Saw Project Hail Mary last night. Amaze! Amaze! Amaze! (IYKYK) Dropped a lot of the real science from the book (physics) but captured the friendship, humor, and courage at the books core. It is kind of Castaway like (lots of Ryan Gosling) but he holds the stage. Definitely a feel good escape […]

Trump has not posted on Truth Social threatening Greenland if NATO doesn't cooperate. Look for yourself. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump He is still ridiculous and horrible and agreed to lift sanctions on $14b of Iranian oil.

Sir Anthony (Tony) Leggett, who died this past week, was truly a gentleman and a scholar. He was kind and humble, not always the attributes of a brilliant scientist. After first receiving a classics degree at Oxford, he went for a second degree in physics […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Treasury Secretary Bessent was called away from a live interview on CNBC this morning to meet with Trump and returned, visibly shaken. What the fuck? https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/watch-trump-summons-treasury-secretary-123853391.html

🧵Trump lies always ed. 1000000... Trump has always claimed he is 6'3" which would tie him for second tallest US potus Prince William is 6'3". Trump is clearly not 6'3"

Markwayne Mullin is ready for his Homeland Security confirmation hearing

Finished listening to "Project Hail Mary" on Audible, and in the words of the lead character Ryland Grace,IT IS AWESOME. The best about science, and a surprisingly optimistic and personal turn on humanity and friendship in the face of apocalypse. What's not to like? Looking forward to the film!

@Drdind Memaw cannot leave office soon enough.

Sonny Burton is on death row in AL for a murder he didn't commit. He participated in a robbery, left early, & his accomplice killed a man, getting life without parole on appeal. The jury who tried him & the victim's family don't want Burton executed. But Gov. Kay Ivey never commutes sentences. […]

#trumpswaronoureconomy Tariffs, deportation, and now this: Trump’s illegal war on Iran has caused gasprices to jump. In Kansas City, in one day they went above $3 for the first time since last fall. Trump doesn't care about you-he cares about Bibi, MSB, billionaires.

🧵The "Punk in the Park" punk rock festival gas been canceled since it was revealed the founder, Cameron Collins, was a major Trump donor in 2024. His political stance runs counter to the anti- authoritarian ethos at the core of punk music.

Scott Ostler on the World Cup and Iran (which has qualified): "Never before has a World Cup nation’s team boycotted the event for political reasons. Never before has a host nation bombed a fellow World Cup nation during the run-up to the tournament." Will they come? Will Trump let them?

🧵#OperationEpsteinFury is NOT supported by the majority of the American people - huge numbers of Democrats and Independents oppose it, think it will make us less safe, and that Trump has no real plans for what to do. Republicans think the opposite in large numbers.

#womenshistorymonth is amazing and a chance to look wistfully on how these two would have made fine presidents.

Don the Neo-Neocon Trump has unveiled a new presidential portrait

TikTok, Donald. Another one bites the dust. I am fine with Democrats going down over Epstein. And Republicans. https://www.ketv.com/article/nebraska-bob-kerrey-resigns-board-epstein-files/70484606

🧵As Larry Summers has stepped down over his ties to Epstein, worth noting these other faculty and donors with Epstein ties, including physicists Lisa Randall and Andrew Strominger, geneticist George Church, and donors Andrew Farkas, Kes Wexner, and Gerald Chan […]

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116107692279897463 The answer might be in the buried lede here: "ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone"

#uspol #norway #taxes #TAX

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

For Presidents Day: Movie presidents weigh in on current times ...

Resist. Trump will keep losing. And his legal battles and Epstein are stretching the DOJ thin. He has dropped his appeal of the $1.2B demand from UCLA. This fight was not from tepid administrators or the faculty senate It was from the DeFacto faculty union and the UAW […]

Wow, Valentines Day goes way back to Roman times - and is a bit dark […]

I had not seen @dennisgoris.bsky.social work until today. Brilliant.

Ann Telnaes (ht @borowitzreport.bsky.social ) captures Pam Bondi's despicable performance yesterday

I loved Eleanor the Great, which I watched for the first time last night. https://share.google/gCkEmM4Rb6pZeZnKk

When you push horrific policies you drive away quality people. All the legal actions being driven by Trump could be his undoing, because you cannot appoint crappy lawyers fast enough […]

Move along, nothing to see here HOLY SHITFUCKING CRAP ON A STICK!

As reporter Frances Wang is talking on camera yesterday about a mountain lion being captured in the tony Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, a coyote walks by behind her. Living in that neighborhood over 27 years I saw: skunks, raccoons, hawks, coyotes...life finds a way

Happy birthday Alan Alda, 90 years old!

Happy Meow Year!

Happy Holidays from my home to yours!

Next act of Bari Weiss and the Ellisons

I first wrote this 3 years ago, and it is as relevant now as then. To the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - 🎵ELON THE THIN SKINNED SNOWFLAKE🎶

Listen: readings of famous authors and poets - Didion, Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, ee cummings, James Baldwin... At the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in NYC […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An orange skinned lying old creep At his cabinet meeting did sleep Even Little Marco of State Could not desomnolate The shitweasel's REMs were too deep! [Yes, desomnulate is an attempt at a humorous neologism.]

If Hepatitis B Vaccine recommendations for infants are repealed by the antivaxx crew picked by RFK Jr at the CDC,, it will be a child endangering travesty laid at Sen Bill Cassidy's doorstep. Cassidy is an MD who made his name in Louisiana getting widespread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Trump has commuted the sentence of David Gentile, 59 yo resident of Long Island, who defrauded people of $1.6B in a phony investment scheme. Gentile spend just seven days in prison for a seven year sentence. Grift sees grift […]

Oh so fun being with democracy destroyers. 🙄 Marc Benioff again showing he is a clueless putz.

Catherine Lucey from Bloomberg was called Piggy by Trump yesterday. His misogyny knows no bounds.

Lead recycling for automobile batteries in Europe and North America is poisoning many in Africa. A recycler that used green practices folded because its costs were too high. New colonialism: shift environmental problems to developing countries […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Rip to Diane Ladd, extraordinary actress and mother of Laura Dern

#Alabama! Go YOU! #NoKings

Hello from #denver! #nokings #resist #uspol #protest

FAFO time Mr Billionaire Comedians cancel participation in Dreamforce after Salesforce honcho Marc Benioff agrees Trump should send troops to San Francisco […]

Colonel Douglas Krugman, USMC, resigned early effectively self-demoting himself to Lieutenant Col., because of the immoral and illegal actions of the Trump administration. We need more Doug Krugmans in the military! Emphasize this tomorrow on #NoKingsDay […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

¡SÍ A LA PROPUESTA 50 EN CALIFORNIA! ¡Defienda la democracia! LA ELECCIÓN ES EL 4 DE NOVIEMBRE

Save democracy! #voteyesonprop50 Trump wants to rig the house in his favor next November. Temporary redistricting in California can offset his actions in Texas. Unlike Texas, where Trump toadies forced redistricting, voters decide in California.

Sup on Pennsylvania Avenue this morning?