NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR. Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.

The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.

NCAR is vital to weather prediction across the world. This is a dangerous decision with inevitably deadly complications.

If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

This is gonna date my ass, but I remember when 8 folks getting shot was front page news and whatnot.

An OpenAI staffer has quit, claiming that the company has backed off from publishing negative economic research about AI. scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/openai...

Sometimes the options on a website to activate AI companions are like "Get Started!" and "Remind Me Later" and I think they should include a third option which is "Fuck No, Fuck Off Forever"

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny. www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't. It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

A new Odd Couple remake just dropped.

Please remember, while flying a swastika is no longer hate speech, implying that somebody flying a swastika is a Nazi, still is.

Good thing @cnn.com redacted part of that naughty word.

"I can't afford a house" and "I only qualify for a 50-year mortgage" mean the same thing.

It is said that you must pick your battles, but often they are picked for you. You should not give in just because you did not choose the fight. No, you must respond with all your determination and ferocity, and show your enemy they picked the wrong battle, with the wrong warrior.

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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