Robert Rutledge

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.

I made a video explainer about why.

Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

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The Chief of Staff seems to think it's correct, so perhaps a reporter should get information from her about it.

I just ran into this: if you ask Grok on X about the shutdown, it will insist that passing the Republican Bill is the only correct thing to do, and that requiring extension of the ACA Credits is less important than re-opening the government immediately (example attached).

You heard it here folks!

Trump's main priority while the government is shutdown is destroying the White House to build his golden bathroom.

Friend of mine - a retired teacher in California - got her ACA premium estimate for next year. It is increasing from $198 per month, to $1027 per month.

She - and many Americans like her - are why the ACA subsidies should be extended.

Probably should have used a password more complicated than "Elon".

Could we please have a social media where your legal name has to be attached, and each person can't have more than one account?

I’ve been saying for a long time that Democrats should be holding press conferences in front of the White House daily. Now they should be holding press conferences daily in front of the destruction of the East Wing.

Factcheck: True.

Because nobody stopped him.

Why would he, when he can simply publicly declare that the government owes him $230M, and then require the government to give it to him?

And has he given any indication that he appreciates art, except for its monetary value, gold content, or adulation of him?

Still recovering from yesterday's global internet disruption so first session of my next online course is postponed to Oct. 28.

Still time to join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-g...

Good luck doing that while not making it sound like a threat.

Siri - what is a 'do nothing Congress'?

Without fall would there even BE a "Simon & Garfunkel"?

Starts on Tuesday: my next online course. Join us!

Attendees from Kenya, Australia, U.S, and U.K. have already signed up.

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When you can't defend the message, defend their right to speak.

Is the way weaklings survive.

A couple more person-on-the-street interviews from #NoKings #Portland. There were a lot of friendly Axolotls about today...

We're 9 months into his second term and it's only just now dawning on me how many people just skipped the assigned reading of dystopian novels (1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, A Handmaid's Tale and so forth) during high school.

Which explains a lot. Unfortunately.

The man holding the "Make America Broke Again" sign was dressed as a Sad Clown Trump.

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition:

7 million people turned out nationwide

That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

At No Kings in NYC Times Square with @monaeltahawy.bsky.social!

No Kings.

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF

“Corruption” in political life means, to use the levers of power for reasons or toward ends other than the just needs of the people.

That's a choice.