You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

Mouse checks out the birdbath… it's wet! #mammals

Wren & Tufty in the cage feeder. #birds

Double-Jay action at the #warblerfall #birds

It is quite extraordinary that as a species we can say “oh this rock from a whole other star system is not getting near Earth. Luckily we have got robots on the planet next door that can do some astronomy for us!” 🤩 If only we lived to that potential in all things

Hey do I know anyone in board games? If hypothetically we were doing a board game to tie in with the feature film, we would need a designer/publisher in advance. Hit me up?

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

When you run a social media site for 40 million people: - You're responsible for their safety on the site - You don't get to have in-jokes - You don't get to decide "I'm just gonna goof around today instead" - You don't get points for "trying" Yeah, it's not "fun" now. But it's the job you have.

In safety and moderation, as in surgery, you don't get partial credit for "trying".

Well would you look that that, no diagnoses mentioned there, but an ADHDer, and three autistics saved the world and won WW2. No wonder fascists hate us so. And someone needs to explain to capitalists that letting us potter about in labs following our obsessions is what drives things forward.

Not to be overly dramatic but don't ever say what happened to Khashoggi can't happen here. We've had a lot of things happen here already that "can't happen here"

"We don't control what he's going to do" says Leader Thune as he literally tries to give Vought a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants. Don't let them gaslight you — Senate Republicans are complicit in everything coming out of this White House.

It's fascinating and revealing how many centrists think refusing to compromise on human rights to gain the support of bigots represents a "political purity test," yet also think that a bigot saying "I won't join you unless you accommodate my bigotry" does NOT represent a "political purity test."

New @edzitron.com swag just arrived. By the way, if you need a sweary British guy, who isn’t me, to explain The Case Against Generative AI in excellent detail, you should check out the latest few podcast episodes.

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

it is impossible to understate to anyone who didn't grow up with the PX as part of their life just how bad of an idea this is

rip 🫶

If you're here because you saw photos of me with a bloody face, they were probably his. Please help him replace his lens and continue doing his work if you're able!

"Why don't they just apply for citizenship?" This is a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the United States. But the pathway to American citizenship for the vast majority is long, complex, and financially draining.

Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social: We are not going to be complicit in taking away health care from Americans.

#DailyBird 🤖 Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens), 3rd August 2024 es: Pibí Oriental, fr: Pioui de L’Est Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Topsfield, Massachusetts Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 1120mm, 55% crop, 1/400s, f/14, ISO 6400 #Birds #EasternWoodPewee

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 Tufted Titmouse 2 Northern Cardinal 3 Blue Jay 4 Black-capped Chickadee 5 American Goldfinch 6 House Finch 7 Downy Woodpecker 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 9 Hairy Woodpecker 10 Cooper's Hawk #Birds #BirdsongDetection #HaikuBox

"We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator"

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

"We, the GOP, don’t want a shutdown, but that’s just how things go when you only control all three branches of government."

Democrats funded the government in March and the SCOTUS majority let him blow up the Department of Education anyway.

#Forbler Crisis! Another Fall #Warbler shows up on the trailcam. ID is eluding me (well, I have my suspicions…). Anyone want to offer a semi-confident ID? NE MA, 9/29/95 #birds #warblerFall

I knew, knew I had read something about finding away around this a month or two ago " The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. "

Trump and his cronies spent the day trying to blackmail Democrats into giving him a blank check for his lawlessness. It won’t work. We don’t bow to wannabe dictators who use the American people as bargaining chips.

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

As ADL is demonstrating, it’s not possible to be a little pro-fascist. They will always ask for more, always demand total support, and lash out at those who don’t give it. Always.

i know it's not the point, and i will acknowledge that 14 years *is* a pretty long time, but, man, the decline from this video to now is remarkable

So, can @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social possibly resist the chance to screw the country over by debasing himself to a racist?

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

"ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

let the gourd times roll

We have a cat who's scared shitless of everything but growls when he runs up the stairs to hide under the bed so you know how ferocious he is. Like that.

my parents raised me NOT to be a pants-pissing wimp, which i believe represents right and proper American values

anyhoo! Massachusetts residents! there are two proposed state laws which appear to be stuck in committee which would help protect our immigrant community:

“My jaw dropped when I read it,” says an SBA employee who asked to remain anonymous because they are not authorized to speak to the press. The employee says they worried that if someone actually used the email template, it “would be a blatant violation of the Hatch Act.” Read now:

#DailyBird 🤖 Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia), 12th May 2024 es: Reinita de Magnolia, fr: Paruline à Tête Cendrée Cape May Bird Observatory Northwood Center, Cape May, New Jersey Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 798mm, 20% crop, 1/320s, f/13, ISO 6400 #Birds

god, if you're depressed by the state of this country today, just imagine how Native and Black people have felt since it was founded 😂

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 Tufted Titmouse 2 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Northern Cardinal 4 American Goldfinch 5 House Sparrow 6 Downy Woodpecker 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 9 Blue Jay 10 Hairy Woodpecker #Birds #BirdsongDetection #HaikuBox

"forcing over 150,000 officers and nearly 50,000 members of the military to continue protecting our nation without pay" dunno, boys. your boss talks a lot about how rich he is. might be time for you to all go to his lawn together and ask him if he can cover you. fully suit up. he loves that shit.

Should someone tell this guy what job he has?

Nope, this is just not it. Weak and inadequate. End the interview or ask the actual hard question. Stop giving them free passes.