SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

“…that’s just my crazy cousin. He’s harmless, really.”

“Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.” www.kcra.com/article/capi...

“In April, Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin told a House subcommittee that House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, had not instructed him to install the plaque. The speaker is responsible for any modifications to the House side of the Capitol, Austin noted.”

Frog and Toad Are Gonna Fuck Shit Up

no kings and no masters, this place is ours

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

1. Behind the back cornhole
2. Fist bump a constituent
3. Beating Pete Ricketts in most recent poll

By reporting on the Indiana University faculty's overwhelming no-confidence vote in the (still serving) university president. 2/

www.idsnews.com/article/2024...

He's bombing boats in international waters. He's detaining American citizens. He's profiting from his office with crypto. Selling his son's books with the Presidential Seal. Oh yeah, and he's a pedo rapist.

oh I saw incinerate. but ok. win-win.

also #EPSTEIN epstein *EPSTEIN* Epstein, etc etc

wow. fancy!

lordy @schumer.senate.gov - get out of the way man- there are *generations* of people out here just waiting for you and yours to do the right thing and step the f*k aside

I’ve been hearing a lot about self-medicating. Where do you guys get your leeches?

share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of

Dramatic difference now w/r/t secret list of "designated terrorist organizations":

1) No prior armed attack.
2) No congressional authorization for use of military force.
3) No congressional delegation of authority (as in 2001 AUMF) to determine against whom force may be used.

3/n

Does he still have FIFA folks in Trump Tower?

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

i got no kings, no nazis already but I wish I could fit no billionaires too

Just in: “Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties”

Rebecca Jacobs for @citizensforethics.org

RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.

She was great. What a legacy.