"If there’s one thing Justices John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Comey Barrett cherish more than executive power and a highly punitive Jesus, it is their money." By @marciej.bsky.social on @wonkettemedia.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

The third Q in my advice column this week is a reminder that even dream-sounding jobs can turn into nightmares. In this case, someone who runs their own pet-care business wants to give up their career and just get a job. slate.com/advice/2026/...

Hahahah ahh hahahahahaha It's been shown previously that conservatives tend to have lower IQs (as measured by standardized tests) than liberals, but this is a fun framing of the latest study. By the delightful @robynelyse.bsky.social @wonkettemedia.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

For the white-supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti-diversity administration, “the Olympic team is a living rebuke — a jumping, spinning, flying, super-fit and undeniably hot one — to their entire worldview.” www.publicnotice.co/p/us-olympia...

Please enter (or encourage your favorite climate cover-ers to enter) submissions for the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

Still can't get over how there's a whole civilization with a capital city at least as big as Pompeii buried deep under miles of volcanic rock from the biggest eruption in like 10,000 years on Lombok in Indonesia and all we know about them is that they existed till they were destroyed

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

"Ambiguous loss" describes grief for (among other things) what might have been. In this case, an advice-seeker didn't get a dream job because her cheating ex took it, intentionally, because he knew it was her dream job. Argh. slate.com/advice/2026/...

Fucking fucking fuck dementia

Today I learned what heteropaternal superfecundation is, and I am going to share my new knowledge with you! It's when a woman has fraternal twins by different fathers, and it's been found in the archaeological record.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Pretty sure everyone here is aware but none of this moon shit is what scientists refer to as "actually going to happen"

I often say that if you often find you're the smartest person in the room, it's because nobody actually clever wants to be in the same room as you.

My new favorite Bluesky account

America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before that this is their response is extremely encouraging

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

For a panel this morning at the #aaasmtg, the other speakers and I will share ideas and examples for improving trust in science. Here are a few I'll mention if I get a chance (we have a LOT to talk about). I'd love to hear yours. (1/7)

On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.

The loss of grants management specialists, those with the budget and accounting knowledge to actually get awards out the door is just as damaging for our agencies. May not have Phds but for some ICs we’ve lost more of them then folks with PhDs.

Trump and his goons pushed out (or didn't replace) more than 10,000 federal government STEM Ph.D.s since he took office, representing 106,636 years of federal work experience. www.science.org/content/arti...

Make sure you really know somebody before you go into business with them. slate.com/advice/2026/...

If you attend a conference and your name tag is on a long lanyard that hangs at your waist, tie a knot in the lanyard so your name tag is near your face, is less likely to flip over, and isn't hidden below the table when you sit down. Hello from the #aaasmtg!

Every single day I wish Poison Ivy was real www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/t...

They’re just out there setting records at everything.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

When management unilaterally imposes uninformed new rules and policies, it can be terrible for morale and mental and physical health. Here's how to take back some control. (The second question in my advice column on @slate.com this week) slate.com/advice/2026/...

No matter how revolting, corrupt, and fighting-for-fascism we thought Steve Bannon was, he's all that and so much worse. By @marciej.bsky.social on @wonkettemedia.bsky.social www.wonkette.com/p/will-the-e...

Going to the @aaas.org meeting in Phoenix? Join @michaeljohngorman.bsky.social @dietram.bsky.social Jen Frazier, Raj Pandya & me Saturday at 10 a.m. to talk about trust in science. (I'm sure we'll get THAT sorted right out.) aaas.confex.com/aaas/2026/me... #aaas

“Simone Weil once noted, ‘Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, and boring.’ And that’s what this documentary is accidentally showing us: the barren and monotonous evil of this American moment.” By @lyz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/evil-i...

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Are anybody else's hands so winter-dry and chapped that you can't unlock your computer with your fingerprint? (Adding "hand lotion" to shopping list)

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

I've been writing a work advice column for a year now. Here are five themes that pop up a lot: lastwordonnothing.com/2026/02/09/f...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

There are people who are successfully held accountable for their sexist/bigoted behavior but the way those things tend to be handled means people are not posting it on main. We see the cockroaches we couldn't kill.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

This is a good collection of Washington Post reactions, but a lot of people are missing the larger context. Smothering the Post IS a business decision, but the business in question is NOT the Post. The Post is being sacrificed to protect Bezos' other businesses: Blue Origin, Cloud Services, etc.

A lot of people have loved ones who are out of work and demoralized. Here's how to support them & help them understand the gendered expectations they've been pickled in: slate.com/advice/2026/...

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

This guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and one of the most dangerous, vile, hateful, and deluded (assuming he really believes this stuff, which he seems to) fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

If you're afraid to ask someone for a recommendation, please don't be. It's part of the job of being a mentor, editor, teacher, advisor, former boss, etc. to write recommendations or politely decline. (I wish I could go back in time and tell my former self this.)

The transition from peer to manager can be awkward, especially when former peers (and work-friends) are "confused" about the promotion and not doing their jobs. Here's what a newly promoted manager needs to know: slate.com/advice/2026/... on @slate.com

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest people on Earth, just eliminated hundreds of union jobs at the Washington Post. Solidarity with @postguild.bsky.social. Join them tomorrow, February 5 at 12:00 p.m. for a rally to #SaveThePost.