A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

A lot fewer of the good ones are going to sign up for the national guard

Chicago journalists are doing a helluva job staying on top of the ICE incursion here.

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

During the George W Bush administration, they asked The Onion to stop using the official presidential seal. In response, they created this Weekender cover. It was perfect.

[Werner Herzog voice] Charlie Brown seems surprised when Lucy pulls away the football, and yet he knows that failure is his destiny

texting my boss "can't come in today" with an ai generated video of me getting hit by a car and when he asks who's holding the camera i wait a few minutes and text back "whoa"

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

John Roberts was part of the 3-judge panel presiding over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld while actively interviewing for a seat on the Supreme Court. He didn't recuse himself, didn't inform Hamdan's lawyers, and ruled in the Bush admin's favor the day before he interviewed with Bush himself.

This is important IMO. The $ selloff this year may have been exacerbated by liberation day tariffs on April 2, but what really kicked it off was Vance’s speech in Munich in mid-Feb followed by Merz’s early March response to increase German defense spend & can the debt brake.

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

Great result in Moldova's parliamentary election - comfortable win for pro-EU PAS who will likely hold onto absolute majority of seats Complete failure for Russia's massive interference and disinformation

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

Fortunately there's only 3 more years of rapidly escalating fascism before there's a peaceful exchange of power

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

1/5 Russia’s economy is not fine. It is in stagflation, with high inflation and low growth. The war on Ukraine is draining resources and it is not sustainable. Ukraine's strike campaign on Russian refineries is making things worse

Watching that speech brought me back to my psych training, where I learned that personality disorders are some of the most destructive human afflictions around, not just for the patient but everyone around them. And they’re so hard to treat. We fucked.

Shortly after posting my reaction to a white supremacist getting packed up, my Bluesky account was suspended for 24-hours. The reason given as outlined in the email below was "incitement to violence". This may strike you as strange because saying "LMAO" is not incitement. Well, there's more!

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

We need cheap rent so idiosyncratic weirdos can make a living pursuing their passions.

The thing no electeds can say is that there will always be crime and all we can do is minimize it

Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,

This is selfish ego-driven leadership that misreads the moment & demoralizes the base. We have to keep calling these leaders out publicly & people have to jump in to primary them to force them affirmatively make their case on why they're the right people to lead us *now.*

Feels like the bigger story is that accurately pricing in the cost of maintaining many rural areas is indistinguishable from trying to depopulate them

to whatever extent we survive all this, if we continue to have a regime of laws and liability, Trump has done more to convince the federal judiciary that cops aren't automatically reliable than anyone else in history

My dog would like to send a hearty fuck you to those Fiji water commercials that start with a big thunder strike

Katy Tur to Black leaders - “How do you respond to Democrats who are saying crime is not a problem?”

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

There was a plan... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

I'm honestly not sure what to do about the media consensus that Democratic politicians are responsible for everything ever said at an obscure academic conference but Republicans are not responsible for the rhetoric of Republican presidents

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

Here’s what appears to be a little girl shackled at the wrists and ankles boarding an ICE flight on Avelo Airlines yesterday. Seattle (Boeing Field) to Mesa, AZ, an ICE detention hub. Not one of those men helped her up the stairs. Courtesy @lalabote.bsky.social

When I talk about a "politics of removal" this is the kind of thing I mean. Ongoing public debate presupposing the attraction of Trump's removal from power, exploring the panoply of ways things could be better without him. That populates & fires imaginations, & generates new political possibilities

"White nationalists pervade law enforcement" "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers killed by police" "FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?" "Nazi ties to be erased" 10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")

If you’ve watched any MSNBC lately and have had to sit through those annoying ass commercials for a whole body scan, I just want to warn of the danger of what we would call ‘incindentalomas’, wherein you’ve found something incidental that you now have to chase, causing all sorts of unnecessary care

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

the tariffs on Brazil & other South American nations that import beef aren't really contributing more than MAYBE a couple points at the margins—but especially on fast food & frozen food products that use foreign beef byproducts. they're not *really* contributing to the current sticker shock.

"Traders pinned some of the decline on a report released late on Monday by a branch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which researchers said that '95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return' from their investments in generative AI..."

Step 1: Don't build any new housing for decades Step 2: Existing housing stock decays, outlives its years of peak habitability Step 3: Can't redevelop it though, it's so old that it's historic now

One of my favorite tariff charts Normally high prices are a sign of strong demand & induce manufacturing investment Tariffs instead give you higher prices & lower investment—the worst of both worlds—because they're a tax on capital goods & supply chains

PLEASE Sear This Sentence Into Your Minds PLEASE Doomerism isn't sophisticated or clever or somehow world-weary wisdom. It's just preemptive surrender.

Trump this morning: "Washingtonians feel so safe now that they are flooding back into restaurants and cafés." Reality:

to the extent there’s a plan here it’s to create a giant logjam of in-person voting in urban areas where armed goons can be stationed as intimidation monitors

Conversation with a #goat... 😊 Sound on... 👀😅🤣 #bluesky