📆 Reality check: “Early April” is the date to watch. The bill hasn’t been formally delivered yet. Congress is heading into recess, & there’s a procedural standoff at the White House. Once presented, the President has 10 days (Sundays excluded) to sign.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I'd argue for policies and laws that require all automotive software critical to base functions be open-sourced.
Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.
Today, @meghankallman.bsky.social, @mackdistrict6.bsky.social and @dawneuer.bsky.social will be among the state lawmakers from across the U.S. to gather in-person and virtually at the Minnesota Capitol for a day of solidarity with their Minnesota colleagues.
More: rilegislature.gov/pressrelease...
Montana Democratic lawmakers going to Minnesota for "Day of Solidarity"
A group of Democratic state
lawmakers from Montana are traveling to Minnesota and Minneapolis this week.
Cora Neumann, Audrey Cromwell, and Chris Pope departed Gallatin County today.
www.kpax.com/news/montana...
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
3D cell shapes come to the fore! We often focus on the apical cortex but her work reveals how complex 3D cell shapes mean that focus misses many key cell-cell contacts 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
The Board recommends that NSF: Boost participation and invite expert reviews from a wider range of industry, research institutions, venture capital, and regions of the country. Emphasize that NSF-funded research must deliver societal benefits, including research that advances the nation's economic competitiveness and national security. Build NSF's award portfolio at the agency level for greater nimbleness and strategic alignment with national priorities, both current and emerging. NSF previously announced operational changes to its Merit Review to streamline, clarify, and harmonize agency funding strategies to achieve top scientific and national priorities, similar to those made by the National Institutes of Health. In the coming year, the Board will continue working with NSF leaders to implement NSB recommendations for Merit Review policy changes, such as encouraging verification of previously reported results and pursuing more bold research with high reward potential. "We can't succeed in a new era with yesterday's playbook," says McCrary. "For our nation to win the race for the future, NSF must develop transformative partnerships with the private sector, states and communities. Together, we can blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science, usher in a Golden Age of American Innovation, and deliver on the promise of science and technology for the benefit of all Americans."
The National Science Board, which oversees NSF, has published recommendations to update the foundation's merit review (which was just updated).
Below are the main points. www.nsf.gov/nsb/updates/...
Whoa... law is far outside my specialty, but I'm shocked that this is legal
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
The CDC has shown us that under this WH administration that they are not trustworthy
Not for vaccines
HRT
prevalence of mental health issues
& literally anything else
Look to the American Psychological Association
The American Academy of Pediatrics
& more
due diligence is more important than ever
Because the vaccine prevents chronic hepatitis B for which there is no cure and the lifelong treatment costs more than a single birth dose of the vaccine. Insurance companies recognize this is a no brainer.
Brought to you by prevention beats treatment any day.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/h...
Looks like a Stephen King character about to melt through their human skin to reveal the vile monster within.
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.
A plate of the same cookies.
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
screenshot of a post from X by the Mirriam-Webster account. Their tweet says Words step up when numbers fail. They are retweeting a post from @david_arid that reads: There was a computer flitch at the end of tonight's Nuggets game that erased all the players' stats, which led to this fantastic screengrab from the post-game show. Then there is a blurry picture from a men's basketball game and the chyron says: Time Hardaway Jr. Stats are down but he played great."
I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.
Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
warmest congratulations to Scott Emr and Wes Sundquist for being awarded the 2025 World Laureate Association Prize in life science or medicine english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-Latest-Ta...
WLA doesnt do a great job advertizing in the US so i am doing their job for them. So well deserved!
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
(BioRxiv All) Mechanism of single-strand annealing from native mass spectrometry and cryo-EM structures of RAD52 homolog Mgm101: RAD52, the primary single-strand annealing (SSA) protein in humans, forms undecameric rings that bind ssDNA within a narrow, positively-charged… #BioRxiv #MassSpecRSS
