Go Pope! “At times, pseudo-scientific data are invoked to support the claim that a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

"I can’t shake the thought that one of our generals should have walked out of that room, resigned his commission, and delivered a speech warning about the peril facing the U.S. military. At least one senior leader must step away, speak plainly, and sound the alarm." open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

on a brown dwarf dozens of light years from us, astronomers have detected trace amounts of a molecule that, on this planet, is made by living things. this discovery is not life. but it will help astronomers on their quest to find it elsewhere in the galaxy: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...

Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

mekanphotography Álvaro Herrero

Hot, muggy, smelly future — and still no weather control?! 🌡️ #CalvinandHobbes #FutureProblems

Sounds about right.

I tell everyone about Cost Plus Drugs. I was at a doctor’s appt. and cost of meds came up. I told him and he said it would be great for his wife who is on some expensive drugs. My sister’s med was taken off insurance and it went form several hundred to less than 20 per month on Cost Plus!

Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”

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4 new quick-guides to help you help your friends and fam STAND UP FOR SCIENCE and protect democracy www.standupforscience.net/activate-eng... www.standupforscience.net/inform-activ... www.standupforscience.net/team-science www.standupforscience.net/calling-values @standupforscience.bsky.social

💔💔💔 We can be better than this. I know we can.

This is what they did in Stalinist Russia in the mid twentieth century to control the scientists and intellectuals. Here’s my 2021 article in @plosbiology.org about what’s going on, attached

In the end, Dr. Cassidy had to choose between being a senator and being a doctor who had taken an oath to do no harm. He had to choose between his career and the lives of Americans. He chose himself. And now he has to live with the consequences of that choice. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Calvin sends his dad off to work with a reality check and a smirk. Retirement’s only 40 years away! #CalvinandHobbes #WorkHardPlayHard

Very good essay "Encountering a cop on the street might mean you are encountering a criminal and encountering an armed, masked man might mean you are encountering a cop. The line is blurry. This blurriness between real and fake is the defining characteristic of the moment."

End the "special relationship" between America and Israel. It led to atrocities in Gaza @djrothkopf.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

If this moves forward, the U.S. would have no dedicated research ship in Antarctica for the first time in 6 decades. One urgent harm: undermining our understanding of the continent's melting ice, which fuels sea-level rises. #SaveNSF

A questioning if he’s possibly a bad man is an evergreen inquiry in the press.

John Cleese said it best 👌 👍.

It’s finally Friday and the weekend adventure awaits! 🌞 What fun or silly adventure are you planning to dive into this weekend? #CalvinandHobbes #WeekendWanderers

At least 15 Palestinians, including four children, have starved to death in a single day, according to health officials, bringing the total number of deaths from malnutrition to 101 since Israel’s war on Gaza began aje.io/f3vtid

Trump brutally trolled with UK poster stunt ahead of dinner with King Charles It would be such a shame for Donald if this photo of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein appeared absolutely EVERYWHERE on his tour of the UK. It would truly be such a huge shame if everyone shared this 👀

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another question

Real baseball has rules, umpires, and zero wrestling. Count me out. #CalvinandHobbes40 #BringBackHobbesball

KXAN weather man for 34 years.

Do you ever wonder if life needs a little more thrill? Sometimes entertainment is worth the risk. #CalvinandHobbes40

If traditional kickoffs don’t work, improvise. Calvin’s technique may not be legal, but hey, it’s effective. #CalvinandHobbes40 #TouchdownTrouble

President Zelensky and First Lady in a bomb shelter with children who today received the Future of Ukraine awards. This is resilience. This is war.

So what?! He was hungry!

HLS/HLR folks: If you have any additional details about this “cooperating witness” situation and the apparent investigation into HLR by the Trump administration, please reach out! I’m on Signal at annabower.24 Email: [email protected] Happy to speak off the record or on background

When you’re passionate about something nobody else is. #CalvinandHobbes #GrossHobbies

Yes!

And what I got back was pretty good:

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Raskin just exposed Trump’s plans to launch a fund for the “victims” of January 6 - but he means the violent thugs who attacked our Capitol. “That fund should go to the 140 officers and their families who were wounded.” Trump is rewarding traitors. This is SICK.

How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees theonion.com/how-the...

Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters. Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result. DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage

Programming update: Stand Up For Science is hosting a series of summer science teach-ins, inspired by Vietnam era activism. @standupforscience.bsky.social I will be doing one in Silver Spring (exact location TBD) about ocean science and conservation on May 30th.

“I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%.”

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms who stop us from eating worms, survive our chaos, tuck us in (even with a tiger), and accept cards that are just excuses to ask for more allowance. Thanks for doing it all—with sarcasm, snacks, and superpowers. #CalvinandHobbes #MothersDay