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Trump says Maduro had to go because he's a criminal who's hated in his own country and a threat to peace in the region. plus he stays up all night watching TV, stands in a really weird way and his son is too tall

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

Pulling climate data offline, canceling research grants, and de-funding scientific institutions doesn't just suppress climate information. It weakens the foundation we rely on to make good decisions of any kind. In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!

Tbf, if a rat crawled under my hat and started controlling me, I wouldn’t even care. Take the wheel, rat daddy

Carl Sagan explains how stars are born, live, die, and give us life www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/17/c...

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." Happy 91st Birthday to Carl Sagan – a true pioneer of science who ignited our cosmic curiosity. ❤️

Carl Sagan warned about the mindset behind MAGA two decades before it emerged.

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.

Almost 50 years ago, conservationists reintroduced white-tailed eagles to Scotland. It’s gone well. Some say too well. Written by Emma Marris. hakaimagazine.com/features/the...

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

So close! DNA is the DNA of life.

Scientific breakthroughs we might not have had without NSF funding: The Internet Smartphones DNA analysis MRIs Doppler radar Bar codes And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...

I think the greatest movie that we'll never get to see is: shadowy black ops agents repeatedly attempting to murder Clark Kent, because he's breaking a huge story about tech-adjacent, governmental corruption, and repeatedly (ludicrously) failing, because they have no idea he's Superman

We're going to end up reversing the most successful public health intervention in US history (our teeth used to just fall out! When I was growing up, all my older relatives were toothless!), and the NYT will share the blame for normalizing the idea that fluoridized water is dangerous.

One thing they don't mention: The overwhelming majority of the 74 studies were in China (45) and India (12), which seems like relevant information to mention when we're talking about US policy. And, again, it ONLY looked at IQ test scores, not other measures of cognitive function.

20 PARAGRAPHS IN, we learn that typical US fluoride levels are less than half of those considered in the study, which are all from other countries. Also deep in the story, we learn that what they mean by "lower cognitive function" is a 1.6-point drop in IQ, a long-debunked measure of "intelligence."

NYT continues its irresponsible normalizing of dangerous fringe ideas by mischaracterizing an analysis of fluoridation in other countries very different from the US (more on that in a sec) to suggest that fluoride harms people's brains. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/h...

I saw Elon speak at TED in 2017, before his brain had melted entirely from Ketamine and hate. I was curious. His talk was kind of rambling but interesting... until he started claiming the ancient Egyptians had failed because they stopped building pyramids. He went on at LENGTH. My jaw was open 1/2

Eldersister playing Knowing at Van Sessions.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy...

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

"Understanding the role vultures play in human health underscores the importance of protecting wildlife, and not just the cute and cuddly. They all have a job to do in our ecosystems that impacts our lives.” How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths www.bbc.com/news/article...

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.

Arachnophobia is the dumbest fear. Who cares if 2 spiders get married it doesn’t affect you

@drlabos.bsky.social I just finished Does Coffee Cause Cancer and loved it! I’m going to make all my friends read it now.

I know it's a mouthful but moral deciduousness is becoming the defining concept of our politics. Democrats get grilled about 'incivility' when Sarah Sanders is removed from a restaurant; Republicans get a pass when Nancy Pelosi's husband is attacked with a hammer. bsky.app/profile/leon...

My ratatouille rat is making me fight someone else also controlled by a ratatouille rat Me and the other guy have no beef, only the rats are enemies and we have no idea why. While punching with limbs no longer our own, we lock eyes with mutual grief and compassion, forgiving whoever kills the other

The Brown Tree Snake (BTS in the literature) is an invasive species on the island of Guam. At their worst, there were more than 2 million BTS. Currently there are still about 10 BTS for every person on Guam. They collapse power lines, eat birds. So happy to see a whole mag issue on the topic. 🧪

“His system was so idiotically simple that some people can’t understand it, no matter how often it is explained. The people who can’t understand it are people who have to believe, for their own peace of mind, that tremendous wealth can be produced only by tremendous cleverness.”

“I WAS A VICTIM OF A SERIES OF ACCIDENTS, AS ARE WE ALL.”

“O Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Millennia what could we do for Thee that Thou couldst not do for Thyself one octillion times better? Nothing.”

🧪As the US continues to build up its green infrastructure, 158 coal plants remain. Communities located near these plants often suffer immensely from air and water pollution. M. Bloomberg just gave Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign $500 million to finish the fight.