Kade

Software Engineer. Physicist/Mathematician at heart. Love playing/watching basketball, gardening, and reading. #blacklivesmatter #sciencematters

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Not a single Democrat or self-proclaimed moderate should vote to confirm anybody to the Supreme Court over the next two years. And if you have a problem with that, blame Mitch McConnell.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Holy shit. Not only did three Supreme Court justices just rule that the president can change the Constitution with an executive order, but Kavanaugh only upheld birthright citizenship because of a law that was passed in the 1950s.

So four Supreme Court justices are basically arguing that you can change the Constitution through executive decree if you’re a Republican president. How much you wanna bet they wouldn’t let a Democratic president do that?

[trash jones @jzux]

congress: americans do not deserve healthcare

also congress: sorry that was just my 4-month paid depression vacation

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It'd be nice to have a Speaker who'd say: "And let them, we have nothing to hide, and they'll look like fools for doing it."

But what he's saying here is: They're gonna uncover a lot of stuff, and you don't want that.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

It should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Pete and Chasten Buttigieg were "swatted" by an anonymous person who called CPS and fabricated a story about Pete was committing violent crimes against his children.

The police eventually concluded the report was completely false and politically motivated, but not before the Buttigieg's 4-year-old twins were separated from their dads for a full day and put through a forensic interview.

This is exactly why the right-wing demonization of LGBTQ+ people and their families is so dangerous. This political attack weaponized the child welfare system against a family and traumatize two little kids in the process.

Whatever your politics are, targeting little children because you don't like their parents is evil. And Christians, of all people, should be the first to say so.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

JUST IN: Representative Mark Pocan is introducing a bill that would put a 100% tax rate on any money received from Trump's $1.776 billion payout fund.

It's called the Tax the Grift Act.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is burning Palestinians alive in a so-called “safe zone”.

Over 20 civilians have been killed so far, the majority of them children.

This is a Holocaust.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

This is how it's done.

[gracchus babisexual @kevsaucebro]

can’t imagine there’s anything more cathartic for a white southern conservative than getting to personally segregate a restroom

[Kaiju No. Kev @M_F_Ninja]

So, if I’m to understand, the lady who’s been screaming about groomers has information on republicans about sexual impropriety but she’s just gonna hold on to it unless people stop picking on her friend for fucking an underage girl.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

There’s basically a media blackout on this story. Genocide isn’t newsworthy?

[Nathan Goldwag 🇺🇦 @GoldwagNathan]

Pretty wild that the American response to COVID has just been the rejection of the concept of public health.

[Peter Tulip @peter_tulip]

It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables:
https://t.co/QpyjQouIIS

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Vaccines are the greatest biomedical innovation of all time:

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

This is a grim time. There is no denying. The climate outlook is bleak. Here is a story to give you hope.

(1/5) 🧵

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

This is what oligarchy looks like. Elon Musk's Pac spent $200 million to help elect Trump. Since Election Day, Musk has become $55 billion richer, he's now worth $319 billion & will likely get the largest tax break ever while the federal minimum wage has not gone up in 15 years.