You know, the Constitution delineates specific ages one must be in order to be elected to Federal office. We should amend the Constitution to forbid anyone over the the age of 75 from being elected. You're 74.5? Great! This is your last term.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

Just in case anyone needs a reminder of how well Trump knows the Bible youtu.be/ERUngQUCsyE?...

Clyburn has been a Rep in the US Congress for 35 years and is running for his 18th term in office at the spry, youthful age of 85.

I can't predict the price of energy. I mean, I'm just the Secretary of the Department of Energy!

The Final Test - break into a zoo and beat the crap out of an orangutan while a UFO flies overhead!

What a garbage way to look at how elections are won.

I have completely lost confidence in the judiciary's ability to protect fair elections. We have courts that won't stop GOP attacks on democracy but will stop Dem attempts to fight back.

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

BREAKING: Nearly $920 million in crude oil shorts were placed at 3:40 AM ET, about 70 minutes before Axios reported the U.S. and Iran were nearing a “14-point” deal to end the war. Oil then plunged more than 12%, with the position gaining an estimated $125 million. Unusual.

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

With the reveal that post-Fox Tucker Carlson has 7.3k subscribers, reminder that *all* rightwing media is a miserable enormously unpopular and wildly unprofitable failure, only kept aloft via the largesse of a handful of billionaire pedophiles pumping them with endless amounts of cash.

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

OMG this is hilarious

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Obviously one’s first instinct is to point out that Bill the Butcher is the villain but let’s not forget the detail that he is literally in a cuck chair in this scene

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

The Trump administration is going to set back science in the US for decades to come. It honestly may never recover. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.

One of the biggest social shifts of our lifetimes www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vs...

An Israeli soldier smashes a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon. Maybe he thought it was Trump. Photo by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi.

Clavicular ran into a news leader at 60 minutes and got brutally smirk mogged by him 👀😂

Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ? TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.

I've finished "The Infernal Triangle: How America Got this Way." Farewell to the 5-book project that consumed some 30 years, over half my life! For the nonce, writing deadline-free on this Substack. First 50 subs get signed books or personal Zoom greetings. PAY ME!!! rickperlstein.substack.com

i have my criticisms of liberals on immigration but looking at this chart and blaming liberals is insane

SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:

For those that celebrate Confederate Surrender Day, you should definitely check out this merch store. Many good anti-fascist options as well! suffernocopperhead.bigcartel.com

to all who celebrate...

I have seen one good example of this plate

Tucker Carlson made it his life's work to loose this monster on the world so I don't care to hear his little face saving pieties right now, I don't believe a word of it

hmm

"Energy costs...including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months" — Trump, 8/19/24 "12 months from January 20th… your gasoline for your car is going to be 50% cheaper" — Trump, 10/10/24 "Mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it” — Trump, 9/21/24

We are all Charlie Kirk, and we carry the flame.

Re-upping this, since I'm still looking to nail down an interview with a historian or expert in the history of disaster preparation and relief. Thanks!

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

More exceptional heat pulses from West to East are expected next week with widespread 100s again in the desert areas and parts of the Central States Not even the Dust Bowl heat waves or anything else ever seen so far can compare to this: All climatologists are baffled.

This is the chair from which the US watches Iranian ships deliver oil through the Straight of Hormuz.

On today’s episode of Cartoonishly Overt Sign We’re the Baddies: they’re taking the olive branch off the dime because it presents peace

We literally killed Iran’s leader

The reductions in the number of new and competing renewal R01s by topic (based on simple searches in NIH Reporter). The cuts are across the board: Cancer down 24%, Alzheimer down 45%, Obesity down 29%, Child by 21%. Transgender was down by 84% but represents only a small number of grants.

Zoomers are so cooked, we just got a legendary hot Calvin Klein ad with Dakota Johnson & all they can keep saying is how this is “for the male gaze” 😭 you dumb bitches it’s a fucking underwear ad you’re SUPPOSED to be hot in it youtu.be/pHetI7RoWCw?...

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Since people are doing "is AI conscious?" discourse on here again I feel like this philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4 by @birchlse.bsky.social remains my favourite piece on the current state of affairs.

Good thing Trump keeps Chinese cars out of the country, otherwise we would be able to buy better cars at lower prices www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd... As Trump always says, "why pay less?"

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

We have a literal Crusader running the military

The National Science foundation usually has awarded about 2,000 grants by this time in the funding cycle. Under the Trump Admin, we have seen an ~90% cut in the number of grants funded. This is going to set American science back for decades.