Yes, indeed. And it's 2025 and Mississippi still leads the way on the desire to turn back the clock.

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The creator of an open source genetic database is shutting it down and deleting all the data.

It turns out the largest use case for DTC genetic data was not biomedical research or research in big pharma, it was law enforcement.

Given the rise of authoritarian governments, the project is now dead.

2028 Olympics LA or 1936 Olympics Berlin?

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:

“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."

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The blond woman at the very beginning was speaking German ) I had to cut it for time, so I’ve no doubt it was a show in Germany.

how it started at USAID > how it's going

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

Looks like the MAGA have made the same mistake as Brexit voters in the UK and voted to put tariffs on themsleves in the foolish assumption that it makes them look strong. Have a read of this insightful analysis of why Trump's attempt to bully America's neighbours will backfire badly

Look, this is bad for democracy and all, no doubt. But I also can’t help but notice that NYT’s many years of pandering to Trump and shaping coverage in his favor failed to prevent them getting kicked out of the Pentagon press room.

This isn't just work stopping. This is cell lines dying. In vivo tissue going bad. Fly lines dropping. Research materials going bad.

A lot of that stuff you can't just pick back up. Once it's gone it's gone, or will take years to reconstitute.

People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states.

To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.

Biden: The ERA is now an official amendment

Everyone: Lol whatever you can't do that

Trump: The law banning TikTok is invalid

Everyone: Well, I guess he said so so we can't do anything

Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it.
This is the precedent.

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️