This is THE Perfect Take.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

“We’re losing billions of dollars a year, but at least we’re telling teens to kill themselves”

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.

"I was wondering if maybe you could put directly in the newspaper that I'm mad?"

Scene from a subsequent conversation with the Darmok captain

lol yeah i bet he doesn’t

The company says it’s heartbreaking, they promise improvements, new guardrails. Anything but shutting it down. Suicide is just a metric in their ongoing beta test. Sam Altman and everyone like him should be in fucking jail.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

this must've been so annoying before computers

Wait my Twitter account has a banger lemme just repost it

What if Gavin Newsom trolled MAGA by not being a transphobic asshole who would rather tear down unhoused people’s shelter and throw away their possessions instead of meaningfully addressing what leads to people living on the streets?

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Cult cult CULT CULT

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

I think my motto for the rest of the year is going to be "it fixes what it fixes." Making dinner, finishing Chapter 5 revisions, doing my volunteer work: the fact that it doesn't fix EVERYTHING doesn't mean that it fixes NOTHING. The middle ground, where things fix what they fix, is where we live.

This isn’t even the first time it would happen - you can literally just go back to when Eric Adams first ran for mayor, and when he got into office, to see how the media manufactured a crime wave that helped push his pro-police agenda at the expense of every other city service.

the rye-tings on the wall for the trump doj

This is the kind of thing that can't just be let go. To really move past the Trump era, a future admin is going to have to make them hurt over this, like "triple the merger deal value" hurt. And it's going to have to be like that for everyone who bribed the admin.

Sandwich man leaving court

give us everything we want and we'll undo the crimes we did ♥️🥰

I'm glad Prop 50 passed. I don't fuck with Gavin Newsom. Find someone else.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Bodes well for Remake 3

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out

The case is a real grinder. But you only need one hero for a hung jury.

Since we have the time, people should really inform themselves about Newsom's specifically loathsome policies/statements against three extremely vulnerable and marginalized groups: the disabled, the unhoused, and trans people.

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count

i will never vote for Gavin Newsom. i want every other politician to look at how badly Newsom destroyed his own political career by pivoting to fascism & see it as a clear warning that the dignity of marginalized people is not negotiable.

Anyway, the other big lesson for politicians today: Go TERF, get turfed.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients

As a candidate won today who embraced trans rights remember Ezra Klein's thoughts on how to win modern elections was to not just reject their rights, but include throwing away reproductive rights as well... To move to the right, to go on their podcasts... guess who didn't?

There's something extra *yessss* about all this happening the day before the anniversary of the last election.

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

I need this video archived. I need to rewatch the moment that Zohran won while they played the Pina Colada song basically every day for the rest of my life

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028