My sister is a scientist who scoffs at tv and movies that set up labs with beakers and flasks with liquids in a variety of colors, or have things explode when they wouldn't, or take off or put on protective gear at the wrong stage.
My sister is a scientist who scoffs at tv and movies that set up labs with beakers and flasks with liquids in a variety of colors, or have things explode when they wouldn't, or take off or put on protective gear at the wrong stage.
That garden is gorgeous (and I covet the little side table in the library), but you know there's an Agatha Christie villain lurking beyond that arch.
I've worried about CBP hunting migrants for sport. This seems like they're playing video games in real life.
She's right about most things which is why that stood out.
We still say "but first, then tranya" whenever it might fit, like yes, I'd like more broccoli, but first, the tranya.
I pronounced grotesque grow-teh-skew. A 50+ year old work friend pronounced facsimile face-eh-mill.
We just watched your interview. I'm impressed every time you're on by how you are thorough and concise, forceful and civil, and keep the literally vital issues at the center. Thank you.
I don't get why they have rules that sick kids need to come to school, and COVID is not an exception. Our grandkid's schools considered it an unexcused absence. But our grandkids' teachers did use the air cleaners we sent in for their classrooms.
ASHRAE started posting information pretty early on. It was tricky at first before people were convinced it was airborne. Decision-makers also didn't necessarily know which resources could help them make informed choices. ashrae.org/technical-re...
Egad.
Not remotely as cute, though.
This is an absolute disgrace.
He really is. I keep thinking his name is Tom, but that was the hockey player.
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is so right. Too many Dem politicians chase money rather than trying to win with their message, not calling out Reps for failing in areas like public safety & offering alternatives, going after AOC rather than building a bigger voting base. @nicollewallace.bsky.social‬
Aqualung, Songs from the Wood, Living in the Past, Thick as a Brick, War Child. If he likes The Who - Quadrophenia, Who's Next, By Numbers. Heart and Queen could fit.
Wow.
He's still confident that his bold strategy of occasionally scowling in the general direction of the White House will pay off.
Absolutely. And the idea that tariffs will help Americans because they can cut income taxes if the US takes in enough from tariffs, when income tax cuts for lower income people won't offset the higher prices they'll be paying. Their priority is helping the people who least need help.
He's also setting the groundwork for suppressing free speech and opposition by calling for the National Guard to train to respond immediately to situations he deems dangerous and be ready to shoot people. He wanted to shoot protesters in his first term. He'd happily order shooting of BLM protesters.
Nor does a society that tells them that it's someone else's fault they're unhappy, and that guns and shooting are signs of strength and masculinity. And that all publicity is good publicity (going out in a hail of gunfire and glory).
Good for them. This is dangerous and tragic. The CDC has been the gold standard, stepping up in so many critical situations. Trump is causing so much damage that will be incredibly difficult to repair. I wish congress had even a wisp of the courage and integrity of these people.
It would be nice if this would inspire them to be less destructive rather than figure out ways to crack down more on opposition.
He is setting us up to destroy our economy completely and to tank the dollar. Musk, Thiel and PayPal gang want to destroy all of Western banking. www.morganstanley.com/insights/art...
I worry that they are undermining the economy of the country they want totalitarian/oligarchical control over - do they think AI & crypto will substitute for innovation & stability, or plan to treat the non-rich as slaves and build on their backs? Or are they really ignorant & following Putin?
It's frightening what they're doing. Their plan to have the National Guard geared up to suppress protests at Trump's orders should be getting more attention that it is. Watching Nick Shifrin on PBS Newshour last night acting like it's prudent emergency preparation was spiking my blood pressure.
How is it surprising to them that Trump is getting support from the court that is freely abandoning precedent to make sure Trump can do whatever he wants?
We lost our guardrails. The rightwing long game by the Federalist Soc, Heritage Fdn and RW billionaires got the right judges, electeds, and media heads. Citizens Utd gave them election control. Media + money gelded Dem politicians. Add entrenched racism, anti-intellectualism, and Russian bots.
They're possessed by Susan Collins.
Witkoff seems like a Putin representative, and this fits.
They are scum.
He's persuaded them that his ability to recognize a picture of a giraffe and remember 5 words makes him a (very stable) genius.
Trump wants to be Putin.
So many red flags.
Like so many other things, if the Biden or Obama administrations did this, Dems and Reps would be holding hearings and threatening action.
Trump's Supreme Court shadow docket will probably reverse that.
I looked for info from to two different AI sources on a current policy and they gave me opposite answers.
Why even play the games? They could just do a whole AI-generated animated football league, and we can watch the games with our AI imaginary friends.
I so love that one of the authors is named Wrigley-Field.
This is how we do it. Find more of these candidates. open.substack.com/pub/politics...
I wouldn't be surprised if she made exceptions for people who aren't white.
I was just thinking he looks like he should play the drunk jackass in a sitcom set in a sleazy bar.
How long until he gilds those busts?
He rode past a homeless encampment and his reaction was to say it was too ugly for him to see, not that as president he might be able to help these Americans. He threatens them with jail and fines - that'll help them get housing. Now this. If he's cruel enough, they'll straighten up and get rich?
I just shared this quote with a scientist friend. The look on her face.
Reps have prepared for this for a long time. For years if they've been called out for lawlessness, they've responded in unison that they're being treated unfairly. They've called the media liberal for long enough that it's accepted. So now they have free rein. And Dems get blamed for any fallout.
If Obama had done that, he'd've been impeached for it.
It's not a great sign when a Republican is a better Democrat than our house leader.
I've never had the water level in a river raised so I could kayak.
I wish his reaction had been to try to do something to help homeless people.
That's lovely.
We just saw that on the news. Seatbelt + tinted windows = 96 shots if you're Black.
Argentina, maybe Hungary if Orban remains. Some more at least nominally as long as we have money. Only the best.
We're heading that way. When he was asked about the starvation in Gaza and his first thought was to ponder whether starving people thanked him for aid they're not getting because of our support of Natanyahu? And this arrogance doesn't do anything arguably positive except to feed his ego.
My WWII dad would be so angry, and terribly sad, as would my WWI grandpa. What an utter betrayal of every honorable person who has served this country.
They're gonna show us, again, that they are Quislings.
Yes - keep yourselves safe and help teach these monsters that there are costs to treating your neighbors, allies, visitors, immigrants, and foreign workers like dirt.
It scares me that people who are aware of things it does well think that means that it's ready to roll out for other uses and we should all just embrace it.
It's another huge red flag. They're aiming for totalitarianism and it's scary how easily they're able to progress.
Outrageous. Trump thinks he owns the world, and above him there's only Putin.
Please do something to help homeless people. They're being pushed out and classed as criminal instead of being helped or given options. Housing in the US is unaffordable for many people, and we have 600K+ medical bankruptcies/yr before Trump cancels coverage.
I was, and no. It may have made it worse since you couldn't get away from them. An English friend has a similar feeling about Phil Collins.
Stunning.
It's such a time waste.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a series of stamps with confederate generals.
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Tariffs magically fix the budget and economy, deporting non-European immigrants will fix crime, stopping COVID testing to reduce case numbers - Trump likes causing mass damage rather than doing the research and systematic work to actually improve things.
He's a bully.
Someone should check his laptop.
I thought that was Trump at first.
Flag desecration.
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I used to listen to news & commentary on YouTube at work, and for a while there, if I listened to PBS Newshour or Al Jazeera, it'd roll from that to Jordon Peterson or Prager U. I hadn't heard of either of them before, and wow, they're awful. I thought Prager U was a spoof, it was that bad.
Yes, and they won't stop there.
This is on my list for when I retire.
He's not complaining about Trump calling immigrants murderers and rapists and the worst of the worst, and not just encouraging violence against them but allocating a ton of money for people to attack them and throw them in torture prisons. He's got the same smug face as Bessent and Lutnick.
So proud of our new name. The state borders are a bit trippy. CEOKELA is land-locked now.
Some of the "waste, fraud, and abuse" was departments doing their jobs.
When I was 8 and my sister was 9, our parents got us French provincial furniture with little gold-painted frilly decorations. Trump's oval office is a gaudier, tackier version of what appealed to us when we were little girls.
The umbrellas look like they might get thrown onto a WNBA court. He's so tacky.
Daniel looks like a sociopath.
I think people are choosing to incorporate AI into work functions without understanding it well enough to know what it's suited to do or whether it's trust-worthy. My boss is an enthusiast because of some cool things it can do in imaging which is great but doesn't mean it should choose new hires.
That poor child.
Our congress is well-stocked with people old enough to know this. I can understand how proudly ignorant Lauren Boebert wouldn't have foundational knowledge, but not how Grassley, Thune, Crapo, etc. are putting personal power and influence ahead of the survival of American principles.
This is item maybe 3847 on my How Is This Happening and the Republican Senate is Okay With It list.
We've gotten notices about cutting administrative jobs and other measures to slash 10s of millions from the budget and a few days later another notice about a new posh sports stadium. I get that the funding sources are different, but it didn't go over well.
If someone had done something, it would distract from Epstein. He made good use of his bloody ear.
We can't afford USAID but we can afford to reinstall monuments to traitors and racists.
Thank goodness she's safe. This should not have been done to her.
I'd love it if MSNBC did more investigative reporting. We just watched a John Oliver segment, and were wishing MSNBC had more investigation and more focused discussions like Chris Hayes had on his weekend show.
Some years ago there were pundits who said if Republicans were responsible for a Dinesh D'Souza op-ed, then Democrats should be blamed for anonymous comments on websites.
Las Vegas has been Trumped.
We need some more people who aren't rich in decision-making positions.
It's not just disgust with him, it's also how much of the infrastructure for charging them is through Tesla which is owned by someone unreliable. The US shouldn't trust him with anything essential or should build in meaningful safeguards.
He chose Lawrence Taylor to be on his school fitness commission.
I wish these folks could see that there are public goods and things that strengthen the country as well as help people living here that are not profit-generators, and that profit isn't the only measure of value.
Not funny at all. It's one of many red flags in their dismantling every trusted institution as part of their plan to turn the US into a corrupt, oppressive oligarchy.
Seeing this story after one about $50K signing bonuses for new ICE recruits boils my blood. Pouring money at arresting high school kids and young parents and sending people to torture facilities because of autism tattoos, but cutting off an essential news, culture, and education resource is immoral.
Privatization of the postal service would more likely leave tiny towns with no service than any sort of improvement.
Sounds Trumpy.
States starting with C can't redistrict but states starting with T can. States starting with North or South can, but states starting with New can't.