This shit…that line About killing people in particular…would have made my father, who proudly served in the Army almost his entire life, throw up.

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

Somebody has to say it Boy, that escalatored quickly

I may be biased, but I love this department! ❤️❤️❤️ Everyone should apply!

Have they brought the golden calf into the stadium yet?

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

Interesting idea actually

Wittgenstein: It is impossible to use words without making meaning. Vogue:

Remember kids: there is no idea or level of complexity that requires bad writing.

Is she talking to Groypers? Because dems just want her to have good health care.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

Contributing to anti-doomscrolling with Max Linder, the sparkling French comedian who inspired Chaplin and is the earliest known movie star with his name on a poster (circa 1909).

#SeaScrolling. Necessary. #Breathe.

Not much to say about Charlie Kirk. I didn’t know much about him. It’s horrible that he was killed. I do feel like it’s a good time to say, again, that words are not violence. Violence is violence. And there’s too much of it.

Fire at the Market Street Garage in downtown Charlottesville.

Imagine spending a research career trying to force scientists to pay exorbitant licensing fees to use the little 8 item scale you built using public (NIH) funds retractionwatch.com/2025/09/02/p...

The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.

Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan had a budget of $12m. (The modern equivalent of $35m). Star Trek Beyond cost $185m to make. I'd rather watch Khan 10x than beyond once. Thats the power of decent writing, acting and casting. No SFX budget can overcome a lack of those.

It’s animal agriculture.

Social contagion is a powerful force in human affairs. And in the last ten years, many large-scale experiments have been done in the field, documenting its impact on a broad range of policy outcomes.

I don’t care if they’re right or wrong. (Personally I find them somewhat stilted.) The only question is whether they help or hinder gaining voters.

I also find them to be a strange excursion into history, because they choose a particular point at which to decide who owned what, but all I care about is whether they help or hinder politically.

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1970: As many as 20,000 women protest in the Women’s Strike for Equality in New York City, with more throughout the U.S. The event was held on the 50th anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the constitutional right to vote. /1

Please, @npr.org--I'm begging: Stop using words like "unhoused." "Homeless" is descriptive and accurate. "Unhoused" just signals your intellectual superiority, disinviting a huge body of potential listeners from the progressive club. For all of our sakes, including the homeless, stop it. Stop. It.

A very big problem for *Korea*, says the putrescent trumpet of America’s Id.

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

I read the whole article. Several times I laughed out loud. The crumpled chips bag is somehow the perfect emblem of our political moment.

And so here we are: the Republicans have debased the republic to the point of parody, while the Democrats have contrived to be even less popular. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

The more “Critical Theory” I read, the more I'm convinced it's an intellectual confidence trick. It's all obscure language, promises of special insight, and either faith or a kind of rhetorical coercion (if you aren't convinced, you are a bad person), instead of evidence.

This is nearly $900 million that news entities have had to pay out for publishing lies about the 2020 presidential election. Yet Donald Trump, who lost by more than seven million votes, keeps repeating the Big Lie and makes it compulsory dogma for his employees.

A tsunami of protest filled central Tel Aviv last night. Demanding hostage deal and end to war. Odds are, your English-language media source failed to convey magnitude of the event. (Credit: Amir Goldstein. His videos show much larger extent of demo, which didn’t fit in frame of a still shot. )

TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published

That the NIH now takes its cues from the country’s best known anti-vaccine crank is not a “pivot".... It is a betrayal of the scientific principles of evidence and trust that the NIH is supposed to uphold, placing the institution in the hands of a figure who has profited from undermining them.

Experimental philosophy

I read this post from @jimmycoan.bsky.social when he originally published it, but I'm so glad @neillewisjr.bsky.social reposted it because it truly is an inspiring reflection.

"I used to think my value as a scientist began and ended with my lab’s productivity...But there’s a difference between productivity and sustainability." I really appreciate this reflection by @jimmycoan.bsky.social on how various changes affect what we do. jimcoan.substack.com/p/things-hav...

Vital reading. thepointmag.com/reviews/viol...

A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine

A new preprint showing strong evidence of peer reviewers engaging in transactional peer review as some only approved a manuscript after requesting and then getting cited osf.io/preprints/os...

It really says something about UVa that retired faculty care so much about what happens to this place. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

I've never told this story because it involves mildly intimate life details, but here goes. In the early 2000s, in what you might call a past life, I was married to a lovely person from a wealthy family in Greenwich, CT. Her father was ardently Republican. He was also an enthusiastic Trump hater.

Among all the weird takes that seem to be popular online, the one that always gets me is that studying STEM somehow morally corrupts people and the solution is to make people additionally go through a humanities and/or social science curriculum at the university level.

Please check tsunami bulletins for your area as they are extensive

People getting bent out of shape when Roy mentions prayer really don't understand that the backbone of the Democratic coalition in the South are Black voters. Those are the people who go to church. And tons of white swing voters in North Carolina are Christians. And Roy's a Sunday School teacher.