Live in such a way that you trigger white Christian nationalists.

No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit theonion.com/no-one-...

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

The local Facebook page/subreddit any time a new city project is announced

Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...

Biden (in my humble opinion) was a decently good president who appears to be living his best life post presidency. WTF @bsky.app with all the pearl clutching posts where alternate reality future Biden, in his second presidency, *may* sometimes need a wheelchair?!?

#rstats - how do you wrangle large datasets? Think Medicare files that need to be linked, pivoted, merged, filtered etc across years. Do you just use SAS, try data.table, set up a arrow/duckdb linked file repository? I’m at a crosswords of either learn SAS or keep banging my head against R

🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...

Roses are red Daisies are plain

If the Trump administration were honest that they are only deporting our worst criminals, Donald would already be in El Salvador.

> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

MAGAts Confess They Cannot Compete with Penguins on Level Playing Glacier www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/04/m...

They... misspelled automobile.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Unbelievable turnout in this ruby red district for the Darrell Issa empty chair town hall!

Protesters booed and jeered Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin after he left an event for Patrick Henry's famous speech at St. John’s Church. Love this for him. 🍿

We have lost mainstream media.

"Substituting butter with plant-based oils, particularly olive, soybean, and canola oils, may confer substantial benefits for preventing premature deaths." Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Cohort study. Nutrition research hard. Still, interesting...

Hummingbirds Hiding From the Rain 🕊️🌧️

The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool. - A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang. - A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. Nonetheless, holy shit. What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.

Trying to imagine how terrifying this was

I couldn't resist.

Tests rule out Ebola, Marburg in DR Congo unexplained illness clusters In the first of the two outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are underway for both events. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...