Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026

This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...

Getting real tired of "AI will revolutionize your workflow!" I am a scientist! I do what I do because I want to dig into things myself. I don't want offload that labor onto a computer, and I don't need to accelerate the rate at which I work, because the point of the work is to learn.

Can confirm

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The US is being murdered, & it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau & function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/1...

Tisza's Magyar says Orbán congratulated us on our victory! Raise a glass 🥃 to freedom! 🇭🇺

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Orban says the “results are painful for us but clear.”

Trump is probably going to lash out at him for not crying fraud, but I have to say, this is a good thing he’s done in conceding, and it actually shames MAGA and Trump.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Viktor Orbán has congratulated Péter Magyar!
#HungaryElection

Maybe now there will be a shift in EU and Ukraine support follow-through of funding. A loss for Putin for sure!

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Exclusive | Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, according to people familiar with the remarks.

Trump has repeatedly told top administration officials he plans to pardon them before leaving office. In one recent meeting, Trump said “I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval.”

As a professional user of fire science, I share this sentiment. Some of the most eye-opening scholarship I have read over the last several years has been spearheaded by Forest Service scientists.

Mateus Silva introduces a tool to facilitate seed provenancing for climate-smart ecosystem restoration📊🌎

Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪

appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/05/m...

Publicly-funded science is a source of knowledge that is not under the sway of the executive. It is therefore a threat to their ability to shape/control narratives and declare 'truth' via executive order.

It produces meaning in shades of gray instead of the desired black/white absolutes.

This is real

It’s being done in our name

Congressional Republicans are okay with this

Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain

After Trump's unhinged post saying "Open the Fuckin' Strait" and mocking Iran with "Praise be to Allah," I repeat what I've said for many months in my Stop the Presses newsletter:
The media betray their duty by not loudly declaring that the president of the United States is out of his mind.

Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz framed it as getting “closer to the forests.” What it actually does is gut the career scientists and independent oversight that stood between those forests and the people who want to exploit them.

A line grant of the cumulative numbers of awards for NSF from fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below well the other curves.

NSF update

Still looking very bleak.

4/5

Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, Lynas, Mark, Houlton, Benjamin Z, Perry, Simon

Staggered that some people (including some politicians)

think it is acceptable to say that they don’t “believe” climate change is driven by humans

Anthropogenic global heating is not a matter for belief, but of overwhelming scientific evidence
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

ICE inspectors finds 49 standards violations at Camp East Montana Inspectors from ICE's Office of Detention Oversight found 49 standards violations during a three day oversight visit to Camp East Montana.

Even ICE oversight inspectors are finding violations at Camp East Montana in El Paso, according to a report published yesterday. Inspectors found 49 violations during a visit in February.

My story for the El Paso Times:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA In re Grand Jury Subpoenas Nos. & BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, Petitioner, v. Miscellaneous Action No. 26-12 (JEB) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER On March 11, 2026, this Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order that quashed the Government’s subpoenas directed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In re Grand Jury Subpoenas, --- F. Supp. 3d ---, 2026 WL 710202 (D.D.C. Mar. 13, 2026) (opinion publicly released on March 13, 2026). The Government promptly moved for reconsideration of that decision. See ECF No. 21 (Mot. Recon.). As its cursory brief neither offers new evidence nor points to any material error, the Court will deny the Motion

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg denies DOJ's motion to reconsider his order quashing the Federal Reserve subpoenas, finding that DOJ's "cursory brief neither offers new evidence nor points to any material error."

The subpoenas remain quashed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

AI evangelists insist it “takes the grind and misery” out of writing.

And that says a lot about the sort of writing it was designed to automate (heartbreaking corporate form-filling day-job cut-to-length word-carpet that doesn’t need writing, and certainly doesn’t need reading.)

BREAKING: We @democracydefendersfund.org & @lawyerscomm.bsky.social sued DHS & ICE

They’re using facial recognition apps to surveil the public — including U.S. citizens & protesters

100,000+ times w/ zero records produced

& w/ zero transparency -TN

Time to sue the feds!

Judge blocks Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR A federal judge agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Another Trump Executive Order (cutting funding for PBS and NPR) is ruled illegal.
"It is difficult to conceive of clearer evidence that a government action is targeted at viewpoints that the President does not like and seeks to squelch" said the judge.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doubled in 2025.

But under Russ Vought's tenure heading the CFPB, the agency has been gutted.

It's now easier than ever for shady banks, lenders, and credit card companies to pick your pocket.

And it's all because of the Trump regime.

Accountability brings consequences.

And consequences are the only language corruption understands.

Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution.

They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

I wonder if this will destabilize the Gulf, and I am not joking

NEW: ICE Raided Children's Dorms at Dilley and Confiscated Their Letters. I'm Suing to Get Them Back. In our latest lawsuit, MSW Media is demanding children's letters confiscated by ICE agents, and the Office of General Counsel memo authorizing warrantless home entry.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...