i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

Next off the shelf. Another important, but likely depressing read. #books #booksky #nonfiction #everyoneshouldreadmore 📚📖💙

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"It’s difficult to conceive of a cohesive and robust Republican Party emerging out of the ruins being wrought by Trump. And considering the untold damage the party has done to the nation over the past 25 years, perhaps that's for the better."

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

• Vaccines don’t cause autism. • COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids. • COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children. The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters. Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, and the openness of his corruption is an essential feature of it. It's particularly bad that this comes as Trump is using state power to punish Sen Mark Kelly for correctly warning against breaking illegal orders. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

Next off the shelf. I need something a bit less triggering again. #books #booksky #everyoneshouldreadmore 📚📖💙

Stop with the damned sane washing. They’re not changing course, THEY LIED.

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Next off the shelf. An unfortunately topical read. #books #nonfiction #booksky #everyoneshouldreadmore 📚📖💙

Try to live your life in such a manner that escalators don't stop as you approach.

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Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff. It only works if you let it.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

We live in the worst fucking timeline

Next off the shelf. I’ve had this book for some time, meaning to read it. With the author’s recent passing, its time has come. #books #booksky #nonfiction #everyoneshouldreadmore 📚📖💙

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

“Hey Siri, what percentage of 340 million is 300 million?”

Next off the shelf. A short read that covers two lectures from a critical thinker in the philosophy of science. #books #nonfiction #booksky #science #philosophy #everyoneshouldreadmore 📚📘📖💙

Haaaaa. OMG, I LOVE THIS GUY.

Next off the shelf. Back to nonfiction and technology/science. #books #booksky #nonfiction #eveyoneshouldreadmore 📚📘💙

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Next off the shelf. One of my rare forays into fiction. #books #booksky #fiction #everoneshouldreadmore 📘📚💙

The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

Who fucking paves a rose garden?

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She’s not wrong.

Again, if you just keep an eye out for breaking stories about Republicans being convicted for pedophilia or, in this case, doing work to cover up for their pedophile friends and relatives, it quickly becomes an everyday thing.

People should be up in arms about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the destruction of the economy, the arrests of non-criminal immigrants and the increasing banning of books and other information sources in this country. Wake up, folks.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

Un-fucking-believable. If his stated goal was to thin the population by killing off the weak and susceptible, what would he be doing differently?

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