Harper 🤯

It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Along with the assassinations in Minnesota, this is a gravely disturbing sign regarding the status of our state-level democracies

This press conference is literally the front line in the fight against American fascism and Trump government corruption and none of the cable networks are carrying it

You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.

Weird how when spreading misinfo is rewarded rather than punished—& attention renders accuracy so valueless that folks who we’d once viewed as trustworthy won’t even correct or delete false info no matter what/who it harms—it destroys democracy?

And the shared fact-based reality my sanity requires?

I would suggest that this study isn't useful.

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The White House is lobbying Republican senators to vote down a bill that would restrict stock trading for members of Congress.

Why do they care?

Because the ban would be extended to include the President and Vice President.

"A wide variety of candidates have stookd out to make people excited" with a quote underneath from a TX woman who identifies as "weak Republican": Yeah, Bukele from El Salvador. I think he's a great president, or right now I would say more of a dictator, but the country, in the position tht it was in, I do believe it was a great move.

This first quote from a Gen Z woman responding to a survey about which leaders people are excited about... hoo boy. navigatorresearch.org/focus-group-...

This getting posted on the same day that the administration doesn't let the president of Taiwan stop over in New York is uh a thing

You are a good mother!

NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide.

PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?"

GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”

I value pretention in my art and with media literacy collapsing like a popped balloon I think we could all stand to get a bit more pretentious with the things we make

TIL: Tetris after trauma is a real thing.

www.nature.com/articles/mp2...

Amazing. Just googled.

Wait. Tetris after trauma?

Exactly. Super weird so far. Kind of like a game.

“Goto bed NOW!”
“Wake up. Eatttt”
“Wear glasses now!!”

Flykitt is so weird. Hope it works! Haha.

I love a good in flight camera.

It's just so jaw-droppingly embarrassing to be an American when this man speaks

“chosen”

i see a post every day of my life like "stop 👏expecting👏politicians👏to👏do👏the👏emotional👏labor👏of👏stopping👏fascism👏" like what are we doing here

Guess what disabled people are already being sterilized in the US. Forced sterilization is legal in 31 states. There is only *ONE STATE* where it is outright banned.

nwlc.org/resource/for...

I am in Japan next week for a conference and have some open time. Who should I hang out with?

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

Thinking about cyberdecks

These stories are horrific, as is the realization that around 35% of Americans would respond “GOOD!”

“More systematically than in his first term, Trump’s administration is reaching into the federal immigration bureaucracy to roll back an array of protections for undocumented children,” Stephanie McCrummen writes:
https://theatln.tc/t1f5tr5y

Philanthropy has helped labs survive in an unprecedented period of thin scientific support. It has also helped labs pivot to new areas of investigation.

I am grateful for the philanthropic support for my lab.

However the best way to find science is through robust taxpayer funded mechanisms.