Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Whoa (now M7.0)

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

These are the same people who are too performatively afraid to go into any city, which is a particular stripe of their dogged cognitive dissonance and vice signaling I enjoy.

#AI slop and straight up fraud and grift is destroying AI research... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

*hand to earpiece* Okay, I’ll allow it.

Always remember your “fuck you make me-s.” When you see a bully, challenge a bully!

Tom Clancy’s Sarcophagus Down

It’s true

I don’t want Netflix to own Warner Bros. I don’t want the only restaurant I eat at to be Taco Bell.

(Gift link next skeet)

Buy your national park annual pass this month—good until December ‘26–so you don’t have to carry this monomaniacal’s petty insistence in your wallet next year.

the continued successful writing careers of post-left sex pests, aggressive assholes, and labor abusers will never not be depressing to me lol

I am so <redacted 💣> casual, permissive, and systemic patriarchal misogynist views and violence.

these gross fucks. just scum.

Nephew the Younger is wrapping up his undergrad news anchor internship and y’all, he’s so surprisingly good at news anchoring. The man exudes credible rizz. I cannot; I’m so proud.

We've heard so much about the DOGE raids but have very little physical evidence of what they were actually like. It's weird to be able to see an instance of it actually happening—the mundanity of it all. how the cops were jovially complicit.

When someone who is an inveterate and dog-with-a-bone argues meets a chatbox onhere, amazing things happen.

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

Counterpoint: The Supreme Court lacks the authority to change the text of the Constitution. So either it affirms the text or (further, and more completely) nukes its authority as Constitutional arbiter. There’s no third option. Art III (courts) can’t just usurp Art V (amendments).

The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy. Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality. John Roberts > Roger Taney. Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.

Everyone with their own little larp outfit. Grab your khakis and tacticool we’re going terrorizing.

My hottest take for Galloway’s pivot to manosphere is it’s a safe haven for people who refuse to, nay can’t, shut up, and also tech understanding is teetering and he’s being so nimble ahead of that.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Fondly remembering how the foundational story of SEAL heroism was told by a survivor found with completely full magazines.

Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this

Impeachment -and- removal and jail and jail for his cronies and total ostracization for the pundits and chatterers who helped ease their way. Bring me the show trials! for we sure needed them.

yeah, i can't think of many people who became *better* by living through this era. we all mostly got worse bsky.app/profile/yung...

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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

This, among millions of other reasons, is why any attempt to meet transphobes in the middle was always a form of abandoning trans people. Like immigrant demonization, any attempt at all to give any credence to right wing talking points was always just ammunition for the right wing.

Bit on the nose, Pantone.

It's fascinating but makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Because like, to be a Black or Latino Republican, there's gotta be something drawing you to the party that hates you, and "they hate the people I hate" is a pretty logical one.

2/ As long as this short post is getting some attn, here I explain why there is no saving the American Republic without reforming the Court and breaking the hold of the corrupt six Republican appointees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

So I see thanks to SCOTUS that Texas will never go purple much less blue, continued stellar work, Team Roberts.

I like that everyone is already conspiracy maxxing this. Seems fine and normal, healthy for society, all that.

I can't even speak on how angry I am that we've spent years trying to get a biography of an important trans woman picked up by publishers but this ethics- and talent-free incurious child had the entire media and publishing world just throwing money and attention at her

BPPV — take it from me kids, not even once

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Pondering My Lab’orbu

I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.

If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to why don’t you go where fashion sits Pickin up the ritz

Make them fire you and insist on hearings about it, four-star admiral!

Tomorrow 24 humanitarian volunteers face 20 years in prison in a Greek court for saving lives at sea. One, Seán Binder, grew up in my local town, Castlegregory, Kerry. #SolidarityIsNotACrime #StandWithSeán #DropTheCharges #FreeHumanitarians #NotMyEurope #speirgorm www.politico.eu/article/sean...

The answer, in terms of 'what the Average Joe do to combat the attempts to oust trans people from society' is to just start new clubs that are renamed the inclusive womens institute, and let their crusty old clubs die with their members.