My favorite thread on this app. #ScienceSky 🧪

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

Absolutely disgraceful for the White House to combine videos of Call of Duty Clips with Iran Strike Footage

“Camp East Montana will remain open.”
Big news.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Camp East Montana will remain open': internal messages say Employees at Camp East Montana were told the massive detention center will remain open, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.

My story:

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

White House responds to reports that Russia is helping Iran target US forces in Middle East One unnamed U.S. official described the support as "comprehensive," the Washington Post reported.

⚡️White House responds to reports that Russia is helping Iran target US forces in the Middle East.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a Fox News interview on March 6 that “whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter,” dismissing the concerns.

The first Black woman in space carried more than experiments aboard the shuttle.

Mae Jemison’s journey from Chicago science museums to Space Shuttle Endeavour showed generations of girls what was possible.

History remembers the woman who reached for the stars.

#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth

I didn't have plans for today. I did not realize that I would be attending a church service, a concert, and a political rally today. That's pretty good for someone who overslept.

Al Sharpton is looking sharp. I need to follow his diet.

The Grief We Won’t Allow What we lost when we stopped mourning the unvaccinated

The Grief We Won’t Allow
open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

This is objectively stupid if you've ever worked with students. It's totally outcome-based with no understanding of process, and no understanding of individual differences. Nobody who understands how research or teaching works would think this is informative.

Trump is now talking about attacking Cuba. Shame on Golden, Landsman, Cuellar, and Vargas for voting against the War Powers Resolution.

This is a fascinating article, and also a fine essay in American history.

El Salvador and Costa Rica Launch “Shield of the Americas” to Boost Regional Security and Cooperation. El Salvador and Costa Rica solidified their cooperation with a security agreement, focusing on intelligence sharing and crime reduction, as discussed by Presidents Bukele and Chaves.

elsalvadorinenglish.com/2025/12/11/e...

Trump's $10B suit against his own DOJ "raises the prospect of collusive litigation tactics," tax experts tell a judge, adding that it's "uncertain" if DOJ will "zealously defend the public." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I mostly just don't notice

but am just like, higha

I"m really terribad at that

I got slightly better, later

Any wait to read this book by my brilliant friend @weissmann.substack.com!

Let's do it again, then.

you wonder, why do i get so bitter and acidic and cynical about politics?

i grew into full adulthood watching bush's wargasm. this is the shit that got me into journalism and activism. this right here.

this is the ballgame.

That was not enough

I saw about 7,000 boots, between those two wars

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

45% of Dilley families aren't deported from there, but released.

“It boggles the mind why we're disrupting people from their immigration proceedings only to... incarcerate them at Dilley & then just recycle them out the back door,” Leecia Welch, of @childrens-rights.bsky.social said. (THREAD 5/)

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

Important story from @themarshallproject.org on what happens when families are released from DHS detention:

“It boggles the mind why we're disrupting people from their immigration proceedings only to abduct them, incarcerate them at Dilley, and then just recycle them out the back door”

Video shows border patrol threaten legal observer in Key Largo for following him Every federal circuit court that has considered the issue has upheld a First Amendment right to monitor and record the police.

CBP and ICE have been running all over the Florida Keys for months. This is the fourth instance I've seen of someone getting harassed or detained for filming them. Previous coverage here: reason.com/2026/01/12/v...

Well, this war does have something for everyone.

It might be even worse now.