Stephanie Goodwin, PhD

If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.

United Airlines halts departures for ‘technology issue’ | CNN United Airlines halted its mainline flights out of departure airports Wednesday night due to a “technology issue,” the airline tells CNN.

United Airlines has halted its mainline flights out of departure airports Wednesday night due to a “technology issue,” the airline told CNN: cnn.it/4ooXfrv

tweet: https://x.com/davidaxelrod/status/1952858996672458990

apparently I'm not the only one who sees the connection...

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Emil Bove, who appears to be aging in evil years

This three-century-old vampire/44-year-old man is gonna be confirmed as a lifelong judge in spite of an entire whistleblower convention all coming forward together to offer evidence of his bullshit

Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on Office of Research and Development assessments.

The heart and brain of EPA - its research office - has been dismantled. Policy now outranks evidence. Hundreds of scientists silenced while industry lobbyists cheer.

And the #EPA139 who spoke out still on admin leave.

Support them & the #DeclarationofDissent here: zurl.co/ZRMh1

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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

Last night, Republicans lined up to vote against releasing the Epstein files.

They'll pick protecting Trump over serving the American people.

Every. Single. Time.

Democracies use government as an instrument for the common good. Using a tax bill to destroy and deny health care for 17 million of our people is a sign of authoritarianism.

Tl;dr: 250,000 more Minnesotans at risk of devastating medical bills, higher energy prices, rural hospital closures, and longer ambulance wait times.

None of this is worth a tax cut for billionaires. Congress needs to reject this bill.

Sick and tired of Republican Senators coming to me privately saying, “Mark, keep speaking up, you’re our conscience.”

I don’t want to be their damn conscience.

I want them to vote their conscience.

Senate Republicans have lost their spines—all they do is bow down to Donald Trump and his billionaire donors.

They know this bill will kill people. And they just look the other way.

Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant materials despite court order.

News today shows that despite a court ruling that accuse NIH grants cannot be terminated based on words deemed inappropriate by the new administration/DOGE, NIH continue to screen grants in such a way

Bleak.

The White House says voting against this bill is a betrayal of the President.

But voting for it is actually a betrayal of hardworking Americans who need access to health care and grocery stores in rural communities.

Who are they going to put first? The choice should be easy.

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

Transgender in Astronomy: Interview with Dr. Megan Pickett For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Megan Pickett, an Associate Professor of Physics at Lawerence University!

"I’m sorry that you’re living in a world on fire, and that the forces around you, especially government forces around you, are arrayed against you. But they aren’t the only voices and there are millions of people who do care about you and do love you" -- Dr. Megan Pickett, astronomer 🔭🧪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I just put up an amendment to the Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill that says something simple:

If people's healthcare costs go up, the billionaire tax cuts vanish.

The Republicans tried to shout me down.

And then they voted it down.

The American people will not forget.

Notice the pattern? Republicans work to advance their worst bills in the middle of the night—hoping you’re asleep while they attack your healthcare, your rights, and your future.

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Raskin: "If you can opt out of mandatory classroom readings bc it offends your religious objections, you can do it bc it offends your philosophical beliefs... you're gonna have a lot of cases where ppl say 'Our family doesn't believe in evolution. We don't want our kid in class when it's taught'"

They are kicking the National Science Foundation out of their 8-year-old HQ building, with no alternative plan for housing staff, in order to make a gym for Secretary of Housing & Urban Development Scott Turner and his family.

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

American is no longer in the loop

The U.S. can not be trusted as an ally of democracy.

Republicans jump to defend senator’s rancid comments about Minnesota killings Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the cowards on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize Donald Trump or their own party—no matter how disgraceful or lawless their actions. ...

Congressional Cowards: Mike Lee has not publicly apologized, and when reporters tried to ask him why he would post something so awful, he ran away.

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My daughter, drawing: “this is a pirate”
Me: “oh does he have a sword?”
Daughter: “*HE*?!?!?!?!?”

Kid is learning early how to call out my implicit biases, good for her!

Yes, please.

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.