"What do you think of Congress" well I think it would be a good idea

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

5 GOP House members + 20 GOP Senators could could *finish* this today. 25 people out of a nation of ~340 million. OK, 21 GOP Senators, depending on Fetterman.

we have invented Regime Change Via Air Superiority from the hit book, "You Cannot Force Regime Change Via Air Superiority"

This is illegal act of war committed by a president who is actively trying to cover up evidence he sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl. This should not be treated as legitimate in any way.

the deeply disturbing lesson of 21st century geopolitics so far is that nuclear non-proliferation is an act of national security malpractice so egregious it borders on treason

Through 13 years of school in central Maine, I shared a school (not a class, a school) with <10 non-white people TOTAL. I was the only Jewish kid in elem + middle school; there was 1 other family in hs. That meme "I think *slur* should just be left alone" is the median gettable Maine voter.

seeing a lot takes on maine and i think one thing your theories about using maine to the State of The Union should factor in that maine has slightly more non white people than chapel hill north carolina

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

The 1st time the nyt leadership engaged me on trans issues, in 2021, they asked my opinion of a Jesse Singal review of a book by the transphobic writer Helen Joyce. The piece had been assigned by Pamela Paul 🧵

Huge news we finally have a wholly worthy target for EVERYONE to be mad at bsky.app/profile/kern...

But we probably shouldn’t do is tell anyone how to feel about being harmed or offer selective concern to indicate who is the “real” oppressed minority here. Or ask for grace from anyone who has to live with the harm that’s been done.

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I believe black people who say being called the N word is uniquely harmful and I believe Tourette experts that the disease causes uncontrollable compulsions to say the worst thing possible. So the only outcome is to abridge someone's freedom, which is why it sucks and everyone is mad!

I have already seen a student with Alysa Liu's hairstyle

A tell of whether someone is tropical and from a mango-growing region is their relationship to the king of fruit and how they came to love it If, like me, they grew up knowing it as the source of virtue and all that is good in the world, that points to tropicality

Twitter was a uniquely useful place to me as a science journalist. I could be lazy about checking arXiv. There were productive scientific discussions every day. Bluesky is, it is true, a pale shadow of that. But by the time Twitter became X it was basically already dead.

It's OK to say "I have feelings about this situation but it's complicated and I do not know enough to treat it well and so I'm just not going to comment on it, I will read what better-informed people write instead." That's a thing you can do! You don't have to wade into every discourse!

The State of Israel is in some sense extremely lucky. Every time that they commit some sort of horrendous completely morally indefensible atrocity, an idiot online will say something so profoundly stupid and ahistorical about Jewish history that it instantly derails the conversation abt the atrocity

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

While many of you are likely yelling "GO TARIFFS" or "GO SUPREME COURT!" I'm yelling "GO BLOOD PRESSURE AND VASCULAR FRAGILITY!"

Study Finds Intermittent Fasting No More Effective Than Conventional Eating Disorder https://theonion.com/study-finds-intermittent-fasting-no-more-effective-than-conventional-eating-disorder/

It's going to be genuinely difficult to figure out how much money he and his family literally just took from US taxpayers. Don't even mean the crypto scam profiteering shit, like actual treasury money that by one mechanism or another he turned into his own money.

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration. even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

My sincere proposal is that we take all of ICE's budget and give it to the IRS and SEC

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

I think it's despicable to mock this man for the hearing loss he developed after Maxine Waters gave him that piledriver from the top rope

My favorite part of this is the implication that only 36% of Americans have household incomes between 25k and 500k

i really love @alexiscoe.bsky.social's biography of washington because she gets at exactly this: the fact that "george washington" is a character created by george washington, a man so consumed with presenting himself as an example of republican virtue that he became one

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

If you see this post a Star Trek

I'm the designer for lab containment and safety in a scifi horror. Every day before work I take 8 shots of vodka and hit myself in the head with a shovel. I told the head of this multitrillion megacorp that I had 0 experience but he just started rambling about the next phase of human evolution

I still think the internet is the best comp for AI. It was a bubble that popped, but the underlying tech turned out to be real. It enabled a bunch of psychosis and slop, but also some genuinely cool stuff. Massive labor market disruptions, but employment levels look about the same.

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

So a true story: the moving company is charging us a “library surcharge” because we have “too many books,” which frankly I find both credentialing and insulting.

Nerding out for a moment: I like that in Star Trek (yes I know it's fiction), the Federation is a military powerhouse BECAUSE its multiculturalism leads to so much scientific advancement and productivity. Through most of the series, there are only two real military threats: the Dominion and the Borg

Woof

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@heathergtv has a response for Bondi 👏🏼 🤣 #CulverCity

Real ones know to avoid Vespertine and get brunch across the street at Destroyer, which is the same chef and costs 0.0000038% as much

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

Clinical development takes a LONG time. 5-10 years typically. So just replacing Republicans isn't enough. For companies to have confidence to invest in vaccine development, we need to set the standard that trying to stop vaccines gets you thrown in prison

i think it is a massive fucking problem that the first best use for LLMs was to cheat in school

"If athletes can lift the training weights using a chain winch, that is a you problem."

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

This picture perfectly captures the incredulity I felt when a theory student asked why our experiments take so long.