I’m not making excuses for political violence, but it needs to be clear that Charlie Kirk promoted the hostility that led to his assassination.

Why Trump will Fail: After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking into the deeper caverns of Donald Trump’s brain. We climb under his ego, ... we burrow beneath the ... the region of the brain responsible for cheating at golf; www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/o...

Can somebody recommend a cryogenic facility that will suspend me for four years and then wake me when Trump leaves office?

The Trouble with Elon open.substack.com/pub/samharri...

A nice expression of how a lot of us feel: open.substack.com/pub/parkspeo...

Joined the Contrarian Substack. contrarian.substack.com

Deleting my Facebook account Now that Mark Zuckerberg has gone full MAGA I no longer feel that I can be associated with him or his site.

Paywall Madness Every time I click on a Bsky link I hit a paywall. Impossible to subscribe to Bloomberg, The Bulwark, MeidasTouch, ProPublica, Adam Kinzinger, etc. Cost aside, the logins would drive me crazy. Someone please create a business that will let me pay a nominal cost to read each article.

CHARLIE BROWN: I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. The election is over and the wrong people won, but I don’t feel the way I think I’m supposed to feel.

That’s a fact.

Dan Rather is a treasure.

NEW from me—> Democrats should stop saving the Republicans from themselves thehill.com/opinion/cong...

Another argument that the pardon of Hunter Biden was correct. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

bsky.app/profile/did:...

A more nuanced take on Biden's pardon of Hunter: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“Didn’t you know that everything you learn, and everything you suffer, will come in useful at some point in your life?” Penelope Fitzgerald in “Offshore”

Types of Galaxies and Large objects in Universe.

Trump catches the car

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

What you would see if Andromeda was brighter in the night sky

Sounds about right.

@highsociety.bsky.social is the place for edm

How can we tell if someone on blue sky is authentically who they claim to be?

Cancelled my account on X. Musk is evil.