Last week someone distracted me while I was setting up my PCR tubes and I forgot I'd already pipetted some DNA extract and I accidentally pipetted it onto my glove.

Did anybody else learn about the labor movement in hebrew school

There is genuinely a larger problem of american guns being trafficked to mexico than mexican drugs being trafficked to america

this is a silly tangent to the actual point david is making but I always thought a cool idea was for high level basketball to have a "height cap" — each team would be limited in terms of how much *combined* height they could have on the floor at once.

My heart aches for Dolores Huerta. Not only was she a victim, but she must have felt unable to speak out for fear of destroying a legacy that SHE was integral in building.
She is the mother of a movement and has my utmost support.

Really feels like every week, we get another news story about how young Republicans are becoming outright fascists.

Appeals court weighs in: Can religious employers fire workers for being trans? A transgender former Liberty University employee who fled the U.S. is at the center of a case testing how far religious employers can go.

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Cuba’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade | CNN Cuba’s electrical grid suffered a total collapse on Monday, the country’s power operator said, marking the latest nationwide blackout in recent years, and the first since the US effectively shut off t...

Just evil behavior from the US

www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

If you actually took the time to read through her timeline you'd notice this isn't the first time she's mentioned this.

It just so happens it's the first time we're listening. That's on us, not her.

no matter when people come forward, the timing is always questioned and criticized and used as a reason to delegitimize the speaker. this is but one reason why coming forward is difficult.

Because until now, it didn't feel urgent enough, real enough, for her to bare her soul like this. It's not some conspiracy.

Remember when car alarms were so sensitive they'd go off if you looked at em funny

Thank you for speaking out. That's scary, especially in a field like academia.

Yeah. Someone who’ll abuse power as a professor is NOT someone who should hold even more power.

So hold on, you think Kat is being taken advantage of in her relationship, but you also somehow think this is a sign of HER doing something wrong???

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Florida Sheriffs rebel against Trump's, DeSantis' mass deportation efforts • Florida Phoenix Florida Republican sheriffs want President Donald Trump to end mass deportations of undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes, a striking shift from law enforcement in the nation’s most agg...

This is a REALLY big deal.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: “…we are on the ground floor with this day in and day out — looking in the eyes of these folks that, yes, came here inappropriately. But some came here inappropriately only to do better for themselves and their family.”

Who is a more credible threat to engage in military action against these countries at the moment? I mean, seriously. Whose leader actively threatens to do so practically on a daily basis? China or the US?

$40/$460 🥺🥺

U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access

The Trump Regime is a street level crime gang: thuggery, extortion, threats.
What an embarrassment.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

It's spelled C-O-L-O-N-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N.

actual nazi

I'm doing a lot of cool organizing and native community work rn but I can't talk about it without doxxing myself and it's making me NUTS

Nazis burning books on trans healthcare

Even within the op comment, trans people are left out. The famous book burning was at a gender healthcare clinic

S.F. public defender held in contempt for refusing cases. He’s not backing down San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said Thursday he plans to continue to turn down some criminal cases even after a judge found him in contempt.

San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said Thursday he plans to continue to turn down some criminal cases even after a judge found him in contempt.

Photo of a whooping crane in a marsh

ZOO FACT:
The Giant Panda is difficult to breed in captivity but less so than the Whooping Crane. Their cycles are predictable, but the whooping is such a mood killer.

I don’t hear nearly as many people talk about sex work as degrading now as I did when I started 15 years ago. Hard to say how much of this is because I curate my spaces so much better and how much is because the baseline for “degrading job” has reaaaalllyyyy gone down