Kevin Lynch

for the single person who cares, I made a tierlist for the GAE (General American English) vowels :3 #linguistics

China is pulling further ahead of the US in EVs and clean energy. The US was set to be the global leader in cleantech. Instead, it fell behind, and in the case of EVs, is moving backwards

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

Starting a war of choice is “peace.” Up is down. Right is wrong. Good is evil.

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

Can we call it apartheid now

This is literally the status quo. We've had exactly this for decades.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Your ever-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress fully support what Hegseth and the president are doing to the American military. It’s disgraceful and disqualifying

Every face on that wall was a person. Someone loved them. Someone misses them. They should still be here. #SheShed 🎥 IG: defiancedispatch

Who could have predicted that trying to do 'Venezuela' in Iran might end poorly? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely. Instead, these tax cuts have added at least $10 trillion to the debt. The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

Trump administration every day: Tariffs don’t raise prices. Trump administration today: We’re exempting 300,000 metric tons of ground beef from tariffs in order to lower prices.

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Its interesting how much less attention this gets than the supposedly extreme DSA candidates!

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

This is just straightforward white nationalist great replacement rhetoric, the kind of thing that would have been confined to neo-Nazi forums a decade ago. Multiple mass shooters in recent years believed exactly this.

“Who cares?” is the honest default Trumpist position on law. When it benefits us or hurts our enemies, the law, when it doesn’t, who cares?

I'm not exactly a scientist or anything, but I don't think empty vacuum is the best conductor of heat if your goal is to get the heat out of your heat generating servers and flying power plant.

Fun trick that Republican presidents can act like dictators because “unitary executive theory” but Democratic presidents aren’t able to govern because “major questions doctrine”. It’s almost like those are fake things fabricated to weaponize a Republican SCOTUS majority!

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stand Up for Science Director of Policy @colesci.bsky.social breaks down the steps needed to put American Science back on the world pedestal after the Trump Admin's demolition of the scientific field. Read the article here: zurl.co/1ZCvE #Science #Trump #SaveScience #StandUpForScience

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

This is on Trump, Musk and RFK who gutted our public health and international aid infrastructure

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

any day you get to force two different friend groups to eat nutella and cream cheese is a good day

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

One of the many ways that paying attention to politics makes you feel like you're going insane is that it's hugely controversial to claim that the most recent SCOTUS decision was entirely about helping Republicans win elections, and meanwhile the President keeps screaming it at the top of his lungs.

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

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That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The GOP platform is take away all your benefits to pay billionaires tax breaks. How it is a successful message for anyone is beyond me.

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yes. Say it like this!

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

Trump literally threatened to murder an entire civilization earlier this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

We already know Donald won't rent to black people.

fuuuuuuck

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

How people are still doing business with a company that enriches Musk (who then pours that money into supporting white nationalism in the US) is beyond me. Same with Wizard-author—why support literal evil on Earth?