Just when I think maybe (possibly??) the NYT is on the upswing again, I get reliably disappointed that it isn't in the cards for the near future.

I think it goes without saying (if you've read the Constitution). But HCR says it very well. We are not a Christian nation.

I support the data center moratorium.

"The Liar" was my favorite story in the The Book of Witches (an anthology full of great stories). Weber State students really missed out as a result of their administration's policy. Honestly, I don't think you can call yourself a university if you "prohibit words and concepts."

one of the big lessons re conservatives and especially conservative christians is that they are more satisfied by being comparatively better off than others rather than being better off in absolute terms. they’re perfectly happy to lose if you lose more.

Wow. That just encapsulates the entire problem in one image, doesn't it?

I get that they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Here's what I'd do - commission "modern" versions of the anthem - a different one for each concert, increasingly dissonant/distinct. Obey the letter of the law, but mock the spirit of it. Flagrantly. Y'know, Shostakovich the hell out of it.

Platner is like a runner who's been hiding a ball and chain under his pant leg. Even if we accept that he did nothing illegal, or that he did and just didn't know the consequences of his act when he did it (a hard sell), the race is about to start, and he'd have to run the race that way. Drop out.

I understand the sentiment. But it's going to have to be torn down. The sooner, the better.

NYC? Oh, man, are they not reading the room.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

In #ScienceUnderSiege, we discuss how belief in weather modification & chemtrails are actually gateway beliefs to climate denial and antiscience conspiratorial ideation. There's a reason that fossil fuel shill Lee Zeldin is encouraging these conspiracy theories.

If you don't like being labeled fascists and Nazis, but your own supporters admit "I like Hitler"... Guess what?

It's always interesting to see when a popular science post talks about some of your own work (even when it's not cited directly...) www.audubon.org/news/listen-...

We've been waiting > 5yrs to see one of these in the yard. The native Carolina mantis. We've dispatched dozens of invasive Chinese mantis egg cases with the hope that we'd eventually get these natives back. And we finally did. On the car (we gently placed it in the mistflowers).

Make her the editor in chief with the shortest tenure ever, CBS. Or lose my views/clicks/business.

Maybe this will finally prompt us to institute an accuracy doctrine on all platforms (including mainstream media). First amendment says you can say whatever you'd like. But it has to be *clearly* labeled as non-news/false if not actually true. If that label is removed, you're in violation.

Lawsuit commencing in... A remarkable self-own and considerable academic stain on Texas Tech. Could someone start a head of lettuce timer to see how long this lasts? My guess is that once again the lettuce will win.

Yet more hyper-violent rhetoric from the right.

This is 2025’s “I can’t breathe.” Do not turn away. Get really loud. Protest. Call your electeds. Do not give up. Do not despair. You never know what will tip the scale. This is immoral & unjust & inhumane. @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Do something now.

By the way, Disney, either option is a loss for you. Have you learned yet that having Republicans in office is not a good business strategy in the long run? Perhaps you need to think a bit more carefully about where your political donations are going come election season.

Aside from the blatantly unconstitutional nature of this statement, it also points to just how bad a businessman he is. I can see Disney execs now weighing their options. 16-20 million for Trump vs. > 3 billion loss in stock value as a result of the cancellation.

Protect our lands and keep our roadless areas ROADLESS! Rolling back the Roadless Rule would be devastating for New Mexicans and wildlife alike. That’s why the entire NM delegation is urging Secretary Rollins to exclude NM from any attempt to rescind this rule. We won't back down.

A little helpful pronunciation guide for Trump. Do you see the minnow fin? (What an incompetent ass, on so many levels).

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

When are we going to start holding vigils for the first amendment?

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Y'know that study that the DOJ deleted from their website? The one concluding that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism"? Here it is. Just read the first paragraph: web.archive.org/web/20250912...

Kimmel criticizes MAGA and Trump. Kilmeade calls for killing the homeless. Who gets taken off the air? We are entering the stage of state run media kowtowing to a wannabe fascist dictator. Here's ABC's commentary page. I would let them have it (I certainly have).

Maybe I'll regret it later, but I'm developing kind of soft spot for the eye squid in Alien: Earth.

As a small respite from the ongoing political insanity I found *the* recording of Danse Macabre I spent countless hours listening to as a child and young adult. This is the Paray recording (definitely one of the cleanest and crispest; and I do love good recordings... 🙂 ). So great.

Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes

Just boycott them! Period. If the business has FOX on their TV's. Walk Out. If your Dentist, Doctor, Baker, or Dinner has FOX on. Turn around and walk out. We're under attack and I remember my father telling me. That when he was a little child. His mom wouldn't buy any toy made in Japan.......

I only regret that I had but one WaPo subscription to cancel over their bullshit & I already cancelled it over previous bullshit.

There is no better modern example of a person taking advantage of a tragic event for political purposes than this.

1. Trump and his allies have concocted a series of lies about the horrific murder of a 23-year-old woman in Charlotte in a transparent effort to secure an advantage in a critical North Carolina race that could swing control of the U.S. Senate. It's nasty stuff. Follow this thread for details.

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” was meant to be a warning not a to-do list. How on earth can the Washington Post be expected to fight against government overreach in crushing dissent when it is doing Trump’s work for him?

Humor is a critically important weapon against authoritarianism … use it.

You may have noticed I've posted/re-posted a lot in the last few days. Sorry. But there is very little that galls me more than hypocrisy. Perhaps only xenophobia, and attempts to despoil the only planet we have at our disposal.

Fucking horrific to watch the governor, who is not an investigator, emerging every six hours to give live updates on whether or not the shooter was trans enough to murder your neighbors in revenge

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Especially galling considering that Sen. Blackburn said nothing when a professor at this *same university* last year was unmasked by antifascists as a popular, pseudonymous neo-Nazi propagandist who attended the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.

I guess Donald Just-not-a-single-speck-of-empathy Trump is already over it...

Says the governor who presides over an open-carry state where it's perfectly legal to bring high-powered rifles and handguns to campus. Sorry, gov, this rings utterly hollow. You'll be judged by what you do, not what you say.

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Another one. The actual emergence happened in less than 30 sec. I wasn't quite ready for that (so didn't catch the very beginning). Hopefully, with the next one.

Seems that policy was already partly in place at Twitter before Musk took over and let the hate speech flow. Why no outrage then, Higgins??

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words