Has drugs ≠ Making war These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it. There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.

Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president. The unitary executive theory kills people.

this is your fault, Bill personally, specifically, your fault you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it you own this and I hope you choke on it

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

You can't shame a President about his Administration if he does not care about, or pay attention to, what his Administration is doing. All the man wants to do is play The Sims with the White House and slap his name on things. For him, everything else is a distraction. Which is worse, of course.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge. They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute. Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

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Not the most important thing, but giving yourself a bunch of high profile on-air assignments is pretty much the opposite of *managing* a major news organization.

This fills me with loathing and disgust. The news is now encouraging you to bet on disasters and wars and politics. CNN is a casino

“I think” is how a system run by a king or a dictator works. Here, we have a rule of law that says no one, and that includes the government, can murder people on a whim because it “thinks” they’re up to no good.

Ugh.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

At this point the Supreme Court must be furious that all the work they've done to legalize bribery and corruption was for nothing if Trump's just gonna pardon all corruption.

What this means in practice is that Cubans, Venezuelans, Haitians, and nationals of 16 other countries now will be unable to acquire ANY immigration benefit during until the USCIS Director lifts this hold — including people who were days away from become U.S. citizens.

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

Very weird to have grown up with the monoculture and for it to be so dead and buried now. Does make one wonder what nostalgia acts will be like 20-30 years from now.

it's advent you know what that means

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

named my fists garfunkel and oates 'cause they will crack you up

So here's the thing about comedians: There are *so* many of them. More than I could ever keep up with. And a lot are really good. So if you have one that's sex pest dipshit, I'm not really interested in their redemption arc, whether or not it's authentic. I've already moved on to new comedians.

It looks boring white people. And Leavitt's family is boring white people so that's fine as far as that goes. Bland and boring is the culture. I personally wouldn't proudly *share* that, but whatever. What's killing me is that it all looks cold. The "feast" should have been at least 20 minutes ago.

How did the White House not understand that this list would immediately become aspirational? Or even considered a minimum credential to be taken seriously as a political journalist?

Imagine it varies from jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction, but from where--legally--do police forces derive their authority? Aside from sheriffs, could a mayor or city council or governor just be like, "Per the union contract I'm not firing you, but as of now all law enforcement authority is rescinded."

So, troops were sent to DC to support law enforcement and now law enforcement is going to guard the troops sent to help them? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

in a reasonable world the Trump admin would be catching enormous amounts of shit for their decision to deploy the national guard now that this has happened, rather than the media helping manufacture consent for them ending all refugee programs I am not holding my breath

There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.

Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.

I'm blessed to not have a crazy uncle and want to make it clear that at no time did I request that the President step into that role today.

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen (I'll just go with the most recent five) The Wrecks The Beths Pinkshift Garbage The Wombats

When I read (and enjoyed!) Ready Player One in a single sitting while flying coast-to-coast some years ago, I assumed a sub-text of nostalgia brain rot and stagnation. Subsequent works by Ernest Cline and Spielberg's movie have shown me that that was not intended.

Well, that ramped up quickly. #Thanksgiving

As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help

I don't terribly care if the team had Excel and Word documents and was therefore compelled to use Co-Pilot at some level... ...but if a company discloses that that was their only use of AI, I'm inclined to trust them on gameplay.

Hey conference-organizers (sorry for addressing you in one of your professional capacities on a holiday). I posted this 5 days ago, and 65 artists have already applied. Many of them are PSYCHED, and many of them are extremely qualified. There's HUGE interest from artists in working w/scientists.

The most reactionary anti-immigrant policy in my lifetime cannot fail it can only be failed, both the absence and presence of violence against the state are seen as justifications for its continued and expanded brutality.

#TheOuterWorlds2 is, by almost all metrics, a better game than its predecessor. Better systems, looks better, plays smoother, way bigger without adding significant fluff, and it's still well-written, but...

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Given there's apparently a rule of No "Solo" Acts that keeps, say, Springsteen and Petty off this list (despite famously having the E Street Band and Heartbreakers, respectively), it's pretty funny to see Santana and especially NIN on here.

**minor spoilers** *** *** *** While it's only a subplot in this season's May I Ask For One Final Thing, I'd like to see more series with a POV of Normal People Dealing with an Isekai'd Weirdo hook.

1. Unwritten Law - Harmonic (self-titled/black album) 2. Authority Zero - A Passage in Time (A Passage in Time) 3. Portishead - Cowboys (self-titled) 4. Metric - Doomscroller (Formentera) 5. Tegan and Sara - Closer (Heartthrob)

"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.

Guillermo del Toro's Killer Klowns from Outer Space

Introduce yourself with four spaceships

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"