Not a bad ending to a Monday:

News from Absurdistan:

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Calling it a “paid vacation” is a little cruel, considering that they were scrambling to deal with job loss and unemployment! Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

White House press conference: DO NOT TAKE TYLENOL!!! IT CAUSES AUTISM!!! Actual letter to physicians: Pssst... there is no link. Acetaminophen is the safest over-the-counter alternative in pregnancy.

Wrote this earlier in the week for ⁦‪@thebulwark but it was posted right before the President’s UN speech. Coincidence? www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trump-h...

The Power of Storytelling in Medicine: Abigail Echo-Hawk, a preeminent Native American public health expert, discusses RSV, “data genocide” and positive change driven by Indigenous storytelling | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

AI is a scourge. However, I wouldn’t mind terribly if my students would use it to generate formatted references from naked URL’s! I mean, that isn’t so different from the citation generators of old that seem to have gotten clunkier in the last decade or two, right?

I’m an old dinosaur so I miss the days when Americans fought Nazis tooth and nail rather than putting them into the White House.

See the NYT, 1939.

the only person to refer to themselves 3rd person and not sound like/be an asshole is Rickey Henderson

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It's wildly inconsiderate that U.S. children want to learn history that hurts right-wingers' feelings. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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This is what really worries me. Two realities which result into two different versions of the same person, and the disconnect is probably caused by algorithms. You could make a strong argument that social media algorithms could be classified as a dual-use weapon at this point.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Right?!?!?! I’ve been around for a long time and I’ve never seen anything like it. MAGA is literally threatening people for them quoting their hero. Weirdest fucking shit I’ve ever seen. Moronic even.

bsky.app/profile/stev... I don’t know whether the TRUMP REGIME did it But these assholes never let a crisis go to waste And a DEAD KIRK is a jewel beyond price to the REGIME at the moment And I definitely thought that straight away

there is nothing more american than news of a political shooting being interrupted by news of a school shooting

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

. Hey America, but something else must not be forgotten on this sad 24th anniversary of 9/11: 🖕 Trump today and every day ! .

JUST IN: New suit challenges Trump admin's decision to end Tricare insurance coverage for transgender-related treatments for minor and adult children of military. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

In the UK for #BrexitShambles, when those that voted for #traitorFarage and #traitorJohnson and the #RussianMoney attack on the UK, started to suffer. It was known as "Turkeys Voting For Christmas". Maybe in the US, it might be "Turkeys Voting for Thanksgiving" 🤔

I don't know why I'm even going to bother, but no it wasn't. It was hardly even brought up in the Federalist papers. The people who created the United States were almost pathologically fixated on the Roman Republic and Enlightenment-era Liberalism.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

So if Trump was an undercover Epstein informant, that means he worked for Robert Mueller and was part of the deep state.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Human fecal contamination is a public health concern in natural areas. And if you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go — with no toilet in sight. (via @us.theconversation.com‬) https://to.pbs.org/41z38sh

Teenagers with period pain more likely to have chronic adult pain, study says

The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:

From @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's book, Above Ground: bookshop.org/a/862/9780316543033 #poem #books #writing

US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756652401&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

If you’re in favor of shutting down museum exhibitions or banning books because they make you feel bad, that’s a pretty good tip that you deserve to feel bad.

And THIS is why we need diversity (of all types) in research

August 30, 2025

It's awful that this doesn't get more media coverage, that so little is being done to get justice for these indigenous women and their loved ones. Thanks @hollyguise.bsky.social for posting this article. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."