Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

This is a great example of county anti-housing organizing and county policies resulting in the county getting worse development. This site should have more housing and commercial space to provide amenities, reduce car dependency, and improve tax revenue.

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

🐱 Avian flu in house cats A case series reports H5N1 infections in four domestic cats near a California dairy farm. With early care and oseltamivir, survival was possible and antibodies persisted for months. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Influenza 🧪

“Lying”, “scheming”, and “hallucinating” all feel like pretty impoverished ways of trying to interpret the activity of language models bc they involve levels of personification that really obfuscate what we’re encountering.

There's a story in the making here.

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

You gotta admire how dedicated to corruption these guys are. It's the weekend and they're still hard at work churning out impeachable scandals

If Tom Homan accepted $50k in cash, on camera, just before the election (per @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social & @carolleonnig.bsky.social ), Dems must immediately demand the entire investigative file and not give DOJ another dollar till they get it. *Our* money is paying for this corruption.

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

Baroo?

Jadzia posing next to one of my dad Larry's paintings

someday I hope we prosecute at least the crimes we know about

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

I just. I mean. There are SO MANY WAYS that this is, I guess "bad" might be a good word here, but I'm stuck on: Imagine working for a guy like this.

ICE denies using excessive force in Broadview, Illinois. Never mind the videos…

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Me on Jan 19 vs me 9 months into this:

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Pretty views from CHO today. The leaves are just beginning to turn.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

I don’t always approve of Gov Newsom, but when he pushes back against authoritarianism I’m 💯 a fan #FightFascism

Counterpoint: When you lie 100% of the time and only *97%* of the coverage is bad (allegedly), you’re actually doing pretty good! P.S. - Anyone who has watched the media both-sides us into the abyss knows that number is absurd.

I got a Samsung phone this summer, and the autocorrect is so obnoxious. Today it kept trying to change "airplane" to "AirPlane", and it regularly and repeatedly rejects correct words that I've typed and replace them with random other words that maybe happen to start with the same first letter.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

I’m also beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting both students and faculty make bigoted remarks in college classrooms wasn’t about protecting academic freedom or promoting intellectual diversity.

Fluoride in drinking water has widely been heralded as a public health triumph. But this year, with the rise of RFK Jr., legislation has been introduced in *at least 21 states* to roll back provisions related to it. Critical reporting @annaleighclark.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/fluo...

The H1-B fiasco that is about to unfold is almost certainly a Stephen Miller Special to continue “whiteifying” the country, packaged in a way that Trump will see as a “deal” that gives him further leverage over companies to do what he wants

We need to take Dr. Snyder's advice. He's a very well educated, thoughtful man. He's studied this subject for decades. He knows what he's talking about.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Dr. Hopkins, infectious disease society: see a lot of covid-19 morbidity and mortality, including children. Vaccines help. Children under six months have no protection except if mother is vaccinated in pregnancy. Critical to maintain access.

Women across the Commonwealth want — and deserve — to know they can make their own reproductive healthcare decisions. Make no mistake — as Governor, I will always protect reproductive freedom in Virginia.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.

Yep. Technology, Consulting, Financial Services, Health Care and Universities are the most dependent sectors on H1B visas

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Today in Unexpected Owner's Marks... (I'm trying to figure out who Yogi Hussane is - can't be wrestler Yussif Hussane "the Terrible Turk", as he died in 1898, unless the stamp was applied posthumously)

authoritarianism starts at home. (and in the church, community, school...)

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

Yesterday I cancelled my Hulu subscription, and this morning I closed my Academia.edu account because their new terms of use (unlimited rights to users' work, signatures, etc., for any purposes) are not worth it.

Nice work. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!