Brother Warnock lays it plain.

Is Trump ill? He seems like he’s not up for the demands of the job. #SleepyDon

And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.

and there it is. the absolutely massive change in R01s funded multi-year. our perceptions that the new mandate, sorry strong suggestion, has had a dramatic effect on forward funding and therefore success rates is validated.

The eternal struggle w admin oversight

Trumps Halloween party while SNAP benefits expired for so many

Not only do the Amish vaccinate, I *think* an Amish related concern currently or at one time had/has a contract to produce/ produced substantial amounts of vaccine for America through chicken eggs.

V cool & Interesting 🧵 … without reading the paper and without adequate caffeine yet this strikes me as a gremlin-like effect — not expecting a social furry humanoid thing to speak may elicit the “WTF?!” reaction to novelty which then disrupts normal attention/learning

Avian Halloween 👻 🎃 … love this

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

This is a really thoughtful piece on the process of closing a college in the most ethical way possible. As the rate of closures is likely to tick up at least a bit, it's well worth leaders' time to read this.

I agree, adding that I’m very concerned about its effects on adult brains too. I think it’s much more psychologically dangerous to interact with an LLM designed to reflect your own ideas back flatteringly than to post on social media, where someone will always be ready to call you a c***

Nice detective work by WaPo, finding that DHS viral videos are full of false imagery. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, delivered a delicious #CupOfJoe. “This isn’t a sci-fi show. These are human beings. We will not abandon our humanity to score cheap political points.”

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

If the Democrats win in 2028, they should ask the same corporations for donations to tear down the ballroom and fix the east wing back to what it was

Fascism is the Only Option for White Christian Nationalists: Robert P. Jones on the latest PRRI Survey.. fascinating open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Mike Johnson doesn’t know a whole lot about much, now does he?

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

Narrator: But in fact, the journalist sat there blinking and did not ask the obvious follow up question as to why the Speaker wouldn't swear the Congressperson-elect in so that she could in fact, BE A FUNCTIONING MEMBER OF CONGRESS instead of a Congressperson-elect.

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

domestic violence by republican men against women isn't really important to today's MAGA GOP. Now if he were a pedophile trafficking children, well....yeah, not that either.

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

They are who you thought they are, racist shitposters: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin. 4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short 4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China 5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market The whale’s profit: $192 million

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

PRITZKER: "I genuinely think there is something wrong with him. I wish that his family would intervene, because I do think he needs mental health help."

You. Do. Not. Try. To. Prove. Your. Hypothesis. That is completely backwards. The proper way to do science is to form a hypothesis, and then do everything you can to try and tear that hypothesis apart. Any other way is scientifically unsound at the least, and malpractice or outright lies at worst

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Portland is burning… down the house with a costumed dance party of protesters #SheerHorror

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

Oooops

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

For those who can’t afford Taylor Swift’s new album, be sure to check your local library. My county library has The Life of a Showgirl up on the Hoopla app, and it’s free for me to stream with my library card. Libraries for the win! #taylorswift

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

My mom posted this picture of a scale from her primary care clinic, which I absolutely love, being an astrophysicist. But also the messaging is great!

Democrats should be running ads attacking Stephen Miller and Russell Vought as unelected bureaucrats ruining America. They're villains right out of central casting with the charisma of reptiles, and in addition being called a puppet would piss Trump off.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMhAKvYY/ She should lose her license.

Everytime I listen to Stephen Miller I think of this one angry nerdy bitter kid I went to high school with who used to have just one line in his AIM profile, the Radiohead lyric: “When I am king, you will be first against the wall”

“Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life,” & “I’m against abortion, but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,’ I don’t know if that’s pro-life.” — Pope Leo XIV abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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