"The question is whether, given the science, the climate impacts unfolding around us, the opportunities emerging in the global economy and our own recent political history, it is the wisest use of $40-billion." #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...

Tzeporah Berman@tzeporah.bsky.social · yesterday

Canada is being asked to make a $40B bet on the past. We’re told another oil pipeline will bring national unity, economic security & prosperity. We’ve heard this before. You don’t prepare a country for the future by betting billions on the past www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

So Trump is now saying the "ballroom" is actually "the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself" He's also extended soldiers in D.C. until Jan. 20, 2029, his last day It's impossible to not to imagine the very worst

Surely there is some mistake! There's no way this tax applies to me, a retired diplomat who lives in Paris who spent millions of dollars renovating the 12 million dollar apartment I never intended to live in. There must be some mistake

JVG 骨@jasonv.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who? Me??

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

mamdani's social media: NYC, today is a monumental day. I've slain Gorlax the Spurious, the beast who lived in the sewers and ate children and small dogs. every conservative thinkpiece article: Slaying Gorlax the Spurious might *sound* appealing, but what if you don't have children or small dogs?

The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

So Trump and McMahon now are trying the velvet glove approach to get universities to submit. It’s just a watered down version of the compact they tried to impose last year. No self-respecting university should comply. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter (Gift Article)

The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.

nytimes.com

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Taking a break from coffee for a bit and I'm just so fucking sluggish.

"You are among the most privileged people in America, which means the cost of courage is lower for you than for almost anyone else being asked to show it."

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 2w ago

"As the United States has struggled to deal with its own authoritarian breakthrough, the opposition has often focused on institutions. Accountability, however, can attach only to individuals." @arneduncan.bsky.social is right: our personal legacies are at stake in this moment. wapo.st/3RW4HPo

A bigger flex would be buying his own personal Amtrak car

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2w ago

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

Cecilia Vega says she was pressured by Bari Weiss and other CBS execs to include misinformation and political bias in reporting that aired this year. "Never in my career, until now, have I felt that those edits, that those suggestions, came from a place of misinformation or politics."

“60 Minutes” correspondent says Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that “never happened”

Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.

ms.now

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Further analysis of Packalen & Bhattacharya article, where they claimed #NIH-funded research was slow to pick up on new ideas. I argue that their approach is flawed, and I present an analysis that shows the exact opposite. pubpeer.com/publications...

I’m sorry what

He wants to talk to the museum's manager so he can talk them into returning the artifacts to their rightful owners.

Ryan McNeil@ryanmcneil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just our six-year-old walking around the Natural History Museum explaining to anyone who will listen that all of the artifacts are stolen and thus cursed.

Just our six-year-old walking around the Natural History Museum explaining to anyone who will listen that all of the artifacts are stolen and thus cursed.

From the article, this sort of framing always drives me up the wall : "the operations centre has been in a structural deficit for nearly a decade." As if it is supposed to make a profit as opposed to being a public good to protect people.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 2w ago

MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

apnews.com

This is officially the most American thing I’ve ever seen.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 3w ago

wow at this incredible deal

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

This pre-game is up there (down there ?) with Fergie at the NBA all-star game

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.