i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

This is real btw

Pretty sure that callous, crude, and controversial speech is almost all entirely First Amendment protected.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

"lol the supreme court is always going to rule for donald trump" is the "orange man bad" of legal analysis simple, boring, has a better track record than literally every attempt at more complex analysis

Remember “all lives matter?” bsky.app/profile/atru...

Man, a shame Choitner didn’t ask Sunstein about Murray Rothbard’s views on David Duke www.rothbard.it/articles/rig...

How many Great Awakenings are we on now? Four? Five? Why are American Christians like that? Can they pump the breaks a bit?

Isaac Chotiner must project a subliminal series of ultra-high frequency tones that affect interviewees like the CIA Havana syndrome ray gun because if I said this I would commit seppuku

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Shaun beat me to covering this collected volume

New from 404 Media: we obtained data showing that CBP flew its drones, which include a fleet of MQ-9 Predator drones, for ICE at least 50 times over a single year. Also flew a drone for the Office of the President. Data in here: www.404media.co/cbp-flew-dro...

At a counter-demo a tall white guy showed up dressed all in black. He walks over to us and says to me, ‘oh cool, I like your signs, what group are you with? Who organised this?’ My response: ‘I dunno, no idea’. He immediately moves on. Cops these days, not even trying to infiltrate

I would die a happy man if I never had to read the words “raising questions” in another headline again.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

lmao what

Trump conducted a press conference on that stands as the most sweeping assault on science and public health... perhaps only matched by his April 2020 coronavirus briefing, when he encouraged Americans to inject disinfectant and use ultraviolet light inside their bodies. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s work on pedocon theory remains undefeated www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

*sigh* "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Anne Applebaum blocked me over this? Please, who’s to say I wasn’t expressing admiration over her principled view on the state blowing up journalists?

embarrassing stuff from philosophy on quite a few levels

"The Witherspoon Institute is a social conservative think tank in Princeton, New Jersey...The Witherspoon Institute opposes abortion and same-sex marriage[8] and deals with embryonic stem cell research, and constitutional law." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withers...

in addition to these, the amicus brief submitted by philosophers on Supreme Court cases considering trans athletes also contains one additional reference to Plato's Phaedrus and a disclosure that "The Witherspoon Institute made a monetary contribution to the preparation or submission of this brief."

Anne Applebaum? Political violence? Have I got a relevant column for you!

Remember a white South African family visited our street and their kid assumed by mum was my dad’s domestic help. Yes really

‘Politicians engage in stochastic terrorism all the time, don’t they?’

Where they could not make academic freedom arguments, they appealed to "freedom of inquiry" by which they mean the freedom to cloak their right-wing, transphobic project as inquiry into "concepts" or some such unmoored from the material impact their bullshit has on the lives of actual trans people.

I would add to this that this small group of analytic philosophers continues to enjoy the protection of the field due to how they have leveraged their institutional and academic connections to cast any criticism, any attempt at holding them to account, as a violation of their academic freedom.

There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE

The examples are of alleged crimes, including physical assault and incitement to violence. Whatever you think about ‘free speech’ or the state, there isn’t any dispute that these are, in fact, crimes in the eyes of the law, not social ‘cancellation’

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

This is exactly the logic behind the NGO bill, modeled on Russia, that Modi used to starve and persecute the few civil rights organizations fighting the Indian state.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

i really hate these freaks

Doesn't even work on its own terms: what is valid currency is dictated by the state. If you're a medieval merchant who is owed a debt in gold, and the state you're living under has decreed that, for legal purposes, iron pyrite is gold, then yes, you will be required to accept payment in iron pyrite!

No clerks. No building. No budget. No shadow docket. Ride the circuit. 25 justices, with 9 chosen by lottery. We will treat you like petulant children until you stop ignoring the law, Constitution, precedent, Article I, voters, & the plain meaning of words. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."

Same thing

The Dems need more of these Jack Reacher candidates. Absolutely support Graham Platner to take on Susan Collins

Today, Politico published a long column declaring with only one sentence of evidence and no data that “overruling Obergefell could be good for the GOP” and that is a reason why the Supreme Court might overturn same-sex marriage

"intends to invest" "as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed" "with the first gigawatt to be deployed in the second half of 2026." all sounding very real sir!

i don't profess to understand too much of this stuff but does it seem like they're just cycling the money back and forth here to keep the scam going

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

Our press appears to truly believe that the opposite of authoritarianism is *civility*. We are so unfathomably fucked. www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

[1] it was not² [2] if it was, no-one could prove it³ [3] even if someone could prove it, is it a crime to appreciate a succulent footnote?⁴ [4] in some principalities, it is in fact a crime to enjoy a succulent footnote, particularly if that footnote is not so much a footnote as it is a human liver