RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.” PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism… …including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands reut.rs/425yFCz

Happy Rapture to those who celebrate.

Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Open call for papers, Energy Markets and the Macroeconomy Conference. Meeting to be held in Cambridge on December 10–11, 2026. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on November 19, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/energy-markets-and-macroeconomy-conference

This is the primary contributor to the acceleration in global warming in recent years. Cutting air pollution saves lives and is unequivocally worth doing, but it is also driving about a quarter (~0.14C) of the approximately 0.5C warming the world has experienced between 2007 and 2024.

We finally yelled loud enough at the TV

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

'Alarming': Fossil fuel production plans far exceed global climate targets

hey political scientists, wake up, wild new country-pair just dropped.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

India's $283 billion information technology sector will have to overhaul its decades-old strategy of rotating skilled talent into US projects following President Donald Trump's move to impose a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas reut.rs/3KxasyQ 1/5

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

UK government approves plans for second runway at London Gatwick airport reut.rs/4mtPSNh

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

So what happened to the $50K in cash Tom Homan got in the Cava bag? Was it deposited in his bank account and reported as income that he paid taxes on? Is it under his mattress?

Definitive proof that Brian May died in a car accident in 1966 and was replaced by a body double.

Invincible imbecility struts the stage ...

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

DOE position on the social cost of carbon

Trump is nominating yet another unqualified, inexperienced lawyer to serve as a US Attorney. He didn’t learn his lesson from his nomination of parking lot lawyer extraordinaire, Alina Habba.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

BREAKING: Trump's border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

New bipartisan Senate bill targets Russia's shadow fleet used to evade oil price cap. on.ft.com/46whsmY

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Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

US new H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, Axios reports reut.rs/3Kx9zGv

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

On World Values Surveys, the US has always looked surprisingly close to Latin America compared to Europe: religious, tolerant of violence etc. You could see the Trump administration’s caudillo governance as part of a process of making America more thoroughly Latino.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships 🧵

Hannie Schaft. #antifa | † Bloemendaal 1945

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

They obviously have a lot to hide!

You must deify and worship St. Charlie or face dire consequences.

After Trump fired the last director because the numbers were terrible for him. Nothing to see here.

Comrade Trump

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...