It’s past time for the DOJ and FBI to follow the money on Epstein as I've been doing for 3 years. The bankers who looked the other way, Epstein’s accountants and lawyers who controlled his cash flow, and the billionaires who funded Epstein’s criminal network.

Epstein Money Trail Ignored as DOJ Failed Basic Investigation?! open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Remember, comparisons with Nazis will not be tolerated.

Mockler: It's uniquely important to Trump now that there's a presumption of innocence, but he's willing to proactively say that people like Schiff, people like Letitia James, are guilty. Now, it's very, very important that we're super careful about what photos we're releasing.

This is a sick, desperate, man who does not want people to be talking about the Epstein files.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

In terms of per capita GDP, Russia is like Chile (nominal) or Hungary (PPP). In terms of country GDP, Russia is like Italy (nominal) or Germany (PPP). In terms of population, Russia is like Mexico. Russia is important today mostly because they are belligerent and have the capacity to do harm.

"S.J.Res.136 - Joint resolution providing for renaming the National Cultural Center as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, authorizing an appropriation therefor, and for other purposes" www.congress.gov/bill/88th-co...

So the Epstein Files are: –not complete –comically redacted –not in a “searchable” format The Trump-Vance administration had months to recover from the embarrassing influencer binder photo-op and this is what they came up with. This is what they think of you

One of the few public protests, here at Fall AGU, of Trump Administration actions. #AGU25

This is beyond stupid. NCAR is immensely important to the meteorological community in too many ways to list. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

US foreign policy is now guided by the goal of creating real-estate development opportunities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

What is the clause of the Constitution that says the founding fathers meant us to have AK-47's but not surface-to-air missiles? How does the Supreme Court justify such distinctions? One might think they were talking about well-organized state militias and single-shot flintlock rifles.

Journalists should ask Trump the direct question: "Do you think it was a mistake for the United States to go to war with Nazi Germany in 1941?" I am willing to wager that he will not give a direct answer.

Credible, objective federal data and statistics are essential for informing decisions that affect the nation’s economy, governance, and well-being. But this crucial information is at risk. A new report from @amstatnews.bsky.social lays out what’s at stake.

”The Skipper was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2022 for its alleged role in an oil smuggling network that helped fund the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah […] The ship […]is among the vessels controlled by sanctioned Russian oil magnate Viktor Artemov …“

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot. Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

We love to say "costs fall X% every time capacity doubles." This paper looks at 87 technologies and says: actually, no. Past learning rates are not reliable predictors of future learning.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare." - Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938

After 2 years of war, 98% of tree cropland and 75% of greenhouses in Gaza have been destroyed. Remote sensing maps tracking the progression of damage can help identify the best ways to remediate the land and rebuild Gaza’s agricultural sector.

The Trump Administration and their Republican facilitators are deep into self-parody. This is why they so dislike the comedians. The comedians might say something as a joke, but then the Republicans want to implement it as policy. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

"This new portal gives Californians an easy and safe way to speak up, share what they see, and help us hold people accountable. No one is above the law.” — @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom

Here is a soundtrack that I produced where the tempo of the music follows the rate of the zoom in the video. Each beat represents the same amount of zoom. A new experiment that seems to have worked pretty well. Thanks Yann Le Bihan for letting me do this! youtu.be/SvyEYnIKAbA?...

The headline could have been: "Trump Looking into Options for Eliminating Social Security Retirement Benefits" www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Is anyone working on a constitutional amendment to remove the pardon power from US Presidents and to make it clear that a President is subject to criminal prosecution? The Founding Fathers never conceived that we would have a criminal President protected by colluding Senators.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do. If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections. www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...

The Republican Party is betting on one of two things happening: 1. Republicans in power forever; 2. Pardons, collective amnesia and Democratic party leaders saying: "Let's move on in the name of unity. We need to look forward, not backwards."

Nazis were executed for killing survivors of a sunk vessel. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...

Grifters gotta grift. It still amazes me that the entire Republican Party is acting as a facilitator for corruption at a scale that is unprecedented in US history. The degree to which the Republican Party is undermining American interests is simply shocking. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

If not about stopping drugs, what could talk of war on Venezuela be about? www.newsweek.com/gop-rep-says...

Is there any chance that Trump and the people around him care more about Venezuelan oil than Venezuelan drug trafficking? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

The contrail-warming effect of each flight is short-lived and local, but there are flights everyday in most parts of the world. In aggregate, the effects of contrail-induced cirrus clouds are sustained and global. www.ciphernews.com/articles/red... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some aircraft contrails persist and spread out to form a hazy layer. This hazy layer may be responsible for 1-2% of global warming. Who gave the airline industry permission to alter our sky in this way? contrails.org

Will we be asked to prove our US citizenship when we visit a national park? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

@nytimes.com style guide: "When people we like kill people we don't like so much, the headline shall use the passive voice. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/w...

"The end of progress against extreme poverty?" We have to work so that current trends are not good predictors of the future. Thanks: @maxroser.bsky.social @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/end-progress...

Early Oldowan technology was largely unchanged over a 300,000 year period (2.75−2.44 Ma). Our recent era of rapid technological change is an anomaly that our evolutionary past did not prepare us for. Our emotional structures evolved for a very different world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m honored to have Ms. Khashoggi with me today standing by my side as we remember her husband and call for transparency and accountability. We'll continue pressing for the release of the transcript so the American people understand the truth.