Dr. Richard C. Prince 🌹

Scientist, Educator, avid SCUBA diver and photographer. Ask me about science advocacy.

[Jacob Assa @jacob_assa]

Total and utter nonsense. The US issues its own currency, and as such the deficit/national debt does not matter (except in worsening inequality through interest payments to the rich). It does not 'borrow' its own currency, but sells bonds. #LearnMMT

https://t.co/hOcy79pwcR

[nikkib @nicbasarab]

@TristanSnell Tristan - NC is in play. Keep amplifying
And a random message

[Eve Hayes on bluesky at evehayes123 @EveHayes123]

An update. I arrived early at the evening venue with my daughter to speak to the lead organisers and request that we come to the networking event not the dinner. I have been told categorically that we will not be allowed in and my daughter is not welcome. No apology whatsoever.

[Eve Hayes on bluesky at evehayes123 @EveHayes123]

I’m at a conference today. The organisers just told me that I can’t bring my daughter to the networking session or the dinner tonight. I couldn’t get a babysitter. This is one of those times, as a single parent, that you really miss out. It felt like a gut punch.

[Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl]

I was gonna write F**k Covid, but I got exhausted on the lettering, so it’s done

[Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl]

Today marks one year since I got COVID. I’m finally starting to see tiny bits of progress in my recovery, which I feel cautiously optimistic about.

But today I mostly feel a profound grief, missing the life I had a year ago. 😔

#LongCovid

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

The inevitable result of a relentless campaign to destroy public education in Florida…

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

One judge in one court in one state shouldn't be able to turn the FDA's approval process for mifepristone completely upside down.

One judge shouldn't be able to unilaterally halt student debt relief for 50 million Americans.

What is this White House doing about it?

[Dr. Richard C. Prince 🌹 @RCPhysics]

@meaganrosae @ME_McCullough I want to read this paper so bad.

[Dr. Richard C. Prince 🌹 @RCPhysics]

@ME_McCullough If you want a laugh (or a lesson in what happens when you try to gatekeep academia online) go check out the replies to this.

[Dr. Richard C. Prince 🌹 @RCPhysics]

I think this is a lesson anyone in institutional spaces should read me over and over again.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

BREAKING: One of Twitter's most active cyber terrorists, a paid operative who attacks critics of DeSantis (including Trump supporters), hid his true identity when he ran for school board in Kokomo, Indiana in 2022, coming in last place among 12 candidates.

We received his campaign paperwork several days ago, and have been working to connect his accounts to former and current attack campaigns online.

His name is Robert Andrew McGimpsey and he uses the name @MaxNordau, among others. His personal account, @agimpsey also spread election conspiracies, casually used the n-word, and claimed rape isn't real.

McGimpsey was outed as a DeSantis operative by @thedailybeast in February. He has openly worked with Christina Pushaw, and DeSantis' loyal dem, Jared Moskowitz. They joined Twitter Spaces together. No comment yet on why a sitting Congressman was joining a Twitter space with an online terrorist.

Most recently, McGimspey was caught lying about the high profile taking of my son on orders of the state, releasing selectively edited footage he received from the sheriff's dept within hours of them taking him, and creating conspiracy theories that flooded the internet, including one that my son is moonlighting as a 25-year-old rapper named lil darkie.

THIS is the story I was ready to break when everything happened. Local reporter I've been working with is writing the story.

So do your thing Twitter.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

“The killer posted on Facebook that he might “kill a few people on my way to work,” got in his car, ran a red light, drove directly into a Black Lives Matter protest, & shot and killed a protester because he felt “threatened.” And Texas Governor Greg Abbott plans to pardon him.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NASHVILLE, Monday…

[Brian Rosenwald @brianros1]

Don’t let this story fall through the cracks in a week of truly alarming news. I really can’t recall a single instance in which any Governor basically just moved to immediately overrule a jury verdict.

[Lisa Quigley @LisaQuigleyTN]

Got calls from multiple national reporters yesterday.

The majority were ON THEIR WAY to Nashville, not leaving Nashville.

It’s not just about guns now.

It’s about the threat to democracy by political extremism that can spread to other states.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “Speaker Sexton sent lawyers to tell us we can’t come back until 2025 — nothing about this is constitutional.”

@brotherjones_ says Sexton may be planning not to seat him & @Justinjpearson even if their communities send them back. Not democracy. #TenensseeThree

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

At what point do we all say actually no, billionaire-funded far-right judges do not have the power to shape our entire lives?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

NASHVILLE — The @MetroNashville meeting to reappoint @brotherjones_ is Monday 430pm. We’re told republicans are trying to get council members to object to his appointment to delay it, so showing up if you can is important. https://t.co/mrnh64WQtC

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

A 6 year old can carry a gun in public in the state of Missouri.
In Texas, an 18 year old can buy two AR-15s and 1,600 bullets in the span of two days.
In the state of Florida, you can carry concealed weapons and firearms without a background check, training or a license.

But a woman seeking a safe medication abortion cannot buy mifepristone.