I'm just a dumb engineer, I'm not a lawyer or politician; I don't know how to remedy all the ills of the world. But Dr. Hancox-Li here is speaking to me. This is what I want to hear more of from any politician who claims to want to fix the US.

Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.

This video shows Donald Trump’s lawless federal agents again out of control. The Senate cannot vote to keep funding this. Every single agent complicit in these horrors should be put on trial at the state level for real accountability.

This looks like an execution. There must be an investigation. There must be accountability. Joining ICE does not give you license to murder. The President is escalating the situation—and I have no faith he will stop. The Republican Congress must join us to end this. Enough.

BREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.  Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/

Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE

Artemis II rollout going on this morning, still several hours to make it to pad 39B.

International_Station

"People are realizing that the only heroes coming to save us are us: regular folks in their leggings and puffer jackets, armed only with iPhones and understanding that we are Americans, and we do not put up with this." www.salon.com/2026/01/14/r...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I am moving forward with impeachment articles against the DHS Secretary Noem. Secretary Noem’s unlawfulness and dangerous leadership can't be ignored. We owe it to our democracy to persist, despite the seemingly overwhelming odds against us.

As bad as things may be in the US, it's important to keep thing in perspective, and recognize the terrible burden the people of Ukraine have been shouldering for far longer than I thought possible

I wanna put this up on a billboard, or wall art If there are any Minneapolis-based people who know how to make this happen, let me know I feel like we need to fully embrace the spirit of defiance

TOWARD A NEW SPRINGTIME OF NATIONS TOWARD A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM

Press conference supposed to be coming up momentarily regarding the medical concern that deferred today's EVA

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

At 1:55 a.m. this morning, our reporter in Caracas looked up with a start. Explosions were being heard all throughout the city. Here’s what he saw, heard and felt as the U.S. captured Maduro — and what he fears will happen next.

There are things that annoy me about Bluesky. There is, however, nothing that annoys me enough that would make me use the site that currently has an AI that makes non-consensual pornography out of anyone you ask it to.

When clocks strike midnight on the first day each year, a quiet creative revolution starts as hundreds of works move from private control into the public domain, unlocking stories, songs, and images for anyone to reuse. The world celebrates this big moment with an official Public Domain Day. (1/2)

🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

Another fantastic article by Dwayne

These principles are essential not only for the European Union, but for nations around the world. We stand in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland.

The administration has bypassed critical international law thresholds with potentially devastating precedence for the international order and, more concerning, U.S. domestic law. usni.org/magazines/p...

This is bonkers! Looks like that An-22 was lost due to structural failure around the aft loading ramp. That...uh...was not a very well done overhaul if minutes into the first check flight it literally just breaks in half.

Can't say no to this, I've been meaning to pick these up for a while

Just drove around the old neighborhood we left last year. Not much has changed, still pretty rundown. But the two houses that while we lived there reliably had multiple Trump flags flying...didn't. US Flags and a Texas flag, but nothing else.

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

So just like with alcohol and the 'hair of the dog', the cure to recovering from a food coma is just eating more first thing the next day, right?

Down with pilgrims and their troublesome history, up with the real reason for the day: the Union ascendant

...in light of the U.S.'s unprecedented boycott of its own evaluation via the U.N. Universal Periodic Review, the twice-a-decade process in which all U.N. member states' human rights records are evaluated. 2/5 apnews.com/article/unit...

This is another example of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth undermining the rule of law to attack a political opponent. In this case, simply for stating a legal fact. This is how things go in Russia and other autocratic regimes. It shouldn’t be happening in America.

I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:

For anyone who thinks there is any good faith in the Trump/Russia "peace" plan.

It’s one of the war’s most overlooked dynamics: Russia and Ukraine are running two of the century’s fiercest strategic bombing campaigns at once. But do drones offer a new form of strategic bombing, or are they still trapped in the same dilemmas that stumped the bomber mafia? My latest⬇️

This one was a long time in coming. 50 years later, here's the origin story of USS Nimitz and its first deployment. news.usni.org/2025/11/19/n...

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

After a short hiatus on YouTube, I am back with a Q&A video. I discuss missiles, Russia's war economy, who is winning the war, and whether Denmark can close the straits to Russian ships. Watch it here.

Has anyone plotted the length of time taken to sing the national anthem at NFL games over time? It definitely feels like it's been getting longer and longer, and I wanna know when we can expect it to take as long as the game itself.

Aww this reminds me of my mid-late 90s glory days when I was immersed in this for my dissertation. Can't wait to finish my chores so I can read this @democracyprof.bsky.social. I confidently predict Bret will be an engaging and insightful read on this as usual. 1/ #AncientBluesky

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad! share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

Nov. 2, 1775: News arrives from Britain that King George III, ignoring the Americans’ Olive Branch Petition, has issued a proclamation declaring the colonists to be in rebellion and will step up military measures against them. Hopes for a peaceful resolution to the crisis appear to be dashed. 1/3

Trump’s saber-rattling in Venezuela is illegal | Kenneth Roth

Melissa is now a rapidly intensifying hurricane, and it is plausible that it will produce an almost unimaginably bad outcome for Jamaica over the next 48 hours. Details below or at theeyewall.com.

The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.

New rule: The only articles you can comment on before reading are those whose headlines are in the form of a question. I think that's fair.

Clear Lake Texas #NoKings