On Friday, Trump asked SCOTUS to let him invade Chicago, relying on declarations already deemed unreliable, to disprove Chicago's claim it was abt animus. On Saturday, he posted AI slop showing him dropping shit on America. On Sunday, he bombed SoCal.

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if you haven't read amber tamblyn's remembrance of andrea gibson yet, drop everything you're doing and read it now: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...

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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say What a f’g embarrassment. Vanity, thy name is Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Astrocytes, Not Neurons, Hold the Key to Emotional Memory #neuro #astrocyte #memory #learning #emotion #psychiatry 🧪 neurosciencenews.com/astrocytes-e...

Japan is reporting a flu epidemic much earlier than is usual. This early season could have implications for other countries via international travel so do get your flu vaccines (if you can) soon! 🧪 #HealthPolicy

She’s so dope.

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years. Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

He couldn’t do much worse.

While the medbed thing might seem inscrutable, the answer is obvious: Jung spoke of a collective unconscious desire, embedded within the American psyche, to return to the womb-like safety of the iron lung

"A 3D printable bio-active glass could be used to repair bone damage and help them grow back, a study suggests." www.newsweek.com/scientists-c...

📣 Public health win: New Mexico has declared its measles outbreak over after no new cases for 42 days.

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Several of us are getting seat time with Lucid's electric SUV, which seems to be a long-distance, fast-charging monster. What do you want to know? insideevs.com/reviews/7734...

A new nova has erupted in the constellation Centaurus, first reported on Sept 22, 2025, at about magnitude 6.0, just visible without a telescope under dark skies. Its brightness may change rapidly in the coming days 🧪✨🌌💥🔭 #astronomy #stargazing #nova #space

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

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This is a oddly bland headline. What China is doing is decoupling its economy, security, and global stature from fossil fuels. “In the absence of the U.S. and E.U., China will be the only game in town.”

The strongest predictor of autism is genetics. Data: • If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance. • Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins. • Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population. 1/

Congratulations to @jimmykimmel.com on his triumphant return! Last night he was pitch-perfect. Inspirational, self-reflective, gracious to his haters, championing the 1st Amendment & most importantly: FUNNY. (Shout-out to Robert DeNiro as the mob-boss head of the FCC)😆

Dumbasses left SIM cards with attack plans....amateur hour SIM cards in downed drones expose Russia’s months-long plan to target Poland and Lithuania euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/12/s...

Mike Johnson and the Republican Party's misunderstanding of prayer. 😳👇

Many lawmakers condemned the shooting, with Republicans and Democrats alike making calls to reject political violence.

Without any evidence, Shitler just said it was a "radical leftist!" Was this an organized distraction from Epstein? I mean, as long as we are just making shit up....right? Where is the shooter? 🤔

“Charlie Kirk shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, Sept. 10…” Terrible. Violence like this should always be condemned and there is no excuse for it. people.com/charlie-kirk...

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

South Korea’s president says the country's companies will struggle to maintain direct investments in the United States unless the visa system for Korean workers is improved.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Gun violence is the leading cause of childhood death in the US today.

HORRIBLE. SICKENING. UNACCEPTABLE. In a democracy we settle our differences with words, ideas & actions, not hatred, guns & violence. #ShameOnUS

Texas needs to “have a seat.”

CNN has a panel talking about Epstein and the host just mentioned (almost as an aside!) that one of the guys is a lawyer defending Ghislaine Maxwell. And rather than being a guest who's grilled about the case, he's treated like any other panelist who just happens to be minimizing the crimes.

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

A murderous reign by RFKjr. With no accountability or regret.

Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.

Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"

For those unaware: RFK Jr has been spreading anti-vaccine lies for over 20 years. This is not new. This is not “since COVID.” He wrote a 2005 article in Rolling Stone blaming vaccine ingredients for autism. Be aware of this history. He is a millionaire because of the disinformation HE created.

I’ve written quite a bit about the EWG’s long and lucrative anti-science activism and lobbying efforts as well: news.immunologic.org/p/the-enviro...

Just to follow on: The Environmental Working Group (EWG) ALSO wrote a “report” decades ago blaming mercury in vaccines for autism. They tried to wipe that from their history, conveniently. EWG is probably the 2nd worst anti-science org behind RFK Jr’s Children Health Defense.

mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before. 5/

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If we freeze it now, we abandon future breakthroughs: cancer vaccines, universal flu shots, mRNA science able to combat the next pandemic in weeks versus years. RFK Jr & those that enable him are a threat to global health. Read more: news.immunologic.org/p/old-vaccin... 🧵

It’s the reason there are more vaccines today than in the 1960s. Scientific progress. If we froze vaccine science in the 18th century, we’d still be variolating kids with live smallpox. If we froze it in the 1950s, we’d shrug our shoulders at febrile seizures after DTP. 6/

RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are “risky” so they’ll shift to “traditional, older” vaccine tech that’s “safer.” Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/