just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

I know there’s a lot happening right now but I want to say this: I’ve been deeply affected by the way the 80s tabloid media has been almost entirely memory-holed. Not even a lot of today’s media scholars seem to appreciate how much tabloids shaped everything, much less the political scholars

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

President Trump threatened 'WAR' on Chicago in a social media post Saturday as his administration’s large-scale immigration raids loomed over the city. “This is not a joke,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker wrote in response to Trump’s post. “This is not normal.”

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages. That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

I agree with Bluesky’s decision because the law is insane, but we need to find a way to help these guys out. They do great work.

🧪👀 Hey #genome wizards of Bluesky! A colleague is looking for a #chromosome-level genome of #RoundGoby (Neogobius melanostomus) 🐟🐟 If you've got one, know of one, or are secretly assembling one in your basement, please let me know! I’ll owe you a coffee, a citation, and eternal gratitude! ☕📚💙

This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

As an aside, I'm told multiple major outlets were not interested in this story and passed on covering it. Mind-boggling.

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

As usual @jamellebouie.net sums matters up succinctly. “Trump is doing, in a real sense, what any Republican president would do….To look at the Trump administration and see something distinct from the last 44 years of Republican governance is to inhabit a fantasy…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...

President Trump and Republicans’ massive tax legislation would force the government to undo billions of dollars in electric vehicle investments made by the U.S. Postal Service. This would mean auctioning off nearly 7,200 brand-new postal EVs.

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

I assure you, none of them are mine.

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

NEW: A data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to DHS, telling the dept. not to disclose that, according to records obtained by @404media.co—copublished in partnership with @wired.com. No paywall bc FOIA @josephcox.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

*Chappell Roan voice* I'm gonna be forgiven By my

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

@fetterman.senate.gov do you still think Rubio is a sane choice?

🦬🚨 Public lands emergency alert! Dirty Doug Burgum is trying to pull a literal fast one on us by limiting the comment period for lithium exploration/mining in Malheur County, OR to just *FIVE DAYS*!!! The public only has until March 31st to comment on the BLM's EA, which was published on 3/26... 1/

The current administration is trying to ram through this dangerous approval of a lithium mine on Oregon. The link below allows people to speak out about it ONLY UNTIL TOMORROW (Monday). Please take a second to voice disapproval.

I didn't know Georgia O'Keefe did baseball team logos...

lol. The team has already removed this image from the announcement.

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things: you don't get to talk about it. you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story. it's *always* shut the fuck up friday

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."

Now that Schumer and Dems have abjectly decided to cave, when they scream about the cuts that Musk and Trump continue to undertake in violation of *their own CR,* it will only sound all the more hollow. Great job all around, guys.

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable. 2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

How it started/How it's going

Here is a 2018 conversation between Jeff Bezos and German publisher Matthias Döpfner at a Business Insider event. Presumably, he is as crimson as a Washington State cherry today:

If anyone who receives this would like help writing a suitable prompt injection for when they use an LLM to evaluate responses, I am at your service. DM or @hmason.64 on Signal.

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

Let. People. Defect. Save the "I told you so you fucking idiot" for the truth and reconciliation committees.