Jake Withee

And I’ve proudly been approximately 15% Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar by bodyweight for about 15 years now 😁

I wrote a script for an educational video about hornbills, a family of birds that often have a large growth on the top of their beaks, and which often nest by walling the female up inside a hollow tree.

They actually let me include “More like *Casque* of Amontillado amirite??” in the final draft.

YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts How Naked Mole-rats Defy Aging and Cancer

I learned so much about these weird little dudes editing the script for this video, written by the excellent @witheelabs.bsky.social! 🧪 #scicomm

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

The thing about Senators, and Representatives, and Justices, and many, many politicians, and pundits, too, is that they never have to live in the worlds their actions create. They don't even know anyone who does.

Paging @formalsorcery.bsky.social

Noteworthy, I think, that the Democratic establishment are putting much more effort into stopping Mamdani than stopping Trump

BREAKING | Comptroller Brad Lander arrested at ICE court hearing | amNewYork City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan.

It does not seem like a super tenable state of affairs that people are disguising themselves as cops to commit political assassinations and simultaneously if you ask "real" law enforcement agent for identification/authority they wrestle you to the ground and arrest you.

www.amny.com/news/brad-la...

so far this week:

DHS vows to not leave California till it is "liberated" from elected reps

Opposition leaders detained illegally

Opposition leaders indicted

Opposition leaders and families murdered to wrest control of a state

military parade with tanks through US capital

Red line here yet?

No one is in danger from undocumented immigrants. EVERYONE is endangered by the fascist Right in this country and that means the GOP.

Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

Greta Thunberg

Thiago Avila

Madleen update:

Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila arrived at Ashdod port, after being kidnapped by Israel along with 10 activists including MEP Rima Hassan.

there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops

there are only two things that make us cities unsafe and difficult to live in: 1) cars; and 2) cops

both of which are structural pathologies forced upon cosmopolitan civilization by encircling enclaves of suburban barbarians

The fact is that liberals don't want protests that work; they want protests that look nice. And the aestheticization of politics is the crucible of fascism

Please please please keep talking about Greta and the Madleen

Israel is threatening to bomb their aid ship if they don’t turn around

MPD isn't supposed to be helping. This is in direct contradiction to what O'Hara pledged in January: www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/vi...

chants of “get the fuck out”

Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

The number of people killed by the police has risen every year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer in 2020. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

NYU strongly denounces the choice by a student at the Gallatin School’s graduation today—one of over 20 school graduation ceremonies across our campus—to misuse his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views. “He lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules. The University is withholding his diploma while we pursue disciplinary actions. “NYU is deeply sorry that the audience was subjected to these remarks and that this moment was stolen by someone who abused a privilege that was conferred upon him.”

A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine.

In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more

Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.

Amy Klobuchar demanding to speak at the massive Hands Off Rally in Saint Paul and then spending the next week confirming Trump appointees is amazing. Just tremendous contempt for her constituents.

People also like to say that Occam’s Razor means favoring the *simplest* explanation – which they then use to justify all manner of conspiratorial nonsense just because their proposed answer feels easy – when actually Occam’s Razor favors the explanation that makes *the fewest assumptions*.

United States Disappeared Tracker

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

theyre sending people to slave labour camps overseas for having tattoos, Chuck, you need to stop your schumering right now and resign

democratic leaderships see our ongoing constitutional crisis not as a emergency which they have to fix but as a PR problem that has to be managed