Sangeeta Malhotra

Vaguely recall that a paroled inmate committing a terrible crime was enough of a scandal to undercut the Dukakis campaign. This is objectively worse in term of Trump's responsibility, but will get a fraction of the attention.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Emmanuel Damas died in ICE custody after ICE failed to treat a tooth issue that turned into pneumonia.

ICE didn't even keep his family updated.

The Trump admin's cruelty knows no bounds.

I'm pressing with Senator Markey and Rep. Pressley to hold ICE accountable.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

The Milky Way arcs over and behind this view looking up at Rubin's shiny silver dome toward a starry night sky.

Alerts from NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory have been flowing for about a week...how many have there been?? 🚨

So far, Rubin has generated....drumroll please🥁

~1.7 million world-public alerts!

That's ~1.7 MILLION objects that changed in brightness or position in just seven nights 🤯

🔭🧪

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

the two phases of writing: (1) writing and (2) wandering aimlessly like an unmoored ghost and complaining about not writing

9 Million Indians Live in the Persian Gulf. The Money They Send Home Is a Lifeline.

“Altogether, more Indians live in the Persian Gulf than there are citizens of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain combined.

No one expects these millions to flee overnight, though South Asian workers have been among the first fatalities caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

4-panel comic: Astronomers asking researchers from different departments to help them identify the “little red dots” in JWST images: (1) Entomologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 2 with shoulder-length hair.] PERSON 2: Clover mites. (2) Computer Scientists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 3 with beanie.] PERSON 3: Stuck pixels. (3) Dermatologists [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 4 with ponytail.] PERSON 4: Cherry angiomas. (4) Graphic designers [Person 1 behind easel that is black with red dots on it, looked at by Person 5 with short hair.] PERSON 5: No, those are vermillion, or maybe jasper. Can I see your color settings?

Little Red Dots

xkcd.com/3212/

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.

Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

A heroic scale bronze art fountain somewhere in Helsinki. A woman stands on a pedestal in the middle. Four sea lions probably at the Cardinal points of the compass stand around her.

Not sure what the actual title of this piece of art is, but it is a figure of a woman surrounded by sea-lions, so I am assuming it is something like: “First Woman on the Internet.”

The deliberate murder of American science.

Federal judges who've ruled against Trump administration denounce threats against themselves, their families Federal judges say criticism from President Trump can put their safety at risk. The White House says the president "understands the dangers of political violence."

"Most [judges] would not appear on camera, fearful for their safety. Judge Coughenour [Reagan appt'ee] is one of few who would. He blocked Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship.

Coughenour: My wife & I are at home. And the doorbell rings...& there's, I think, 5 sheriffs there w/long rifles..."

Key takeaways:

Hours before the US-Israel military operations began, FM Albusaidi revealed an unprecedented agreement for Iran to maintain "zero stockpiling" of nuclear material.

The message followed high-level discussions in Washington between the FM and VP Vance.

NSF's #GFRP has been embroiled in controversy over the past year. The agency released FAQs today in response to concerns that applicants have had proposals returned without review (RWR). It says there were about the same number of RWRs this year, but that comparison comes with a big asterisk.

The irony is stark: a private AI company is holding the line on guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons—while the federal government pushes to remove them. After revoking Biden's AI safety policies, the Trump administration is now pressuring Anthropic to abandon its own.

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.”

“The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.” - Epstein in email about women attending a scientific conference.

“…no really smart women – none.” - Epstein in email about women in science.

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

Aliya Rahman was arrested at the State of the Union last night, and had to go to the hospital.

Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death

The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

Life Hack: Regular stargazing sessions cultivate a childlike sense of wonder that can uplift your spirit daily. Which improves your mood and strengthens your mind which helps you live longer!

"Like a child, Musk absolutely refused to believe that there might be negative consequences from his actions.

...At the time of this writing, it estimates over 215,000 adults and 445,000 children are dead due to the funding cuts."

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating."
www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

A composite black-and-white photograph honoring astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, famous for her 1967 discovery of pulsars. The main central image shows a young Jocelyn Bell (in her late 20s) smiling warmly at the camera, wearing cat-eye glasses, her hair styled in ponytail, and a collared coat. She stands in front of the iconic large radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (near Cambridge, UK), a massive wire-mesh parabolic structure with a central feed horn and supporting framework towering behind her, evoking the instrument she used to detect the first pulsar signals. In the lower-left inset is a modern color portrait of an older Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (with gray hair in a practical style, wearing glasses and a blue blazer over a patterned blouse), smiling brightly and looking directly at the viewer, representing her later years as a celebrated scientist and advocate for women in STEM. The side-by-side images beautifully contrast her groundbreaking early career moment with her enduring legacy. #physics #astrophysics

In 1967, physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars.

#OTD in 1968, Burnell, Antony Hewish, and 3 other male colleagues published a paper on the discovery in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦--but, the 1974 Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery was awarded only to Hewish.

#MatildaEffect #WomenInSTEM

Mr “No personal Space” Canine is here.

I love when the weather turns ugly because it makes the decision I already made not to leave the house for the whole day seem way more reasonable