Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

/5 We’re now in a struggle against frank evil, unapologetic bigotry and hostility to the Other, testing whether these values can endure. The values and attitudes of the show are encouraging about prevailing.

As a late-middle-aged suburban white guy I am probably not Bad Bunny’s target audience. Hadn’t heard him before. Liked it. Wasn’t, like, I’m going to stop listening to opera and Bon Jovi and the Cars and stuff and but I would definitely listen again, and I can’t see how anyone would DISLIKE it. /1

Anti-choice extremists in Indiana are trying to force the release of records for the very few legal abortions in the state (146 in 2024). The purpose is to intimidate patients and providers and expose them to harassment, arrests, and violence.

Also read. Was fun.

If you can write this parody, you are more in touch with the youths than I

Unidos somos América.

Got a lot of hate for my skepticism this offseason… but I was not wrong

Perfect

This is like something out of a horror movie, my god

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014. www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Prediction: In 10 years, “hardest problem” articles like this will shift from the challenge of ”C and perception“ to “C and emotions/mood“. The first is fascinating. The second is required to understand psychiatric functions & conditions. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

I have bad news. Science has already been labeled as left. It’s done. This is clear if we talk to people in red areas. Or if we watch Fox.

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

I have so many things I need to do, but all I really want to do is stay in bed. A memoir.

It’s always great to hear these stories. ❤️ And yes. My mom died of ovarian cancer. I want more progress there so others can be saved. And it is being blown up. I am horrified at how biomedical research and cures are being destroyed.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

I got a phone call from my uncle, who literally never calls me, at work yesterday. I pick it up, worried that something awful has happened. No, he wants to talk to me about how to divest from Amazon and if I like @libro.fm (I said I did, obv).

BREAKING: Virginia Democrats have unveiled their plan to pick up four more seats in Congress, giving the public their first look at a map meant to counter President Donald Trump’s gerrymandering gains in GOP-controlled states. www.democracy-docket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court allows California to use new congressional map, giving Democrats a boost www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... “Donald Trump said he was ‘entitled’ to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he’ll lose again in November,” Newsom penned.

Noam Chomsky sucks shit actually

/5 This close-mindedness, this cancel culture, can be DEADLY because it shuts you off from sources of scientific insight. Like, if it weren’t for the brave people at @cbsnews.com platforming Peter Attia, how would we learn that if you hang with child rapists you may go into withdrawal when you stop?

Imagine if we could get the average American to work right out of primary school, how much wealthier our country would be?

Read @joshtpm.bsky.social on defeating the threat to voting rights. "The promise of the American democratic experiment now resides in the Free States of the Union. They cannot accede to the illegitimate actions of a renegade executive." Me: take it very seriously, without lapsing into cynicism.

“what you need is a wartime voting rights group.” “We’re in a terrain where broad and often force-based extra-constitutional and anti-constitutional actions must be assumed. State control over the administration of elections is now the sheet anchor of democratic government in the United States.”

Unbelievable and vital article. I kind of want to quote block the whole thing, because it is so incisive in talking about how to defend US Democracy against a criminal administration that has not let guardrails of the law or morality constrain it.

I'd say it's less outrageous than simply absurd but it's those too. I mean, you go into NIH and you close down the ability to review or issue grants, send out stop work orders and then fire half the people. That's probably going to have an impact on research and patient care.

holy shit

Really appreciate this take. Christianity has lots of interpretations, and here’s a little Intellectual history on where different versions come from. youtu.be/Q7fG-OzI0hg?...

"Major life changes following psychedelic use occur in approximately 1 in 5 users" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41606087/ Would be interesting to do a similar study, but for alcohol...

This is amazing! Thank you so much to @jinxungoh.bsky.social and @lydiaemery.bsky.social for putting together an amazing guide to the Chicago food scene for those coming to #SPSP2026!

I like to remind people that in 2017 NBC News gave Megyn Kelly a $69 million contract. Her shows on the network were an utter failure and they had to pay to make her go away. At the time she signed her deal, NBC News didn’t have a bureau in Puerto Rico, where 3.2 million Americans live.

“Prosecutors in the French capital said they would examine a raft of potential crimes, including complicity in the possession and dissemination of child pornographic images and the breach of a person’s image rights with sexually explicit deepfakes.” This should be prosecuted.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

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G Elliott Morris: The precinct-level data from last night’s special election in Texas suggest a national win for the Democrats of around D+7 to D+10 come November

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

If you think a bunch of conspiracy theorists will look at evidence an then say “oh, we were wrong” then you don’t know how conspiracy theories working. Having actual evidence they can misrepresent is key to building the conspiracy theory.

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.

Yes - until you see it firsthand, it’s hard to understand how upsetting and enraging it is to see these guys operate in your community. They are dressed for war, they beat civilians up, they openly antagonize neighbors, they’re masked, they carry people away. Everyone is livid at every scene.

New in PN: 'Abolish ICE' is imperative "There's no amount of training that can instill basic humanity in thugs who willingly mistreat women, children, and old men. ICE agents reportedly dined at a Mexican restaurant in MN before arresting employees. How will 'training' fix that level of depravity?"

The regime is going to try to rig the election. They're going to flood the zone with misinformation and suppress the truth on X and TikTok.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman