Former U-Va. president blasts DOJ, board for ‘forced resignation’

Wild. They are figuring out how to store electricity in ... concrete.

Holy shit. This company claims it has developed an air-source heat pump with a COP of *7* (3-5 is considered good). For you non-nerds, that basically means it produces 7 units of heat for every unit of electricity it consumes. How are they doing it? You're not gonna like this answer, but: it's AI.

This I can get behind.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

In the United States, we are witnessing: ☑️ Sanctions against ICC judges and prosecutors ☑️ Attacks on academic institutions ☑️ Targeting of philanthropic human rights organizations These attacks mirror the signs of repression we have documented in other countries. hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...

Just when I think he can't make my skin crawl any worse...

Read that last sentence again. A judge to a Border Patrol leader.

"Alleged link to autism" = the basis of a lawsuit in a world where countless medical researchers and scientists have been thrown out of their jobs and the CDC has been gutted. So hey. Just sue away over every little assumption you wish were true! There will be prizes!

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...

Please understand that the Trump regime is dehumanizing Democrats the same way the Nazis dehumanized Jews. Trump is laying the groundwork to arrest, imprison and even kill us. History is warning us that is where we are heading.

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho. One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire. 25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage. This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts. Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts. Remember this.

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

20 Lessons on Tyranny John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder 10 minutes of pure universal wisdom www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

Understand this properly. The tax cut the millionaire is getting is basically immaterial, or at least marginally insignificant to the millionaire… but it’s devastating to the four people losing health care

Chris Murphy: "In a different era, maybe just asking for a minor adjustment in health care tax credit policy would be enough. But it’s not a normal time. If you don’t mount a stand right now on behalf of democracy, there won’t be another opportunity."

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight. But consider this... Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending. Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Trump is now gloating about meeting with Russ Vought of "PROJECT 2025 Fame" to apparently determine which "Democrat Agencies" he wants to cut during a shutdown. Remember when Trump denied knowing about the authoritarian playbook and many pundits and politicians gave him a pass?

Well put

13yo boys. All these guys. Their emotional & intellectual development stopped at 13. They want big bangs & cool boom booms that make them feel vicarious thrills, like on TV.

What @volts.wtf says is spot on. The easy solution was not to let him win again. Now that we’ve given the idiot cosplayers the keys to the control room, it’s really hard to defend against their destruction. It was disappointing on 2016 that people didn’t take the scotus threat seriously, and…

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Who's got the power? Jimmy Kimmel's "return from suspension" pulled 4x his usual audience—despite 25% of ABC affiliate blocking the show.. His monologue has pulled 26M views—so far. (You know what to do.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Just this.

So fucking creepy and soviet.

I refuse to add Groyper to my personal lexicon by discovering what it means. I refuse it with all that values sanity within me. This is NOT a call to inform me. I'm already dealing with the horror of finding out who Charlie Kirk was.

The whole 'debate me' act is bullshit, from Charlie Kirk or any other right winger. It's theater to platform hate and give them an audience. The humanity and right to live their lives in peace of our fellow Americans - LGBTQ folks, people of color, women - ARE NOT LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR 'DEBATE'.

I wasn't going to say anything, but I keep seeing stuff like this -- dickhead right-wingers threatening anyone who besmirches their hero. Well, I have no boss they can tattle on and I could give two shits about establishment pundit scolding, so I'll just say ...

"Motivated only by bad faith." Imagine if political journalists could speak this clearly!

In a metaphor that was too on-the-nose, there was a military flyover in Washington, D.C. that drowned out Epstein survivors who were speaking out. I'm happy to report they persisted.

The most succinct thesis of Nintendo I've ever seen. Tamaki was one of the leads in charge of the Wii console experience. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth. Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community. hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...

Science: Trump supporters are assholes.

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This is a very good question to which we will never get an honest answer.

There is no legal or political system that can hold together a culture that has lost all sense of public morality or shame.

Insightful. Perfectly valid “you are in our house follow our rules” assertion, met with childish and unnecessary insults from an ice agent. FFS

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

The overemphasis on individual behavior change has been a net negative in real climate solutions.

Here, Bob Odenkirk (in a pod with Mike Birbiglia) says something I have been thinking about *so much* the last few years but I never, ever hear expressed in public. Lord, hearing it said aloud just made me burst into tears. (Yes I'm fine why do you ask.) Starts at 39:00.

Trump must hate it that you can actually watch the WNBA on ESPN

this feels, to me at least, like a real lesson of the last five or so years. not to say there won't be consequences for just 'doing the thing.' but like, broadly speaking it at least *feels* like there are no rules, no long attention spans, and plenty of people are just making their own reality

This from @samlmontano.bsky.social is so vividly true: "If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone."