I teach this in my IP law class b/c when asked in an interview who owned the patent, Salk replied: "Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?" He looked for vaccine solutions his entire life…including a quest for a vaccine to prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

"We investigated ourselves and concluded we did nothing wrong." whyy.org/articles/qua...

We compromise now with strikes, vacation time, and severance packages. #workersrights #mayday store.ironcircus.com/products/fai...

Trump repeatedly bragging about being asked to take the dementia screener is like a work colleague bragging about having to take daily court-ordered drug tests.

To open with "On the topic of Charlie Kirk" and then pivot to Doodle Dog day over International Worker's Day and then demand a handout for a dog is WILD. RIP Ernest Hemingway, you would've loved the concision on display today. Sine Die when?

Bragging about being the only president repeatedly asked to take a cognitive test… Right.

Imagine if “look at how much attention I get for being a fkn dumbass” was the brand u found to carry you through a lifetime of failed realestate scams & showbiz success, ending with, as a bonus, becoming the most powerful man on planet earth

That's some good writing, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social. www.ms.now/news/the-lig...

LOUD and PAID FOR.

Like, the takeaway here is, it's fake, gang. It's all fake. Hungary funneling cash to US conservatives. Tucker Carlson having fewer than 8,000 subscribers. Conservative streamers taking Putin money. Now Ben losing whatever teat he was suckling at. None of this is popular. It's just fucking LOUD.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Weird that Orban loses and all of a sudden the far right machine falls apart.

Candace Owens says that the Daily Wire laid off more than half of its staff today:

Volume up high if you are able.

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

CERN weasel is on display in an exhibit in Rotterdam! Which naturally makes one wonder if it might be possible to collect its DNA, clone the weasel and send it back into the LHC for a timeline reboot

if you learn the shape of this black deposit of soil (it cuts through Mississippi & Georgia too) you will begin to see it on literally any map that tracks disparate outcomes.

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Despair Is Not Wisdom

One of my favorite animal videos, probably taken at Disney's Animal Kingdom: four asian small-clawed otters racing back and forth across the grass like a troop of predatory socks, hopping up to try and snatch a butterfly out of the air.

It's never been more Shut The Fuck Up Friday:

Saw some Bucky on my timeline and decided "what the heck", why not repost this one...?

Bring back the ancient knowledge

“As much as Meta would love to have everyone wearing smart glasses all day, as evidenced by its new line of prescription-focused Ray-Bans, the Blayzer and the Scriber, it is still not culturally accepted to wear a camera on your face—and it may never be.”

So, lemme get this right. The war that is not a war is over despite the US military still being there and the Straight is open but you have to pay for blackmail and there is a ceasefire despite Israel still bombing Lebanon.

UK stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, research finds

New healthcare plan just dropped

This is great. This is how smaller artists (e.g. me... though I do photography) make some money; maybe become full-time. This is using one's fame to pay it forward. Kudos.

Is it the sun poisoning, or is there an abundance of threats against the president at the beach?

Electrical fire, now extinguished, no structural damage! But an important reminder that the largest risk to our significant buildings is usually lack of maintenance/regular checks.

Routine change

Suing in the Northern District of Texas against a hospital in Rhode Island 🙃

Time for the weekly presidential pump and dump.

Happy Freeman Friday. Have a useful reaction image.

lol

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

maybe it’s cope but I do wonder if the ghoulish speed and enthusiasm to immediately redistrict every Black representative in the south out of existence is going to backfire a bit in terms of convincing Dems that they have to fight back as hard as possible

looking forward to the Supreme Court reversing its own decision that Alabama couldn’t redistrict until 2030 on the basis of “fuck you we are wearing klan robes to work now”

Saying the South should secede is racism, just of a different sort. And I don't mean "anti-white Southern racism" or anything stupid like that. Just standard, good ole-fashioned racism.

I was trying to quote this to @edburkemsp.bsky.social yesterday. (He was telling me that he'd always assumed the way a broken bone worked was, it healed and then you were better?)

reminds me of a thing my granddad once said while we were watching Olympics "the best marksman in India is probably some dhobi's delivery boy throwing stones at pillars who will never go to Olympics camp and none of us will ever hear of"

Meanwhile, at Tumblr... (www.tumblr.com/dduane/81542...)

This is 100% true and part of the reason we need to be loud & fast & pushing back: Alabama signed an agreement promising not to redraw the maps before 2030, after they had new maps forced on them because they ignored multiple court orders. We are about to play chicken with the law.

NINE THOUSAND people who work for the FBI — either two thirds of their agents or one quarter of their entire staff — have been diverted to doing at least some immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.

New favorite Willie pic

Oh boy here we go