“When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party. They are a dissident movement. Act like it.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social is a Never-Trump Republican political strategist:
Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
Recent candidate for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. SamForNJ.org. Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · yesterdayIt gets worse when you remember that the Strait of Hormuz was open before the war started. So we’re spending $40B and people are dying on both sides to return to the status quo from January. Everything is socialism unless it’s money for killing people in pointless forever wars.
Essentially every star less massive than ~70% of the Sun’s mass that ever formed in the history of the Universe is still shining today
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2d agoTell me a fun fact.
"By creating a set of proposed rules that go well beyond current Supreme Court guidelines and turning civil rights law against its intended purpose, the administration hopes to force higher education into collaborating with Trump’s resegregation efforts."
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d agoFor MSNOW, I wrote about the Trump administration threatening to strip colleges of their tax-exempt status as part of its larger segregationist agenda.
This is probably the most comprehensive list of orange man's malfeasance. It has 3800+ actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info#all-actions #ImpeachConvictRemove 1/2
Trump Action Tracker | Keeping a tally of Trump's actions
Free and independent tracker documenting Trump-related actions using verified news sources. Statements & plans mapped to authoritarianism domains.
trumpactiontracker.info
The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026
So far.
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Important context missing from all the reporting I have seen so far is the fact that Kadlec is a major Lab Leaker and with one of the craziest “hypotheses” to boot - that SARS-CoV-2 was a bioweapon, specifically created to target the brain but, weirdly, also a vaccine… That’s critical context.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effort was pushed by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec, who initially sought $1.9B from NIAID—roughly one-third of the institute’s budget. After internal pushback, talks narrowed to moving up to $700M of projects, potentially scaling up over 10 years.
I mean here's the deaths, resignations, left to take another job list as of late April, and it's 14 people long.
Everyone Who Has Resigned, Died or Departed in the Bitterly Divided 119th Congress
November’s midterm elections are shaping up to be an intense battle for control of the House and Senate, amplified by partisan gridlock, Republicans’ narrow majorities and a significant number of earl...
people.com
Very good point here: A lot of university leaders will think, "the Trump administration just wants us to make some vague statements - we can live with that." They are not counting on the DOJ using those statements as the basis for legal investigations. Which this DOJ will be willing to do.
Carrie Brown@brizzyc.bsky.social · 2d ago"Coercion is coercion, even if it’s not explicit. Unwary universities could wind up ensnaring themselves while helping to legitimize the administration’s assault on academic freedom — and the Constitution." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/o...
This MO Sup Ct opinion is a big deal. Completely invalidates all of the congressional primaries, undoes the mid-decade map, and puts the blame squarely (and unanimously) on SOS Hoskins. (Per state law, the parties will probably just pick the primary winners to be on the general election ballot.)
"Missouri Supreme Court puts referendum to overturn new congressional map on ballot" #ELB
The opinion is here. I might have more to say about this in the coming days, but Missouri’s Secretary of State refused to put this referendum on the ballot based on an aggressive interpretation of the...
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this is why we need to lay the groundwork for court reform and shit now, there isn't going to be time to build popular support for that stuff it happens immediately or not at all
if we are very lucky we'll get six weeks in 2029 to fix everything
Less congestion. More money. Less pollution. And it turns out: faster emergency services. www.nber.org/digest/20260...
We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...
Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...
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I clipped this. It’s worth listening to in full. I’m thrilled Bouie brought up polls about maintained support for DEI from 2025. I’m looking at Pew polling about BLM from the same time frame and triple checked it because public support also hasnt declined to the degree some discourse would suggest
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · last wk.In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
the cool thing about data is that it anchors you to reality when every newspaper editor is commissioning stories about how the democrats will never win elections again (or saying that Gen Z is the most Republican generation in 50 years). people were just losing their mind in trump social media hype
One out of six Trump voters says they wouldn't vote for him again
Plus, a few articles on why polling isn't broken #ackshually, and YouGov’s LV-RV gap. Your weekly political data roundup for August 30, 2026.
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Microbiologist here. You are making it sound like either alternative is equally likely. Not so. The viral phylogenomic, geospatial and historical evidence support a zoonotic origin. No evidence supports a lab leak. It’s not a close call.
* there is; * it does; * one side, and not the other, is now visibly corrupt in everything it does; * the open corruption is the most urgent to address, for the reasons stated by Mr. Rothkopf
…against pursuing the investigations, impeachment, and prosecutions. That would be a fatal error for American democracy. He must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state.
…to suits and prosecution. Seventh, as the nature of any crimes may be revealed, his political defenders may abandon him. Eighth, what little reputation he may have will be forever stained with the reality that he is the most corrupt president in our history. There are some who will advise…
This scathing article in New Lines is a pretty good summation of McGurk and his rotten legacy. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”
Brett McGurk: A Hero of Our Time
Every generation of American diplomats has a figure who becomes the face of the era in foreign policy, a Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, or Richard Holbrooke. The years of pain and sorrow otherwise kno...
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- No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No docket control at all in fact - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 7d agoOkay, that’s the floor, then. Let’s counter with adding 30 and see where we go.
Okay, that’s the floor, then. Let’s counter with adding 30 and see where we go.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last wk.James Clyburn says on @meetthepress.com that he supports adding four seats to the Supreme Court: “A baker’s dozen would be a good number to have on the court.”
Here’s an interesting study showing that zoonotic spillovet events are happening more and more often. The causes? Human population growth, climate change, and travel tl;dr: we should expect something like it to happen again. gh.bmj.com/content/8/11...
In vivo estrogen imaging is here! Construct is up on addgene, and lots of other imaging constructs are currently in validation. Get in touch if you want advice about how to set up. We are happy to help! Thanks so much to @alleninstitute.org and @onemindorg.bsky.social for their support 😍
eartha mae@endoeartha.bsky.social · last wk.Extremely proud to share @acara333.bsky.social and my new paper, out today in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, where we develop a new fluorescent reporter of neural responses to estrogen! 🔬 paper 📝: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... addgene page 🧬: www.addgene.org/254753/ #neuroskyence 🧪 1/10
