POV: you are the GOP strategists looking at this

Dj@djsoke.bsky.social · 6d ago

These polls also have Ds up in every gov race, the closest being Kansas and Texas, both D+1 Texas generic ballot is R+1

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

Someone should check in on the rational actor assumption. Seems like it has had a hell of a week/month/year/decade.

"The night before, Ebeling and other Morton Thiokol engineers tried to convince NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that launching in cold weather could be disastrous." www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.

npr.org

Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream.. Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰

Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors.

The evil that men do lives after them

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

nature.com

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

quantamagazine.org

Killing MIT seems dumb to me

A plague a’ both houses!

"The magnitude of [the stakes of new technology], taken together with the insufficiency of our predictive knowledge, leads to the pragmatic rule to give the prophecy of doom priority over the prophecy of bliss." Hans Jonas

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Heinrich Heine says good morning.

watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats

The road to fascism is paved with bitches telling you “it’s not that serious”

elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times”

Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.

The Tower of Babel, rising ever higher above the city, 1580. Giant Nimrod at right criticizing architect: it needs to be taller! Taller! By Hendrick van Cleve, whose day is today.

US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil former leader Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison President Lula, top prosecutor says.

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...