Robby Virus

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Defunding Science Sensoring Scientific Research findings Every day brings fresh hell www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

You should be angry and frightened by this. The admin is defying the will of Congress and the voters by destroying our ability to do scientific research. This is killing the future of our economy.

Crazy things Pete Hegseth did YESTERDAY alone: 1) Fired head of the Army 2) Changed rules to allow military personnel to carry personal weapons on bases 3) Fired head of the Chaplain Corps 4) NBC reports he blocked promotions of a dozen Black or female officers All further evidence for my column:

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

Exactly this

RFK Jr.’s anti-vax mindset has always been a symptom of all-encompassing ignorance about and even hatred of legitimate science. We all now have front row seats to the damage he will wreak on the people of the United States.

“Americans are being forced to accept masked paramilitary forces stopping you anytime, anywhere—demanding to know where people are from,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “It is an assault on the idea of America itself.”

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

This is straight up fascism. It does not benefit the country in ANY way. It merely helps Trump consolidate power. Unless people start to protest actions like these, and protest loudly, our country will be lost.

Ugh

This! 100% this!

This is pretty damn funny, especially if you’ve ever tasted any of the Mountain Dew flavors.

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

What an embarrassment. It’s wild that the official position of the US Government is now pro-Nazi.

Three months in and they’ve already lost the country faster than any White House in decades. From here on out it’s just them whining about about how everyone is being mean to them.

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"I think we are in a moment where Jesus is a victim of identity theft. I don't know what Bible folks are reading—attacking the poor in the name of the faith." Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock

Four R senators and four R House members could announce they're caucusing with the Dems for now, and will vote for Schumer for Majority Leader and Jeffries for Speaker, because the threat to the rule of law is dire. Meanwhile, they'll work with Democrats to construct guardrails against dictatorship.

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

The good old days…

Here he is today, deeply concerned about economic hardship caused by his tariff scheme.

The US once led the world in attracting global talent—students, artists, scientists. Now they are fleeing to places like Canada. Thanks to Trump, the US is not only losing brilliant individuals but its economic and social future. A brain drain is coming and it will hurt the US for generations.🧵

Circling back on this…

I was told I was overreacting. Now they’re about to fire 83,000 people from the VA. A third of whom are veterans themselves.

Getting the message out on how science funding benefits our society @abepalmer.bsky.social in the SD Tribune www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/03/09/g...

The Pentagon is apparently going to share its most sensitive war plans for China with Elon Musk I’m not sure that people have even noticed this So I will repeat it THE PENTAGON IS APPARENTLY GOING TO SHARE ITS MOST SENSITIVE WAR PLANS FOR CHINA WITH ELON MUSK Worried yet?

Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

Scientists need to blow anti-vaxxers’ minds by coming up with a vaccine that prevents autism.

Not to be overlooked in the general mayhem, the GOP is ripping apart the worlds finest biomedical establishment. There are no winners here, it is a mindless assault. @indivisible.org @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @repilhan.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social