This is true. I’ve had a simple renewal application before DHS pending review for like four months.

National Organization for Rare Disorders is posing having the NIH director speaking at their event as purely a good thing. Despite his role in NIH, bleeding scientists doing work on rare diseases.

Especially for ultra rare diseases, there's so much institutional knowledge that's lost when a single scientist suddenly no longer works at NIH.

Crazy how "screw you, got mine" was not a viable strategy for academic workers to engage in collective action against a common adversary. Much to think about here.

Most of all this shows he was a dipshit like a huge portion of rich guys who hang out with FSB econ thought leader types whose job is mostly to get rich people prostitutes. dossier.center/jeffreyepste...

Simple solution. Everyone ski jumps naked. Only the strong survive. Who says no?

This is why Western society developed banishing someone to a monastery.

They’re hang-gliding on their shrunken dicks.

OH! They expand their dicks for the *fitting* so they have a little big-dick sized wing of extra fabric when it goes back to regular size (small.) I was so confused as to the dick physics but the physics are small dick in a big dick onesie.

Couldn't they just get a fluffer?

"Only one-third of American Jews say they identify as Zionist, even as nearly nine in 10 say they support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and Democratic state." www.jta.org/2026/02/05/u...

Remember that Megan McArdle said she hated Joe Biden because of his treatment of women.

Times article has an incredible illustration

In 2016 and into 2017, the only thing the media had to say about Trump's mental state was that it would be wrong and unethical for the media to assess it or report on the implications for the country because "we're not experts." That of course implies that they shouldn't report on anything.

Rename Dulles after Trump and watch as congressional Republicans are forced to fly in/out of there instead of DCA to show loyalty.

at some point he is unironically going to say we should rename the country the united states of trump, and the media will try to spin it as a joke.

i feel this way for a lot of reasons but i will never forgive the people across wide swaths of this country who inflicted this person on us all

that man dying

It's good they did a study on this but yeah, no shit

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

there is an infamous 'joke' lecture they invited him to do about groping. they didn't just think it was acceptable, they thought it was hilarious. www.publicbooks.org/asimovs-empi...

JESUS CHRIST

It’s so beautiful

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I actually love this.

The Branch Manager has a new stogie habit

NYC desperately needs 23rd Street to turn into a busway like 14th has. @mayor.nyc.gov Save me please! Sent from an extremely slow M23

Do you know how mad a judge has to be to call out your grammatical errors

Can’t believe he ate the whole thing 😹

as someone whose politics fall squarely between Hochul and Zohran, it’s been quite nice to see the two of them work together and bring out the best in each other such a contrast from the Cuomo days lmao

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

I prepped for this interview but I really feel like I could have prepped more thoroughly

golden age of committing crimes you’ll probably get away with

I just generally think the antidote to dooming and feelings of helplessness is getting involved in any way. It can be as a poll worker, doing ICE watch, running for local office, helping with mutual aid, whatever. You can get so much accomplished in your town or city if you just get involved.

just know, i’m disgusted by anyone trying to give upscrolled a pass by saying it must just be zionists posting csam. it doesn’t matter who is posting it! the platform should be prepared, and if it can’t handle it, it should shut down or severely restrict posting until it can. there is no excuse.

I'm from metro Boston and I live in Queens, NY and even I know this is grilling, not BBQ

Not to relitigate 2016 again, but if you want proof that Bernie was never gonna be able to effectively communicate to the average southerner, this was his press secretary.

In to days discruse. BBQ dosent take time or labour.

Republicans have agency and journalists should not let them off the hook because people like Katie Britt are trying to act like they're not evil monsters. "Tone" doesn't matter. Actions do. Katie Britt and other Republicans could end this at any time. But they don't.

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

seems like securities are getting punished pretty hard on pretty mild news

Remember what we were all saying yesterday about not freaking out about this shit. They want you all scared and anxious.

Worth pointing out we voted out Trump last time during a pandemic

Welp. Expect "accidental" tear gas in long lines and whatever else. Everyone saying "I'll vote so hard" completely ignoring the normies who aren't terminally online that just want to vote after work who might not want to deal with this. Maybe Chuck should help THEM out, Mr kitchen tables

I miss having a real government run by professional politicians

There's a backhoe loader outside of my work clearing snow, seems more effective

You can't really have urbanism if everyone has to drive everywhere, and you can't get away from everyone driving everywhere without a) eliminating parking and b) building good mass transit that people actually use.

Americans have a lot of money in dollars but the lifestyle means a lot of it goes down the drain to stuff like rent and transportation