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Ecology, evolution, and social dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. He/him https://akcay.theoretical.bio

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If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

09.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 4646 πŸ” 1293 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 27

Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.

09.03.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 311 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase β€œaccused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory β€œhasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

09.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 6359 πŸ” 2279 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 74

Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.

09.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 1462 πŸ” 319 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 11
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. 

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

06.01.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 465 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 16

The opposition is WRONG ABOUT THIS, by the way. The most devastating moment of Biden's entire presidency was the Afghanistan withdrawal - a largely popular policy that he effected successfully with zero material impacts on Americans, but was covered as a disaster.

08.03.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 850 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 6
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

07.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 9261 πŸ” 6040 πŸ’¬ 604 πŸ“Œ 1534
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07.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 13150 πŸ” 4982 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 242
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

β€œA DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credibleβ€”and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 3992 πŸ” 1667 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 74
Fight over climate law looms as New York energy costs soar

Fight over climate law looms as New York energy costs soar

Broken record here: Energy costs soar because of lack of cheap renewables generation, not because of it.

And no, Iran doesn't help. The answer to fossil price spikes every time a leader blows a fuse? Get off fossil fuels.

06.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3
a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

a graph of seattle link light rail ridership, shown as a rolling 12M average

US transit data is out today, and Seattle's Link remains one of the fastest-growing rail systems in the nation, with ridership up 9% in the wake of the extension to Federal Way

Ridership should increase even further at the end of this month when the 1 & 2 lines are connected🧡

07.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 729 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 22
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Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5.

(Drawing of chopping of part of land)

suahuatica 2d
MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

06.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 4344 πŸ” 870 πŸ’¬ 165 πŸ“Œ 99
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This mass killing of children is unconscionable. It bears the hallmarks of a war crime.

Trump & Hegseth must answer for the US's role & they must be held accountable. People deserve the full truth. There must be an immediate & transparent investigation.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

06.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 441 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 5
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Lots of people say bicycling beats high gas prices Bike shops say business is good as commuters tune up their old bike, or buy a new one, and leave behind their cars for bicycle commuting.

2008 vibes - our last big gas price spike. PBLs had just emerged in US cities. Biking was a way to reduce dependence and save money.

We’ve since gone through safety, equity, and health waves. Back now to gas prices & oil dependency.

When do we just get to say, β€œBiking is a multisolving good, LFG!”

06.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

You’ll never guess when in this chart we were obsessed with recession, stagflation, & the terrible economy…

06.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

05.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 14934 πŸ” 2682 πŸ’¬ 312 πŸ“Œ 123

I took my eight year old daughter to a protest on Saturday and my heart could hardly take it.

"The children are always ours, all over the globe, every single one of them. And I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this is incapable of morality." -James Baldwin

05.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by β€˜double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

04.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 2886 πŸ” 1543 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 286

This is a common reply to concerns about GenAI research as if it were just another computational tool that saves us times from tedious tasks and whose accuracy can be rigorously quantified.

It is not.

GenAI research poses at least 2 serious problems... /n

03.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

03.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 1994 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 12
03.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 2410 πŸ” 782 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 29
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02.03.2026 11:09 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes!

Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal.

Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

28.02.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 1011 πŸ” 342 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 15

The near-total memory-holing of Trump’s disastrous withdrawal from the JCPOA - literally, the central reason why Iran & nuclear weapons is still an issue in 2026 - from the National Conversationℒ️ is incredible, & not in a good way. The β€œbetter deal” never existed & still doesn’t. And here are.

26.02.2026 13:02 πŸ‘ 487 πŸ” 181 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 5

Hell yeah, brother

28.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 5208 πŸ” 1131 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 41

In case I wasn’t clear, this is a major escalation in terms of impoundments from Trump and Vought

26.02.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5
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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was β€œBOIL THAT F...

Her boiled frog piece is excellent as well.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

17.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

24.02.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 10200 πŸ” 5128 πŸ’¬ 335 πŸ“Œ 629
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

23.02.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 6568 πŸ” 1978 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 116

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

23.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 1524 πŸ” 350 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 11