Ric Grenell, Kennedy Center president, organized a claque of Republicans to heckle a musician critical of Trump. It's like junior high school www.washingtonian.com/2025/09/23/l...

New Jersey PBS has to shut down after Trump's attacks on what little public funded media still exists

Recommend @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social coverage of guy who is now dean at Harvard public health school, paid $150k when Columbia prof as "expert witness" supporting Tylenol/autism plaintiffs. (Judge tossed the case, and his testimony.) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said" what the fuck

I feel like this is a very strong counter to a lot of arguments about fundamental economic or structural obstacles to decarbonization, or that it requires a comprehensive reorganization of our system of production. It's a political choice, that's all.

Gray wolves are making a comeback in the U.S. state of California after a century-long absence. Conservationists say their return is a success, but it’s putting pressure on ranchers and rural communities as wolf attacks on livestock mount, Mongabay wildlife staff writer Spoorthy Raman reported.

The US president told the UN yesterday that he believes the same things that motivated this murderer. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/25/t...

Now it's JD Vance's turn: "The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop. I'm praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families." Again, the attack was on ICE detainees. Civilians.

Nothing to see here, move along. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

Just a reminder, for no particular reason at all, that you can not accept at face value any and all factual claims made by the US federal government now.

Wow study of a new surgical / gene therapy intervention shows 75% slowing in progression of Huntington's (which was previously more or less untreatable) www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is so good, and the United States is so obviously speed-running its collapse into Argentinian/Brazilian/Peruvian-style delegative democracy that we can barely keep up with the proper vocabulary muse.jhu.edu/article/225426

Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

Duder is still pissed off that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition got better ratings than his show - where he screamed at people he didn't know - during sweeps week in 2006. bsky.app/profile/pale...

Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits By Rebecca Robbins and Azeen Ghorayshi The dean of the Harvard School of Public Health was paid at least $150k on behalf of plaintiffs. Trump officials leaned heavily on Dr. Baccarelli’s research in pushing the autism link.

He *really* did say that! And he won’t be fired, or suspended or even reprimanded.

pretends to be shocked dot gif

Congratulations to all the fools who got grifted by this scammer despite constant warnings.

NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Working on a treatment for a movie about the dozens of UN simultaneous translators driven to madness by today's events and the portal it opened to the fourth gate of hell.

Totally normal stuff.

I’m guessing, totally guessing, he’ll tell you it’s pretty messed up not to have a paper guy in the loop. I’m just guessing, in the before times, if there wasn’t a paper guy in the room, in the loop, the trigger didn’t get pulled. Unthinkable. Or if it did, some serious eyebrows would be raised

…And in this example we have a major corporation pulling a show because it might too overtly criticize self-avowed white supremacist terror networks.

I was wondering why I saw these stickers around the city last time I was in town

Scientists find alarming association between maternal paracetamol use during pregnancy and putting banana & curry powder on pizza

Especially when it follows what surely must be the most unhinged, embarrassing speech by any Security Council member leader in the entire history of the United Nations

Did search dog training in a subdivision today. We mostly train in the wilderness, but they dogs need this too. There I was, hiding in hedges and not one child came along so I could say "I'm playing hide-and-seek with a dog!" Damn children.

The Secret Service isn't claiming it foiled any plot targeting the UN General Assembly. Just that a big collection of SIMs (probably used for fraud) could have *potentially* disrupted NYC cell service. The SIMs were in a *35 MILE* radius of the UN. These headlines are all pretty egregiously wrong:

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Every official, lawyer and agent involved must be investigated the second Trump bounces. Start making a list now. Start telling their neighbors

the funniest thing about this is that this guy has no qualifications at all for this, actually acting on his recommendations is very likely to make their models worse

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

+1 to the NYT. Their actual lede: "He accused environmentalists of wanting to 'kill all the cows.' He personally insulted the Muslim mayor of London. He bashed allies and foes across the globe. He questioned whether the United Nations should even exist." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

So if you can devise a way to keep neighborhoods safe without cops, people will absolutely hear you out. Otherwise, there is a strong desire in communities — even over-policed ones — for government to provide armed security and investigatory services staffed by professionals who are not assholes.

Before I took battalion command I re-read Army Reg 600-20, Army Command Policy, which touted wOkE values such as not discriminating based upon gender, race, religion…and other anti-American concepts such as training and preparing the organization.

My lede: "In a meandering address US President Donald Trump told leaders at the UN that their countries are going to hell, that the earth is growing cooler, not warmer, that solar and wind power are destructive and useless, and echoed the antisemetic and racist great replacement conspiracy theory."

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

Half this speech could be clipped off any random white nationalist website.

"Angry Trump Tells UN: 'Your Countries Are Going to Hell'" should be the headline. But won't be. The sanewashing on this one is going to be epic.

Trump is one hamster-wheel rotation away from shouting at the General Assembly "Go on sanction me with your army."

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

There it is. The One World Government/Great Replacement conspiracy theory that drives the white nationalist movement that Trump leads. Now give him his Nobel. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump is now whining to the UN about the UN working with another developer and not him on their building

i suspect it’s all about scam texts. www.wired.com/story/sms-bl...

the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram

I suspect the ground truth here lies in the realm of (well financed, to be sure) phishing/spamming scans. When a federal govt known to be full of lying liars says "x COULD HAVE done scary thing y" it means there's no indication y was about to happen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"And the media lined up to say, 'Wow, I guess the metaverse is here... 'Metaverse this, metaverse that.' They burned $45bln, and you know what? Nothing happened. Absolutely nothing happened. Everyone just pretended like it didn't happen at all. We all moved on." www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...