The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here. FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement. So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵‍💫

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

This is just utter madness

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Holiday drink... gimlet with home grown limes

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

Criminals increasingly concerned about being held accountable for crimes www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...

I get this feeling that it's only a matter of time before he puts a journalist in jail for rubbing him the wrong way

Happy Sunday everyone!

Just had back to back ads with Heidi Gardner. I guess she has found her calling after SNL

"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...

So many questions

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

motivations and politics aside, moderate democrats must suck at strategic board games

“I did not kill the president. The doctors did that. I merely shot him.” —Charles J. Guiteau, charged with the death of President James A. Garfield, 1882 Let’s get into it. 🧵⬇️

I worked here for many years. This is a sad day. And more details here... www.space.com/space-explor...

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

This will be the 1st time in MLB history that a season started and ended outside the USA The Dodgers will participate in both

I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment

This game has been nuts! I will definitely sleep in tomorrow which is today

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points. On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

I’m sure they will use their <checks notes> $71million worth of weaponry in a safe and responsible way and that no one should be at all concerned about this

No Kings Feces

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance. www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Went to Deising's Bakery today. Unfortunately they no longer make the John Oliver cake.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Do federal employees work during a shutdown?

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

Playing neal.fun/not-a-robot/ and having a hell of a time

Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.

As someone who booed him at a WS game in 2019, I hope there is a repeat performance

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

On this day 44 yrs ago (Aug 29 1981) the New York Times editorialised "7 scientists from NASA claim to have found evidence that C02 has already been warming the Earth for a century. They predict it will produce ”unprecedented” warming in the next century." 1/n allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/28/a...

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

If someone freelancing for a major donor did this during the Biden administration not only would Joe Biden have been impeached and removed from office but the person who did this and everyone who facilitated it would be facing +25 years in federal prison.

Timeline cleanser. 0:53 to 1:38 is pure, undiluted joy.

I will not authorize the use of the Maryland National Guard for any mission that isn’t mission critical or mission aligned. Full stop.