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Sheryl Crow says after she posted that video of getting rid of her Tesla an armed man got into her barn. But she says she would do it again anyway. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Another great article (with gift link) on federal research funding which is at risk under Trump. Read and share so more understand how important this funding is for us.

Please read & share (gift article). “If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research,” said Andrew Fieldhouse, a Texas A&M economist and an author of the Dallas Fed study."

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

A very brief🧵: A recent NY Times article reports on a survey of 35 scholars (including me) asking about the worst excesses of the Trump administration thus far. I discuss the article in my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social. Here's my column. 👇

President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0. The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

DOJ's Civil Rights Division has for nearly seven decades been at the forefront of some of the department’s most historically significant work. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Donald Trump has pushed us to a new low. He has accomplished that by enriching himself, whether by pardoning a felon who, together with his wife, donated $1.8 mm to the Trump campaign; promoting Teslas on the White House driveway; or holding a private dinner for purchasers of his cryptocurrency.

PurplePalozza. This morning on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.

Did y'all know that before the crowbar was invented, crows just drank at home 🥴🥴🤣🤣 Happy Sunday y'all

The world is on Zelensky’s side. Zelensky applauded by world leaders upon entering church.

Cracking Otago day.

"Voters said he had “gone too far” on issue after issue — his tariffs, his immigration enforcement, his cuts to the federal work force." NEW polling shows the country is turning on Trump. It can't happen fast enough IMHO. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Very good thread on the child with cancer who ICE deported.

A child who is a U.S. citizen, "suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs" Reporting by @aclu.org

Trump will not collect data tracking mental health, drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, deportations, weather-related data, student achievement scores. Will we know what problems we have? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The WHI is ending and why you should be concerned and furious. Also, giving RFK Jr, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Marty Makary the keys to the proverbial castle is akin to putting three rabid raccoons into a Costco; eventually they’ll rip everything apart vajenda.substack.com/p/the-whi-is...

🤦🏼 couldn’t make it up if we tried

Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.

Any university that follows the guidelines of this administration for accreditation gets an extreme side eye. This guy knows nothing about academia or educational integrity. #MomSky

Instead of taking a "lessons learned" approach to the history of the Covid pandemic, Trump is falsifying and rewriting everything to magnify and glorify himself and to fuel his conspiracy theory of the month.

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them. But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Trump aims to disembowel scientific research in the US. FT explores the how of his program, though the why remains a mystery. www.ft.com/content/67fd...

To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

New in PN: RFK Jr. is wrong about autism "The Trump administration's attack on difference, the idea that people who are different are a tragedy and a burden and that they have nothing to contribute — that is fascism. And it is a danger to almost everyone."

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Is there a Signal chat I can join that will reveal the precise timing and the route of the bombshells that will be deployed to take out Pete Hegseth?

VOLUNTEERS REQUEST: Office is coming along well but it would go along well with some generous and skilled NYC area volunteers. Skills needed: "Prepping and painting walls, assembling furniture, using power drills; self-motivated with good judgement. Stage manager or office manager types"

It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes futurism.com/tesla-engine...

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

Our current Medical Establishment can’t control a measles outbreak even with a near perfect vaccine. There are no signs of competence. And they expect us to believe they would have figured out COVID if they were in charge?

As some of you have seen, Paul Krugman has interviewed me again for his newsletter. This time about the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis. It is surreal to have done two of these in seven weeks, & it may yet become a regular thing. Thanks again @pkrugman.bsky.social! www.crisesnotes.com/liquidity-vo...

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

“‘Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,’ one source, who was part of a team that managed these systems at HHS for a decade before being part of the RIF, alleges to WIRED.”

The biggest source of waste, fraud and abuse of our federal government is Elon Musk.

Trump wants to control what’s taught in colleges—but the U.S. leads the world in top universities for a reason. Because we funded innovation & let them operate freely—they thrived. Now Trump wants to gut that. Reminder: Presidents can’t legally defund schools. This is authoritarian cosplay!

This needs to happen EVERYWHERE!!! substack.com/@smallbite/n...

More of this and less how do we get the working class white guy who voted for Trump back.

We are not invisible. This kind person from the UK sees us and is proud of us. You might need a tissue when you watch this 👇👇👇👇👇

#ProudBlue This is Jenifer Lewis (jeniferLewisforreal) on Instagram 💙💙💙

Crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress: One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially. www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeck... pangaea.de This is the culmination of weeks of work 💖 #SafeguardingResearch @safeguardingdata.bsky.social

Eliminating Americorp, and getting rid of Head Start this week. Did any of us think we no longer need Meals on Wheels?

Trans Woman Escapes America’s Hate and Finds Peace on the Ocean -- Shortly after President Trump’s reelection, @tanukiprincess.bsky.social fled Texas by boat and has been living on the Atlantic Ocean ever since. "“The middle of nowhere is a beautiful place.”