COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.

Jan. 6, 2021: Sherrod leaving for D.C. at 5:09 a.m. No amount of presidential pardons & shameful attempts to rewrite history will change what I remember about the violence on our Capitol that day. For nearly 45 minutes, we could not determine Sherrod’s whereabouts, or whether he was even alive.

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

If you'd like to reduce your blood pressure and eliminate a lot of needless in-fighting, I'd recommend muting or blocking Axios, Politico and Semafor as they seem to specialize in promoting quotes from anonymous Democratic contrarians in hopes of generating rage and engagement.

Yes, Maduro is a bad guy. But the President now says we will “run” another country of more than 28 million people for an undetermined time. How many American service members will be put in harm’s way — without even a vote in Congress?

Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military action in Venezuela is putting our troops in harm's way with no long-term strategy. The American people deserve a President focused on making their lives more affordable.

1. Yes, Trump launching a new military operation overseas without Congress’ prior declaration of war or authorization of force is almost certainly unlawful. 2. No, there is no real chance the courts will stop it. Unfortunately our Constitution means little when the judiciary won’t enforce it.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

"Fuck all of you, everyone." -- Tiny Trump

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Have yourself a merry little Pusheen✨🎁💖

Why do programmers get confused around the holidays? OCT 31 = DEC 25

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution that protected speech . . .

The Trump administration has made good on its promise to ban abortion care for veterans. The new directive, obtained by Mother Jones, states that it won’t prohibit care to “pregnant women in life-threatening circumstances, including treatment for ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages."

This is the best possible explainer on Bari Weiss

Happy light, everyone ❤️‍🔥

Happy Hanukkah, all!

Night five. #chanukah

"These rules are a baseless intrusion into the patient-physician relationship," the AAP's Kressly said. "Patients, their families, and their physicians—not politicians or government officials —should be the ones to make decisions together about what care is best for them."

absurdly, wildly influential, one of the first big viral YouTube videos and basically responsible for launching The Lonely Island (and especially Samberg) to stardom and you know what, they deserved every last bit of that success, this shit still slaps

LOLOLOLOL hahahahahahaha

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Jfc

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Happy Hanukkah 🕎!

It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through. Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!

May their memories be for a blessing May we mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living, all of them

There’s a whole thing in Hanukah about how you’re supposed to “publicize the miracle” except that there are all sorts of exceptions in times of danger. Because the times that the Jews have lived under have not always been safe. May the souls of the murdered in Australia be for a blessing.

"In lieu of having a health secretary who is committed to keeping American citizens safe and healthy, we’ve been offered the tepid consolation prize of an expired midlife crisis that’s been in slow decay since the mid-90s."

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference 🌈 Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time. #RStats #QueerData

Another gem from @lyz.bsky.social in her latest Dingus of the Week (with a bonus honorable mention!)

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting. Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

Here's another nifty study! Julia Schaepe & Will Greenleaf @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social, and colleagues repurpose an Illumina sequencer to probe the biochemistry of the transcription factor KLF1. 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Amazing study. @hhmi-science.bsky.social researchers use cryo-electron tomography to probe the structure of compacted DNA. 🧪 www.hhmi.org/news/chromat...

This...is Programming Like a Fighter Pilot. A single unhandled exception destroyed a $500 million rocket in seconds. The F-35 wasn't going to make the same mistake. By carefully slicing C++, engineers created one of the strictest coding standards ever written.

There are still a few tickets to this incredible event tomorrow!

Absolutely beautiful <3

Trump wastes no time targeting Sen. Mark Kelly after the indictments he orchestrated against James Comey & Letitia James are dismissed anntelnaes.substack.com/p/james-come...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

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What it was like inside last week’s MAHA Summit, by @maxkozlov.bsky.social who was there: www.nature.com/articles/d41... (The 🧪emoji doesn’t seem right but I’m using it anyway)

This week's Dingus of the Week from @lyz.bsky.social is a thing of beauty! www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

People always used to tell me that freelancing is "feast or famine" It's not. It's fucking around and finding out. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/feast-and-...

Expressing unpopular political opinions over Thanksgiving dinner with MAGA relatives can dramatically slash your gift-giving budget this Christmas. Follow me for more money-saving tips and tricks.