I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when you openly try to rig elections, you’re admitting that you can’t win unless you cheat.

Maybe too obvious to mention, but re:NSF canceling Terry Tao’s grant—this is not the only example of fantastic work harmed by these grant cancellations. There are TONS of effected mathematicians at Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, etc. doing less high-profile work of a similar quality.

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us. It’s time to fight back.

Well Heathrow is now no longer my least favorite airport

this is one of those weeks that’s made it abundantly clear that not only are we never going back to sane, “business as usual” politics, but we’ve mutated out of hyper-partisan, authoritarian Trump 1.0 politics into a far, far uglier beast. and it’s all just really sad.

So DOGE-related cuts and early retirements eliminated 550 staff at the National Weather Service, and now the NWS is being granted special permission to hire 450 positions to relieve critical shortages. Such a waste of time and resources.

Yeah I guess one american century was enough

It’s because of COVID. Once corporations saw that we would pay elevated prices due to the supply chain shocks, what incentive did they have to lower them ever again upon return to form? That is what capitalism is. Exploitation of the poor.

“Defend your culture” They’re not even trying to pretend that immigration enforcement is about crime anymore

Never needed an SMU win more than this year

“Peace proposal.”

Crime in DC is at a 30-year low. It's not even in top 10 dangerous cities in US. Throughout history, autocrats use a false pretext to impose government control over local law enforcement as a prelude to a more national takeover. That's far more dangerous than the situation he

"Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?" Sesame Street and Curious George died for this btw.

Meanwhile me riding the metro at night

MAGA is mad at Newsom because he’s showing them how stupid Trump has sounded for the last decade.

Guy who rides one of these to work every day, fighting back tears: this is nothing compared to the GDP of Mississippi

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