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White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

@wyden.senate.gov @johnlarsonct.bsky.social @ewarren.bsky.social @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

Data Center Support Plummets in Latest Heatmap Pro Poll The proportion of voters who strongly oppose development grew by nearly 50%.

Our latest Heatmap Pro poll found that support for data centers has plummeted. The massive computing warehouses are now 24 points underwater with voters, compared to 2 points above in September 2025.

Here’s the full story from @alexckaufman.bsky.social for The Fight:

heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

What happens now that the Ellisons will have both CBS News, plus CNN?
*Dems could set out a populist anti-trust platform for the next election
*Desperate need for new independent media sources - follow nonprofit or other models
What else?

Freedom House was “a casualty of its own success,” in another piece. No, I think it was just institutional racism, friend.

Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter ID Bill

what kind of reporting is this that doesn’t actually name the bill in question??

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

"...about volunteers who had drawn up wills for the first time, in the wake of Renée Good’s killing, “in case they didn't come home to their kids.”"

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

The CNBC article also makes clear that the airlines immediately complained and referenced the $6B loss from the shutdown just a few months ago.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

As a Brandeis University alumna I approve this message!

I’m listening! Proportional representation is essential.

Alysa Liu skating to MacArthur Park is the energy I aspire to in life.
⛸️🪩💃🏼
#DonnaSummer #disco #Olympics #WinterOlympics #figureskating #Boston

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

“Cupich, in his homily, said: "This too is a day for those who are made to feel like dust, dust that can be swept away or treated as if they do not belong. … Yet, remember from the beginning it is dust that God uses to create humanity."”

Arkansas now the only state in the country to withhold Medicaid from new moms - Arkansas Times Why is Arkansas the lone holdout state still refusing to provide health care coverage to new mothers at an incredibly vulnerable, exhausted and fuzzy-thinking time in their lives? Mainly it's because…

Every other state in the country extends Medicaid coverage for postpartum mothers for one year, but Gov. Sanders isn't letting up on her campaign to withhold such a mercy to Arkansans. We're #1 in maternal mortality, and we're sticking with it.
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

This is a win for veterans everywhere. The fact that this was proposed in the first place was an insult to every person who has ever put on the uniform.

We will continue to hold this administration accountable to make sure our promises to those who served are kept, period.

Fox graphic of the "TOP 10 STATES WITH HIGHEST ELECTRICITY PRICES" featuring DC as number 10

congrats to DC on achieving statehood

Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

It's sad that the media's focus will be "Malinin chokes" instead of "Mikhail Shaidorov shines." Misha earned his gold!

because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

The disruptive climate crisis makes hot weather hotter and cold, colder. This year, our overheated planet has been making some of our weather much colder and in Washington much snowier.

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe"
The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury.
This is what gendered administrative burdens look like.
academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this…

Alluringly homoerotic and abjectly nonsensical, doubles luge might be the strangest event of any Olympics, winter or summer.