Trump’s attacks on Iran were based on vibes, not new intel, two administration officials tell Rolling Stone. “There is no intel,” one of the sources says. “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

I just wanna write about astronomy and talk about Star Trek and make high-level puns and post fun photos but instead we have secret police and federally sponsored kidnappings and horrifically repressive legislation jammed through and oh yeah also a massively illegal war in the Middle East. Dammit.

I don’t want Khamenei to have access to a nuclear weapon. But then I also don’t want Putin, Netanyahu, or Xi Jingping to have access to a nuclear weapon. And I definitely don’t want Kim Jong Un or Trump to have access to a nuclear weapon. The only person I’d trust with one is David Attenborough.

Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ with iPhones

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.

The axolotl seems like something out of science fiction, possessing a superpower that defies biology as we know it: the ability to regenerate entire limbs. But how does it happen? Scientists have unraveled a key piece of this biological puzzle.

We requested comms between Tesla and the Texas DOT ahead of today’s Robotaxi launch — and Tesla sent a letter to the Texas AG trying to block the request. Plus some on-the-ground details from @niedermeyer.online Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social: techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/t...

Saturday catch-up: Watch James Acaster on Seth Meyers http://dlvr.it/TLTg6b

And in case you missed it, last week, 200 people won seats to a private dinner with Trump by purchasing large quantities of Trump’s memecoin—some holding millions of dollars’ worth. This was the dinner: www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

Just wow.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

59% of the public, and 64% of 2024 Labour voters, agree that migrants living in the UK and paying taxes should be eligible to apply for citizenship after five years or less, according to our new Focaldata research. www.britishfuture.org/white-paper-... #ImmigrationWhitePaper

Simply this.

Weird, because when we had close to 97% vaccine rate that literally was the answer you dickwad.

I am still amazed they let people this dumb on television.

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

1. The Trump administration is about to release it's own anti-science "Cass Review," a sham review with pseudoscience that will be used to justify sweeping crackdowns on trans care in the United States. No experts are involved in its drafting. Subscribe to support my journalism.

An update on this, feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social "I’m here because today we’ve learned that xAI is using 35 methane gas burning turbines.....they have submitted a permit to our Shelby county health department for 15, yet they are using double that amount with no permit"

Striking that both Trump’s enemies and diehards are all convinced this is a masterplan. Either that he’s deliberately shorted the market or it’s all a strategy to make other countries negotiate. This is his great ability: he convinces everyone he’s one step ahead. Most of the time he is simply not.

Autism is not an "epidemic" because it's not a disease. Saying we don't know what "causes" it is absurd. It's genetic and, what's more, NORMAL FOR HUMAN BRAINS TO BE DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER.

🔔MARKET CLOSES DOW DOWN 2.5% ⬇️ S&P 500 DOWN 3.49% ⬇️ NASDAQ DOWN 4.19% ⬇️

New: MAGA influencers are straining to explain why Trump's tariff meltdown and stock-market chaos are actually good. "Losing money costs you nothing. ... In fact, it builds quite a bit of character" wapo.st/42DceoJ

Good old Matt.

“In a sweeping executive order signed late Tuesday, Trump ordered AG Pam Bondi to ‘stop the enforcement of State laws’ on climate change that the administration says are unconstitutional, unenforceable or preempted by federal laws.” The order names CA, NY & VT as specific targets. 1/ 4/9/25

The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index just hit such a historic high under Trump that it’s literally exploding off the chart.

To those commenting that it was a premeditated insider trading setup and not a climbdown - I suspect it was both. Economically illiterate Trump intended to unleash high global tariffs and was forced by the market to U-turn - but also fully intended to enrich his cronies whichever way the ride went.

Trump has confirmed that tariffs on China now stand at 145% not 125%.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian intelligence had identified 155 Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian forces, a day after Ukraine said two Chinese nationals were captured in the country.

of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

Guys, guys, guys. It’s not math. It’s not finance. It’s not economics. It’s all about psychology. Abnormal psychology. Read the DSM-5’s chapters on Cluster B personality disorders. And then it all becomes clear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

looks like crypto scams are back on the menu, boys

Nintendo has already shipped ‘some’ Switch 2 inventory to the US

you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Just to follow up on what @sarahebond.bsky.social said, the idea that in *50BC* Rome failed to solve a population decline and that led to the collapse of their civilization is so unfathomably historically illiterate it's hard to even know where to begin

‘In a briefing earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters, "Americans do not need other countries as much as other countries need us."’ There are a lot of other countries. The US can’t even make Coca-Cola without them. Probably not even the dyes for the US flag.

A federal judge (appointed by Trump) rules for the Associate Press, against the Trump administration's banning it from WH coverage, finding a violation of the 1st Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remember SignalGate? (One of Trump's superpowers is being involved in so many scandals all the time that very few of them end up having staying power beyond a news cycle or two.)

Change is happening. Keep looking for lights in dark places. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Trump is about to classify coal as a "critical mineral" to ramp up production to purportedly power data centres Everything is so silly here on like 20 different levels simultaneously techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/t...

It's not about immigration. It's not about gang activity. It's about the Trump administration seeking the absolute power to send anyone they see fit — citizens included – without due process on one way trips to overseas concentration camps from which no one ever returns.

Reform’s Farage and Lee Anderson have backed a Trump deal to sell chlorinated chicken in the UK.

Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

Welcome to the Dark Ages

"Public health experts have warned for years that such a shift would open the door to increased dental disease, especially in low-income communities. But the guy who thinks wi-fi causes cancer and 'leaky brain' is apparently unconvinced..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

I’m sure the tariffs aren’t helping but in this specific case it might be more because we’re locking tourists up in detention centers