The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

The AMATYC conference in November will have at least one good talk! (Not mine, I'm not that shameless)

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

Welcome back marine layer!! #Mariners

I’m no Humpy but I do have an unusually powerful “Rally Time” video.

It's @kenjennings.bsky.social time at T-Mobile Park.

British Columbia, it’s not too late to come over to the right side of history. The Blue Jays play 2,500 miles away. They are not your home team!

Trump just called in the National Guard to quell Seattle’s happiness.

At some point you just have to declare the other AL slot vacant and hold some kind of conclave, right?

The Mariners trident raise is one of the goofiest things in baseball and I love it so much.

To explain: At the start of his opinion, Judge Young includes an anonymous note received by his chambers, which reads “Trump has pardons and tanks..what do you have?” Responding to the note, Young says we have our “magnificent Constitution” and “here’s how that works out in a specific case —“

In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly today, President Trump said climate change is a “con job” and climate scientists are “stupid people” — and he called green energy and immigration a “double-tailed monster” that is destroying Europe. 🧵 1/5

The White House ain't sending its best Czars to the border and whatnot.

NEW: The SEC quietly dismissed complaints against 3 people who were granted clemency by Trump for frauds that collectively bilked victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, Devon Archer, Trevor Milton & Carlos Watson won't have to pay any money that could be used to make victims whole.

“She’s mine.” Watch this whole interview with Andrea Velez, a US citizen arrested by ICE while on her way to work. youtu.be/AmfpngmLIzQ?...

Exactly this

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up.” www.vox.com/politics/461...

Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

If you aren’t already familiar with Horst Wessel, this is a good time to learn how people are turned into martyrs by authoritarian regimes for propaganda purposes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...

We're interpreting derivatives today in calculus, which means I get to discuss my favorite velocity: Thoreau speed = miles traveled / hours of labor (for a fixed transportation mode and wage). steamthing.com/2008/08/what... 🧮

Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @karenattiah.bsky.social is that she said Kirk said this:

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

We should not be cowed into silence about Kirk’s views and reprehensible comments because we fear MAGA provocateurs’ retribution or mischaracterization. Our democracy requires we defend all speakers, not ignore the difference between admirable and malignant messages open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The moment when it becomes most difficult, perhaps even impossible, to tell the truth, is the moment when it is most critically important to tell it. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.

Here’s a list of those questions

Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs. The essay questions — which have nothing to do with meteorology — are part of federal guidelines launched as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to recruit “patriotic Americans” to its workforce.

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

Now that threats to federal statistics have gotten your attention, check out the damage that’s already been done: www.amstat.org/the-nations-...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Today’s NYT Connections game brought back happy memories of Christmas 2024. Honestly, these coincidences mount up and up.

CBS fired Eddie Cantor in 1939, slow-fired Edward R. Murrow in the 50s, cancelled the Smothers Brothers in 1969, and Ed Asner in 1982 – all over politics. Eddie got booted for going after American fascists and Nazi simps like Henry Ford. www.jta.org/archive/eddi...

CNN just published newly uncovered pics and video of Donald Trump hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990’s, including at Trump’s second wedding: www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/p...

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Hello? Hello? Is this the manager? I would like a full refund on my Christmas 2024 “Peace on Earth” greeting cards.

“[One] of our amazing grants that have been cut … looked into how … in the inner ear …neurotransmitters … help us hear. … It’s actually possible that the reason that got flagged early on is the word ‘neurotransmitter,’ because it has the word ‘trans’ in it.” h/t @Cathy2NotToday on X.com

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

Pete Hegseth is a twat, in the British sense. Even Rumsfeld, the prior record-holder for worst SecDef, is ROLLING in his grave. If Trump had the same policies as Jimmy Carter his administration would STILL be illegitimate based on Hegseth alone. I would rather have Kid Rock do it.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Look, for over a year, one brave Cassandra was warning you that massive tariffs were coming and that they’d wreak havoc on the economy. But no one listened to Donald Trump.

Meet the man who invented the Yankees torpedo bats

Dangerous thunderstorms hitting the West Coast on Wednesday could feature hail as large as tennis balls, damaging wind gusts and even a tornado, according to the National Weather Service. #WAwx #ORwx