In which a man responsible for the deaths of 600,000 so far, mostly children, whines about an octogenarian novelist's observation (which she says was about ultrafiche men in general, not the whiner in particular).

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"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.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Nancy Pelosi is retiring the right way. by Ezra Klein

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

new road markings just dropped or, they dropped, broke, then someone tried to fix them My main question is: Who do they think these were these made for?

heading to FB to remind myself what the average voter thinks

@profhicks.bsky.social's maps of Indiana counties' varied relationships with federal transfer payments: 1) % of income from transfer payments (social security, SS disability, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, etc) 2) SNAP alone 3) Medicaid 4) Effective fed tax rate (+/- a mirror of #1)

In many Swedish libraries, you can borrow an "energy bag." ⚡️ These are packed with easy-to-use tools to help people understand and improve their home's #energyefficiency. 🏡 A great way to save #energy & money while making homes healthier & comfortable 👇 app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/b7162e...

A beautiful day in Chicago is interrupted by Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo cruising the neighborhood, looking for people to assault and kidnap. 😳👇

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

A good link to send to your local NIMBYs: this study finds that installing wind turbines *increases* local property values.

This is remarkable. Four giant dams on the Klamath River along the CA-Oregon border were taken down last year. This year, salmon migrated all the way to the river headwaters, a 300-mile journey from the Pacific to central Oregon, for the first time since 1909. A fantastic success.

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

The New York Times, ladies and gentlemen

The brain damage done by the right wing reaction to Covid mandates is permanent. I just listened to a patient lay into a charge nurse for wearing a mask, in a hospital. He's immuno-comp from cancer treatments and this woman is mad he's wearing a mask around her.

is that an african or european gull?

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month. But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Turns out you can just capture mated queen ants and start a colony in a test tube.

Any #Entomology nerds know if Ichneumon's are attracted to sawdust/newly exposed wood, or is it a n=3 coincidence I'm experiencing? This weekend I was building a ladder, creating sawdust, and an Ichneumon was quite curious...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay! www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

NEW from me: At Charlie Kirk's memorial, religion and MAGA politics combine —> religionnews.com/2025/09/22/a...

I looked into public school teaching a couple years ago. I'd have to start at the bottom of the ladder with the recent college grads. Health insurance premiums (family, $6K deduct) were 1/4 of the pre-tax salary. Adj for inflation, salary was less than existing ICE signing bonuses.

Here's a clip from one of the church services — i.e., Prestonwood Baptist in Texas. Reminder: As the pastor, Jack Graham, makes clear, this is not an actual clip of Charlie Kirk. He never said these words. This is an entirely AI-generated fabrication that, nonetheless, garners a standing ovation.

Colbert should just let Jimmy Kimmel do his show for one night and say what he wanted to say.

I read the abstract my work here is done

While you have First Amendment rights, free speech is not unlimited. Certain categories of speech are strictly prohibited by the US government: -incitement of violence -defamation -child pornography -counterfeiting -any form of criticism or mockery of Charlie Kirk, specifically

Interesting... #EnergySky

Paging @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

What I felt I needed to tell my class today about the murder of Charlie Kirk and the need for civil discourse. I wish I could've said more, but could not. michaeljhicks.substack.com/p/words-to-m...

If the composition of the char on a grilled hot dog were listed in the ingredients, it would be illegal to sell because of high levels of nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which are both banned as carcinogens in the EU and US. Weird!

I guess this is an example of the theory of change behind the IRA being correct at least in some cases: Mike Jonson supports a wind project tanked by the Trump regime because it brings economic and military benefits to a Republican district. 1/2 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny

Friday usually has good energy anyway, but how can you possibly top an Ichneumonid Friday? Perfect. 5,000 varieties of just this kind of wasp in N. America alone... thousands more awaiting our discovery.

a solution in search of a problem restaurant menus were fine, actually

Found another use for this ... topping off a dead 12V battery.

Okay, 3 days later, an incomplete list of Trump admin policy with direct connections to making electricity more expensive. 1. Passage of the OBBB, which stripped tax credits from wind and solar (wind, solar, batteries are now ~90% of the interconnection queue) www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...