El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

"Science: A New Golden Age is not so much a visionary document for remaking American science as it is a recipe for burning the existing house down." bigthink.com/starts-with-...

An honest look inside the "Science: A New Golden Age" report

Scientists are livid over the OSTP director's official report to the President. Will it lead to a new golden age for US science, or end it?

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David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

Cowards. The agreement still immunizes Trump and his kids from IRS audits and any other government action for financial crimes they committed prior to this year. The only "limitation" is that it doesn't also immunize anyone and everyone else with whom they associate.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

They are Charlie Brown, except they know Lucy is going to pull the football away but they need to pretend they don't (and will act shocked at Lucy's inevitable betrayal).

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, announced in turn on Monday that they would support him.

Genuinely looks like a scene from a Batman movie where a cartoonishly evil villain somehow makes it onto mainstream media to rant against the establishment.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

First the president openly sells insider trading access; and now there's direct evidence of him doing money laundering. And he is still the president.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.

Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 5d ago

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The White House plan to attract manufacturing businesses with a volatile regulatory environment, new arbitrary taxes (subject to change on a whim), and sending secret police to harass foreign workers has not led to more factory construction in the US. Why didn’t that work? I was told it would work.

It's funny that he did this on the same day that Pirro admitted the reflecting pool charges were weaponization of the justice system in its purest, uncut form.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5d ago

Acting attorney general Todd Blanche has insisted for weeks that President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is completely, undeniably dead. But on Friday, Trump twice undermined Blanche’s sworn testimony.

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

It’s the IRS scandal that Republicans went insane over except: 1) a million times more serious than PAC approval 2) IT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING instead of being bullshit 3) Trump himself is doing this

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.

literally impeach him just for this

Media needs to stop treating Trump's threats of war crimes against Iran as bluster. The mere fact that he's *threatening* to inflict such sociopathic horrors on tens of millions of people is itself a scandal. On the pod, @emilyhorne.bsky.social and I on this idea: newrepublic.com/article/2136...

Trump’s Rage at Iran Takes Truly Scary Turn, and Even MAGA Is Unnerved

As Trump’s threats of escalation in Iran worsen, a former State Department official explains why the deeper dynamics surrounding the trap ensnaring Trump are so alarming.

newrepublic.com

Trump, Houman, and every GOP member of Congress are complicit in these deaths.

Ray Beckerman@raybeckerman.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump Admin Condemned After Missouri Couple Killed in Guatemala Following Deportation www.commondreams.org/news/asylum-...

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.

Last week, I conducted oversight at a Minnesota ICE facility with @repilhan.bsky.social. We saw people in leg restraints and vans taking people to deportation flights. ICE was defensive and unable to answer questions. This agency should not exist as it exists. Disband ICE.

Congress members visit Whipple Federal Building: "I was shocked to see that everyone in here has leg restraints"

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been taking people they detain in Minnesota to the Whipple Federal Building for processing. On Friday, members of Congress were there for an oversight visit.

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Did anyone tell Gorsuch that he and his colleagues are the reason why democracy is “facing some tough times” because they granted Trump immunity and got him out of his trial??

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last wk.

JUST IN: Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @RonaldReagan civility conference US democracy is 'very fragile' & 'facing some tough times.' 'We are all in it together, and if we don't stay all in it together, it will crumble,' Gorsuch says, urging students to study history 'warts and all'

one of the most frustrating things about what Rowling has turned into is how hard it is to explain to offline people that she’s not just another author who has turned out to have shitty views - her entire life and fortune is dedicated to destroying trans people

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last wk.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

This is exactly how Christian nationalism advances: not all at once, but through policies that steadily give religious interests preferential treatment under the law.

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

The Justice Department is supposed to defend the rights of all Americans. Instead, Todd Blanche's new “religious liberty” memo manufactures legal arguments for Christian privilege. This is what Christian Nationalism looks like as federal policy. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-justic...

The FDA used to have a warning on its website against bogus autism “remedies,” eg, the dangerous—sometimes deadly—chelation pushed by RFK Jr & his antivaxx ally David Geier RFK Jr ordered the warnings to be removed 😢 Anyone who tells me I must “find common cause” with MAHA & its leader can STFU

Darkest Timeline@darkest-timeline.bsky.social · 2w ago

I remember when RFK jrs fans were into chelation. I've got a 20 something autistic kid, and it was part of his antivax nonsense.

if you’re 45 today, you can remember a time, as an adult, where things didn’t seem anywhere near this bad, even though you lived through the OKC bombing, 90s pro-life ultraviolence, 9/11 and the war on terror

This is part of a very good thread about the FDA tossing the normal regulatory process aside for a bunch of grifters; I want to be really, really clear that what this is doing is allowing unstudied drugs to enter the market. It's incredibly dangerous.

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hear hear: “Perhaps if we called these peptides “experimental hormones", or better yet, “experimental hormones whose functions are not well understood", maybe more people would understand why scientists and physicians want more research done before they are approved as medicine.”

The claim "RFK Jr does not fuck goats" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr fucks goats

These three posts say almost everything about what’s happening in the USA: wealth doesn’t trickle down, but cruelty at the top definitely does. The result is terrorizing Black and brown people and immigrants.

Millions of drivers just want a simple car where the only innovation is battery power. Why do so many EV companies be like "let's replace the steering wheel with a joystick!" and "what if the doors only unlock when you lick em?"

Trump should be praised because if he isn't he'll keep throwing tantrums, demanding attention, firing people, and generally making everything worse. His black hole of an ego demands constant praise, adulation, and credit for everything good or bad things start happening.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effort REED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?