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“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

When habitats are fragmented, insect populations begin to shrink. New highways could connect Britain’s grasslands and provide bugs new homes

Amidst a failing war the US started, the SecDef chose to focus on measuring military members’ hormones, and injecting testosterone into personnel whose hormone levels he dislikes. He also fixates on PT while losing an air war. If you said this to someone a few years ago, they wouldn’t believe you.

I went to a rather sobering talk last night.

Mark Carney in Thunder Bay on Lutnick: "I don't think, with all respect, appointed unelected cabinet members in the United States are experts on Canadian politics"

We remember biochemist and chemistry laureate Ada Yonath who passed away this week at the age of 87. In 2009, Yonath shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kJscDU

Dr Oz: "If we could just get the average American to feel so healthy, so with it, so vibrant that they want to work just one extra year, that's worth $1 trillion to our GDP every year"

RFK Jr and Statistics:

Future MLB stars? 🤭

"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."

Bell-to-bell cellphone bans were already working in schools across Illinois. Now, it's time we make it official — teachers like it, students like it, and parents like it.

“The policy-making structure is effectively posting to Truth Social & seeing if the gathered Nazis reply w/ likes or jeers. If the first, leave the post up. If the second, reverse course & chastise your aides. If neither, whine about how everyone is unfair to you & it’s all really Biden’s fault.”

Buttigieg: "When Trump says it's gonna be 4 weeks and then breaks that promise, it reminds people of when he said he wouldn't start this war & broke that promise ... the outrageous news we just got that the administration removed the names of 4 of our service members who were killed in action ... "

“What is already clear is that the state isn't waiting for the quantum industry to arrive. It's trying to grow up alongside it.” Whether you're in high school, workforce development, or college, you too can be a part of the quantum vision in Illinois.

World changing, history-altering advancements are being made in Illinois with quantum. And coming along for the ride are new jobs, new apprenticeships, new pathways for Illinoisans.

Donald Trump thinks we should all stop worrying about inflation and simply "love it." Donald Trump "doesn't care about Americans' financial situation." Donald Trump "wants to drive housing prices up." We're not taking our advice from the President in Illinois.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

You're being put in danger thanks to Trump and Vance's cuts to the NWS and NOAA. Scientists warned that missing data and staff would leave emergency officials defenseless for severe weather — and they didn’t listen. Now, our nation is flying blind without the expertise.

There’s no better place to build quantum tech than right here in Illinois.

JFC, get the fucking net already. He’s been at this for hours now and he just…keeps getting worse. The dude is just crashing right tf out in front of the whole world here

Donald Trump does not get to dictate how you vote. We must uphold the Constitution and protect the existing election authorities at every level of government that have always facilitated free and fair elections.

The US President finds a way to ruin everything. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

this Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy. listen to this shit

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

White American Evangelicals are about as far away from the Teachings of Jesus as you can be…..

I've wasted my life...

I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.

The Supreme Court is handing Trump a blank check for his cruel agenda to expel those fleeing violence and disaster. This is not commonsense reform — it’s only fueling Trump’s desire to attack people because of their skin color.

Indeed. We need more plant diversity, everywhere.

President Trump was supposed to sign the largest bipartisan housing bill in 30 years into law today. He’s refusing to do so until his election-rigging bill passes.   This is Trump 101: Trump first, Americans last. He’s a disgrace to this nation.

More Ignorance than Political Ideology….

JD Vance lies his ass off: "Iran is weakened, their nuclear program destroyed" (Their nuclear program is not destroyed)

The Obama Presidential Center is more than a museum; it's a space for those on the South Side and for all visitors from near and far to enjoy. Here's your sneak preview of the new Chicago Public Library branch inside — and a few books I would check out if I were you!

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Trump Calling Welker “crooked” “stupid” and then the ultimate—“darling”—for asking him what evidence he has that elections are rigged? What is “crooked” is the money for the ballroom, what is “stupid” are the tariffs. And what is “darling” is a first class journalist.

JACOBS: You said the war is over. So who won? MARCO RUBIO: We define victory as destroying their defense base, significantly reducing missile launchers, significantly reducing their stockpile of drones. We achieved all those. I consider that victory. J: That's not what the intel community says

Congratulations to @debhaalandnm.bsky.social for winning last night's primary to be New Mexico's next governor. If elected, she'll continue to make history as the first Native American woman to serve as a governor anywhere in America. Onward!

Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together. Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social:

"He’ll always have Kid Rock, though. That’s who will stay by his side: the third-rate, the washed-up, the one-hit-wonders and laughingstocks. And not even most of them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Hochul: "I was actually surprised to see the president and Gov. Abbott with their memes of me -- they're dunking me on the court -- that they're supportive of men and women competing in the same sport together. I found that very interesting."

Folks, these are the rantings of a crazy person. Note how Trump resorts to attacking the wives of men he doesn’t like. The president is a lunatic.

In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.

Happy to share our first campaign ad!! Www.Harrydunnformd.com

The President is out of touch and out of his mind. Trump doesn’t think about your finances — he even thought gas prices would go up even more.

My latest paper is out. This one was authored with four former students and encourages teachers to start their own long-term ecological research projects with their students. online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...

My daughter graduated from CU-Boulder this weekend with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and minors in Art History and Creative Technology and Design. Next stop Boston University and an MFA in Painting. We are SO proud of her!

Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost

The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.