It's not her fault we're in this mess, but the revanchist party that is in power has successfully demonized her at this point.

Regardless of her opinions, she should keep them to herself.

Trump administration drops appeal of order blocking $1.2 billion UCLA settlement - Daily Bruin This post was updated Feb. 13 at 10:00 p.m. The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a decision Friday that blocked it from demanding a $1.2 billion settlement from UCLA.

Resist. Trump will keep losing. And his legal battles and Epstein are stretching the DOJ thin.

He has dropped his appeal of the $1.2B demand from UCLA.

This fight was not from tepid administrators or the faculty senate

It was from the DeFacto faculty union and the UAW.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

Now by Directorate...

1/11

The projects they're funding will be handpicked to support their agenda.

But, yeah, are funds for science being used to buy tear gas?

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Agree, but...

What they really want is ONLY THEIR FAVORED treatments (stem cells, ivermectin, etc) to move forward.

As we've seen with mRNA vax and vax in general, they want to chose the winners.

Reservoir Dogs (92) - because The Crying Game had oversold !

Few of things:
- Movies could oversell tickets!
- People are still overly concerned about other peoples gender and sexual preferences

Wow, look at that, you don't just have to roll over like a fucking coward

Picture of a gray haired woman wearing a shirt that reads on the back “come see my daughter’s film A Woman’s Work at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2/11 at 11:20am 2/12 6:20pm I am a Jewish mother seeking a girlfriend/future wife for my filmmaker daughter (she is multilingual and has an adorable dog). Please inquire with me”

Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival

HUGE DIFFERENCE between

remembering the past (acknowledging 36 games as part of fascist regime propaganda)

and celebrating them (putting them on shirt)

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

When the FDA head position remained open for a relatively long time, I wondered, which clown would jump into this clown car.

Prasad was a great pick for them because he combines clown + smugness

a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' . ALT: a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' .

Nobody, especially patients, likes mTOR inhibitors.

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Being anti-vax was a pre-requisite for the job.

This dog is being called a "real-life Lassie" after helping find a missing 3-year-old boy in Kentucky. “I don’t know where the dog came from,” one officer said. “But it was a blessing from God that day.” We think the dog deserves some credit too, so we're awarding him our highest honor, a 15/10

The autistic community is a large, growing, and heterogeneous population, and there is a need for improved methods to describe their diverse needs. Measures of adaptive functioning collected through public health surveillance may provide valuable information on functioning and support needs at a population level. We aimed to use adaptive behavior and cognitive scores abstracted from health and educational records to describe trends over time in the population prevalence of autism by adaptive level and co-occurrence of intellectual disability (ID). Using data from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, years 2000 to 2016, we estimated the prevalence of autism per 1000 8-year-old children by four levels of adaptive challenges (moderate to profound, mild, borderline, or none) and by co-occurrence of ID. The prevalence of autism with mild, borderline, or no significant adaptive challenges increased between 2000 and 2016, from 5.1 per 1000 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6–5.5) to 17.6 (95% CI: 17.1–18.1) while the prevalence of autism with moderate to profound challenges decreased slightly, from 1.5 (95% CI: 1.2–1.7) to 1.2 (95% CI: 1.1–1.4). The prevalence increase was greater for autism without co-occurring ID than for autism with co-occurring ID. The increase in autism prevalence between 2000 and 2016 was confined to autism with milder phenotypes. This trend could indicate improved identification of milder forms of autism over time. It is possible that increased access to therapies that improve intellectual and adaptive functioning of children diagnosed with autism also contributed to the trends.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

glad charley made all this explicit, he has been a real one

One is about 40 miles from where I live.
Need to organize now.

Growing calls for Pope Leo to excommunicate JD Vance over ICE shooting comments JD Vance has made some alarming remarks about the ICE shooting in Minnesota, that Renee Nicole Good brought it on herself, which goes against his faith.

Growing calls for Pope Leo to excommunicate JD Vance over ICE shooting comments

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?

People

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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Reminder that children, elders and immunocompromised folks etc implicated by their bringing this plague to DC certainly don’t have a fucking choice about this at all.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it