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davidpakman.bsky.social
ICE just wrestled a guy to the ground, beat him, then shot him. Appears to be dead
January 24, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
This graph makes me want to cry.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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meiselasb.bsky.social
We can regurgitate regime propaganda on Nigeria or we can see what’s really happening. Trump is working with the opposition party led by a Christian to try and topple the gov led by Muslim to take their oil and lithium for Trump’s billionaire buds.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Admiring people for what they do tends to bleed into admiring them for who they are, even when you don't actually know much about who they are. Which sets you up for serious disillusionment. (Chomsky was never that person for me, but the lesson is more general.)
drfarls.bsky.social Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · Dec 26
I don't want to linger on this but it is important... while the sex trafficking and abuse allegations against Epstein are by far the most serious elements of the (metaphorical) indictment, it's also necessary to remember that he was a thief and a fraud. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Chomsky, Epstein, and the responsibility of intellectuals
Burning down houses and raping their female inhabitants is the kind of imperialist standard operating procedure that Chomsky spent his life condemning in East Timor, in Iraq, in El Salvador. But when ...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Annual Thanksgiving blog post! This year we are giving thanks for "information."

www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2025/11...
A graph of two probability distributions; one is high-entropy and therefore very informative (from a communication perspective), the other is low entropy and therefore rather uninformative.
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
I'm a huge fan of Liberal Currents. The writers there offer an ideal combination of an intellectual defense of liberal values with a clear-eyed view of the challenges of the current political moment.
liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · Nov 24
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November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
I think Elon and Trump need to go on Piers Morgan and have a civilized discussion
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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petermorley.bsky.social
List of ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information:

Alabama
Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124
Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744

Alaska
Senator Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665
Senator Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004

Arizona
Senator Mark Kelly 202-224-2235
Senator Ruben Gallego 202-224-4521

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March 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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mark-carney.bsky.social
Thank you, Prime Minister Trudeau. For your hard work, for your leadership, and for your great service to our country.
March 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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March 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
We’ve handed power in the US to people who simply don’t share the values of Western democracy.
jburnmurdoch.ft.com John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Mar 7
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
This is good and beautiful. (Except for time flowing downwards from the top, which makes me dizzy.)
nsousanis.bsky.social Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Mar 5
At last! Finished page: how a star forms, what fuels it, & how it forges new forms into being! A star is a momentary reversal - a wellspring of possibilities that makes life possible. This took me some time to figure out to say the least - but geeked to be done & move onward! #Nostos #Unflattening 2
Comics page on how a star forms, what’s going on inside, and how it’s generating new elements over its lifetime - and a reversal of entropy’s downward flow towards disorder. There’s a drawing of a star that’s about the width of the page in the center - realistic on its outside and diagrammatic on the interior. Running through it from top of page to bottom of page - is an hourglass like shape with various panels, sort of like greek meanders ornamenting it that detail various parts of the narrative here. The interior of the star shape is in four quadrants (a bit of the middle and the center are carved out by the hourglass, which i’ll get to next). upper left quadrant is a diagram of the force of gravity versue the resistance pressue of atoms being shoved together - represented by black arrows drawing inward and white drawing outward - which make a circular star shape complete with the tails of the black arrows as rays of the star. the background for this panel is a warped grid as space would be warped by this massive object. Upper right panel is a closeup on just a few of these white and black arrows - and within them - filled with more closely packed particles and then also tiny arrows pressing from outside. Lower left panel has the path light takes to leave a star - a brownian motion trail, bouncing around randomly in all sorts of directions before eventually leaving the star. The final panel within the star is a more realistic depiction of what the regions within the star might look like. On the hourglass, there are periodic stripes with panels inside them - in the other spaces, we see circles as simplified particles falling down this funnel and getting closer together as they near the center (as with hydrogen falling into a star). the first row of panels is a series of hourglasses - with sand running down. The next one is a quick retelling of the birth of the universe to the first filaments. Then the hourglasses again, now they are spinning, sand running uphill. T…
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I called Canadian Premiers Doug Ford and Wab Kinew today as we try to find a way through this unnecessary and costly trade war.

While the President may not value the partnerships that contribute billions of dollars to our economy, Minnesota does.
March 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Elon and his Tech Nazis are accessing your personal data illegally, and there IS something you can do about it. Contact your state's Attorney General, or your Consumer Protection Agency here: www.usa.gov/state-consumer. Fight back.
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February 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Scientists are losing their salaries because the government is simultaneously racist and incompetent.
benstemon.bsky.social Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · Jan 30
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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BREAKING: The government is trying to cover up history and facts. Thanks to the Internet, we won’t let that happen.

Please share the archive.

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DOJ Removes Jan 6th Database - But Too Bad, It’s Archived Here!
In a quiet yet significant move, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken down its comprehensive database documenting the prosecutions and convictions stemming from the January 6, 2021, Capitol attac...
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January 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Chilling.
ohdearz.bsky.social Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Jan 22
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"
January 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM