The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Quarter inch of hard glaze before you even got to the crust part it's perfect

Portrait of Dr. Viktor Ritter von Bauer, 1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25837

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

Pretty much all international faculty in the US, including some postdocs, start on H-1Bs. I started on an H-1B as a Canadian due to weird rules that made that make sense at the time. If universities are paying $100K per visa, well ... let's face it, they're just not. Ridiculous.

A letter from an emmy award-winning journalist who's been detained by ICE for 2+ months just went up via @bittersouth.bsky.social. He's in the US lawfully. "The government asserted that Guevara posed a danger to the community because of his reporting." bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

Sometimes I’ll just say “no pun intended” when I’m done with a sentence and leave everyone bewildered

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

this is beside the point of how hideous these glasses are, but i am continually surprised at how, after almost two decades in the spotlight, he's still just an incredibly bad speaker. just painful to listen to.

Johannes Itten, Space Composition, I, 1944 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135928

Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1236970

The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.” wapo.st/4mnNDLt

Dairy is an agricultural sector particularly reliant on undocumented workers. Ag visas are for seasonal workers, and dairy is a year-round operation. So that program doesn't work for dairy farms.

"I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions. Washington DC no longer has a paper that reflects the people it serves. What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media"

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Untitled (Boy with Pears), 1956 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1208805

So many bangers, this fucking guy

I wrote about that ugly spectacle in front of the White House from a few days ago, and why it's important for reporters to start coming to the defense of their colleagues. There's also a reference to wedgies. Via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

Unidentified Woman (Plaid Shirt), 1980 #artbots #warhol https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1227583

if i write another book this probably needs to be the cover (Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press)

It’s like the friends of Jeffrey Dahmer getting together and sending him their favorite recipes.

(“Riders on the Storm” voice) Posting on my phone

CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.

Saw a Chinese EV for the first time today while in Aruba. A Forthing Friday. It looked sharp. I first assumed it must be European.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

they’re so close

USDA quietly said Friday it will, after a century, end the Farm Labor Survey (FLS), the only wage survey of ag employers. FLS is a critical input to setting local minimum wages for H-2A visa workers to try to avoid harm to U.S. workers' wages. #LaborDay #EconSky www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Not...

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1

Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

China: Chair, 1982 #artbots #warhol https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1227487

A classic from 2006. youtu.be/UOGlLehx7sg

20 years. Hard to believe. For the @thefoodsection.bsky.social, I revisited the role of restaurants after Hurricane Katrina.

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

20 years ago

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

20 years ago

I'm going to make a "Katrina+20: media edition" Bingo card, but every square will be "Reporter doesn't say poorly built levees caused catastrophe."

You have to read 45 grafs into this @washingtonpost.com Katrina timeline to get this glancing comment about the devastation's main cause, the poorly designed and built levees: "Weaknesses in the levees."

Just one reason why @thefoodsection.bsky.social entrusts its commemorative reporting to journalists who were there for the original event. Watch your inboxes tomorrow morning for Todd's coverage of how restaurants responded to the storm, and what it means for NOLA and Southern food culture today.

Random fact I learned: Earth is the only planet in our solar system with tectonic plates.

How can a story about federal failures and Katrina not mention the Army Corps of Engineers? Their poorly designed levees were responsible for much of the disaster. biotech.law.lsu.edu/katrina/repo...

I've also heard @NPR struggle to accurately report on Katrina. They keep referring to the "9th Ward" (Lower and Upper 9th suffered very different fates) and a story yesterday on federal failures mentioned only FEMA and the Army Corps.