We’re on Capitol Hill with 225 Earth & space scientists — including @aas.org and @planetarysociety.bsky.social — urging Congress to reopen the government and protect NASA science. 🚀🌍 Join us: buff.ly/a3YuGgY #ScienceIsEssential #AGU

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

I’m seeing a lot of people misunderstanding Duffy here. Essential Air Service is a specific program started in the 1970s to subsidize flights to smaller regional airports that carriers wouldn’t otherwise fly to. It doesn’t mean air traffic control for the whole country will stop running.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

"Barbie unveils Ilona Maher doll to 'reflect the build of many strong athletes'" "The Olympic medalist is now part of Team Barbie."

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

JUST IN: Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing, amid widespread questions about the department's decisions to target Trump's political foes such as former FBI director James Comey.

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

I, the founder of a Fake University based on totally manufactured lies about Higher Education spread by the most far right authoritarians in the country, am dedicated to "journalism that reports on the world as it actually is." bsky.app/profile/mcop...

We are deeply alarmed by reports that the government is rolling out a plan to attempt to incentivize unaccompanied children to waive their rights under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and accept "voluntary" return to their country of origin in exchange for $2500.

Mother Jones reported have 3x Free Press’s subscriber count but I haven’t noticed an oligarch paying $600m and giving Clara Jeffrey control of one of the 3 broadcast networks. revealnews.org/press/merger....

Physics students are told their degree is a ticket to anything but during their time at university, it's rarely elaborated on. So Toni Feder has gone out and interviewed physicists with varied careers away from the field (Posts the physicist whose job title is digital experience director...)

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

VAR! In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star. Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: Carnegie Observatories

Meet the Artist Creating Humorous, Nihonga-Style Images of Daily Life with Their Rescue Cat spoon-tamago.com/poshichi-nih...

Fan-Modded LEGO Game Boy Lets You Plays Actual Games nerdist.com/article/fan-...

This is most definitely *not* the lesser of any two weevils

‘Sorry the Constitution hurt your feelings’: Gavin Newsom takes a jab at Stephen Miller’s whining over Oregon troop ban www.themarysue.com/sorry-the-co...

‘The Constitution isn’t far left’: Stephen King mocks Stephen Miller’s terror obsession www.themarysue.com/the-constitu...

I handed a case to Harmeet Dhillon once. It was a righteous case -- defending a college student sued by a nutty guy she reported for harassment. Dhillon did a bang-up job and won the anti-SLAPP establishing that a private school Title IX proceeding qualified..... /1

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.” www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

"And you gotta switch the CD out every time? So you just keep a stack of CDs? For real?" @_devongivens and @rich_hofmann introducing the Sixers' rookie to technology from 2001. Watch the full interview with VJ Edgecombe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zo0...

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status. It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

Laws matter. We can't just shrug off violations of them, even if the powers that be act like they don't apply.

I think he meant “democracy” #25thAmendmentNow

Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

In case you’re wondering how grassroots Republican activists in Oregon are metabolizing what’s happening in the state. This person is a coordinator for two long running conservative organizations in the state: The Gathering of the Eagles and the Abigail Adams project.

NEW: A federal judge blocked Trump from sending National Guard soldiers to Portland, after already blocking him over the weekend. She said the administration appeared to be sidestepping her previous order by deploying troops from California and Texas in the city.

US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal of conviction in Epstein sex trafficking case reut.rs/46OACoh

NEW inside CBS— Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off. “If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

To be clear, I would be EXTREMELY UNSURPRISED to see a delay in this information reaching individual pharmacists. It is incredibly possible — likely, really — that some people will go to their pharmacies in the coming days and be told they need a prescription by pharmacists with outdated info.

CDC has finally adopted the recommendations its vaccine panel made Sept. 19. This should increase access to Covid vaccines somewhat — CVS and Walgreens had said once the recs were official, they'd offer the shots w/o Rx nationwide, and Vaccines for Children program also needed the official approval

The new Calder Gardens, a light-filled museum and prairie now open in Philadelphia, houses a rotating selection of the famed sculptor's work. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/cald...

Since last year Physics swallowed Computer Science whole and the Nobel was given for machine learning, my list of plausible prizes remains unaltered.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

no like the spiritual warfare that evangelical christians talk about constantly. demonic energies unleashed by their enemies and so on

BREAKING: Photo of the violent insurrectionists causing politicians to fear for their lives.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

banned books week…..a great time to buy a bunch of insanely famous books

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

This will not end until voters boot out MAGA lawmakers who refuse to rein in Trump. We will not be safe from a dictatorial presidency as long as the SCt refuses to check executive overreach. Meanwhile, all Americans must defend our neighbors, our deepest-held values, and what's left of our democracy

I hope Democrats understand that if and when they get back to power, defaulting to “unity” politics and empty reconciliation without any real accountability would not only be morally abhorrent, but also politically suicidal: The desire for at least some semblance of justice will be overwhelming.

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago: Houston Dallas Lubbock Amarillo San Antonio Corpus Christi

For once I agree with Yarvin: he should leave the country!

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to some neat fundamental research on the immune system: peripheral immune tolerance. It's what keeps the body's defense mechanism in check—and could be key to new therapies for autoimmune disorders. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

I’d imagine it’s a challenge to publish pro-Trump opinion pieces that aren’t riddled with errors, because they lie like they breathe. But a cursory fact check would have made this unpublishable. It’s garbage. thehill.com/opinion/crim...