We used to be a country

My god. Plausible, though, that Elon is sitting down to a nice plate of cranberries.

AI seems to be how people outsource thinking. PS- @nature.com might want to throw a couple of bucks at hiring an editor.

This is Bear. He is in charge of supervising Thanksgiving dinner preparation. Appointed himself to the role, but takes it very seriously. 14/10 (TT: emileebellant)

The bit where the audience discovered Theodore's mic was off and the whole thing was a lip sync, what a career killer.

Our Thanksgiving tradition is for the oldest person to gather the youngs before the feast, and tell them of how the Pilgrim fathers and mothers sat in harmony with their native brethren, there to be bombarded with news of unbelievable savings on early Black Friday deals.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @katherinepomps.bsky.social create a choose-your-own-adventure game for Lindsey Halligan which reflects all the many, many ways she can lose the James Comey case if reinstated.

This is stunning -- an absolute must-read: "if you measured income inadequacy today the way [it was] measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.

Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.

The less you know about a people or their practices, the easier it is to infantilize them with "state of nature" sentimentality.

He continues to treat Russia like it didn’t start the war

I’m sorry, but if Democrats were in power, would this not be in the headlines every single day?

America, 2025.

Donald Trump sent more money to bail out Argentina than it would have cost to extend the ACA tax credits for just 1 year. I don't plan to let anyone forget it.

It’s kind of like the Epstein files. These guys spent years hyping how terrible Obamacare is and now that it turns out that they really need to extend Obamacare, they can’t.

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

Mark Kelly has responded:

I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

Please comment, historians of 50 years hence.

You've been asking, What is history's most bullshit job? Well, thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/opus-meum-...

Reporters sticking with X because they get so much engagement from Nigerian America First MAGA accounts.

Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡 @birdyword.bsky.social

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Again this is a demand for Ukraine to surrender to Russia AND ensure many further violent incursions in the future.

So does Congress have to rescind that ridiculous vote saying Socialism is very, very bad?

After the Trump-Mamdani, people at the White House PR office are turning so quickly that their skeletons are popping from their skins.

Prosecute Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for reckless indifference to human life.

This is absolutely extraordinary. Almost 9 million people live in Tehran. The city is built on land that is sinking in places by a foot a year.

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

On scientific topics, especially in public health, federal government webpages have been a trusted way for the public to find reliable information. A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Not only that but every time he golfs he does it on one of his own properties & charges the government, putting tax money in his private coffers. Each golf trip is a self dealing grift and an unconstitutional emolument.

Interviews and records show the White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. The incident is the latest in a string of matters where the Trump administration has inserted itself to help friends and target foes.

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-c...

My god.

If the Epstein files have taught us anything so far, it's that rich and powerful people can't write an interesting email to save their miserable lives.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

If AI can do in an instant what people bill for by the hour, what will become of our most popular, and arbitrary, way to compensate people? thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/time-money...

If you're old enough to remember when the Internet was going to make us smarter, turn off your computer with me.

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

Remember when conservatives went batshit crazy that government officials occasionally alerted social media companies to posts that might violate their TOS?

And now: “everyone are at odds.”

Bluesky is where I discuss the unspeakable.

JD Vance is very consistent… in saying or doing whatever it takes to get ahead politically.

What a terrible day to know how to read

It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...