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There’s no middle road. The republicans opened with “this is part of a cycle…every election someone wins and the supporters would kiss the ground they walked on”. No. This isn’t a four year cycle. There are no Democrat presidential cults

Today a group called @commoncause held a “nonpartisan” town hall. I learned about the possible Medicaid cuts. One side “probably 10% or admin” the other side said “how do we deal with 1.5B$ less each year in this state?”. It was truly the most worthless political event I’ve attended.

This is why we need still experts

My highly sensitive instruments and careful scientific analysis suggests strongly that this planet is cold and dark

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Anyone can say: let’s make Canada the 51st state. Real men say: let’s make America the 47th oblast.

Chevy chase as fletch. He’s wearing a lakers jersey and talking to an older man.

What, you’re NOT in the nat sec group chat?!?

I think I like the real leader of the Democratic Party. (He's leading but maybe too far ahead for some of them to see?)

How is this possible ?

Columbia should have said, ‘see you in court,’ not ‘yes, Mr President.’ | Margaret Sullivan Institutions must resist thuggish bullying. There is no satisfying Trump. He will move the goalposts again and again

"Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying, not just for their own sakes, but to protect others who will find it much harder."

@sulliview.bsky.social on Columbia University's short-sighted capitulation to Trump's intimidation. #TrumpTyranny
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Who ever accused lawyers of having spines ?

The first @esa.int Euclid data release is going live THIS WEEK - it's going to be awesome!

I hope Euclid can be as transformational for extragalactic astronomy as Gaia has been for Milky Way astronomy!

Screenshot of a McConnell tweet declaring “this week in the Senate proved that clumsy partisan jams will not work” after he filibustered a Democratic spending bill and Democrats agreed to allow a McConnell-preferred clean bill to pass to avert a shutdown.

In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

NASA science for the win!!

After many years of work by hundreds of talented folks at JPL, Caltech, BAE Systems & many other partners, NASA's SPHEREx mission was deployed by NASA LSP & SpaceX last night to begin its journey of discovery. S/C is healthy & power positive! 🛰️✨

The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic

Unexpected chemistry and magnetism in samples from the asteroid Bennu, found in samples returned to Earth by OSIRIS-REx in 2023 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/2471...

Lives Well Lived Philosophy Podcast · 2 Seasons

Robert’s research offers a profound insight into human life: much of our stress is not about survival but about social hierarchies, competition, and interpersonal conflicts, just like baboons. (2/3)

But why do they ?

Good lord. Did anyone get GO time ?

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

I think people are extremely on edge, and horrified by how quickly society has slipped into this banal techno-fascism, and scared about how far it will go, and that makes people brittle and impatient, and if I were a better person I would extend grace to people because of that, but, you know, I’m me

There's literaly an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer in the works. It's shown promising results in a Phase 1 trial. Most people with pancreatic cancer are dead within 5 years. It's what killed Patrick Swayze.

Education isn’t a business transaction. Students aren’t clients, degrees aren’t products, faculty aren’t team members or corporate family. University faculty exist to reveal the universe and in doing so force muscles to stretch and strain and grow in our students before they go static forever.

I work at a mid sized state university in a state that on paper highly values education. This notion that college is career prep is the only thing we hear from our exploding administration. I’m inches from leaving all together, my research my tenure and all left behind, because of this mentality.

Exactly

Show that facts matter and show that their strategy to overwhelm will not work, that we are too many fact checkers and too engaged to allow the lies to slip past. That history is watching, that we see everything being done and someone will motivate a response to every injustice.

Under every press conference put a scrolling chyron which states succinctly where the administration lied in the past week and make it clear what the lie was

We love merit, don’t we folks?

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

“More than $39 million has been earmarked to DOGE in the Trump’s administration’s first month.” Saving taxpayer money.

Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him.

by Glenn Greenwald