Just a guess that we are 3 years from an actual "national security" event.

RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate. RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.

And they will walk up a ramp into the ark before the rains start.

i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video so ok universe you win this time

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

I used to defend Twitter: if your feed was crap, you followed crappy people. Then it became X, where crap was the product. Now the complaint is that Bluesky’s “too bland”? Same story. It’s who you follow. Give it time; blandness might just be the beta phase before chaos. Still, it's the journey.

Voyager is the little engine that could. Soon to be sending signals from 1 light-day away. Inarguably one humanities greatest achievements to date. www.popsci.com/science/voya...

You ever watch a Republican press event and think, Bad Lip Reading has really outdone themselves this season?

May I suggest Comic Sans font? www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

I wonder how many new ICE and HLS goobers in masks were all up in arms about people wearing mask just 5 short years ago.

My holiday reading list is shaping up and looking good with the latest book from historian and friend, Maureen Ogle. @maureenogle.bsky.social

So, did that increase or decrease it's value. What if he had fed it to a civet cat?

Oh, this one hurts. www.americancraftbeer.com/beer-buzzkil... I remember sitting in the Anchor hop room, just breathing in the fresh cascade hops. Such a loss if Anchor leaves the city that made it.

Bright side: Net, they one cut one day. Dark Side: The people getting free access are the ones who celebrate Trumps birthday, which probably are not big national park patrons nor advocates.

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Santa Tweet! Santa Tweet!

Soooo….. for the Monday crowd. Cough. I have a new book out: THE PRICE OF PLENTY: A HISTORY OF MEAT IN AMERICA. Available at bookshopDOTorg, B&N, Kobo, Amazon. A lengthy excerpt is here.

I know, right! This is going to be so much more gripping than my last year's reenactment of the retired trailer lady near the Ozark Mountains, who nearly stole Graceland from Elvis Presley's family & then tried to divert attention by pinning it on a fictitious Nigerian identity thief.

Schrödinger's indictment

Am I reading this correctly? The administration is suing universities because those institutions don't want to provide lists of their jewish students, faculty, and the the campus groups they belong to? That sounds bad, doesn't it? www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

My Current Reflection on Generative AI generated content. Today was the first time I saw something AI-first that was actually good. Not awkward, not “uncanny valley,” but genuinely compelling. timbeauchamp.github.io/timbeauchamp...

@maureenogle.bsky.social, three of your books. Just in time for Christmas.

I'm really interested in how this tread goes on. I have a feeling it could have an entry for every one Nuzzi and/or Lizza chapters

I get the feeling that Mark Burnett and some team of writers all strung out on dimethyltryptamine & brain worms, are scripting everything going on in today's politics. We are all in the 2030 Survivor/The Apprentice/Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader/Shark Tank/The Voice Touched by an Angel remake.

Tick-borne allergy leads to deathly allergic reaction to red meat. What! I am never going hiking again. www.foxnews.com/health/man-d...

Maybe this was the intent, but it almost lost me at "U.S. Congress considers". But, need to stay plugged in.

This take on LLMs use in science journalism aligns with my own observation of its use in software development. Prolific generation of compelling content, but decreasing productivity when taking into account poor quality of code & the time spent testing for correctness & repairing hallucinations

Just watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. This review was pretty critical (though still a great read), I actually loved the remake. Also, fun fact: there are only two degrees of separation between the author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and the world’s first computer programmer.

I can still remember a time in the past that I wanted to subscribe to the NYT. But, it's getting harder to remember why I did.

does anyone keep a running count of the recidivism rate of presidential pardon-ese? I'm sensing it would be an interesting statistic.

I have intel that there is activity in the Anchor Brewing Brewery in SF, but I'd really like to know more.

Question: Is this a pattern? It increasingly feels like one. Not “too big to fail,” exactly, but something closer to governing through leverage, where critical public functions become bargaining chips, and entire systems are held in varying degrees of suspension until someone yields. 1/5

At least Trump is coming back to DC early from his golf trip to Palm Beach so he can attend a football game while pressuring them to name the stadium after him. He’s always working hard to improve our lives.

It truly was a great essay, and actually very engaging to read. I love when authors who are obviously very knowledgable and humble, are also a little bit self deprecating.

I'm expecting that canceling 10% of the flights will also cause the remaining flights to be more expensive.

Close tie for the best victory speech tonight. Zohran Mamdani's victory speech I love it when politicians speak to their listeners in language that rises to meet the elevation of the moment, rather than lowering itself to what they assume is the least common denominator. www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

Honestly, one of the best and heart-full victory speeches I can recall. Abigail Spanberger, next governor of Virginia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbzQ...

If you haven't yet watched the documentary "The Last Republican", I recommend you do. It is available on a many streaming services.

Nobody ever says why the super-secret Republicans healthcare plan needs to be super-secret for 15+ years. Are they afraid that the amazing details in it will be adopted and people will be healthy too soon. Maybe other countries will steal their amazing health ideas and then we couldn’t use them?

Latest Executive Order: In response to the government shutdown, the U.S. will add one Daylight Savings hour every Sunday until lawmakers return to work. Clocks will now advance only marginally faster than Congress.

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

thank you!! 🫶🏻

it costs $0 to link to @wired.com's story that broke the news here www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

A fun and safe Halloween evening to everyone, especially the kids.

Crap, crap, crap. Nerd mistake. Just ran "sudo apt full-upgrade -y" over SSH on a Raspberry Pi that hasn’t had a system upgrade in 5 years. Now I’m being held hostage by my own terminal. Can’t let the laptop sleep for the next 90 minutes. #SysadminStockholmSyndrome

Just like those ever-growing giant pumpkins are the unofficial signal that autumn is rolling in, the rising count of how many hot dogs someone can down at the Nathan’s contest is basically the same kind of fun harbinger for summertime.

I wrote about Electric Nebraska and what it felt like listening to Bruce's holy grail: www.sydney-bauer.com/the-dysphori...

Today's Apple Snack Gang review -- the Winesap. With bonus thoughts on eating apples and performing simple, meditative, mindful tasks in this chaotic fucking shitbucket of an era.