Sheryl Crow says after she posted that video of getting rid of her Tesla an armed man got into her barn. But she says she would do it again anyway. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Another great article (with gift link) on federal research funding which is at risk under Trump. Read and share so more understand how important this funding is for us.

Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert@drsakiyama.bsky.social · last yr.

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Please read & share (gift article). “If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research,” said Andrew Fieldhouse, a Texas A&M economist and an author of the Dallas Fed study."

Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · last yr.

Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-run economic damage equivalent to a major recession, according to a new study from researchers at American University. #EconSky Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b... Study: impa.american.edu/costs-of-cut...

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

A very brief🧵: A recent NY Times article reports on a survey of 35 scholars (including me) asking about the worst excesses of the Trump administration thus far. I discuss the article in my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social. Here's my column. 👇

34 out of 35 Scholars Agree: Trump is a Lawless Authoritarian

Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf evaluates the constitutional and legal abuses committed by Donald Trump during his second term as president, based on a New York Times survey of 35 legal scholars...

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President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0. The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached | CNN Politics

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.

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DOJ's Civil Rights Division has for nearly seven decades been at the forefront of some of the department’s most historically significant work. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Trump DOJ Decimates The Civil Rights Division And All It Stood For

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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Donald Trump has pushed us to a new low. He has accomplished that by enriching himself, whether by pardoning a felon who, together with his wife, donated $1.8 mm to the Trump campaign; promoting Teslas on the White House driveway; or holding a private dinner for purchasers of his cryptocurrency.

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder

Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.

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And again and again and again and again and again

PurplePalozza. This morning on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.

Did y'all know that before the crowbar was invented, crows just drank at home 🥴🥴🤣🤣 Happy Sunday y'all

The world is on Zelensky’s side. Zelensky applauded by world leaders upon entering church.

Cracking Otago day.

"Voters said he had “gone too far” on issue after issue — his tariffs, his immigration enforcement, his cuts to the federal work force." NEW polling shows the country is turning on Trump. It can't happen fast enough IMHO. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Very good thread on the child with cancer who ICE deported.

Leilani (she/her)@glittergremlei.bsky.social · last yr.

I cannot imagine. I cannot imagine. It is the worst thing I have personally seen someone live through outside a war zone. It was hell. A family - a child, a little child - enduring that, cancer that has spread beyond the initial organ, the fear & pain - being *detained* & *deported*

A child who is a U.S. citizen, "suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs" Reporting by @aclu.org

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union

Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

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Trump will not collect data tracking mental health, drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, deportations, weather-related data, student achievement scores. Will we know what problems we have? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

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China trolls the American idiots

The WHI is ending and why you should be concerned and furious. Also, giving RFK Jr, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Marty Makary the keys to the proverbial castle is akin to putting three rabid raccoons into a Costco; eventually they’ll rip everything apart vajenda.substack.com/p/the-whi-is...

The WHI is Ending–You Should Be Furious and Concerned

Ignorance is Strength: RFK Jr and Trump's Anti-Science Agenda

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🤦🏼 couldn’t make it up if we tried

Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.

Any university that follows the guidelines of this administration for accreditation gets an extreme side eye. This guy knows nothing about academia or educational integrity. #MomSky

Trump targets college accreditation process in new executive order | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump took aim at the college accreditation process with a new executive order Wednesday, his latest move to exact control over America’s higher education institutions.

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Instead of taking a "lessons learned" approach to the history of the Covid pandemic, Trump is falsifying and rewriting everything to magnify and glorify himself and to fuel his conspiracy theory of the month.

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19

THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak

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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them. But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Are universities too dependent on federal support?

Destroying a decades-long scientific partnership will hurt more than higher ed

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Trump aims to disembowel scientific research in the US. FT explores the how of his program, though the why remains a mystery. www.ft.com/content/67fd...

The cost of Trump’s attack on American science

Sweeping funding cuts threaten to undermine the innovation that has been a central part of US economic strength for decades

ft.com

To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism "The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

RFK Jr. is wrong about autism

His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.

publicnotice.co

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

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This guy is hysterical!! You have to watch. 😂😂 my friend sent it to me like that. The vid starts immediately.

Is there a Signal chat I can join that will reveal the precise timing and the route of the bombshells that will be deployed to take out Pete Hegseth?

Stephanie Kennedy@wordswithsteph.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: MORE BOMBSHELLS The Pentagon’s former chief spokesman is warning that more “bombshell stories” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are coming — set to leak within days, and that members of Hegseth’s own inner circle will applaud his inevitable ouster. Meanwhile… The White House is…