I'd never before noticed the striking resemblance of fascist apparatchik John Thune and the guy who builds the Death Star.

I’m but a simple country theoretical physicist, and I can say, in my professional capacity, “datacenters in space” is so colossally, monumentally stupid that it is difficult to know where to start with which laws of physics the idea is spitting in the face of the most.

A Chinese company selling toy concentration camp cages to Americans is a perfect synecdoche of the way things are right now.

I swear I put them away in neat bundles but the evil elves got into them in the off-season.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Q: You outlined the dangers posed by drugs. So what explanation do you have for Trump pardoning the former president of Honduras? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I don't know the details. Happy to look into it. I can't speak to it Q: Alright. Um. Ok. Like, no thought on it? MARSHALL: I haven't researched it

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

AI is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

I suspect FDA no longer has qualified people willing to do this job. "FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...." endpoints.news/fda-to-name-... @endpts.com

They reportedly want to open an enterprise investigation. Here is an excerpt from the relevant portion of the FBI manual about when you can't start an enterprise investigations

I think plenty of it speaks to the state of the media, but an obvious one is that Vox and Vanity Fair barely investigated her and that she managed to commit an unforgivable journalistic crime before getting a book deal and walking into another prestige job, while plenty of others are being laid off

Collective, racist punishment.

I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.

The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"

No Rapist Left Behind

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

Revolting.

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large. Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.

If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery

New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win "Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"

'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record www.commondreams.org/news/worst-o...

what

people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention

Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.

Not voting for anyone in 2028 who doesn't promise to tear down this arch, along with every other gilded chunk of Trump's garish gimcrackery.

“Following the jewel heist at The Louvre, [Bari] Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown…Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code…”

> "a September contingency plan, since deleted from the USDA’s website...said Congress intended 'that SNAP’s operations should continue' and that contingency funds 'are also available to fund participant benefits in the event that a lapse occurs [mid-fiscal year]'" www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Once again, the courage of lawyers will not save us.

I can’t get over a media that spent years dwelling on gaffes telling us which Presidential crimes aren’t a big deal

Boat strikes put US service members in legal jeopardy: "Some junior officers have asked military lawyers, known as judge advocates general or JAGs, for written sign-off before taking part in strikes .... It does not appear that such memos were furnished, said one of the people."

They're going to have to rename it the Center for Disease Contraction.

SCOOP: The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

This is from Foner's "The Second Founding." Sen. Jacob Howard said birthright citizenship was "the law of the land already," but "We wanted to put this question beyond legislative power, beyond the reach of [those] who would pull the whole system up by the roots and destroy it."

An updated list of pro-confederate states.

Or at the very least lead with the fact that this "appears" to be illegal, if you want to cover your butts. It's an obvious violation of the Antideficiency Act! You can quote the law itself and as many legal scholars as you want!

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

People kvetch about the chaos-inducing serial comma, but you can also do a lot with a colon! Beware, biographers!!

"Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare"

“Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them are about Donald Trump.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...