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Graphic featuring Speaker Mike Johnson with overlaying text: "Nothing." Speaker Mike Johnson on what he wants to negotiate with Democrats on

Americans are going to lose their health care.

Mike Johnson and Republicans don’t care.

"Free speech is not about whether someone else agrees or disagrees; it's about whether you are able to do it."

--Jasmine Crockett, just now to Chris Hayes.

A black and white photo of Albert Einstein, around age 25, sitting at a desk. He is a wearing a flannel suit and resting his right arm on the desk. Einstein is looking to the left of the photographer in this posed photo.

The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads: It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...

Happy 120th birthday, special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published in Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭

Manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
English: www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einst...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

When Violence Breaks, the Vulnerable Bleed First Sarah McBride voted to condemn the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I would have too.

Charlie Kirk dehumanized trans people as “a throbbing middle finger to God.” That cruelty was infuriating. But Sarah McBride was right to condemn his assassination — political violence will not liberate trans people, it hurts us most. aridrennen.substack.com/p/when-viole...

Orgs can still sign on here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"It is un-American and wrong to use this act of violence as a pretext for weaponizing the government to threaten nonprofit and charitable organizations, other perceived adversaries, or any class of people. They did not commit this murder." Letter Signatories Stand Together Against Trump’s Threats
to Non-Profit Organizations

NEW: We joined a coalition of nonprofit orgs and charities urging the administration to stop its escalation of political division, and the unjustified targeting of orgs and people in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. Full statement via @publiccitizen.bsky.social
🔗 https://protdem.org/3I9KZLk

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

estimated ~5,000 gathered in london’s parliament square to protest trump’s state visit

Pretty clear that some places are just using current events as an excuse to get rid of people they weren't comfortable having around anyway. Darkness is coming, democracy is dying.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.

The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.

1/ Here's what's happening.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

This is literally true, and I'm very worried about the implications of it. Even among what I consider to be relatively levelheaded associates (in non-political spheres), the conservatives are almost all Trumpers. The future of the GOP only gets Trumpier.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when the Nazis first started sending Jews and other victims to camps, they called it deportation, and the camps were technically in other countries.

Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...

Don't forget, he had help in all of this

You may not care, but I do. Is Trumpism driving a generation to leave this country? My daughter will study abroad next year and is already researching where to live and work internationally after graduation because of Trump.

Same with some of her classmates. It breaks our hearts, but I get it.

YouTube video by Mark Cuban Fired workers deserve benefits. Call your representatives

For those who wanted to share this video off platform. Here it is on YouTube

youtu.be/OiPa9VY9PH8?...

This is so amazing

Protests in Serbia

"The Russian-backed government of Serbia under pressure tonight as massive protests fill the center of Belgrade.

It seems that only the US hasn't gotten the note that Russian-backed fascism just isn't cool anymore."

via @jayinkyiv.bsky.social

US federal workers hit with second wave of emails demanding job details Elon Musk's first effort fizzled amid conflicting directives.

The Trump administration sent out a second round of emails demanding that federal employees summarize their work over the past week after the first effort fizzled amid confusing directives reut.rs/4bmxfH4

Do these suburban wine moms with Ukrainian flags even know that my faith in humanity entirely relies on them

I don't believe the notion spread by some that Trump is a Russian agent. I think he's just really stupid.

The mail on Sunday headline which reads Now Stop The State Visit for Bully Trump

This is the most right wing newspaper in the UK.

Extraordinary.

HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Loss of Civil Rights for millions of Americans is inconsequential according to the New York Times.

There is no other American institution that has contributed more towards the erasure and systemic elimination of transgender people except maybe the heritage foundation.

NYT, go fuck yourselves!!!

Three years ago this week. 🇺🇦