"Brushed by a car"

The bug guys had a cancellation today and the nest has now been treated. Woo-hoo!

Can we please return the “ic” to “Democrat”

This is the least of the issues with Bari I know but I’m also just struck by the fact that she’s always been a pundit? Like never done a day of actual reporting in her life?

For some reason this story of a judge who was criticized for ruling against Trump having her house burned down is not the biggest story in the country? It's almost like wild speculation about left-wing terrorism is newsworthy but any speculation about right-wing terrorism is not.

Left-wing terrorism is out of control

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

So AFAIK I only have one of these little buggers in my house at the moment and it has been dying a slow death in my dining room since Saturday. I have not tried to kill it because I don't want to get stung and it's barely moving at this point. But right now I can see it and it's kind of unnerving.

mac has arrived with a brand new MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 unfortunately it seems like he forgot what he was going to say

The biggest takeaway from this chart is that most people the New York Times treats as legal experts were wrong about Trump Term 2 because they were too complacent, and rather than question that broader complacency and talk to people who got it right, NYT will continue treating them as go-to experts.

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

One thing I beg of everyone as Bari Weiss's new position becomes official: please do not call her mediocre. That is an insult to mediocrity. She is well below mediocre. She would be unemployable as a writer if she weren't running the conservative grift.

We shouldn't waste a single moment or breath mourning Paramount or CBS or Bari Weiss. Regardless of the storied history of CBS News, it is now a Vichy organ of the right. It will never be worth a damn again. The time will come soon enough when it will be mulched along with everything else.

I also remember that time she was watching a not-white US figure skater and tweeted "immigrants get it done" then whined about getting called out for being wrong and making a pretty fucking racist assumption.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. -Omar El Akkad Pics of the day #photography

Bari Weiss's version of "rigorous, fact-based reporting" is - quite literally - doing things like publicizing the grievances of whiny employees fired Because of Woke.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

I was listening to NPR this morning and they described The Free Press as a "center-right" publication and I dunno that seems... off the mark.

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

im glenn greenwald. im kyle rittenhouse. im an ai generated talking pepe meme. im bari weiss, all those stories tonight on 60 minutes

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

The Houston Chronicle does some very good work but this isn't it: this really reinforces the lies the GOP is telling about cities.

you are simply never going to convince me that the question of whether or not soldiers in fatigues sent by the president to intimidate his perceived political enemies are acting as enemies of the united states is a complicated one

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I try to mostly follow people on LinkedIn who are unafraid to shitpost on main

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

it's the neo-confederacy and we'd better start acting like it

the republican party is a manifest enemy of the constitution of the united states, and where we are now engaging in its project in any way is a betrayal. unequivocal enemies of the united states

This story describes such a psychologically complex phenomenon, breaking with the parents who didn’t vaccinate you to get protected now. But it’s encouraging to read—it’s not too late to protect yourself and others, and the shots themselves are generally no big deal

they're moving in herds. they *do* move in herds!

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

Fam, this is a challenging moment. We (as reporters) are trying to balance urgency of news & amplification of resistance narratives with not assisting in putting people in prison. It's tough for everyone right now with how fast videos go viral. There's a lot we are not sharing.

the woods are full of gold again

On the plus side, your teenage daughter or son is 98% less likely to get a wicked staph infection

and some that do, you know, depending

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

Since this question came up in class last week on flu vaccination and Guillain-Barre syndrome, I think I’ll mention this tomorrow: “most research indicates that active influenza infection poses a higher risk for GBS, and vaccination may provide protection against it” cc @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

When Sunday evening hits, chocolate is the answer.

I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.

One thing that's happening in Portland that Fox News won't tell you is that aggressive, drunk, right wingers have shown up at the ICE facility trying to start fights and the protesters there have not taken the bait. Therefore the story has become "look how Antifa-friendly the Portland police are!"

The collapse of local news is one of the features of our media landscape. I know there are people swimming upstream against it, but it's a big problem. Social media can't make up for it.

i almost admire how wurman makes with total confidence claims that are such total bullshit that they don’t even require much in the way of work to debunk.

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Okay now we’re really poasting

These are also the same people championing AI to do this type of work…so what jobs are these folks supposed to get exactly?

my sister says she doesn't like the beach house they are visiting on seaside trip because it has spiders and in the spirit of providing helpful advice I told her that in that case I had bad news about the ocean and now she isn't talking to me