OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Does this mean that bird genomes still encode an entire "dinosaur program" if given the right prompts? No; I think it means we should stop thinking about the genome as "encoding" a morphology at all. www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-huma...

OMG they are really going to blame the COVID vaccine. These people are deranged.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Lawmakers in the U.S. represent more people than in almost any other country. Each of the 435 voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives represents about 802,000 people. The median representation ratio among 106 democracies was about 31,000 people per lawmaker. #USDemocracy

Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The only other time the Shiller CAPE ratio was this high was the 1999-2000 dot com bubble. If you look at the S&P 500 level at that time and then its level 18 years later, the annualized return was 2.7%. $1,000 would grow to $1,604 in 18 years. With inflation this would buy less college credits.

Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the Earth is indeed a globe and not flat.

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

Always important to remind people that the occasional non egregious decision doesn’t make the Court any less corrupt or in need of reform. Even those who despise the Courts corruption have been accustomed to the idea that it reviews every law, prohibition or imperative embraced by Democrats as …

As @jamellebouie.net says, this game of dribbling out opinions only feeds the narrative that the USSC is some kind of Oracle of Delphi, which puts them on a pedestal that they do not deserve. They are public servants, not divine sages.

See, you don't understand! Donald Trump said these horrible things about Hattians specifically, not black people in general! Thus it can't be racist!

Shots (on target) Canada 30 (10) - (0) 2 Qatar Passes in attacking third Canada 319 - 9 Qatar Touches in opponent box Canada 89 - 1 Qatar Stick to fixing UEFA, Qatar.

This is my favorite graphic illustrating the difference between $1 million, $1 billion, and $1 trillion. Elon Musk is about to be worth $1 trillion dollars. Consider this graphic when the stupid SpaceX IPO happens.

But he wasn't at these day care centers when the supposed "fraud" took place, so how can he possibly have an opinion?

Kaine grills Rubio on the "targeting criteria" for blowing up boats around the Caribbean, which Kaine says don't include the actual presence of narcotics on boats

‘Sometimes, the demands make no sense, NIH staffers say. For example, HHS wanted a scientist training grant in its final year to add a clinical trial—work these awards by definition do not support. “It’s an absolutely bonkers comment,” a program officer says.’

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

This is without any doubt THE MOST EXTREME HEAT EVENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN Garakhil today had almost 46C, In nearly 80 years of history, it had NEVER reached 41C before Regional stations in IRAN reached 49C on the shore of Caspian Sea, smashing the May world record by latitude

Important milestone today - inflation-adjusted Personal Income for households is now lower, year-over-year, than it was last April. Households have 0.4% less income now. It's starker for my estimate of bottom 50% households - 1.6% less income.

This could be very VERY BAD. It looks like a way to remove transparency of peer review, which would enable political apparatchiks to have much more power over decisions on where grant money goes.

The National Academies literally exist so that scientists and engineers who understand science and engineering better than elected officials & their appointees do are available to report on those things. Yet again, USA: Require that Congress do its job, end all of this, and #ImpeachTrump.

I think "affordability" has been around a little longer than just last year.

Who they hell would give him a hard time for attending his own son's wedding? Total gaslighting.

The Children Yearn For The Farms

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

US consumer energy prices jumped +3.8% m/m in April to almost record levels, up +17.5% from a year ago.

Yet another example of why we need a Constitutional amendment putting an upper limit on the age at which one can be elected into Federal office. bsky.app/profile/phil...

I suspect this vote and this appointment might be Trump's most consequential. When Erdoğan politicized the central bank in Turkey, inflation went haywire. I suspect we will see a similar phenomenon within a couple of years under Warsh. Think 4% inflation is bad? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Packing and Cracking, AKA the Gerrymander Two-Step.

The biggest reason for this is that he repeatedly said during the 2024 campaign that he would LOWER prices. He promised deflation! And not only are prices not lower, they are increasing at an even faster rate! No wonder people are pissed off at him... www.youtube.com/shorts/LqZsv...

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