“When Democrats’ own voters complain about their party in their own words, the complaint is not that Democrats are too liberal or “weak and woke”, it’s that they’re not fighting hard enough, particularly against Donald Trump.”
The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
impt to note that these are permitted numbers — the maximum CO2e allowed — and gas plants often burn much less.
still, even if all these plants get built and emit just half of what's on their permit, they could collectively still emit more than the country of Norway emitted in 2024.
NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.
less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
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Also I feel strongly that NEITHER preparing children for exams NOR preparing children for the workplace are / should be the main purpose of education actually!
In my case it was just pushing back on the library's "we are committed to the ethical use of AI" by asking how they had made the decision that ethical AI use was possible, which of AI's harms they had considered as part of that decision, and which benefits were considered to outweigh those harms.
Lotta evil is downstream from wanting to be scared instead of bored.
He wasn't a chief executive, though. He was the president. And that's a different job. And the fact that you don't think it's a different job is a problem.
It's such a missed opportunity for this administration to have cut the public library budget in the preliminary budget rather than to have come right out of the gate making a significant commitment to libraries and using the library as a way to discuss public goods in the city.
it just like me
walkable cities strongly encourage a feeling of imagined community that helps make you a good citizen. if you experience the city only in slices it's easier to see large swathes of it as fundamentally alien or hostile.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
graph shoiwng cuts to safety net programs are equivalent to the size of the Trump tax cuts
Politicians like to claim eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" will mean they no longer have to make hard choices about taxing and spending. We can have it all! But Trump brought this to a new level, knowing full well that cost savings from OBBA only work by denying services to eligible citizens.
The 'will to persist despite difficulty' is what worries me the most. It's the reason athletics, crafting, gaming and coding ARE vital (in whatever combination) for early education. Persistence.
It is really disturbing to me to see people who would never, ever accept the idea that it was the Taliban or Al Qaeda or ISIS’s fault that people were Islamophobic feel totally fine blaming Israel for rising antisemitism
We're staring down a brutally hot summer and energy and food shocks and cost of living crisis that climate change intensifies. There's endless money for war. But voters want policies that address the real threats to their security. At @cplusc.bsky.social, our new agenda has the solutions🧵
With alt-text (because this is delightful):
DOGE destroyed much of our government and killed a lot of people, but on the plus side it also cost the government a ton of money
TEXT: MAMDANI: Concern about quality of life is something that I hear about from a lot of New Yorkers. It’s been defined in the ways that Mel said, as well as in the way of the streets being dirtier. There are fewer trash cans, and the parks are not maintained in the way that they once were. I think one of the foundations of all of these issues is that, under Eric Adams, we have seen the city government retreating further and further from New Yorkers’ lives. We’ve seen that play out in attempted cuts to libraries, to sanitation, to schools—any public good, you name it, he’s tried it. One of my commitments as the next mayor of this city is to fund public goods to ensure that we’re actually putting the money behind these agencies so that they can do their job. When those jobs are done at the fullest of their capacity, each and every New Yorker feels it in the order of their lives.
The Mayor knows that cutting library budgets is detrimental to quality of life. Why then has he proposed a cut in the preliminary budget?
www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/18-n...
"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.
Just last year the university began the process of shuttering six majors, each of which has very similar enrollment levels.
New Yorkers, Mayor Mamdani will join Gothamist for a conversation about his first 100 days at The Greene Space on Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m. He'll be taking questions.
gothamist.com/news/mayor-m... - please consider submitting questions about keeping his public library funding commitments.
be kind to yourself folks...count small wins and simple pleasures where you can take them
The reason to hold someone accountable for harm is not just punishment but also to make it clear to others what cannot be acceptable in the future.
A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.
Why is no one talking about how shockingly bad the new Amazon Scarpetta show is?