While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.
NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...
The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.
NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
Imagine if we had just *wasted* the Artemis II space project.
We @climatesollab.bsky.social track the extra fuel costs the Iran war has imposed on American households. As of today, the total nationwide cost is $24.6 billion, more than the annual budget of NASA.
iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.
theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...
There's no legal basis for these boat strikes, and US officials involved in them should be prosecuted for attempted murder and murder. The OLC memo green-lighting the strikes is still secret, but there's nothing it could say that would make these strikes lawful. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.
The Trump admin and Sen. Mike Lee are conspiring to destroy public lands for short term profit. Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
www.hcn.org/articles/interior-depart...
One of the selling points with Trump's immigration crackdown is that it would raise wages and improve job prospects for low-income workers.
But "unemployment is up slightly, and wage growth has slowed."
Turns out that the US lost consumers as well as workers.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.
Read and share:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
This May Day, higher ed will join a massive wave of resistance to demand:
✅Make higher ed affordable
✅End the assault on science & research
✅Protect students' right to learn & faculty’s right to teach
✅Suspend ICE activity
Show up on May 1 and RSVP here: www.labor4highered.org/may-day-events
First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.
Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.
"This is an important thing to think about."
The thing about that Washington painting behind him:
“Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.”
If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...
And it is not just drag shows that are placed at risk by these politicians. In its puritanical zeal to root out new forms of "indecency," the act even bans sports l bras and other kinds of women's clothing when worn in "physical proximity" to those who are not members of the woman's household.
It does this by radically expanding the definition of public indecency. The act replaces the definitional provision "private parts," with "private area," a term that makes criminally indecent female breasts "where nude or covered by an undergarment." This means that police could arrest any woman in public whose breasts they deem to be covered "only" by "an undergarment."
in Ohio they’re trying to ban drag outside of “adult cabarets, and once again, every time these losers try to police gender they inevitably end up writing a law that’s like “oopsies, we also banned being a woman in public.”
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
Data centers must be held responsible for rising electricity costs and the environmental impact on local communities.
Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.
Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...
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Maddow: "Amid all of this insanity it may be a good time to remember that this kind of desperation from the White House and from the president is palpably driven by fear."
New York Times headline and lede that reads: “Middle East War Will Slow Global economic Growth, IMF Warns” —In a report, the International Monetary Fund said that disrupt ions to oil markets could fuel inflation and raise the possibility of a global recession”
Trump did this!
This is what normalization looks like.
Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus?
That was this week.
Congrats!! 🎉🎈🍾
"What’s the point of having an expert on something in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say to students? If the board or the university wants to ...tell us what to say..., the very idea of a university collapses."
www.chronicle.com/article/prof...
What is this utter drivel of a narrative that the Pope is *apolitical*??!
He’s the head of a sovereign f’ing country!
Is this the regurgitated fever dreams of people that thought that SCOTUS was (ever) apolitical??
When we get to 62 days in he will be in violation of the War Powers Act too. 👀⚖️
this should be the opposition rallying cry in every country where fascists have been ascendant
There is now a massive street party with huge crowds dancing in Budapest. Hugs, tears and bottles opening. Orban is gone, Peter Magyar took power
Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.
the viability of many right-wing intellectuals and intellectual spaces is enormously dependent on the largesse of reactionary billionaires and foreign governments, who help them circumvent a marketplace of ideas where they would otherwise post extraordinarily poor sales
