Jan 2023: -ChatGPT becomes the fastest growing app in history Mar 2023: - Silicon Valley Bank collapses in the wake of FTX debacle - Crypto at-large plunges - FDIC bails out EVERY SINGLE DEPOSITER in SVB - Peter Thiel and his ilk need a new growth sector Oh look... What an interesting chart...

This, if allowed to be implemented, is designed to bring about the end of all American opposition political movements. This is authoritarian dictatorship at the 100% level now.

"The citizen's safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility." ~Robert Jackson

Discussion of our new book #ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social with Global Roaming ABC Australia www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

‪Emily Atkin's highlights from the crazy coal climate address can be found here 🦕🦖🦕: heated.world/p/trump-deli...

If you’re in the Eastern District of Virginia and you get a jury summons, maybe don’t sit this one out. You could end up on a Jim Comey or Tish James case.

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“Fascism is not new. It wears a new dress, buys new boots—but it can only reproduce fear, denial, and the loss of will to fight.” Toni Morrison’s timeless warning on fascism & censorship still rings out today. inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Wallop. Happy equinox everyone.

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.” Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

"Monarez, who was fired after... vaccine policy disagreements with Kennedy, told senators that deadly infectious diseases like polio could be poised to make a devastating comeback if the health secretary and his team continue their public campaign against routine shots." Polio? Cool, cool. 👍☣️ 🇺🇸

"Vaccines are safe. They are life-saving, and I would encourage any parent who is concerned about whether or not their child should get a vaccine to talk to their pediatrician to understand the benefits of these life-saving medical products..." — Former CDC director Susan Monarez

Some of you aren’t sad enough about Robert Redford, and I WILL be calling your employers

From #RobertRedford 's powerful on-screen presence to his founding of the Sundance Film Festival to his advocacy for Indigenous rights and the environment, he leaves behind an incredible legacy. RIP to an American legend. www.npr.org/2025/09/16/1...

PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 September 1928. Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in the mold Penicillium Notantum. It was later turned into a life-saving antibiotic drug by Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their colleagues at Oxford University. All involved won Nobel Prizes.

Whether it's this comment or RFK Jr's remarks about "superior genetics" or only the strong surviving, for example, it is frightening how many people in this country seem to be comfortable with eugenics.

A new study published Wednesday in @nature.com finds that most of the deadly heat waves of the past 25 years would not have happened without emissions from the world’s largest oil, gas, coal and cement companies.

"Robinson was suddenly flush with US funds that transformed him from rightwing agitator to self-styled 'citizen journalist'... that helped his Unite the Kingdom demonstration draw 110,000 protesters to the streets of London on Saturday." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

Must be nice to live in a country where people are held accountable for plotting a coup.

An evergreen guide from @onthemedia.bsky.social

Happy #StarTrekDay

Sadly, I hear echoes of Justice Murphy's 1944 dissent in Korematsu v. United States. "Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life... revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution."

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Women are 1/2 the global population but only 26% of news subjects & sources. Only 2 in 100 stories challenges stereotypes. In stories, women are more often quoted as eyewitnesses – not subject matter experts, despite their qualifications. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

Hello, galagog, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again... www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/12/d...

“Delusion is the one resource this civilisation never runs out of. Delusion is more than a necessity for humans: it is the oxygen that sustains the self-destructive economic engine of this civilisation” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

#Norfolk #Virginia, check this out: new poems on the #ElizabethRiverTrail. Congratulations to all the poets!

The League of Women Voters has just been barred from providing voter registration services at Naturalization Ceremonies. By shutting us out, U.S. Customs & Immigration dictates another intimidation tactic & attack on the immigrant community. Unite & Rise. Join! bit.ly/4g5RcEq @lwvus.bsky.social

CONDEMN RFK ATTACKS ON VACCINES AND RESEARCH 👇Click below for background information, a 📞 script and detailed information on contacting your Senators and MOC.

Today was REMOVE THE QUACK RFK JR! 🐤 day at Gorman Rd/I-95 overpass in North Laurel, MD! We stand in solidarity with @standupforscience.bsky.social and their Impeach & Remove RFK Jr campaign. You can join their petition or send $3 Quack-a-Grams to your congresspeople! www.standupforscience.net

The US needs better #publichealth policies than herd immunity and treating communicable diseases with a very bright light or bleach. #SaveCDC #SaveHHS

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB

Excerpts from Tan Dun's WATER CONCERTO ❤️ youtu.be/cXUXQSJCEso

#Norfolk #Virginia #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay

A few more photos from today's #Norfolk #LaborDay rally ✊ #WorkersOverBillionaires #FamiliesOverBillionaires #WethePeople

On labor day remember

Trump's goals for the Fed are 'very dangerous,' warns Fmr. Fed Chair & Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen. The financial system is “like the plumbing in your house,” says Yellen. “You don’t think about it most of the time. It’s important that it works,” but you're very “aware of it when it’s broken” #Velshi

You may be surprised to learn that New York City is different than Virginia

Zed Nelson's new book The #Anthropocene Illusion focuses less on humans' destruction of nature but more on how that destruction is warping our relationship with the natural world. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.

History tells us that pandemics contribute to the rise of fascism. Society has failed to heed that warning.

IMO, on some level we Americans have known for some time that the older generations in the US (the ones in political and corporate power) have been making decisions that suit them and disadvantage the young. This article shares evidence of this trend.