Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

What if we just had laws passed by Congress, without the personalist authoritarian grift & arbitrary policy cycling?

Following in detail the fascist playbook, teachers are a special target for firing, and any pretext will do. But allegedly slandering a cult icon is the classic pretext for such steps.

Both physics profs who consult for superhero movies and writers of superhero comic books who know their physics enjoy my new book THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES GOES HOLLYWOOD. Bringing people together - it's what I do!😉

I have purchased a mid-sized cat tower so that Ariel can sit next to me at my desk and get scritches while I am writing. Everyone wins here.

Mindscape 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge. #MindscapePodcast iykyk www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

If anyone in the Democratic Party had a brain they’d be pulling out all the stops to spin up some offensive litigation to blow up or delay any sale. Everything Trump has done here is egregiously illegal, and TikTok has major US competitors who would surely like to see it die. What are you doing??

Spinoza died at the age of 44 because he inhaled the dust from the lens grinding that he had to do for his job because he got excommunicated and refused to profit from it by joining the enemy party of those who excommunicated him

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form

With the unlawful Caribbean strikes, Trump officials are claiming the right to kill anyone merely by saying the targets are drug dealers—no real evidence needed—and by saying drug dealers are terrorists. The same week, they're claiming that criticism of Charlie Kirk is promoting political violence.

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

"Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact." Although the executives made a lot of money. Seems a tad unfair putting Jobs in the picture considering he passed away a decade ago.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

just formalizing a big part of Our Current Crisis, the utter collapse of Congress as an institution

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

The entire @wired.com politics package is full of easter eggs and visual insanity. This might be my favorite. The Washington Post didn't seem to need the slogan anymore, so...happy to take it off their hands for a minute.

Don’t take it from me, take it from my brilliant colleague @markhisted.org. At what point do we stop giving weight to the words of those who are ignorant, malicious, and/or ideologues and listen to the scientists about the destruction Jay & his cronies are inflicting on American science?

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

🏺 Can never get enough of this late prehistoric world where trees meant not just wood to people, but also bark/bast (and in other cases, roots) as a widely utilised material, likely with particular symbolic associations different to other fibres.

on LinkedIn, go to Me - Settings & Privacy - Data Privacy - and set Data for Generative AI Improvement to Off

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

This exact word-for-word quote has appeared in my FB timeline about a dozen times, each time attributed to a different professional athlete. It’s always by some account that sounds like a fan account, none of which I subscribe to. Just a cesspool of misinformation and AI slop.

Our last paper recently published in Invertebrate systemaics is out! Miocene diversification of the genus Pisidia on the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Read the full article here: www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS24100

I’m more of a free markets guy than a capitalism guy, but I suspect much of this shift is due to the unfortunate and incorrect association of both with Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

With unabashed authoritarianism on full display, public may have also reached an inflection point. Politically disengaged Americans may not follow details of court fights but maneuvers like firing a comedian at behest of the president just might rouse ordinary folks who know this is un-American.

Goh...

Why Won’t America’s Business Leaders Stand Up to Donald Trump? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Your astonishing artifact this week is a bronze statuette of a Roman actor pretending to fart. 🎭💨🏺

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Yup. It’s not about winning over republicans; it’s about defeating the left

The US economy has a new problem: Democracy is under siege www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/b...

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

Debunking Myths of Political Violence in America - new podcast interview with @milkepescs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lghi... (YouTube)

WSJ: "Cardboard-box demand is slumping .. to the lowest levels since 2016. On a per-capita basis, the drop is even sharper, with box shipments per American down more than 20% from their 1999 peak." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/car...

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Oh no. It's Monday again. Isn't it.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

what are we even doing here

Inside the Mysterious Smuggling of the El Ali Meteorite www.scientificamerican.com/article/insi...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

Why the clean energy revolution can outrun the Trump administration www.vox.com/podcasts/462...

Gizmodo Science Fair: An Experiment to Recreate the Smell of Ancient Mummies gizmodo.com/gizmodo-scie...

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Physics Experiment Turned Lead Into Gold gizmodo.com/gizmodo-scie...

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Spacecraft That Hunts Down Space Junk gizmodo.com/gizmodo-scie...

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...