Alan Richardson

Up is now considered down, US officials say

Grand opening, grand closing.

X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

I was honoured to join the Speaker's ceremony remembering the millions of Ukrainians who perished in the Holodomor, a man-made genocide.

We remember their stories and recommit ourselves to the simple promise that must guide us always: never again.

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You spelled “violating” wrong

The USA staged a war for independence because they thought the British king didn’t have enough power…. 🤪

Canada is following the USA on this.

We knew it wasn’t going to work.

If your institution is subpoenaed for this, the proper answer is GFYS.

"Subpoena seeks contact information for employees who have filed complaints about discrimination based on Jewish faith, those who belong to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, [staff in] ... Jewish studies program."

Not least because Trump is not a populist.

The Mamdani-Trump summit is fun but c’mon, it’s not the vindication of the left/right-populist or red/brown alliance stuff.

This is what a genuine threat to academic freedom looks like

If MN were a hub of money laundering activity, Trump would have a hotel, golf course, casino, & resort there and an accent straight out of FARGO.

We now know that the MAGA crowd sees a Tim Walz candidacy in 2028 as a major threat

elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from

people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc

US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL

elon pauses location feature

oh ok

Data for Progress just did a nationwide poll on his policies.

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.

Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Time Magazine special issue display—top “Jesus”; bottom “The Muppets”

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?

There need to be social consequences for enacting anti-evidence policies that kill kids.

One of Danielle Smith’s staffers just called me over (??) at an event wanting to say hi.

Once I realized who she was, immediately questioned her about trans rights.

Hundreds of Joshua trees were scorched during the shutdown A firefighter with the National Park Service says a fire wiped out more than a thousand Joshua trees amid the government shutdown. Restoration could be limited by a depleted staff, they said.

A fire tore through Joshua Tree National Park during the government shutdown, seemingly torching more than 1,000 Joshua trees. And it's possible there will be little or no active restoration thanks to Trump administration cuts. www.latimes.com/environment/... via @lilaseidman.bsky.social

Surprised she turned out to be exactly who she seemed to be

No, he isn’t. There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not presidential power. TPS by law cannot be terminated early, and Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.

Who are so many so-called fake "free speech" people such terrible people?

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Grab him by the proletariat

Literally before anything else Trump is a celebrity who values celebrity for its own sake; fame is his only love in this world. So he's ineluctably drawn to its carriers: celebrities. And Zohran is a famous celebrity.

That's all this is

Man that graph just says it all though

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If you both know and care about what you are doing, it isn’t hard