as transgender". If that doesn't give away the New York Times' whole game, I don't know what will.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Sports are about more than a game, and it always has been. Sue Bird knows this better than anyone.

We’re fighting at the Supreme Court to protect trans youth’s right to play the sports they love. Join us at aclu.org/morethanagame-bpj

JD Vance's convert energy is off the charts. No one who grew up Catholic would have the audacity to invite the Pope to their holiday party.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

But when it's cops and local prosecutors we can trust them every time they say one of us did something so bad that we deserved to be kidnapped at gunpoint and locked in a cage and furthermore we also deserve to then be trafficked and locked in a cage and then forced to work against our will