I think a lot about how King Henry VIII planned this elaborate, expensive tomb to be buried in, but then nobody followed up on it when he died. And now he’s interred under a simple marble slab.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

It's important for everyone to understand that this was by design by The Powers That Be, who experienced existential panic in the first half of Biden's first term as workers had a favorable job market for the first time in two decades. They put in huge effort to stopping it.

damn. I just searched and the piece I wrote for them years ago about domestic violence and Title IX is gone

though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios

The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care. We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.

Cladonia (C. pyxidata, I think) lichen. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

It's like her breed mix somehow concentrated sibe sass into a cattle-dog-sized body.

if broadcasting doesn't work out, he has a possible future as an Iron Hands Space Marine (this one's for the W40k dorks).

The office is vacant. I am a US sedevacantist. Yeah this is weird but here I stand I can move no further

When Dems take back the House, Bill Barr should be forced to testify about this (he was AG then).

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

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And I love The Odyssey but if your whole argument is "colleges need to get back to teaching important skills and not useless stuff" then mandatory ancient Greek poetry reading seems like it severely undercuts your argument

“Why do you wear a mask?” It’s flu season. I don’t want people to make me sick, nor to make them sick. Wearing masks and doing half-assed social distancing entirely wiped out one whole strain of flu in 2020.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

I wrote about this claim forever ago when he made it on Joe Rogan's show:

like I’m still open to reading more about anti-trust policy despite the fact that its leading proponents online are gigantic assholes for absolutely no reason but I assume a lot of people just write it off when they encounter it

This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.

Shaking hands with his left hand.

Costco loses a shipment of lobster to tech savvy thieves--a reminder that the grocery store shoplifting stories that locked stupid amounts of material under plexi in the US and UK were bunk and covered the ACTUAL theft problem: organized crime-level, and at warehouses and transshippers.

Question I get: "The world shut down for COVID. Why isn't it shutting down for this serious flu season?" Lots of reasons. One of them is that H3N2 IFR (infection fatality rate) is 0.03-0.1%, while pre-vaccine COVID IFR was 0.7-0.9%. That difference is enormous when paired with contagiousness.

My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Remember when Loeffler and Perdue bought stocks in body bags for the dead after hearing confidential intelligence. She and Perdue bought body bags, betting a lot of Americans would die. Actually investing in it. How sick is that?

NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record. Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late). Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.

Grok is now posting AI images of Elon Musk with semen on his face, holding signs begging people to assassinate him. If only they had cared more during all the times when Grok was doing this to women and liberal posters on command. Oh well

Right. Republicans love to propose mutual aid programs to replace the state, in healthcare coverage or food security or whatever, but they don't practice it as a campaign tool. What Abugazaleh is doing is dramatizing her awareness of what people need, and giving voters a chance to participate.

Looks like the goat got windsheared!

This is a key reason why I think the support for No Kings was underestimated.The geography of the U.S. is makes it difficult, when combined with limited mass transit, to assemble en masse.

Literally had to go double-check, after seeing the reference to “dismal ticket sales” alongside the demand for $1 million in supposed damages, to confirm: It was a free concert.

"Mommmm? Can we go see the wolves? Pleaseeeee?" Mom: "No we have a wolf at home." The wolf at home:

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

Until Trump began conspiracies about mail voting, Republicans were fully on board with GRACE PERIODS for ballots to arrive as long as postmarked by Election Day. They passed it overwhelmingly in KS, OH, & elsewhere. But now Trump hates it. So 4 red states—KS, OH, ND, UT—all banned it this year.

It is interesting that Russell Vought kept Walter the NINDS IC director around for so long. (The renewal requests are going to the White House. This is all Vought and the project 2025 people.) Interesting because they fired Diana Bianchi at NICHD, and.. 🧵 1/

This is what happens when the US has a weak-ass president who cannot be relied on to uphold security commitments

It is very American (derogatory) that we treat and pay EMTs like garbage but shovel money at cops

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yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.

Once you’re an American citizen, you are in fact free to spew venom or shower praise on your American ancestors, no matter how much the pathetic legal hacks rationalizing the MAGA madness might contort themselves. There’s no two-tiered citizenship here and anyone who insists otherwise can get bent

Also, at Newark. www.nj.com/healthfit/20...

Corn products like tortillas are poor sources of folate known to cause deficiency, & people who consume diets high in corn flour products have increased adverse effects from folate deficiency, like neural tube defects. This health disparity is easily treated. RFK is just ignorant, eugenicist trash.

I'm in a hospital ER waiting room. Sign says wearing masks is required in their facilities. About half the people here are wearing them. I live in a red area where people get angry about masks.

Something to note-it's not the science writers who are doing these stories. Easy enough to ask your best to write on these subjects, but the editorial choice here is to eschew scientific expertise and experience. 2/

Can't believe I have to say this, but it's 2025 still and apparently this is how this year has gone: IF YOU HAVE MEASLES PLEASE DON'T GET ON A PLANE. patch.com/new-jersey/n...