Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions from lawmakers in a pair of hearings Wednesday and did not directly answer whether he would vaccinate his own children against chicken pox and polio. He paused before answering, “Probably.”

So Trump gets a $400 million plane to take with him when he leaves office and Qatar walks away with $1.2 trillion in deals. A win-win for them, just not for the American public.

One of Trump’s imported voters from South Africa was caught spreading antisemitic hate online. In a now-deleted April 2023 post, X user @charlkleinhaus wrote that Jews were “untrustworthy,” “a dangerous group,” and “not God’s chosen.”

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

No attorney general should ever speak like this. She's Trump's advocate, not the people's lawyer, which is what the AG's job is. Whatever state she is barred in should start disciplinary proceedings immediately. This isn't subtle or arguable, it's wrong.

A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.

Omg

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

Follow the money and see where it goes. Nothing like buying our Congress. Musk has made the maximum allowable donation to members of Congress who support impeaching federal judges who are impeding actions taken by Trump.

Read this right now

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Go Senator Kelly! 💛💙

What a wonderful idea…👇

Let’s. Do. This. ✨

The Trump administration has directed nonprofits involved in a $20 billion Biden-era climate initiative to turn over records to the FBI and appear in federal court later this month.

Trump will delay some auto tariffs after Detroit Three push President Donald Trump agreed to delay tariffs for one month on some vehicles built in North America after a call with the CEOs of General Motors and Ford and the chair of Stellantis, the White House said Wednesday.

What an incredibly incompetent clown. Maybe he should have thought about the (patently obvious) effect of tariffs on the auto industry *before* imposing them?

He’s like a monkey on a keyboard.

Trump’s Decision to Halt Aid to Ukraine Could Reorder the Battlefield Officials have suggested that the pause in weapons shipments and intelligence sharing could be relatively short-lived if Ukraine’s president bends to White House demands.

President Trump’s decision this week to pause military assistance and intelligence sharing to Ukraine could reorder the battlefield, either halting the fight or potentially giving Russia a decisive advantage.

In a sudden reversal, CDC rescinds some staff firings Some employees who were previously fired received emails saying they're "cleared to return to work."

Some employees who were previously fired received emails saying they're "clear to return to work."

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract.

His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for his speech to a joint session of Congress as Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) holds a sign reading "This is not normal" at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.

As President Trump walked into Congress, Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat from New Mexico, held up a sign that said “This is not normal.”

Follow the scene from Trump’s joint address to Congress: wapo.st/4hpeB2V

Some federal workers are going back to work.

The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.

Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.

The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee Ernst, an Iowa Republican, is one of the most influential voices in Congress on military topics. Ethics and military experts say her relationships with top Air Force and Navy officials created potenti...

I have to say I kind of admire the restraint ProPublica showed with its understated headline.

At the same time, I must say that the headline that I would have written—

“SENATOR BANGS MILITARY LOBBYISTS”

—would have been clearer and gotten more clicks.

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2 DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!

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#standupforscience2025

He is a sociopath.

I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Opinion | In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years The president’s new slogan might as well be “We were better off 95 years ago than we are today.”

"a return of the 'corrupt process' that existed before the 1930s in which tariffs remain on the books and businesses try to curry favor (in this case, with Trump) to win exemptions..."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"Free speech," Nazi style.

cutting childhood cancer research…

www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Divided Supreme Court says judge can force USAID to pay foreign aid The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order to restart nearly $2 billion in USAID payments for work that has already been done.

Breaking news: A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to block a lower court order on foreign aid funding, saying the U.S. Agency for International Development must restart payments.