New from me: Big Law is fearful of representing anyone Trump sees as his enemies, and it's thwarting challenges to his agenda.
“There are cases that aren’t being brought at a time when civil rights abuses are maybe at the highest they’ve been.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
"I’m a freaking expert on 'the law' and I can no longer tell you if the latest thought bubble out of Trump’s mouth is “constitutional.” ... I can perhaps tell you how [SCOTUS] will make whatever thing Trump wants to do legal. What I can’t tell you is what would happen if the court told Trump 'no.'"
NSF is getting kicked out of its headquarters to build a parking garage, an executive dining hall, and maybe a gym for the HUD secretary
They're going after all class action too huh
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
Today, like all days, I am grateful to the folks who tirelessly work statistical magic without whom my dissertation would simply not happen. To keep an R package functional is wizardry that I could never do.
Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:
A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.
I would like to amend my prior statement.
Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibnnhk4kfvgsvqnrjitt27efuetj44x5opwvjayzgrr55eqa5eive)
Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m Dropping at select colleges today. [Embedded image of a billboard ad:] A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West. Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why. We did. We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate. Join us. [signed by the Palantir founder]
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards in all one hundred counties to expeditiously identify the challenged “Incomplete Voter Registration” voters and notify said voters of their registration defects, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the notice to cure the defect, and upon verification to include in the count of this challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their registration defects and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters who fail to timely cure their registration defects
NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 for Judge Jefferson Griffin. The court didn't throw out 65,000 ballots, but it's requiring all of those voters to jump through more hoops to have their vote counted. NONE of these voters broke the rules. appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=... #ncpol
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.
Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Graphic design is my passion.
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
A Public Citizen report obtained exclusively by NPR shows the new administration has halted or tried to dismiss cases or investigations against at least 89 companies in the last month.
I can personally guarantee that this project (to build affinity groups to support diverse ornithologists) is still moving forward in the hope that crowdfunding will replace the NSF funding (I just got out of a monthly meeting for the queer Flock leadership).
We still need your fundraising help!
I think the strategy is to make universities destroy themselves. Force the president to choose between academic freedom and losing all federal funding (+ thus bankruptcy), and they'll have to throw freedom overboard. Then the rest of the university, unwilling to accept that, will tear itself apart.
The anti-environment SCOTUS has:
Limited EPA to from regulating #water pollution, sewage discharges.
Blocked EPA from regulating air pollution that crosses state lines.
Stopped EPA from capping #climate change emissions.
Eliminated protections for wetlands, inland waters, and aquatic ecosystems.
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
the arc of history is long. it's long as hell. it's just—whew. it's a long-ass arc, is all I can tell you.
DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.
Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.
Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.
See how this works?
Gutting NOAA isn’t just illegal—it’s a national security risk. Disaster preparedness, climate research, public safety—all under attack for the sake of billionaire control. The cost will be incalculable. Stay engaged, stay vocal, and fight back. #Protests #ProtectNOAA #BeatProcrastination
For first post on @bsky.app seems fitting to share our blue sky and #marine flyways 🌊 paper out yesterday. A global collaboration of researchers led by @birdlifemarine.bsky.social sharing #tracking data to describe common #seabird #migration routes over the #ocean.
