Still a VERY GOOD question.

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

This evening’s absolute random-ass posting brought to you by me seeing the Army Chief of Staff (our highest ranking officer) doing a podcast with some energy drink brofluincers which made me think about the state of the “Profession” and blech

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

I’ve been saying for years that it should be illegal to email me

At this point, if you do not see what is going on here, you are dumber than a Nazi

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

New: inside Trump’s “very important” autism announcement for Monday — new warnings on tylenol’s risk for pregnant women — new endorsement of leucovorin’s potential as autism treatment — new NIH data science initiatives underway

lol www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Democracy is dangerous. It should make you uncomfortable. The great conceit of fascism is to tell you to let it go and they will keep things calm.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

BASH: The big difference here, as you know, is that this is a broadcast network that was threatened by a govt individual who has oversight over their regulation and potential for mergers MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Sure, but this is also a network that has not been friendly to this administration whatsoever

I went through the hour special and outside of the "I'm a Christian and family man" stuff here's all two minutes of him actually talking, and you can see why ABC didn't air this

the best part of that argument is essentially just openly admitting that they want their powerful friend protected from any consequence even if he’s guilty

Compliments to the ACIP panelist or liaison that called Retsef Levi an idiot during his extended demonstration of malicious incompetence regarding vaccines. It was refreshing to hear some actual facts during that part of the meeting.

Horseshit in the service of fascism

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

Exclusive: Publisher investigating DNA contamination paper that authors say CDC vaccine committee will consider retractionwatch.com/2025/09/18/c... via @retractionwatch.com

Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.

Rather than extend the subsidies that keep Obamacare plans affordable, the Trump administration is making it easier for insurers to sell cheap junk insurance. These “catastrophic” plans require people to spend more than $10,000 a year on deductibles before the policies pay most medical costs

Idle thought: If the American experiment is to be finished off — by Americans, of course; no one else — it will be by rationalization. Not hostility or aggression so much as rationalization. It is all around us.

And now this is the first statement from a named White House official, hours before the proclamation is set to go into effect. Despite saying “to be clear,” her first tweet in this thread contained an FAQ posted yesterday which contains NONE of the information she lists below.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Guys like this are almost always crooks in addition to be degenerates and abusers. Yet another reason for the opposition to remind everyone. No one stays in power forever. The time will come.

"Despite its effectiveness, we identify key limitations, including hallucinated citations, difficulty adapting to dynamic paper structures, and incomplete integration of multimodal content." Yep, those are pretty key limitations.

All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked. From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.

Also, remember it was a HUGE SCANDAL that Obama AG Loretta Lynch was accused of potentially interfering in an investigation? Funny how Fox News spent so much time on that but won't mention something like this... www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index...

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Democrats now have a huge opening to go on the offensive. Between the RFK vaccine disaster, the Homan bribe, Trump's nakedly corrupt DM to Bondi, and Brendan Carr breaking the law, they should turn on the firehose. As should the press. Doomers will be blocked. TY for your attention to this matter.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The FBI used hidden cameras to record Tom Homan taking a $50,000 bribe (in cold, hard cash) last year from undercover agents posing as business executives who Homan promised government contracts in a new Trump administration. The Trump DOJ has now shut down the probe. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“Flattery Economics” 🤡 @dkthomp.bsky.social

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

If anyone says they did a 'deep dive' into data, know that fool is in floaties while ankle deep

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

Just catching up on this. Has Laura Ingraham already been fired by Fox News, or is that coming tomorrow?

this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation

I still cant get over that the ACIP changed the HepB at birth protocol to be more difficult and more likely to have operational failures, and thus incidental cases that need not happen.

the best and only argument for not freaking the hell out on the H$100KB thing is if you think it’s extremely illegal and therefore not real

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

"My thoughts turned to David Rose, who volunteered to try to prevent another such attack on our country, and then, when back home, ran toward danger once again to help his fellow Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hero-dav...

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Anyone with right wingers as customers is putting themselves and their employees at risk over made up controversies at any moment.