“I think the challenge is for public officials across the nation not to get caught up in the back-and-forth and be the adult in the room when these things start to happen,” Davis said. “ This article lacks examples of what should be prosecuted. What would be an example of such rhetoric?

Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, resigned Friday — days after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging DOGE employees had uploaded a copy of the entire country's Social Security information to a "vulnerable cloud environment”

#Washington Two firefighters working an active fire arrested by #ICE “You risked your life out here to save the community,” the firefighter said. “This is how they treat us.” “Officers wearing “Police” vests are seen arresting a firefighter, while another appears to be restrained”

twitter: where the people who can’t read books come to argue with the people who write them

When you strip away humanity

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

Ed needs to take his presence over to conservative TV.

US Debt has risen from $14T in 2016 to over $30T today. To those in Congress: 🌳 The best time to address the debt would’ve been in 2016, the next best time would’ve been today. Your Big Beautiful Bill does nothing to solve our debt issue. 💔 Voters must call 202-224-3121 to speak to the problem.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

My first-ever attempt at writing an editorial. An outcome of trying to think through for myself how we should be responding to this precarious moment for higher education in the United States. www.studlife.com/forum/2025/0...

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

Paul Revere 2025: “The British aren’t coming and nor are the Europeans or Canadians….”

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Bingo

Today’s the anniversary of The Greatest Goal Of The 90s. We’re not talking about Yeboah, Baggio, or Weah. Instead, I present to you: Gary Crosby at the City Ground, 1990. You sneaky little shithouse.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

VIEWER FEEDBACK: A touching note about kindness... and then a message from X/Twitter

“A dark day… today we all lose….” Shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is impacting the soybean industry — Tennessee’s #1 cash crop, contributing billions to our economy. More: arec.tennessee.edu/wp-content/u...

Sitting here watching the Chris Wright nomination hearings and getting ever more frustrated by the failure - intentional by him and some Senators, inadvertent by others - to differentiate between produced and useful energy. Thread:

Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon. The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!