Elon Musk has promoted hateful conspiracies about liberals, immigrants, and Muslims being criminals, rapists, and "child grooming" gangs. Meanwhile, he has known that his father was allegedly abusing his own kids. It's all projection with MAGA. Always. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Donald Trump isn't just the stupidest American to become president; he's the stupidest American to become famous.

On my drunkest night as a young sailor in a foreign port of call...I was able to speak more clearly than Donald Trump.

wrong again. Michael Wilbon is right. we need to start calling out these MAGA assholes at every opportunity. www.yahoo.com/sports/artic...

I've known @SadiqKhan for over 30 yrs. He's a feminist, a socialist & an LGBTQ+ ally. I'm so proud he's our London mayor. For the record, he's as interested in introducing Sharia Law to London as I am - and that's 0%. Those who suggest otherwise are deluded, or have a v sinister agenda.

The love affair continues …

Rather than a resistance, the concept of an opposition is more comprehensive and durable. It recognizes that there are no time limits to the effort. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

Again, I note the huge overlap between 1) cancel culture terror about supposed totalitarian speech rules of the left, and 2) very rich, powerful men being enraged to discover that social media could be used to accuse them of the sex offences that they have in fact committed

This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!.....

Bad Faith : Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy (2024) m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sNr...

The Trump administration fired nearly 20 immigration judges this month alone – on top of the 80+ that have been fired this year. The move will likely make the backlog of immigration cases even worse. Trump’s agenda was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

Welcome back to #trilobitetuesday Here is another specimen of the trilobite Elrathia antiqauta. This comes from the Middle Cambrian (Drumian) Conasauga Formation in Floyd Co, Georgia.

As a matter of fact... I happened to be listening to KQED in July when they interviewed @vermontgmg.bsky.social (author of an excellent history of Watergate, writer of a very good newsletter on current politics) on this very question. www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

Kamala Harris should have been our 47th President.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Souvenir from Vermont now being read in Charleston SC. Highly recommend reading this gem.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

the rapture is a hilarious idea that the american protestants made up in the mid 19th century as a way for chickenshit losers to spare themselves the miserable horrors they liked imagining for other people skipping suffering??? NOT VERY CATHOLIC TBH

Disregarding decades of scientific study by the best minds on the plant and instead proclaiming vitamin supplements (that you also just happen to sell) as a "cure" for a complex spectrum of conditions is the LEAST surprising news from a government composed of social media gym bro wellness grifters.

There’s understandably been a lot of focus on the CDC lately, but I don’t anyone to miss the bad tidings from the EPA. -Scientists at the Office of Water have been ordered to stop publishing papers without review by a political appointee. -Office of Research and Development has been eliminated.

He wants Lisa Cook and Letitia James prosecuted because they’re powerful black women, make no mistake. He won’t release the Epstein Files because he knows he’s guilty. He’s also a convicted felon, but hateful white folks elected him anyway.

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Make it make sense. Autism was first discovered in 1911, and Tylenol was introduced in 1955.

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering here's what you need to know 🧵

Miles Davis’s trumpet solo on “Autumn Leaves” from the 1958 Cannonball Adderly album “Somethin’ Else” on Blue Note Records. This is my solo guitar interpretation this morning. It’s the first day of fall. A change is gonna come. 🍂

🚨Tonight, Moldovan President Maia Sandu warned of “grave and immediate danger” after police smashed a Kremlin-backed plot. NATO, citing drone swarms and airspace violations, warns Europe faces mounting risk of conflict with Russia. (no paywall) theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/moldova-st...

Let’s never get jaded about such things: The new US attorney for the Eastern District of VA has never prosecuted a case.

"When the right doesn't have power, they turn to appeals on principle. But when they do have it, those principles become an impediment, so they are discarded. How many Republicans have you heard talking about corruption or an independent judiciary or due process lately?" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

I didn’t watch and won’t, but today’s acetaminophen farce is exponentially worse than that infamous press conference about bleach and UV light, because of those who stand next to him they are destroying the institutions that made American science and medicine worthy of our hopes and trust

I’ve never eaten kale and I don’t have autism, so clearly kale causes autism.

I’m not taking medical advice from a man who can’t pronounce an over-the-counter drug…

The same guy who was addicted to heroin for 14 years – who works for a guy who has an *ongoing*, decades-long, severe cocaine and Adderall addiction – are both trying to tell you that Acetaminophen is bad for you. Don't believe them.

Does phenotypic plasticity promote (Baldwin effect) or hinder (Mayr) genetic adaptation? Lambert et al. mathematically show that when adaptive plasticity increases, the Baldwin effect increases, peaks then decreases as plasticity begins to mask selection. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I know this 4 months old, but bears reposting and reminding. We're dealing with a pro-death, Eugenics movement. I say that without hyperbole. Just trust the evidence of your eyes and ears. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM8pXJFB/ There is not a drop or micron of American wealth that is not owed in some fashion to the abuse of slavery. Period.

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Goebbles or Miller?

This ought to be engraved somewhere.