"Teenage Wasteland" is maybe the best two-word phrase in rock history and frickin Pete Townshend had to name the song "Baba O'Riley"

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

I wish I could remember who said it, but I recently heard the phrase, “They’re encouraging a culture war so that nobody notices the class war.”

Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.

What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”

Solidarity.

This is not how science works. At all. If you disagree with it, you actually have to do the work of *showing why, with actual data* that supports your alternative hypothesis. Simply criticizing it may mean you have opinions, but they wouldn’t be informed opinions—or scientific ones.

It's humbling how kind everyone is to me as I navigate Uberlândia with my terrible Portuguese.

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today. Available as book, on kindle and as audio. I would be really grateful for reposts. www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So... www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Why would anyone believe any Republican, about anything, ever? You gave up your leverage, now you're just an impotent sucker, Mr. Durbin.

Senator Shaheen is astonishingly naïve. It's basically unbelievable.

Just idiots and cowards throughout party leadership [sic].

He's laughing in your faces, @baldwin.senate.gov. Don't let Chuck Schumer's political cowardice undo what you've accomplished over the last 40 days.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

@baldwin.senate.gov a promise of a vote is meaningless, even if the opposition was trustworthy, which it's not. Please encourage your colleagues to continue standing strong. Don't throw away your leverage for nothing tangible in return.

the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

There's no Pappadeaux in Terminal C? WTF, IAH?!

Chuck Schumer has just the worst political instincts.

#SkyCards achievement: used the in-flight wifi to catch the plane I'm on. Beat that, @scalzi.com!

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

axios reporter: a deal to end the shutdown, that the dems are willing to sign off on, in this legislative climate, under these electoral conditions? gop staffer: um. yes. axios reporter: can i see it? gop staffer: no

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Check out the @lsu.bsky.social LSU Museum of Natural Science Fall 2025 newsletter. Lots of stories of fieldwork and research from our students, staff and curators. And my first as Director. www.lsu.edu/mns/files/ne...

There are going to be a whole lot of electoral results that Mike Johnson hasn’t heard about tomorrow.

Woke Two: We’re Doing Reconstruction For Real This Time

I guess all I'll say is, I hope he died as he lived.

So, like tear gas grenades, then?

Another week, another flight.

Opinion of the day that shouldn’t be a political stance: Everyone deserves access to food. Yes I’d like my taxes to go to SNAP. No I don’t care what SNAP recipients buy with said taxes.

@wtyppod.bsky.social, is it possible that Ros misspoke at ~1:19:00 in Episode 187? I'm not a pilot, but it's my understanding that when elevators go up, the nose goes up, and when elevators go down, the nose goes down. He suggested it's the other way around.

I'm not sure about that. It could be malice, but it could just be that Jeff Landry is very, very dumb.

OH FUCK GEDDY LEE IS WEARING AN EFFIN BIRDS SHIRT AT THE WORLD SERIES

"oh wow i love the cobwebs on your windows. very spooky" haha yeah those are on purpose

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night

If speaking out against fascism is “bad for your brand” then your brand is fascism.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

What an asshole Higgins is.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

The phrase "intellectual backbone" doing a LOT of work there. One might even add "[sic]".

To all my trans siblings: I know times are dark and things are awful, but please, please stay with us. The world is better for you being in it and we want you here with us to share our celebrations when these monsters fall 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social, perhaps y'all might take the opportunity presented by the Scourging of Brian Kelly and the related remarks of Governor Jeff Landry to promote @robertmannbooks.com's fantastic book, "Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU". www.amazon.com/Kingfish-U-H...

on National Cat Day, i am presenting you with a cat. if you haven't seen a cat before, this is what they look like. granted, details often vary. but the head, legs, fur, triangle ears -- the core structure -- tends to be consistent.

New sponge just dropped

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Folks, I would like our research knowledge to get better, not worse. Our publications to become more intentionally structured and phrased, not less. And our experiences and perspectives to find more echoes in the academic language we use, not fewer. AI slop is the opposite of all that.