“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey CNN why are the gas prices on this photo so low? Ohhhh. I see. You're hoping no one notices this photo is from before the internet fucking existed. You shitheads.

Wait, they are... still landing planes?

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

A frog just defeated ICE. Somewhere Pepe is crying.

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines. While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

Hubble's "Var!" observation established that there are other galaxies outside the Milky Way, that a whole Universe exists outside our lonely little island of stars. (10/10)

Here's a thread on Henrietta Swan Leavitt from back in July, which explains her work. Her period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variable stars is an essential rung on the cosmic distance ladder that allows us to measure distances to distant objects. (8/n)

Here's another view of the star, with Hubble tracking its brightness over a 40 day period. (7/n) Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Project; Acknowledgment: Robert Gendler

About 15 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at M31 to record an image of the star. Here's an Earth-based photo of the galaxy with insets showing the region imaged by HST, and the region covered by the "Var!" plate. (6/n) Image: R. Gendler, NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Here is a blink comparator of the two plates, a gif that switches back and forth with a 1 second interval between the frames, cropped to show the region with the Cepheid variable. Do you think you would have spotted it? (4/n)

VAR! In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star. Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Image: Carnegie Observatories

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Imagine being armed to the literal teeth and back by a small army and you are scared by a person dressed as a frog. Youre fucking pathetic

Love that I've seen ICE's 'promo' videos where they play at Black Hawk down in their helicopters - and then this counter video depicting one person in an inflatable frog costume scaring the bejesus out of them.

wizard frog is insane

Sara Kempa, The New Yorker

I also got what i originally went to Etsy for

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

Democrats need to do more to reach out to the “Michelle Obama saying kids should eat broccoli is tyranny, but using the 82nd Airborne to deal with 50 protesters in Portland is just plain common sense” voters.

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

The great irony here is that Vance’s entire identity is built around a rejection of WASPs and their social/cultural values, upon which our entire political system is based. He is the problem that he is trying to solve.

Where are those "free speech warriors" who misleadingly insisted Biden was censoring people now that the Trump admin is openly doing so?

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

Leaving aside the southern governors who used state police to undermine civil rights orders, during the Flint sit-down strikes of 1937 Michigan Gov. Frank Murphy called out the National Guard to defend strikers even after a federal court order called for them to be evicted from the factory.

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)

But somehow Trump not just breaking a promise but intentionally misrepresenting his entire extremist, revolutionary agenda to absolutely devastate and reconfigure US government is treated as, more or less, Trump Just Being Trump.

If a Democrat promised to, say, not raise taxes, and then entered office and signed a bill that raised taxes, the media would freak out - "Will President Harris's broken promise doom her in 2028?"

The main lesson that Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams et al can impart to us is that there's no profit in doing a ton of research, thinking hard about the topics you cover, and obsessively refining your prose. Those things are only going to cost you professionally.

I'm DC Draino. I'm Catturd2. I'm Laura Loomer. And I'm Lara Logan. This....is 60 MInutes.

The arc of the media universe apparently bends toward the sewer.

It took 20 years to go from Dan Rather to Bari Weiss.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Here's a video I made of Sam Altman as a World War 2 leader in an Axis uniform

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

It really should not go unremarked that Mike Johnson *just admitted that the President of the United States is unwell.*

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Riding in a Kia EV and the screen is showing video ads next to the music controls! WTAF? Is this street legal?