Kim L. Nalder

And political satirists.

So, what is all the tariff revenue going to be used for?

Shouldn't they at least give lip service to the idea that there are benefits, not just the pure economic self sabotage it appears to be?

This timeline is so weird.

So, a bribe?

oh so *now* the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.

But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

Just aaaaaaaaah!

Can someone explain how resigning from your crucial govt role in order to protest this lawlessness is helpful.

Doesn't that just empower the illegitimate raiders more?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Can we start a massive class action suit for all the mental and physical health damage done by Trump and Musk?

Maybe just measure everyone's cortisol and news consumption? High enough on both, and you qualify for damages.

Only half joking.

You can replace "DEI" with "fairness" to get real (and simple).

Sadly, it's hard to imagine he'll ever explore the rest of the D-K range (it's a steep drop off!)

Here's a good start to the "what can we do?" questions we all have.

So, like, when are we going to DO SOMETHING?

Quick reminder that if you see a headline from a source you’ve never heard of that isn’t being reported by anyone else, you really should do some due diligence before spreading it around as fact. There’s enough misinformation floating around already; no need to add more.

Not "legal niceties." What they are doing is illegal! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

To Trump, any POC, female, or disabled hire is ipso facto unqualified.

Should be hilarious given his colossal (the biggest ever?) skills/fitness to job requirements gap.

Yet somehow, it's not.

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.

It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.

I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.

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To be fair, it's outmatched in any environment.

The rational move is to laugh at him.

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.

Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

I miss the country we grew up loving.

This timeline is spirit-crushing.

YouTube video by Hillary Clinton Ex-Sniper reacts to Pete Hegseth Hearing

Please please please watch this. Please.

Political scientists and journalists are trained to be politically neutral in order to demonstrate their objectivity. But when a threat comes from one side, we abandon objectivity in the name of neutrality. The two sides *empirically* do not pose the same threat to democracy, but we pretend they do.

This is pretty much why so many professors are trying to hold the line on this and reverting to in-class written work.

Society can't just outsource critical thinking to tech bro's (profitable) toys.

Yesterday, President Biden finalized a rule to remove medical debt from the credit reports of millions of Americans.

The number of Americans with medical debt on their credit reports will be zero — down from 46 million right before he took office.

Why isn’t anybody talking about this?

Meta ending fact-checking for community notes model Meta will end its eight-year partnership with independent American journalists, including PolitiFact, to identify false

This feels like the in-the-background news buildup to a dystopian system-collapse movie.

Already.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Video presentation of key findings from House investigation | Jan. 6 final meeting

Let's be crystal clear that the everyone capitulating to Trump with rushed visits to MAL & a big check is now okay with all of this.
youtu.be/gFysjda6Gac?...

Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece “Trying to get in the good graces of an autocrat-in-waiting will only result in undermining that free press,” the Pulitzer Prize winner says of her former employer The post Washington Post Cartoonist ...

Democracy dies in darkness, eh @washingtonpost.com?

Washington Post Cartoonist Ann Telnaes Quits After Bezos-Owned Paper Kills Trump Satire Piece www.yahoo.com/news/washing...