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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Deshaun Watson really struggling with this Jets defense today" "sure is Jim, seems like he's once again being haunted by his lifetime of sins out there"

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

Throughout these Olympics, people asked me why I was cheering for Team USA at this bleak moment in American history. I get it! Our government is a nightmare, causing endless harm internationally and at home. Abroad, they’re picking needless fights with our closest allies — remember what I said about Donald Trump reposting AI-generated videos of himself punching imaginary Canadians in the face? And domestically, they’re building camps for immigrants, and sending masked goons to brutalize and occasionally murder our neighbors in our streets.

So yeah. It felt weird being patriotic during these Olympics. Many Team USA athletes said so themselves.

But America is so much bigger than Donald Trump and his evil government.

The flag that flies when an American athlete wins a gold medal isn’t Donald Trump’s flag. It’s ours. The anthem that plays isn’t Donald Trump’s song. It’s ours. If we refuse to celebrate what’s great about our country because of the people trying to ruin it, they’ve already succeeded.

There’s a reason Trump and his administration didn’t celebrate most of Team USA’s wins. (Except the men’s hockey team. I wonder why...) The bigots in charge of our country like to claim that our diversity makes us weaker. Every two years, Team USA proves otherwise at the Olympics. Americans of every race, every background, and every orientation show that they can work together to become the best in the world.

There’s a reason Trump and his administration didn’t celebrate most of Team USA’s wins. (Except the men’s hockey team. I wonder why...) The bigots in charge of our country like to claim that our diversity makes us weaker. Every two years, Team USA proves otherwise at the Olympics. Americans of every race, every background, and every orientation show that they can work together to become the best in the world.

This year’s Team USA featured all sorts of Americans this administration hates. While this administration tries to demonize immigrants and forcibly remove them from our country, nearly one-fifth of Team USA were immigrants or the children of immigrants, like naturalized citizen Kaillie Humphries and first-generation American Alysa Liu. While this administration cracks down on LGBTQ+ rights, Team USA had Hilary Knight getting engaged to Brittany Bowe before winning a gold medal. While this administration tries to reimagine America as a white ethnostate, Team USA had Black gold medalists like Elana Meyers Taylor and Laila Edwards. I could keep going.

Watching Team USA have their best Winter Olympics ever was a much-needed reminder of all the reasons we can’t give up on this whole America thing. The Trump administration is the worst of us. Team USA is the best of us. Why on earth would we let the worst thing about our country dampen our love for the best things about our country?

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 05/02/2026

"I'm innocent. I can prove it." Charles Flores, a wrongfully convicted football fan, is running out of time. I visited him in Texas for the one hour of the day when he's not in solitary confinement, to talk about life on death row — a decade after the real killer went free: youtu.be/0-GnKLFY_Gc?...

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Watching Football on Death Row — with a Wrongfully Convicted Man | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

⛔️ Big NIH update: We just learned of 726 more NIH grants that were terminated sometime over the past 2 months. A huge number of diversity supps, diversity F31s, and diversity training grants. See below ⤵️ View them here: grant-watch.us/nih-data.html h/t to @noamross.net for processing them.

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

absolutely insane, a betrayal of the most basic principles of freedom of speech for which the American republic is supposed to stand

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil" "Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." Free this man immediately. apnews.com/article/mahm...

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Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I think I’m going to be thinking about this quote from Gordon Hirabayshi on the walls of the museum for a long time.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...

Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. COA25-181
Filed 4 April 2025
Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner,
v.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent,
and
ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent.
Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William
R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."

Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards
to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this
protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or
equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the
notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this
challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by
the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters
who fail to timely cure their deficiencies.
Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters
are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by
these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election
for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for
Supreme Court Seat 6.
The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7
April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Panel consisting of:
Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE.
Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/04/2025

I wrote a bunch of words trying to explain how economically incomprehensible the tariff stuff is. It explains how a 5th grader understands basic econ better than Trump and his economic advisors. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...

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Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic

There’s a fundamental problem with Donald Trump’s new trade policy: it fails a test that actual 5th graders can pass. I know this because I tried explaining his “Liberation Day&#8…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

"I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled ," said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like. Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has extended her nationwide block on Trump administration effort to slash funds for NIH research.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025

the “administrative state” in practice is a lot of very hard working, practically anonymous people doing the thankless work of making this country run and a drug-addled dipshit is slandering them in order to steal our money for himself

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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID left thousands of volunteers around the world w/ experimental drugs + medical devices in their bodies – cut off from care by researchers running clinical trials, in violation of the fundamental principles of research www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order

The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

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Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating

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Chris Tackett @cjtackett.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Federal Government just capped indirect rates for new and existing grants for research at universities at 15%. Capping indirect costs was on page 355 of Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as "indirect costs." Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It is the position of the administration that a post saying “Free Palestine” or talking about diversity should ruin your life, but a post calling to hate people from India should not. That’s their moral sensibility. Nazi scum.

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

Kash Patel confirmation hearing:

Dick Durbin asks Patel if he’s familiar with Stew Peters—a right-wing fringe conspiracy theorist.

Patel: <long pause> Not off the top of my head.

Durbin: You’ve made eight appearances on his podcast.

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?

Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.

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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

And the funding announcement for diversity supplements now has been updated to expire today. Supplements are so important to the careers of junior scientists. This is crushing for post docs and early career faculty grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

ICE’s unnamed and unruffled spokesman says the agency can make anyone in America show their papers, citizen or not, probable cause or not. www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...

An ICE spokesperson later issued a statement confirming that the raid had occurred and acknowledging that U.S. citizens may have been detained.
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may encounter U.S. citizens while conducting fieldwork and may request identification to establish an individual's identity as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite today in Newark, New Jersey," the statement read.
"This is an active investigation, and per ICE policy, we cannot discuss ongoing investigations."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We spent the last four years writing about the high price of eggs under Biden. Now that they’ve reached an all-time high under Trump we’ve moved on to other topics.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every once in a while we publish a paper that moves a whole field forward. I think that's the case for this one from the Bugaj lab, where they describe proteins for THERMOGENETIC control of cellular behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A temperature-inducible protein module for control of mammalian cell fate - Nature Methods

The Melt (Membrane localization using temperature) protein translocates to the plasma membrane upon temperature shift. Melt variants with a range of switching temperatures enable straightforward therm...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Jeremy S Davis @flydrocarbon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I got to meet Todd Young, the Republican (tea party) Senator for Indiana once. When I asked him to support increased NSF funding, he said "Of course, it's critical for helping our military stay ahead" Hard-line Rs absolutely can and will support NIH/NSF if you advocate correctly. Call them 👇

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R. Scott @scottpigman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

How is this not an Onion article?

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Matt Moskovciak @mattmoskovciak.com · 07/12/2024

This an absolutely harrowing read that somehow keeps getting worse as it goes on. Phenomenal journalism by @davidmcswane.bsky.social; some of the best reporting I've read in a long time.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Many of you are getting to know Lily, my goofball kitten. But for years, I lived with a wonderful cat named Carla. This is the tribute I wrote for her when she passed away last spring. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Cat Who Saved Me

I will never owe another cat the debt that I owe her.

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