Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Haven't they suffered enough?

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Deuce: "WHAT ARE YOU DO-ING?"

From 1939: www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a... #kimmel #ftc #colbert #otd Author ✍️ www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

At this rate, the National WWII Museum will be closed in the 3rd Trump Term... _ www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...

Market St Powerplant

As Trump destroys another economy, here’s a reminder that Americans under 35 have never seen a Republican president improve the economy.

Have you ever seen a drone carpet bombing? By "Nemesis" unit

20 years ago. _ Dump Cowen, Not Engineering

20 years later. _ Not every made it.

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20 years later. - Boat on the streetcar tracks

20 years later. _ Giant debris piles on the neutral ground

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20 years ago. _ Don't ever be curious enough to open a Katrina fridge. Such a horrible mistake.

20 years ago. The 17th Street Canal Breach, out of all of them, was the worst. It was the 1 thing that really escalated everything else so badly.

20 years ago. Burying a friend, Ducky Reiss, who died in the aftermath of Katrina

20 years ago... Scott "Fuckmook" Cowen destroying Tulane Civil Engineering in the aftermath of Katrina. _ ashleymorris.typepad.com/ashley_morri...

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Huh. I guess prosecutors really CAN’T indict a ham sandwich…

And that's wrap for this poor boy.

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"

A wonderful idea in the peak of hurricane season. 🌀

White Russian

The President cannot commandeer any local law enforcement. The President does not run the Smithsonian. The monthly BLS jobs report is required by law. Release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

9. I simply cannot ethically hire anyone on federal funds under these new conditions, and I will not do so going forward. That hamstrings my research, but worse it prevents the development of brilliant, talented researchers like my former students who are professors, startup founders, and more.

Texas reminds me of Louisiana now! Leaving bodies to rot in the sun and not picking them up. _ www.texastribune.org/2025/07/31/t... _ Reminds me of the Hard Rock Hotel!

A reminder that Putin is better at shooting down civilian airliners than he is at hitting military targets _ youtu.be/tKVrUAnzrhc?...

Very soon after I posted this thread, S&WB updated their pumping dashboard, but with a backdated update. They put a date of 7/18/25 as if it has been there the whole time, but it only went up a little while ago (17/15)

An outbreak of Malaria or Yellow Fever in one of Donald Trump's concentration camps in Florida will not stay confined to the to camp.

"Hillary The Hawk, Donald the Dove"

6. Meanwhile, instead of incarcerating more people, police and prosecutors focused on a smaller group of people who are responsible for most of the city’s violence. In general about 2% of the community is responsible for 50 to 75% of the violent crime.

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Right-wing billionaires provide wingnut welfare the way China funds tech: there's no way to know in advance what will work, so just fund everything and reward success. Liberals fund media the way the US funds high tech: try to guess the one thing that will work from first principles,and then give up

The data journalists were so busy wondering if they could do something they never stopped to think if they should. www.theguardian.com/news/datablo...