Oh! I get it. So now it’s the Executive branch that has the actual power of the purse. Gotcha. I guess the Founders must have written that part in disappearing ink somewhere.

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.

Kimmel's back, and so is offshore wind. Mark the calendar. Turning point. thinc.blog/2025/09/22/k...

technologically advance a band. Jefferson Omniscience (Second technological advancement)

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

This four year old video ably debunked Charlie Kirk's tired, 2009- vintage climate denial tropes thinc.blog/2025/09/19/d...

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

National Weather Service now requiring Trump Loyalty tests for new hires thinc.blog/2025/09/15/n...

MAGA loves free speech so much they want to keep it all for themselves.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Let's play "guess the country":

“Are you now, or have you ever been, a person who has said something I don’t like about Charlie Kirk?”

For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?

Please define civility because I’m not sure we have the same concept for this word.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

A little ditty I wrote

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.

Polite note to the president: Your crack team at the FBI still has no clue who did this

Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Just watch. The whole system is swinging into action, using Kirk's killing to advance the power & interests of the right. The crucial thing to notice is that *the process wouldn't work without the complicity & assistance of the mainstream elite establishment*. Every time.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered from…what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.

I haven’t seen anyone mention that algorithms that amplify divisive rhetoric like Kirk’s are largely responsible for the these kinds of eventualities.

100% true.

Free speech absolutist has words, yet a lack of self reflection

/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.

In other WP news: No clear answer on whether Sun is at the center of the solar system

Your econ term for the day is Technology Transfer. Once you understand it, you'll immediately see how destructive it was for ICE to frogmarch Hyundai's Korean workers off in chains.

Fact check: The US has 4X the guns per capita of Switzerland RFK Jr is either a blatant liar or a complete imbecile

No question he signed it

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

Slightly diminish a book. Kvetch 22

Donald Trump’s plan is one that’s been repeated over and over again by dictators across history — inciting the local population before sending disrupters. That’s how you convert a democracy into something else. Illinois won’t fall for this ploy.

"The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard." -Gaylord Nelson

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?