Same here.

Dems win big, start talking about "look forward, not behind" and use their mandate to pass a plan with a twelve-part means test that, if you qualify, will let you take an income tax deduction for disposable diapers so long as it's less than $50.

And it expires in three years.

I Was Redistricted Twice. I Still Stood With Virginia. Texas broke the rules. Virginia answered. Everything else is noise.

Yes, I was redistricted twice. Yes, I hate it. And yes, I cut commercials for Virginia's redistricting effort and I'm proud of it. Here's why the GOP meltdown today is pure hypocrisy:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans.

Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties).

The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Still has the *highest* confidence/credibility of any profession in the US.

www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

If "showing our resolve" was so damn effective, you would think we wouldn't have to keep doing it so often.

The company that just published an explicitly fascist manifesto is now being hired to "safeguard" our food supply.

Great.

CV, totally agree except for jobs you had when you were a kid if you're experienced now.

Resume, you can run out of room very fast if you've had an eclectic job history. I advise people to title the section something like "Most relevant employment experience" if they need to be selective.

Convince me that this episode hasn't revealed in stark contrast Director(s) Bhattacharya's true motivations and values.

Oh, is that why Quiet Posters isn't working for me any more?

That's certainly...a choice.

The crime was offending the apocalyptic White Evangelicals upon whom the entire enterprise relies for ensuring US support and participation.

So we're just all dropping the pretense that this isn't a war? Senators admitting it, Cabinet Secretaries admitting it, all in open session.

So when is a war declaration coming from Congress?

If y'all don't respect the law, why should we?

AI suddenly worried about the sanctity of copyright 😂😂

I thought this was a satire account etc. etc.

I sure didn't feel very lethal last time I had the flu

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

They water you?

Lucky.

Is this money laundering?

Because it sounds like money laundering.

But then again, I'm not a money launderer, so what do I know?

EV sales surged everywhere apart from the US, rising more than 20% globally in 2025

* EVs were half of Chinese sales and electric truck sales in China tripled
* EV sales outside CN/Eu/US grew 80% (!)

10/10

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

This is the first time in my Bluesky-posting life I have encountered the phrase "justice involved population".

The TL;DR is that recently-leaked internal memos from 2016 reveal that John Roberts and the court's conservatives invented the shadow docket because of nakedly ideological opposition to Obama's Clean Power Plan.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I lived through the cocaine-fueled 80's.

I can imagine it just fine.

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Talent and hard work

Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Coaker group University of California, Davis We are seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar to join our research program focused on immune receptor engineering and spatial analyses of plant pathogens interactions using computational and imaging approaches. The position will involve integration of molecular, imaging, and computational approaches. Relevant publications from the laboratory include Nature Plants (2025, PMID: 40721669), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024, PMID: 38814867), and Cell Reports (2023, PMID: 37342910). https://www.coakerlab.org/ Qualifications: • Ph.D. in plant biology, molecular biology, genetics, computational biology, or a related field • Strong background in genomics and/or computational biology • First author publications in peer-reviewed journals • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment • Experience in plant innate immunity is preferred Application Instructions: The position is initially available for two years, with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Salary is based on the University of California postdoctoral salary scale (https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2025-26/represented-oct-2025-scales/t23.pdf). The salary range for this position is $69,073-$82,836 US Dollars/year. Review of applications will begin June 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a brief statement of research interests (~1 page), and contact information for three references to glcoaker@ucdavis.edu. The research statement should describe your previous work, how your expertise aligns with ongoing research in the lab, and potential future research directions.

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Gift link:

I swear I'm not trying to be difficult but: did you ever just ask them?

Even if the answer wasn't frank, it may have been illuminating.

Fantastic video as always. I don't know whether or not to be mad at you for exposing me to Mr. Beast, whom I have been able to dodge thru 23 years of parenthood

New preprint from the group where we developed fluorescent and Halo tagged nanodiscs. All plasmids are available from @addgene.bsky.social if you are interested in trying them out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...