This is genuinely important. The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald. They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.

"I love the poorly educated," Trump declared in 2016. A decade later, MAGA has manifested that love into policy. They're purging scientists from govt; defunding R&D; and blocking the best & brightest from around the world from studying, teaching, working, or founding businesses in the United States.

I know it’s been said a million times but it’s pretty funny how many short king steroid comedians with corny ass manchild tattoos called themselves free speech warriors right up until the moment free speech was actually under attack.

White House with image of a Black man and an emoji of chains. And the chosen image is of Don Lemon doing journalism.

Preach it, sister!

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

"On Tesla’s earnings call on Wednesday, Musk laid out a literal replacement of Tesla cars by robots – announcing Tesla would discontinue the Model S and Model X in favor of making more of its Optimus robots." lol

It's a good thing Trump doesn't believe in "affordability" because his decision to cancel five major offshore wind projects is going to cost east coast ratepayers on the order of *$45 billion* over the next 10 years.

This is the CDC map for homicide rates by state for the most recent year on their website. Gov. Landry, who leads one of the states in the nation with the highest murder rate, is on television chiding Minnesota, one of the states with the lowest murder rates.

"… the US needs to rise above the raw power politics that has come to dominate the country’s relationship with China and recognize that all scientific knowledge is a public good, whatever its national origin," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/3Z1zmLc

Now THIS is how you do anti-ICE messaging: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNRC...

(2) "We are moving to targeted enforcement of aliens with a criminal history;" "This includes arrests, not just convictions. ALL TARGETS MUST HAVE A CRIMINAL NEXUS." www.reuters.com/world/ice-of...

Yes to this. And also just for fun the Mi’kmaq rebuttal historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5828

Like what the fuck do you mean vanilla comes from a tiny pocket of Veracruz Mexico? What do you mean potatoes, tomatoes, squash, chili peppers are ALL new world foods and yet European scholars of the era believed in New World Degeneracy theory?

This is extra important. Don’t believe me? We were able to track the detailed movements of US military and intelligence personnel in Germany to suspected NSA facilities, their homes, brothels, etc using data collected by mobile ad data likely from dumb apps www.wired.com/story/phone-...

Shout-out to PowerPoint for flagging the word "bespoke" as too difficult for my presumably idiot audience.

rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people

Anthropic execs in 2024: '“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”' wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Signal will never message you like this. If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL. DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

SF: City of predators

Hilariously, a coyote walked behind a San Francisco reporter as she was doing a segment on the mountain lion. 🤣

Within a 24 hour period ICE agents caused an international incident by breaking into the Ecuadorian consulate, and US embassy staff in Copenhagen went around demanding local police pull down memorial flags to fallen Danish soldiers near the consulate. Rabies as foreign policy.

Everyone should get the fuck off the CSAM machine. But you'll miss this frankly scintillating content. "I majored in Ancient Greek and Latin at Dartmouth. Your pretentiousness merely underscores your utter lack of street cred."

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

The state of our modern world: we were offered cars like this and overwhelming chose white crossover SUVs instead.

Exactly. If you have to tell people how hard-core you are … you’re not hard-core.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

So initial experiments with Open AI's vibe-coding science tool Prism are going about as well as expected.

“Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, pushes that analogy himself. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering,” So, a very painful lesson in “oh shit it can’t actually do that after all?”

One reasonable way to look at this is that Abbott is working to make Texas universities regional institutions rather than world-class ones. He does not want them competing for the most talented researchers.

McLaughlin: "You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

Reminder that the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail editorial pages exhibit a human version of what AI calls "model collapse"—if you feed a language model its own output its output rapidly deteriorates into self-parody. The owners of the right-wing press read their own media and it rotted their brains.

once again when i tweeted this years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

Holy shit, I made a Downfall meme back when we were renegotiating our CBA that went pretty viral, but this is brilliant. It’s fantastic all the way through, and then the last three seconds sent me into orbit.

In case anyone forgot, this administration had already prohibited public funding of mRNA vaccine research. Moderna was one of the single biggest private funders of mRNA vaccine research. This will set us back decades.

Moderna CEO says Trump’s policies have so curtailed vaccine market they won’t be investing in new research. So that’s awesome. Good luck when the next pandemic hits. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fWErMy/

Honestly it's one of the most underrated features of the coordinated conservative propaganda machine: they can do stuff like make gay marriage the number one social issue in American politics for 10 years in a row, then, as soon as the polling turns, completely abandon it, and the base just forgets!

It is important to know that despite its prominence TikTok loses billions of dollars and tweaking algorithms lays havoc to your ad sales. Oracle is gonna destroy this thing and it’s going to combine with the data center debt and consume it whole www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

Remember the Bundy insanity during the Obama years? Armed guys occupied a federal office and one of their buddies took position with a sniper rifle aimed at federal agents? Exactly how many of those guys were shot and killed?

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

TW ⚠️ The stabilized version is brutal.