👀

Mom at the park just told me she wasn’t going to finish her baby’s vaccine schedule because “of the new information that has come out from the CDC”. Robert Kennedy is a fucking monster.

Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing in of newly elected Adelita Grijalva to stop the vote to release the Epstein Files www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent. Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

Turns out it was pretty stupid of me to go to “law school” and pass the “bar” and practice “law”

Well don't I feel stupid

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Artemis update: It's been a tough time. He is still in the hospital, not eating. A few folks have asked how they can help, so I've set up a GoFundMe to help with costs. If you've ever loved Artemis, his gravity experiments and feel moved to help him, here's the link. gofund.me/252b7473c

With alt text

“Since returning for a second term, he has attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans; UFC fights in Miami and New Jersey; the Daytona 500; the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia; the FIFA Club World Cup final at MetLife Stadium; the U.S. Open men’s tennis final” and today’s Ryder Cup

Not the most important thing about this video, but the white cop's gun discipline would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous. Takes it out, tucks it in his waistband while wrestling with a guy, drops it, recovers it, and then points it at bystanders.

On-brand for a new Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney's first act to be "ceremonially hand the judge some papers" and they don't just screw it up, they also lie about it and are instantly caught because what they said contradicts the thing they just handed to the judge.

Hegseth's insistence that war crimes are actually heroics is the most consistent part of his identity.

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

It’s a pay to play disaster relief system at FEMA under Noem.

A bad journalist misrepresenting data to push his own agenda? No way! @alyssaur.bsky.social looks at Jesse Singal and his piece in The Economist for this week's TWIBS.

"A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking Instagram accounts that named and shamed a Border Patrol agent who was part of the immigration raids in Los Angeles." #California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

Netanyahu flies circuitous route to UN summit ‘to avoid arrest’ in Europe Wing of Zion followed Mediterranean Sea, tracking data shows, amid ICC arrest warrant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Blue Crab swimming through a huge school of Cownose Rays near Clearwater, Florida. He knows he's tasty! I was surprised the rays ignored the crab but there was a Hammerhead nearby so they had other concerns. #nature #amazing #animals #ocean #wildlife #florida

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Tylenol causes autism and a broken escalator is a terrorist attack. It is only Thursday.

Trump can't even be the king of stochastic terrorism because his advisors have tapped themselves as board of stochastic terrorism with Miller being the CEO, and they're capitalizing on political violence...

anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER: CAGE: CHOTINER: ? CAGE: This interview is over.

Like, normally a big reason to not shut down the government is all the social security checks and Medicaid stuff that keep people from dying. But those checks are *already* being shut off. The shutdown is already happening for people who rely on these checks to not die.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Neal Stephenson: In Snow Crash, I wrote the toilet paper memo as a comical, extreme take on US government internal bureaucracy. US Government: In the name of efficiency, we created the situation in the toilet paper memo from the government-critical book Snow Crash.

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Two major law firms accused the National Shooting Sports Foundation this week of violating the privacy rights of millions of gun owners by running a decades-long program that sent their information to political operatives without consent. The complaint seeks class-action status & financial damages.

CHOTINER: so you were interviewing me and— CHOTINER: well, that's before we— CHOTINER: but there's nothing that— CHOTINER: hold on, let's just wait a minute here— CHOTINER: well, let's step back a second— CHOTINER: sure CHOTINER: right CHOTINER: of course

Well, Ted Cruz is NOT up for re-election next year, so I actually have to agree with him here.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

FBI: "There was anti-ICE writing on the bullet." *flash over to the scene of the crime* *bullet has "anti-ICE" written on it* This is not real. This is a Family Guy bit.

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I'm at the doctor's office, scrolling, and this pop's up immediately after the one about the Trump admin replacing Biden's photo with the auto pen. Synchronicity is weird, but why does his headshot look like his mugshot?

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

The criminal 'justice' system has always been a joke, but the Trump Regime is really leaning in to ensuring everyone knows it

DOGE was a success because the entire point of it was the greatest data theft scheme in history and they did it

Please note that all the outlets now correcting their narrative re: ICE killing Silverio Villegas González since FPPD body cams have been released initially published the DHS statement now proven to be mostly false. There's never any understanding/admission of harm done. They'll just do it again.

the FBI is refusing to say whether the people who were killed today at an ICE facility in Dallas were detainees, but they are confirming that no law enforcement officials were injured 🤔

HOLY SHIT

I mean, the US has done this kind of thing since it's inception, but it was mostly espionage, nation building (sans consent), and not-a-war wars. Now we're at blowing up boats off other countries shores for ReAsOnS and intervening in other countries' politics despite that whole autonomous sover- oh.

That film scares the hell out of me. The first time I saw it I was fascinated by the concrete but man, that scenario is truly terrifying!!

Please know that if you have ever reposted me, I have imagined you naked, floating in space, a universe of stars glittering behind your frozen corpse. You are beautiful.