Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Trump's spending the rest of his term starting wars and suing for peace until he gets the Nobel seems like the type thing that's too absurd to be true, and yet, there's a non-zero chance.

Remarkably, the Pope has become the most prominent voice speaking out against Christian Nationalism in the world.

powerful depiction flufftology among the Trump faithful

Was just thinking about this reading the Stancil discourse... When you're driving a 12+ year old car (as the average person does) which a few years from now you'll replace with a 5 year old car, but seeing ads for $50K SUVs, it's not surprising if you get the feeling that things aren't affordable.

The instant obliteration of our congressionally mandated development assistance agency—by the world’s richest man and his cabal who “gave zero fucks” (Musk’s exact words) about the mass deaths they caused—is a historic atrocity that should stain everyone who touched it, forever.

There's a lot going on in this clip but can we circle back to the "DoorDash GRANDMA" t-shirt for a second? Trump normalizing retirement-age gig workers tells you everything you need to know about the American economy under Republican leadership

If not antichrist, why antichrist-shaped?

Finally!

There is a very wide lane for Dems to put up this chart and say, ‘What if we simply didn’t do this.’ And showed how we could re-allocate the same money providing healthcare, infrastructure, etc. while still providing for policing/security.

Nice new (peer-reviewed) analysis of the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based astronomical observations. By Olivier Hainault from @eso.org 🔭https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09427

“The threat was overcome after 16 years with massive concerted effort, therefore there was never a threat” is just bizarre logic.

Is Donald Trump the Literal Antichrist? An Objective Inquiry In this essay, based on my regrettably excessive familiarity with the Left Behind books, I will... 🧵 1 / 666

Tired of all the Charles I and George III comparisons so giving Henry VIII a go.

Also they’re remembering when they were themselves children and didn’t personally experience the basic responsibilities of being an adult. Life really was easier for me in 1979, because I was 5 years old. Sheer childishness to wish for that as an adult.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

You know what would be amazing, if Vance can negotiate an agreement where Iran doesn't enrich above 3.67% (far below weapons grade); gets rid of 98% of its stockpile of uranium; has weekly inspections by the IAEA; and commits to all of this for at 10 years. Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

that's it? it's over? what the fuck. get back in that room and bang your heads together until we get something other than bombs in the strait and airmen being rescued by the PJs.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That race is filled with other Democrats people can vote for. He's especially replaceable in the California governor's race.

Could we maybe make it a norm that when someone in public life sends you an unsolicited nude, you post it all over social media? It seems like it could save a lot of people a lot of time and trauma...

Noting again that DC's neoclassical Rome-a-palooza lacks a triumphal arch because they are primarily associated with the post-republican imperial examples. They are monuments built by Caesars to themselves for their personal triumphs. That's why the one in France is Napoleonic, they're for emperors.

I had a feeling they wouldn’t hire him because of this.

"Oh I knew about this long ago" doesn't seem like a great admission?

This is driven by a huge drop in 13-17 year olds getting knocked up with no recourse so just take that into consideration

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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I have seen one good example of this plate

I didn’t know a dish towel was used for lee’s surrender, and more importantly that the towel has been preserved Thanks for that bit of knowledge!

On this day, 1865: the last Confederate flag, a white dish towel.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

It amuses me that a certain type of US politician thinks that everyone should be impressed at a country reaching 250 years old, and especially when it involves an institution that predates the modern calendar.

Congress should force every single federal employee who was present at this meeting to testify about it.

This guy is sorry he missed the Crusades.

good tsar bad boyars, international edition

Vote every Republican out.

Recklessly producing and then accepting a situation where a foreign power can restrict freedom of navigation is not just a strategic defeat, it is a reversal of the most fundamental foreign policy and national security priority of the United States since the founding of the republic.

This is a serious organization calling for the removal of the president. It is an important step. (It also underscores the degree to which J Street has supplanted AIPAC and the ADL as the most important, legitimate, moral Jewish advocacy entity in Washington.)

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

If you really want to game out the confrontation, taking this last point seriously is how Congress can force a president from office even if supermajorities are unobtainable. The power of the purse is the ultimate power. Not one dime for a tyrant, demand he resign or else *nothing* gets funded.

Yep.

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

“We propose to settle all the difficulty of the Dred Scott Decision by putting it into the Constitution. If a man is not a citizen of the country in which he is born, in God’s name of what country is he a citizen? If he may not live there, where has he a right to live?“

There has been white nationalist/Nazi content floating around in US political culture since the 1940s. What’s changed is that Trump’s GOP has become an institutional engine for amplifying and normalizing such garbage.