Russia and China are helping Iran but Trump is angry at... Europe Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

I'm sad that, at least based on the Bluesky search box, this is the most recent RevMed post. Hello people!! Today's news is a bfd!! ir.revmed.com/news-release...

Happy Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street Day to all who celebrate: www.thatericalper.com/2026/04/12/f...

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

It was vital that the media report on the fact that Joe Biden was tested for Parkinson's disease. Here's why the media is right to ignore the fact that a clearly incapacitated Donald Trump disappears for four days each month only to reappear with severe bruising on his hand.

Oh shit, I was totally this guy back in the 80's. And for the record, Du Hast is absolutely appropriate for kinetics measurements. inpreparation.substack.com/p/pi-nostalg...

In Preparation has been rolling out some bangers this week. inpreparation.substack.com/p/german-sci...

It's funny because it's true. inpreparation.substack.com/p/i-prioriti...

When making tostadas, why not also make some homemade tortilla chips?

"You gotta mike the box." the engineer Bill Halverson on the making of "Ain't No Sunshine," 1971 (from a Mix interview in 2012)

Had fun watching this old banger last night.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

My column in Chemistry World reads a little differently this month:

🤔 inpreparation.substack.com/p/postdoc-on...

Bleak. And way too real. inpreparation.substack.com/p/man-presen...

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Chemist/physician Dr. Maud Menten co-authored the seminal paper 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘨, 1931. This intro'd the Michaelis–Menten equation (image). It remains a cornerstone of #biochemistry, used in drug design, metabolic studies & enzyme engineering. She was born #OTD in 1879. #WomenInSTEM

A joyous Eid to all who celebrate.

Brutal: inpreparation.substack.com/p/journal-ex...

Payoffs for layoffs. finance.yahoo.com/news/warner-...

It seems like there’s a subset of humanity that is using Black Mirror as an instruction manual.

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

They scream about Socialism while their roads, hospitals, and schools are basically on a Federal IV drip.

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

Many of the same rural Albertans who constantly carp about equalization payments conveniently turn a blind eye to the extensive redistribution of tax revenues from Alberta's cities to rural areas, or sputter that that is something very different and necessary.

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

This is pretty alarming.

Baturday Bat World Sanctuary

Reports say it was a double tap strike on the school. truthout.org/articles/ira...

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Intelligent Life on Earth - existentialcomics.com/comic/644

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

happy 14th anniversary to all who observe

This is obvious, but I'm gonna say it anyway... The fact that this wellness grifter is being normalized and legitimized by the nomination and (inevitable) appointment is a powerful symbol of how far the U.S. has fallen. Dark Age 2.0. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Deep, well sourced, moving, and enraging story from the NYT [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

On this day in 1943, Sophie Scholl (21) and her brother Hans (24) were executed by Nazi Germany for their peaceful protests. May their memory be a blessing.

This one hits hard.

Shout it from the rooftops!

The GOP gave us: Watergate, Iran Contra, 4 stock market crashes, McCarthyism, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, the covid epidemic, the Jan 6th failed coup, Trump, a corrupt SCOTUS, freezing FEMA's funds, ICE, tearing down part of the White House, raising your medical bills, Musk and RFK Jr.

Man, you're not going to believe which political party this guy charged with sex trafficking minors belongs to, not in a million years, no way