Autumn sunlight is the fuel for a lot of feels

the hegseth angry post is 500x funnier when you realize he's such a meathead he thinks a captain in the navy is the same rank as a captain in the army (army: o-3 navy: o-6 hegseth: o-4)

Hi, scientist here: This statement from the Trumpers at CDC is not how scientific truth works. This is a Merchants of Doubt rhetorical trick. No study can prove a negative. Scientific evidence shows vaccines do not cause autism. 🧪

A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood. Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work. [source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...

It just struck me that my TV is, like, 11.5 years old, and... it's totally fine?

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

So, this totally works to help with your ears after flying

Today marks 15 years since the release of Fallout: New Vegas. Since 2010, players have explored the Mojave Wasteland where countless Couriers have walked the same road—each carving their own story. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the game alive all these years. Viva New Vegas. 🎲

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

This definitely got my attention.

If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Hey fellow Californians, please take 3 minute to call and encourage the Governor to sign SB 79. It's a critical step forward for housing, for climate and for equity. (916) 445-2841

So I guess Neverwinter Nights 2 got a remaster, and I'm only just now hearing about this?

i'm kind of with will here. one of the *strangest* features of this age is that nominally liberal elites seem totally enervated in the face of fascism--meanwhile the liberal base is screaming our heads off. this doesn't comport at all with the standard story--

This video is fantastic and absolutely true. We're going to get to some of this later in the series on peasants but the time-labor demand of 'household chores' before ten seconds ago was enormous. One 1900 report put the average food prep per week per woman at 44 hours; another 14 hours on laundry.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

By now you've heard that native-born employment is up by millions, according to the jobs report, right? Not true. Not conceivably true. That analysis is a multiple-count data felony -- as Census and BLS warn. I took a long romp through the details. jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.

The price level from all 2025 tariffs rises by 1.8% in the short-run, an average per household income loss of $2,400 in 2025$, assuming no Fed reaction & full consumer passthrough. The post-substitution price increase settles at 1.5%, a $2,000 loss per household. 3/10

Tariffs are a regressive tax, especially in the short-run. The short-run burden on 1st decile households (as a % of income) is >3x that of the top decile (-3.4% versus -1.0%). The average annual cost to the 1st & top decile are $1,300 & $4,900 respectively; median is $2,200. 4/10

Underreported trade news of the day is that Trump announced that the 15% tariffs on the EU would include pharmaceuticals that have thus far been exempt from tariffs If tariffs on pharma go up 15% this week it'd be a *massive* escalation of the trade war—the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU

When you strip away humanity

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

The Republican administration has handed almost every federal agency to someone ignorant of its purpose and antagonistic to its existence. They are removing Chesterton's fences at every turn, with disastrous consequences. Here, Kristi Noem fired disaster call center contractors *during* the flood.

freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Trump's 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports would hit ~$42B goods, including 75% of pig iron imports, 30% of juice imports, 20% of coffee imports, & 10% of aircraft imports—ridiculous to make this stuff more expensive, especially since so much of it *literally can't grow here*

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Grok is doing something weird again. it's constantly mentioning Gavin Newsom and his legislation unprompted, making me think that Elon is messing with its programming again & chewing on wires to make it give his talking points around Newsom and bringing him up unprompted again like w "k*ll the Boer"

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

People die doing this every year. Never launch fireworks off your body.

Re Zohran’s grocery store plans- the government already runs discount grocery stores ALL OVER THE WORLD. They are called commissaries and they are on every US military base. No one has ever had a problem with their existence

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Nexus Mods, one of the primary hosts for modding, was just acquired by what is probably a Web3 VC company. Download the mods you like now, I guess.

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

Yesterday, I met with a 12 year old boy in Oxnard, CA. His mom and dad have been fieldworkers for over 20 years. ICE agents snatched his parents from the fields and left this boy alone with no clue when he’ll see them again. A 6th grader.

“I just saw 17 million deaths from COVID vaccines in 18 months” would be funny if this guy wasn’t now the gatekeeper of all vaccines Americans can get from now on

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

My office is closely monitoring the situation with ICE activity in the area. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with your rights. If you have specific questions about your situation, contact your lawyer.

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.