She doesn't know what the plan is.

Lick Observatory's 36" Great Refractor was commissioned in 1880 and has been operating at its California site since 1888.

Hooooboy is he in trouble now. -- man, who has learned nothing in the past 9 years.

Has Nicki Minaj announced her residency at the Trump-Kennedy Center this spring yet?

Fall Out Boy's cover/update of "We Didn't Start The Fire" offers up a whole new list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkV...

More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...

I think what we are not realizing, since we do still have a free press, we are watching live what usually happens unknown or via rumors in most authoritarian governments - Argentina's junta, the USSR, all did such things, but it was hidden - in the USA, the same things occur and get reported live

Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.

In keeping with the theme, Trump-class Battleships will be plated in gold and outfitted with three-inch guns.

When I'm President I'm going create a cavalry and cannon brigade and name it after myself.

Read Ramswamy's latest book, "The Leopards have Eaten My Face."

Here is a sitting president, visibly aging, increasingly erratic, increasingly insulated, moving not to secure policy victories or build durable coalitions, but to weld his name onto a federal memorial while he still can. This all reads like legacy panic. Healthy leaders don't do this. ~Mary Geddry

Why is this even on television when the answer is, this is "Victim Blaming"?

I will repeat my offer to make a contribution to a mutually acceptable charity in the name of the reporter who asks Trump how you get drug prices down 600% bsky.app/profile/atru...

What pisses me off is, I sound like I'm engaging in hyperbole. I'm not. What Elizabeth Jacobs describes is straight-up useless torture of human beings, to no scientific purpose whatsoever. Nazi-doctor shit, is what RFK Jr is doing.

The United States has entered the Nazi-doctor era, where RFK Jr has ordered useless "experiments" on powerless human beings, which will predictably result in - for them - suffering, disease and death.

When the leopard has eaten your face. Vivek Ramaswamy: "Groyperism isn't Conservativism. It's Anti-Americanism." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

People who stay in the US beyond their VISA, ain't no big deal, no matter how long. 2 days, 30 years, not a big deal.

All hat. No cattle.

Part of the Civil Rights Movement was a dignity claim that when you are in public you have a right to be spoken to in a neutral manner. Hamilton v. Alabama. This service worker may hate to serve me Cinnabons, but it is part of her job to serve every customer in the same manner.

I saw "Wicked: For Good" yesterday. It's kind of killing me that they didn't get Ari to do a full version of "I'm Not That Girl". Cynthia's version is a total slay. In fact, I think the two movies together never made full use of her singing talents, and I would have loved to hear more of it.

BREAKING: Judge Blocks ICE From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

good to see, since society must discourage baldfaced lying (especially by authorities) to keep functioning. some other consequences to go along with this would be even better

Prometheus, Found! www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

No matter where Egypt plays Iran in Group Gay, we will make it a World Cup Pride Match - www.outsports.com/2025/12/10/2...

It's kind of late now, but it's a shame nobody thought to commission a water slide park from Frank Gehry.

Fortunately we have other institutions - Congress, the Supreme Court, state governments, legal societies, newspapers and media, citizens civil rights group - who can all stand up against oh wait I'm being told that none of those are operative anymore.

There have already been mass job losses from AI. The largest 15 tech companies have dropped hiring of new college graduates, by 50% btwn 2019 and 2024 - and 25% of that was in the year 2023-2024. That's mass job losses; and not just job losses, but career losses.

It's bananas to me that the Supreme Court is hearing that argument and responding, "Yeah, that seems about right. The Founding Fathers totally intended to create a tyrannical President."

The Commander-in-Sleep The Nod Father The Anti-Woke Chief Executive

One of my Irish 3rd great grandparents (Anthony Geran, Sr, 1818-1895) would definitely have been deported by ICE by now. Born in Cork, he arrived in New York in 1843. He worked on the Erie Canal (near Amsterdam in the Mohawk Valley), where he registered his intent to naturalize in 1844.

One of my Irish 3rd great grandparents (Anthony Geran, Sr, 1818-1895) would definitely have been deported by ICE by now. Born in Cork, he arrived in New York in 1843. He worked on the Erie Canal (near Amsterdam in the Mohawk Valley), where he registered his intent to naturalize in 1844.

After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs. "If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos." By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

oh my god

36 years ago, these women were murdered at l’école Polytechnique in Montreal, because a crazed madman could not accept that these women were studying to become engineers. #NeverAgain

Go ahead - read this @nytimes.com headline again, and then form an idea about what it means. I'll wait.

New in PN: A war criminal without a war "We’re watching the flimsy justifications fall apart in real time. They can try to shift the blame. They can try to say that people clinging to wreckage for dear life are somehow an active threat. But in the end, it’s just murder."

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

I'd like to take this opportunity to announce that I will be awarding the World Cup Trophy of Football in 2026, probably to New Zealand. Congratulations, New Zealand!

If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin. A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.

Now that a global athletic organization has awarded a Peace Prize to Donald Trump - what other completely inappropriate organizations can offer what completely undeserved awards to Donald Trump? Hilarious answers only. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

Hobbits seem to be a cross between an Ewok and an Irishman.

The way he speaks about Somalis reminds me of how, when my Irish and Italian ancestors arrived in the United States, people who were already here used to talk about them - with bigotry and hatred. We can do better.

We have to pay attention to the details of what the Trump regime is doing to people -- even when the details make us feel the full horror, *because* the details make us feel the full horror. heidi-says.ghost.io/when-reading...

Thanks to Jon Husted and Senate Republicans voting against ACA tax credit extensions, roughly 107,000 Ohioans will lose health insurance, and over 500,000 will see costs increase

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