In which @adamserwer.bsky.social makes a useful distinction between "chickenshit" and "cowardice." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What's happening could not be more open and explicit. If you displease the regime, they will bring criminal charges against you. Ask your immigrant friends what it's like to live in a country where the rule of law is a fiction and your freedom depends on the whims of a dictator.

The unstated possibility is that Lara is going to cash out when his term is up and get a high-paying job with the insurance industry. Watch this space, I guess. bsky.app/profile/calm...

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rfk-jr-...

The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

If you are Border Czar Homans, and you did NOT take the $50,000 in a paper bag, wouldn't you been screaming at the top of your lungs that you want the FBI tape of the transaction released publicly in order to clear your name? Yet he isn't doing that. Hmmmm......

That's how to write a headline. It's accurate and highlights the information, not the disinformation.

New scam AFAIK: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Intermarriage rates by race/ethnicity.

Any businessperson taking $50k in cash when safe-but-traceable alternatives like a certified check are available, is screaming that he's doing something illegal. And what about paying taxes on that money?

My former colleagues still in the fleet tell me that several officers and sailors have requested letters from their chain of command ensuring that they cannot be prosecuted for firing on the vessel. It is also being said that more than 12 bodies were found in the wreck. That ain’t a drug runner.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Mirror-image to the US re free speech attacks in the UK: www.msn.com/en-us/health...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

"The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW --> Did Charlie Kirk Really Say That? glennkessler.substack.com/p/did-charli...

This might be a side effect of all the corrupt billions Trump has made - the cost of frivolous litigation might have been some deterrent before, but not so much now.

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

Some people on the left think just repeating “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” frees them from the work of thinking critically about what is and is not antisemitic. And a whole lot of people on the right think being a strong Zionist functions as a “get out of antisemitism free card.”

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

Here's the post, one of the so-called "reasons" for her firing:

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

1. The Absence of Domestic Law Authority 2. The Assassination Ban 3. Murder under Title 18 of the U.S. Code 4. The Murder Provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice 5. Customary International Law

A close adviser to the president who has prompted important staffing changes in the security state (and a crazy person)

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The Do Not Disturb mode on cell phones needs a timer function so you can set a time past which the ringer and tones start working again. I turn on DND for some short event and then miss messages for the next two days.

New, from me: It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

In a normal war, parties keep fighting during negotiations over a ceasefire. An important exception, however, is that you don't attempt to kill the other negotiating team. The Doha strike was a pretty clear indication that Bibi wasn't interested in negotiation, and makes it appear....

This appears real (I checked one of them, anyway). Block or refute idiots whose support for violence is feeding the right wing.

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rhetoric like this will make the political violence problem worse, not better

I strongly oppose violence and snarky non-opposition to violence. OTOH, these people shouldn't have been fired. They get to ask questions and to point out what Charlie Kirk was like: www.sfgate.com/entertainmen...

A very small upside in the latest-but-not-last political assassination: the ghouls on Bluesky that celebrate not having a problem with it (usually, not always, claiming that's different from celebrating it) are self-identifying. Great chance to block them and improve the conversation in my timeline

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

How quickly they memory-holed the assassination of a Democratic politician and her husband and the targeting of others in Minnesota just a few months ago.

This is actually kind of important. It wouldn't be if our democracy were healthy, but still it is important: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Bad news but not surprising: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.

Here's a scenario that someone should ask RFK Jr. about: an under-65 person with no major health conditions who is providing some in-person support for an older family member undergoing treatments that weaken the immune system. Can that person get a COVID shot? It's me, and I can't.

Follow the money. Soecifically one company that now has a good relationship with Georgia Dream, who recognizes the value in this company being treated well because of their influence over politicians. I will have more to reveal if this isn’t reversed

A report published last week found that if projects off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island had been online by the winter, they could have produced enough energy to power more than 560,000 homes for a year while reducing wholesale costs across the region by roughly $400 million.

I've favored front-claw declawing for cats, but if this is true then I'd have to reconsider. Author projects overconfidence IMO, but we'll see where it goes. phys.org/news/2025-09...

Out as preprint, we have some very interesting results looking at the radiative forcing impacts of the 2022 Hunga eruption. Based on the outcomes of the related OMIP, with many models from all over the world participating in this effort, we find a robust cooling signal from the Hunga volcanic plume.

A new House bill would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. It’s a step forward on an ethics reform that Americans across the political spectrum support.

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

Yep. ourtrees.substack.com/p/ginkgo-tre...