Michael L. Rosino

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

I’ve just stopped Microsoft from adding CoPilot to my 365 sub. If enough people do this it’s going to smart.

Threats of mass layoffs during a shutdown have zero legal basis. A government shutdown is not the purge. It does not magically grant the President permission to do whatever he wants. There are decades of history on this.

Reporting on Trump and Vought's threats needs to make this clear.

What are 'freedom cities'? Billionaire CEOs' plan could reshape America A coalition of "startup nations" have met with the Trump administration in order to create areas of the U.S. free from regulation.

Fascists are commandeering our public lands and dollars to create their very own elite cities on the backs We the People. This, THIS is their IDEA of housing.

To hell with Apartheid Clyde AKA Musk and his band of billionaire TechBro whackjob misanthropes. #Resist

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Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump to generals and admirals: “this war from within will be the major part for most of you here”

Missouri Gov. Signs Extreme Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Crackdown Into Law Read more here.

BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) just signed Trump’s gerrymander into law.

If courts do not intervene, a referendum effort fails or the GOP again ignores the will of voters, the GOP will have locked in a 7–1 majority in the U.S. House for the rest of the decade.

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

Thanks for sharing this

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History Can Teach Modern Activists About Coalition Building Historically, it has been difficult to build and sustain diverse activist coalitions—but they are uniquely impactful.

My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...

Department of State v @StateDept Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. .. . We will revoke Petro's visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions. Last edited 8:07 PM • Sep 26, 2025 • 6.2M Views

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent.

Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 George Floyd protests The agents’ firing comes amid a broader wave of terminations at the FBI, which some see as a form of political retribution.

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters in Washington during the 2020 racial justice protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

that Harper's letter just keeps aging worse and worse

Birds and Snakes are out, too (not XX / XY). Algae and amoebas, too. Probably also worms.

This also affects horticulturists, biologists etc

Suddenly medical schools can’t teach about intersex conditions or gender dysphoria.

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

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The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

So it turns out ‘originalism‘ was just a front for reluctance to reinterpret when that meant redressing social injustice, but now if reinterpreting means increased power to inflict social injustice, it’s totally fine.

I can’t imagine going to law school and trying to learn or teach anything now.

Remember, SCOTUS conservatives said it was an abuse of power for Joe Biden to forgive student loan debt without express authorization from Congress.

SCOTUS is so clearly untethered from the law and the constitution that sitting justices are expressly saying “this is worse than Calvinball.”

That’s an invitation for other judges to say that. And, I hope, some of the lawyers arguing doomed cases before them—don’t let them hide.

A domestic terror organization that does not exist is a tool of a tyrant. Nobody is a member so anyone can be branded as a member.

Clear grounds for removing Trump from office. He’s sending America’s military against a domestic terror organization that does not exist fighting a war that is not happening. He’s gone completely and dangerously mad.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

Yep. The empirical majority isn’t getting glowing profiles in the media all the time but they do have power. And I think it is a trend.

Press Release Madrid, Tuesday, 23 September 2025 An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice Preclinical trials with rodents show 100% protection with the second dose. This work advances the development of new-generation vaccines against COVID-19. (Image caption: SARS-CoV-2 virus exiting infected cells / Team of Luis Enjuanes, PNAS)

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice.

One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity.

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