That’s not just a White House demolition. That’s Southern-style middle-finger politics in action.

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia. Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

Lots of wrong information coming from the Trump administration on SNAP "running out of money November 1" and the SNAP contingency fund. The truth is: 1) It *can* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. 2) It actually *must* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. Let's dig in.

In a huge coincidence, this Acosta fellow—the US Attorney who raced to protect Jeffrey Epstein from his own office investigating Epstein's finances—was later appointed to Trump's Cabinet. Gosh, what a strange thing for Trump to do. Can't explain it. Hmmm. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Everyone loves Thriller

Let's talk about barreleye fishes in family Opisthoproctidae. Take a minute to take in the image below. What look like 'eyes' above the tiny toothless mouth are in fact chemosensory organs equivalent to nostrils. The EYES are the green domes INSIDE THE TRANSPARENT HEAD. And they look *up*...

It’s a serious problem that an agency as powerful as DHS has no problem lying about things that are this easy to check.

This administration still hasn't learned its lesson about making false public statements about people it's trying to prosecute . . . at least, but if it's trying to prosecute in good faith.

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Indicted for shit posting on Blue Sky but the jury said nah

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines. Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

This is what happens when the state health department is forbidden from promoting vaccines and doesn’t warn the public and healthcare practitioners about an infectious disease outbreak.

Trump legal theory for deploying National Guard impugned by Dick Act.

The NASCAR financial statements as part of the release of documents today show NASCAR income of more than $100 million last year.

The 2025 charter agreement is now a public record. Charter teams get a base $141,000 per event.

If you work for the Trump/Bondi Justice Department and tell the truth, you will be fired. Federal judges should take note.

The Mamdani Effect? Alabama’s top election official wants to ban naturalized citizens from running for state office.

We just filed our PI brief in this one detailing how these stops are illegal, in part, because DHS won’t accept that REAL IDs are real. ICE rejected one woman’s ID and put her in shackles because “the Biden Administration made a lot of mistakes.” ij.org/press-releas...

The judge has dismissed the NASCAR counterclaim against 23XI and Front Row that alleged they illegally conspired with teams to get a better deal in the charter agreement.

In the first half of this year, the income of President Trump's family business soared 17-fold to $864 million, based almost entirely on new crypto ventures that have been a magnet for overseas cash, a Reuters investigation found. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Pick your favorite qualitative comment from this month’s Dallas Fed survey: A) “This year has been the most challenging in 15 years ..” B) “Our goal is to survive the next six months.” C) “Our business has died.” 🤡 www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

“.. Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% ..” www.nber.org/papers/w34413

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

From the Kansas City Fed's 3rd quarter Energy Survey: > Energy activity continued to decline > Revenues & profits fell to 2-year lows > Employee count fell for 2nd quarter in a row > Firms don't anticipate rebounds in drilling activity or capital expenditures https://bit.ly/4qhNb4G #EconSky

I really don't know how an Agency ethics official is supposed to tell rank-and-file employees with a straight face that laws like the Hatch Act matter anymore. @peterorlowicz.bsky.social

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Odd that President Trump is always too busy with the affairs of state to be a defendant in a civil case brought against him personally, but never too busy to be the plaintiff in a civil case brought by him personally.

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children. Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat. We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...

Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline. It’s… shocking

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What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

“The use of force that I’ve seen has been exemplary — the least amount of force necessary to accomplish the mission,” Bovino told @cbsnews.com Friday. “If someone strays into a pepper ball, then that’s on them. Don’t protest and don’t trespass.”

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Breaking America’s slop addiction with Fried chicken.

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

A civil attorney who Trump enthusiast Lindsey Halligan brought in to prosecute the Letitia James case screwed up his initial appearance and the court had to give him step-by-step instructions about how to save a PDF.

Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild. This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right. They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus. Seems like a great way to burn a ton of cash. Also? Here’s some waste for sure!

Congrats workers on your new hell zone

I am old enough to remember when even fully vetted and authorized construction projects that went over budget were viewed as grounds for dismissal of high level officials...

Bring back the CFPB, but with CBP's budget and criminal authority.

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

the SEC should have a law that just says any CEO who uses the term "infinite money glitch" just has to go straight to prison, right away