One common response to Moltbot is something like "We're so cooked." We are pretty cooked. Not because Moltbots will bootstrap us to the Singularity. Just because people readily turn their hard drives and personal info over to programs they don't understand. www.zdnet.com/article/molt...

Illegally withholding billions in transportation infrastructure funding to get shit named after you isn’t just an instantly impeachable offense, it should get you laughed out of public life forever. Instead it’s just, “Well, at least he isn’t killing people.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

A lot of people (not Philip Glass) seem to be going with "I'm going to collaborate with the regime, maybe that will help change things." This rarely works, especially when "collaboration" is not how the regime really thinks about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/a...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Bovino, as required for a Trump Administration job, is a shameless liar. What’s scarier than that is perhaps 25 to 35% of the nation are totalitarian-souled bootlickers eager to believe him. How do you make a nation out of people like that?

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Gov. Walz to MS NOW: "Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic. "The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."

What to Do If ICE Invades Your Neighborhood. there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

FBI taking over the "investigation" in Minnesota equals a coverup. The rule of law is dead. Trump's Gestapo will kill with impunity and immunity. This wasn't the United States. It is now. Walz, Ellison push back on FBI takeover of shooting probe www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

The fact that he not only got away with it but got re-elected is a stunning indictment of our government, media, educational system, and society.

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Another institution capriciously demolished. Another sad day in America.

To sum up, a US president is going to war without congressional authorization against a sovereign nation that has not attacked or threatened it, and is doing so like a thief in the night, with no explanation for the American people or the world. It is all so unimaginable that it strains credulity.

We laugh, but I do wonder about the extent to which this syndrome has degraded all sorts of writing. Thanks to the internet, writers are constantly exposed to all sorts of silly and thoughtless responses, and worry too much about how to avoid provoking them. You can’t!

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all! May you all be with/find a person who GETS you 🥰 #science #stirlingengine #christmas 🧪

This guy is running for governor of Michigan. I seem to have upset him by asking him a question about his energy policy.

Every accusation is a confession. Conservative groups release a proposal to destroy academic research and shape universities into indoctrination centers, with strict ideological gatekeeping.

WTF? My first and I hope last encounter with OnTrac

Please add "puppy killers" to your proposed travel ban. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.

I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.

We’ve had people from the U.S. and abroad asking whether the information on the White House website is even accurate anymore. The site has become unreliable, filled with blatantly false and deliberately misleading content.

Everything that Trump Touches Dies

Ted finally deleted this lie over 24 hours later. Only the 900th time he has posted a fake right-wing internet lie. You would think a US Senator would take a few minutes to make sure these things are legit, but we are talking about Ted Cruz.

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels. #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

The response from MAGA propagandists to No Kings followed their usual playbook: Find 1-2 randos doing something dumb out of 8 million at 2,600 places & blow them up on social media, then find people who got suckered by grifter accounts posting fake crowds for clicks. Predictable.

Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)

No Kings Day 2, Ann Arbor #nokings #nokingsday #annarbor #photography #fujifilm #fujixt5

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

#annarbor #rollei35T #cinestill800T #photography #filmphotography

Take two Tylenol & punch a Nazi in the morning

Cars and Coffee at Pasteiner’s, Birmingham Michigan. #pasteiners #carsandcoffee #leicaq2monochrom

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So what I glean about this Mars announcement is that chemicals were found on Mars that on Earth are due to life, and no one knows any other way to make them on Mars. However, this is very far from knowing they *were* made by life. Reminds me of phosphine on Venus; "we don't know" doesn't mean life.

AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.

Intriguing data from the Perseverance rover on Mars, but too soon to attribute it to the existence of life. Science takes time, that's okay.

Reality avoidance is currently ascendant as a cultural strategy, but the opposition does have one lasting advantage: reality itself is always there, pushing back.

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

My prediction that by November it will no longer be possible to enter the United States to attend an academic conference is looking more plausible by the day.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.