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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Morning Bluesky This is correct, by Paul Krugman: “1.2 million Americans died from Covid — a number that would have been much lower if MAGA misinformation hadn’t caused so many people to refuse vaccination” See: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/2 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reality-is...

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Again, the point at which Democrats needed to burn it all down & stop the authoritarianism in its tracks was December 12, 2000, when the Wizards In Robes decided that people's votes didn't need to be counted. Everything since has been the inevitable outcome of that levee breaking.

Imagine if you mailed the IRS a check to pay your taxes, but they left their mail unopened for years and then arrested you for failure to pay taxes. That’s effectively what ICE is doing to increasing numbers of people now; people out of status only because of GOVERNMENT delay.

"Authoritarianism doesn’t have to involve men in suits dragging people into cars...Orban showed that critics — or pockets of independence — can be rendered pliable by making them believe that the smart move is to affirmatively sacrifice some of their independence" @yale.edu wapo.st/3RW4HPo

Ok, got the embedded instruction in my syllabus right…

My latest. I know a lot of people will strongly disagree. that's okay. I am just trying to get us all thinking about the problem, and potential solutions. | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🗞️Read AAUP - BHSNJ president Cathy Montelone's nj.com op-ed on why the Rutgers conflict-of-interest bill “threatens transparency and puts vulnerable patients at risk” and Gov. Sherrill must veto it! www.nj.com/opinion/2026...

The Enslavers’ Rebellion

New post up at Inverse Square & Balloon Juice on the planned grift with which the Trump administration would dismantle US science. Shout out to @jtimmer.bsky.social and @dereklowe.bsky.social for their excellent takes on the same subject. (Balloon Juice link: balloon-juice.com/2026/07/24/t...)

Admirable clarity @science.org

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

Clearly I am not cool enough to understand Chris Wright’s DOE Or else someone at DOE comms is urgently trying to signal that they have evidence for demonic possession of POTUS

I am excited to see NSF still uses words like “resilience” that were dropped from the OMB/OSTP memo, but can’t for the life of me figure out why this particular call is coming from NSF rather than DOE sam.gov/workspace/co...

So I have a different idea about how to bring science into a new "golden age"... This document is attributed to Michael Kratsios, who is the co-chair of PCAST (The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology). www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202... 1/5

Sunday 7/26 at 10am PT on Climate Chat: The Physics & Economics of Sea Level Rise with climate scientist Robert Kopp @bobkopp.net. Don't miss it! @leonsimons.com @bikingmzstacey.bsky.social @radsci.bsky.social #ClimateChange #SLR youtu.be/0kcC_VwXVp8

Double dose of products from the @standupforscience.net Foundation policy institute this morning. @irenesufs.bsky.social with her analysis of the contents of the National Science Foundation Guidance to align with OMB rulemaking.

The claim that "pink elephants cannot fly" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that pink elephants can fly. 🙄

So what’s your guess — written by a team who don’t understand science, or by a LLM prompted by people who don’t understand science?