Why go to the bother of investigating current events when you can simply regurgitate propaganda pablum instead?

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This is a the opening of the pulp wave hitting public domain, the bedrock that things we more readily recognize are built on is here. If you’ve spent any time reading Campbell’s work and those he curated, you know what you’re in for. Indiana Jones is clean and very unproblematic by comparison.

so old i remember an entire summer where obama had to distance himself from jeremiah wright. i dont think the msm has ever once asked trump or vance about yarvin.

Not Somali.

Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

DOGE went down in disgrace Trump’s federal troop deployment was kneecapped Censorship and persecution of Trump’s enemies are failing Trump’s economic policies are politically disastrous The White House’s redistricting push is a wash at best ...+ 5 more: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Drive Responsibly this New Years! Be Safe out there. #NewYearsEve #HappyNewYear #SuperTroopers

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier. newrepublic.com/article/2026...

The harshness of the first full day back to work after the holidays. Oof. 😓

The forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement | I discussed my book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, with @ethanelkind.bsky.social of @npr.org / @kalwradio.bsky.social #YourCall radio: www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

"It cannot possibly be completed on the schedule Trump announced. I’ll go a step further: It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware."

That awkward liminal time between hotel checkout and cruise ship check-in. 😅

White men are 30% of the population. They are also: - 98% of presidents - 90% of CEOs - 90% of billionaires - 80% of Congress Forever oppressed.

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

If you were wondering whether that kind of chaos ever reaches land, bourbon country has your answer. Jim Beam announced it will halt production at its main Kentucky distillery for all of 2026. The official line is “site enhancements” and “volume assessments,” which is

From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”

surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives

I once read that Reber's mom (née Harriet Grote, hence Reber's unusual first name) would hang laundry to dry on the supports of the radio telescope. Did your father ever report having to dodge damp sheets?

Radio engineer, amateur astronomer, and Chicagoan Grote Reber was born #OTD in 1911. After reading about Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of galactic radio emissions, he built a 9m radio telescope *in his back yard* and carried out the first radio survey of the sky. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 📡 Image: NRAO

Portland woman testifies that police lied about ICE activity in Oregon when 12 to 15 agents surrounded her vehicle, and she called 911 for help on December 10th. "I have a question for the police. If you refuse to do your job, are you prepared for us to do it for you?"

Not ever calling the Gulf of Mexico anything other than that either, FYI.

McDonald’s USA — Employee: $15/hr, no benefits — Big Mac: $5.79 McDonald’s Denmark — Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension — Big Mac: $5.49 Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

The Trump admin intends to dismantle the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), one of the US' leading weather and climate research institutions. We must urge Congress to halt this dangerous action immediately. 🔗Take action: act.ucsusa.org/4oWtCwz

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

This is 100% infuriating.

218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits. If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.

Or just move them to a minimum security Club Fed and give them a puppy and yoga classes.

Mordor, she wrote

#ArtAdventCalendar Sombrero nebula Hand-drawn, digital #space

The state of America in 2025.

Thoughts and prayers to all you anti-gay conservative Christian men, like Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham.

From @pabloreports.bsky.social : “Were you satisfied with the answers you got in the classified Venezuela briefing?” 🔥 Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “OH HELL NO. That was a joke. That was not a serious intelligence briefing, it was the communication of opinion.”

The RFK, jr effect.

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Rediscovered @unamandita.bsky.social ‘s delightful 2016 article “Everyone’s a Little Bit ‘Shapist’”—featuring a project by Nicky Case—while prepping for a math graphics talk. So good. Great to have an excuse to read it again. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visu... 📊 #sciart 🧪

Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy. Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment. 🧪🌍🌱🐝 phys.org/news/2025-12... #pollinators

This is how we create CAR-T cells, harnessed by the body's own immune system to kill #cancer cells in leukemia/lymphoma patients. T cells are harvested from the patient, activated then injected back to go on a killing spree. Thank #NIH funding for this development. 🧪via @tomasz.grzywa on IG

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Truly the airport gods have smiled upon me as my arrival gate is adjacent to my departure gate at Hartsfield. Usually my connections there aren’t even in the same time zone.

ICE PEPPER SPRAYED A ONE-YEAR-OLD because her mother was filming them.