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It does kind of make you wonder what would have happened if the Biden administration had just forgiven all that student loan debt after district courts blocked the loan forgiveness plan.

Map of UK showing how much warmer than normal it is right now

Wide areas of the UK are currently 10-12°C above normal for the time of day and time of the year.

Updated every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics.

This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on Mayor Karen Bass asking City Council to eliminate LA’s climate emergency office, which protects Angelenos from extreme heat. Meanwhile Bass still claims to be a climate champion. Read all about it: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Report your NSF grant termination here. 🌊🧪

There is also a link to view a list of grants that have been terminated.

Very excited to be a part of this launch! 👀

In the MAGA imagination, America is simultaneously threatened by outsiders – immigrants, invaders who are “poisoning the blood” of the nation, as Trump has put it – and by the “enemy within.” The core promise of Trumpism is to purge those inherently connected “threats.”

Utterly terrifying.

A man in eyeliner whose mom won't let him into her house for thanksgiving anymore trying to explain how getting grifted by billionaires is alpha shit actually really sums up the state of masculinity in the 2020s.

Mass Protests Across the Country Show Resistance to Trump (Gift Article) Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

Millions of people showed up around the US to protest all the illegal shit that the Trump administration is doing.

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄

Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.

DHS officials ask IRS to use tax data to locate up to 7 million immigrants The agencies have still not reached an agreement on sharing information. But immigration officials now say they’re seeking records on millions of people suspected of being in the United States without...

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

DHS is asking IRS to locate **7 MILLION** suspected undocumented immigrants using confidential tax records.

It’s a massive escalation by DHS to use the tax system for mass deportation.

IRS officials are aghast, say it’s likely illegal.

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

So proud of American Resisters today!

#Handsoff

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article) Those of us who seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

Source (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act of

The Trump admin just illegally stripped collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers in 18 different departments across multiple agencies.

The regime stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda.”
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

pretty astonishing demonstration of walter benjamin's argument about fascism as the aestheticization of politics

‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries Several high-profile incidents in the past month have scientists on edge.

There were quite a few things that people told me that we just didn’t have room for in this story about how the US immigration crackdown is worrying scientists:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here's a thread with a few of them:

A very well-written article from 2020 (rare these days!) on the imminent societal impact even weakly capable AI will have, by the late Stanford philosopher Ken Taylor.

Full article here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ken...

I just want the Trump administration to know that they are always welcome to also include me in their war planning signal chats.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

🌍 We need more young people (and adults, quite frankly) to learn about climate change, so I was very happy to sign this open letter to the Secretary of State for Education in the UK.

✍🏿 If you feel the same, please read and sign the letter, as well as reading more about this issue here 🔽

More on your individual rights, from these slides shown at a teach-in at Princeton last month: docs.google.com/presentation...

Examples of current law:
- In a private space, ICE must have a judicial warrant (not an immigration warrant) to enter.
- If you are a legal immigrant, you must have proof. But citizens and undocumenteds do not.
- Constitutional rights apply to all persons in the U.S.
www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.