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Colbert for President.

Freelancing writers, this is gold: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Following the success of "Why Sharks Matter," lots of science colleagues have asked for my advice about whether or not they should write a book. By request, here's that advice in handy blog post form. www.southernfriedscience.com/considering-...

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Great column in Lit Hub by @maris.bsky.social on the NEA cuts and exploring forms of institutional support for the small presses & magazines affected, featuring @markkrotov.bsky.social , @michaelholtmann.bsky.social & more: lithub.com/on-the-lates... @nplusonemag.com @twolinespress.bsky.social

I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

For people that are considering leaving the US for the next few years, where are you considering going? Bonus points if you have teenagers

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

CNN did not report on even one of the 50 anti-Trump, anti-Elon Musk protests that took place throughout the country today x.com/piyushmittal...

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk's DOGE team is set to march into the Department of Labor today. Given Musk's anti-labor history, this move threatens workers' rights nationwide. We must stand united against this corporate power grab!

Protestors outside the US treasury shout "lock him up" as calls for Elon Musk's arrest increase nationwide. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury

Can there be a massive anti-Musk "hands off our information march" in Washington? Is there a multi- state one currently being organized with plans for tens of thousands of protestors? If yes please tell me when! If not let's organize!

The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.

Maybe someone with the means to do so should take out a full-page ad in as many newspapers as they can that just says “ELON MUSK HAS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER”

Chris Murphy: "We don't pledge allegiance to the creepy 22 year olds working for Elon Musk. We pledge allegiance to the United States of America."

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

None of this is legal:

Elon Musk has committed a crime.

Government workers when DOGE shows up.

Oligarchy doesn’t even begin to describe what this is

If @bsky.app continues adding 1.5 users per second for the next two years, it will reach nearly 125 million users. That’s significant. Hang on.

Our congressional delegation pursuing oversight on reports of Elon Musk’s illegal activity at USAID was just barred from entering the building on the orders of Musk and the Trump Administration. Nobody elected Musk — this is illegal and corrupt and we will keep fighting it.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.

Unbelievable

The Supreme Court is beholden. Trump wouldn't hesitate to pack the courts if things didn't go his way.

It occurs to me that, if you try to take control by removing all the levers and everyone with the expertise to manipulate the controls, you’re probably not going to be able to fly the plane.

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.

Bernie!

I just want to engage with people that love books again