Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Three successful women physicists in India – Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha – talk to Shobha Shukla and Matin Durrani about their triumphs, the challenges they’ve faced and their attempts to build a more equitable future. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/how-women-...

How women physicists in India are breaking down barriers and shaping the future – Physics World

Kaveri Hukku, Asima Pradhan and Urbasi Sinha describe their journeys as physicists in India

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So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d 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.

The attacks on Fauci are about anti-intellectualism. They are not specific to COVID. Of course they are a cynical distraction, but Peter Thiel has been a frothing Fauci-hater. Libertarian tech-lords are basically shopkeepers with a complex that they are Ayn Rand heroes. They see a Fauci (1/N)

A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.

What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d ago

Where is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Jonas Salk Hologram To Be Prosecuted By People Who Didn't Get Polio

The treatment of Fauci is an absolute disgrace.

We need to figure out how to lock up Rand Paul (and Peter Thiel who also has an anti-Fauci vendetta) before they cause even more damage.

Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · last wk.

Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...

In 2020, a new plague swept across the Earth, killing millions. Before that year was even over, wizards working in an invisible world had devised a shield that everybody could use. The result wasn't a new era of scientific appreciation but of preening frauds lying more shamelessly than ever before.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.

Rand Paul is only where he is, like RFK Jr. because of his father and his name. Fauci is a hero and Rand Paul is a zero.

Gift article: Bouie's excellent point is that Musk's white nationalism is *exactly* that expressed by notorious racist lunatics like Dylann Roof -- yet our society coddles this powerful billionaire propagandist as if he were not the dangerous menace he clearly is. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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A GOP subcommittee already looked at Fauci and found no wrongdoing. There's no new science supporting a lab leak. Rand Paul subpoenaed him anyway and 150 scientists are calling it a witch hunt. Some men just can't let a good grudge go, even for a virus.

WATCH LIVE: Senate panel questions Fauci on ‘diary entries’ about COVID-19 origins

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday. It’s part of Paul’s yearslong accusations that the now-retired infectious disease expert had lied about the pandemic, something Fauci has called “preposterous.”

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Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is speaking up for the Haitians in his state. trib.al/i5yXEJ3

Ohio’s Republican Governor Warns Trump Against Deporting Haitians

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is speaking up for the Haitians in his state.

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Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

Props to the brave students in India who forced the resignation of the Modi government’s education minister. These brave students staged a peaceful sit-in protest that lasted a month, went on hunger strike, and endured violence from the Delhi police. (1/2)

Cockroach Solidarity from Abroad: Rebuild an Inclusive, Secular, Democratic India, Brick by Brick - The Wire

The cockroach youth uprising has already pushed through collective fear, and changed what Indians of all ages believe is possible.

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Pre-1990: they said we were crazy to suggest that there could be low surface brightness material all over the sky.

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory@vrubinobs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Talk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪

For Americans who want to avoid the dreaded cyclosporiasis and get a respite from the mayhem at home: visit Canada! The food security is much better than in the US. The lettuce is delicious, fresh, and clean. Canadians are wonderfully nice and a joy to meet. 🍁🇨🇦

If you bankrolled the worst terrorist attack on the US, you can have a nuclear program. ✅ Anyone else in the Middle East? We will spend billions of dollars and however many lives it takes to stop you🤷🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...

Trump Administration Is Said to Reach Broad Nuclear Deal With Saudis

Some U.S. lawmakers from both parties and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to eventually develop nuclear weapon...

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Odysseus made his way past the Sirens in his own clever little way, pouring wax in the ears of his crew and tying himself to the mast, but score one for Bram's more devastating stratagem of having to pee in time to miss the siren singing scene.

Neutron stars can have an outer crust made of neutron glass. OK, in principle I understand what neutron glass could be like. But if I try to imagine it as actual, tangible stuff, my head explodes. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

The funny thing is, the chuds hate this version of the Odyssey because Nolan cast trans and non-white actors but if they actually were media literate, they'd hate this version of the Odyssey because it adopts their civilizational frame and then violently rejects *them* and their ideology.

And scene.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump has been threatening Spain with sanctions all week, so it seems like they're a lock to win the World Cup now.

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

Check the date on this one--responding to impending RFK Jr. nomination.

Jorts (and Jean)@jortsthecat.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Happy birthday to amateur pioneering American scientist, inventor & women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote (1819-1888) 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡 #histsci who did the earliest experiments to show the insulating effect of certain gases &correctly concluded that increasing carbon dioxide levels would affect atmospheric

"Pollution, pollution Wear a gas mask and a veil Then you can breathe Long as you don't inhale" --The late great Tom Lehrer