I saw that headline. That phrasing would make Breitbart jealous.
I saw that headline. That phrasing would make Breitbart jealous.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
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He will blame lots of things, but I will go for a long shot: I expect them to affirm the risk of older mothers and deny the risk of older fathers. May the AI-generated meta-analysis lottery begin!
In my mind, there was a period of time when the GOP could have walked away from Trumpism and salvaged some integrity. A handful of Republicans did. That was a long time ago. Everyone remaining is complicit.
The whole MAHA thing is horrifying, maybe worse than Lysenkoism.
Yep, though Uganda said they won't take deportees with criminal records. Parse that one for a second. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
Not you making me check the indoor CO2 levels again.
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Whoopsy
I think different methods of persuasion work for different people, so I am reluctant to shut down rational counterarguments as a tool. Sometimes I think humor normalizes atrocity, but some people can use it to great effect to resist. I follow you because you are an expert on online disinformation.
Honestly, considering the increasing frequency of his mental lapses, that's a real possibility.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
This is very much not normal.
Don't give them ideas. Next they will have aromatherapy humidifiers and massage driver seats.
It was never about crime. They could help reduce the huge rate of SA in Alaska with a tiny fraction of this investment. But that wouldn't be a flashy totalitarian flex.
This lack of differentiation in law enforcement roles is alarming. There is zero concern for accountability, which has the effect of a suspension of civil rights even without declaring it.
There is a big element of the fascist mythic past strategy in RFK Jr.'s rhetoric.
I'm PhD in graphic design and Cracker Barrel's REAL problem is they didn't go *far enough*
If an alien civilization found out that we just let people drive multi-ton vehicles manually at highway speeds — deadly objects that can be steered in any direction at whim — they would be appalled.
Well it's not Reaganomics, but no one is exhuming him for an opinion. But I think we are in the era of "communism is when woke".
www.reuters.com/world/us/hea... "The move is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to penalize current and former military, intelligence and law enforcement officials whose views have been at odds with Trump." Translation: Trump is at odds with the truth.
So basically stopped because of environmental impact. I wonder how long that will hold with the destruction of the EPA.
On the bright side, now we have a fresh list of state governors who will support this mad king's behavior no matter what, as this is obvious Trump narcissism with no rational justification.
So if a hurricane hits Louisiana, what is Landry's plan?
Great news. Unfortunately: "[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] has several times endorsed an unsupported contention that peanut allergy is caused by childhood vaccinations. Earlier this year “peanut allergies” appeared on a list of topics that would cause grants to get extra scrutiny within the NIH."
If a business did this, it would face RICO charges.
If this were a police chase, there would be a huge amount of paperwork to file for this reckless pursuit. What happens when ICE does it? Is it even documented?
I will leave it to the experts to debate whether there might be better firearm choices than the M17 for authoritarian oppression, but if such details help convince the public that this is a bad idea, so be it. But I don't think the regime is concerned with the "optics" of a capital takeover.
Yeah, Nuremberg redux.
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
The National Guard is going to have an even harder time recruiting if potential recruits decide their time and skills will be wasted like this and not used for actual emergencies. The whole operation is narcissistic, tin pot dictator stuff.
BREAKING: In a blatantly unconstitutional move, Trump announces plans for a new executive order aiming to eliminate mail-in voting ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Constitution grants states, not the president, the primary authority to regulate elections. From: @jimsaksa.com
Deplorable. They are probably still identifiable.
The proverb, "He who rides the tiger is afraid to dismount" comes to mind. The political calculations on the right in the US involve far more than just fear of primary challenges. Credible and frequent death threats await those who cross the President. Campaigns today resemble a mafia survival game.
The lead up to this panel was what made it so powerful. I was reading it casually, then this part came and suddenly I thought, "I was not trained for this."
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It was well known that he was a Christian nationalist when he was nominated. This is from 2024: share.google/ofIypkjFnQVP...
There is a huge cascade effect when this happens. There are graduate students worldwide who come to the US just to breathe the same air as Terence Tao. This kind of destructive policy sets things back for generations.
I seriously don't think that most Americans understand how this looks for the US.
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to losing funding. This regime's fear of truth, education and Muppets is limitless. share.google/6v8fzxTr60qV...
2/2 ...adopted in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men out of Women's Sports (Feb. 5, 2025). EO 14168 is facing a lot of lawsuits. It should not stand.
1/2 The University will define "male" and "female," for the purpose of all practices, policies, and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions
"But nine scientists across several different disciplines told WIRED that the report mishandled citations of their work by cherry-picking data, misrepresenting findings, drawing erroneous conclusions, or leaving out relevant context." www.wired.com/story/scient...
No need to go to Geneva if they just wanted a VAT.
Somehow which direction the man was going is an open question in my mind if I just read the title. Not sure what that says. apnews.com/article/mexi...
It is exhausting to watch this giant game of Constitutional whack-a-mole.
I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.
You can feel the frustration of these appointees, who seem to be resisting the urge to say, "Look, we both know I was put in charge of this department in order to destroy it. It was all spelled out in Project 2025. Now let me get back to the looting I was hired to do."
Starting to look like Pinochet. Pretty soon there will just be OAN, Newsmax and some Christian Nationalist channel.
While it is great to challenge this in court, awareness is also critical. The GOP is relying on friction to reduce turnout in certain demographics. It doesn't seem like the process to get a state-issued photo ID in Indiana is hard and there is still ample time, but students procrastinate.
Not at all ominous to watch in real time as the journalistic home of Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, etc turns into Dollar General Fox
The whole cabinet is a maelstrom of conflicts of interest and corruption. More importantly, they feel they can act with impunity. The only surprising thing is that it wasn't done earlier.
They were probably ignoring him from day 1.
Ah, yes. Imagine a guy who runs FEMA but is unaware the US has a hurricane season: FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say | Reuters share.google/LFB9BVbp7bno...
I have noticed that the regime's justification is always about some kind of mandate. They don't refer to the constitution, as they sure as hell don't want people to read that. It is always an appeal to what can only be called the divine right of kings. Those pesky laws are always getting in the way.
Just put on the hot dog suit, Attorney General. youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?...
Then a very special episode of Sesame Street where ICE raids and grabs any Muppet speaking Spanish.
Soon there will be ICE Agent action figures and children's books.
One of Trump's biggest promises when running the first time was to "repeal the Johnson amendment". That didn't quite happen then, but it did get weakened. That "deal" — made with powerful church leaders — probably helped him beat Ted Cruz in the GOP primaries.
Summer power outages are predicted.
The Medicaid cuts begin after the midterm elections. If the Democratic strategy is just fear mongering, voters will just be outside listening to the birds sing and thinking everything is fine and concerns are overblown. That's worrisome.
He keeps oscillating styles between tin pot dictator and mafia boss.
Excessive use of "mandate" or "the will of American voters" is also authoritarian rhetoric, especially when referring to blatantly unconstitutional executive orders.
Voter Dasein forgets they were going to be racing toward death either way.
There is a reason asking, "are you better off now than four years ago?" is so effective. Aging sucks, and posing that question in a political context distracts voters from accounting for it.
"At FDA, we’re accelerating drug approvals so that you don’t need to use primates or even animal models." And when that fails, I guess the plan is that we will have plenty of people stripped of human rights for expedient drug testing. I think I know the direction of this "acceleration" vector.
We need philosophers — yes, those "useless" liberal arts majors — to shout out loud the complexity of this problem. We need them more than ever. The people with vast power are very naïve.
I have serious doubts about whether the AI alignment problem is solvable. The most obvious challenge is, "aligned with what?" We elect leaders not with vast intellects but with vast power, which is the real threat of H.G. Wells' Martians. All too often they are deeply unsympathetic.
"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us." H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Bravo! Some jokes normalize atrocity.
Some jokes just normalize atrocity.
All the votes were decisive. That's why the VP got to break the tie. Maybe some people expected more from Senator Murkowski, but we still need to talk about the other GOP Senators who sold out and are lying to their constituents.
So they'll be halting munitions to Israel, too, right?
I feel really bad for the experts still at the HHS who somehow escaped the layoffs and have to put up with this nonsense. Without doubt, many will just go somewhere else. The US is going to suffer a colossal brain drain.
Certainly. Which historical or current regimes are most analogous, in your view? I'd like to read about them to get a better perspective.
I am not a psychologist, but I think this is what they mean by "callous affect", one of the traits of psychopathy. I know there is this Goldwater rule and it's unethical to diagnose public figures, but I am curious if this behavior would be called "callous affect". What do experts think?
We all must stand up and reject Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”. We must make our voices heard.
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor shot back, 'When you’re 1 percent of the population or less, [it’s] very hard to see how the democratic process is going to protect you. Blacks were a much larger part of the population and it didn’t protect them. It didn’t protect women for whole centuries.'"
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
NEW: I wrote about ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the deranged Trump and DeSantis collab to imprison thousands of migrants in tents surrounded by deadly wild animals, the speed-running of mass deportation and the language of extermination.
I saw a band named, 'The Specious Presents' but their rhythm sucked.
a big debate in philosophy of mind is 'how long is conscious experience?'. answers include '30 milliseconds', '3 seconds', 'a dozen or so seconds' and 'until you fall asleep'
BREAKING: if the Supreme Court wants a class action to hold Trump's birthright citizenship unconstitutional nationwide, we will give them one! We @democracydefendersaction.org just filed with our wonderful partners @aclu.org, NAACP LDF, LULAC & more assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
You beat me to it. What's up with that guy?
When exposed to UV-C, the most radiation-resistant life form on Earth died in less than a minute. Not so for a hardy black lichen known as Clavascidium lacinulatum. It just kept going and going, even when scientists continued to blast it for moths. Really cool story by @hannah-richter.bsky.social
I have been fantasizing about lichens on Mars since I first read about the possibility as a boy.
There is not much explanation in this article for the exact reasons behind the cancellation of journals, but the Ed Martin sending threatening letters to science journal publishers is (maybe not coincidentally) Trump's "pardon attorney". www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
There is not much explanation in this article for the exact reasons behind the cancellation of journals, but the Ed Martin sending threatening letters to science journal publishers is (maybe not coincidentally) Trump's "pardon attorney". www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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His "Coach PAC" raised millions to defeat...wait for it...Jeff Sessions in 2020. (Although Trump throwing Sessions under the bus helped). Now he wants to be governor of Alabama. Hi, Alabama. You deserve better.
you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening
Here are Ogles' top contributors. Aside from being a Freedom Caucus plant, which is to be expected, another notable funder is AIPAC. I don't know if that motivates him to attack Mamdani, but it's certainly considered acceptable by his part of the GOP.
So the L.A. Story "I will be your robber today" scene was prescient, only the muggers are the government. youtu.be/eVMTfGQe51g?...
This won’t succeed but it is not normal. This is very dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I guess voters in the 15th district in Illinois find that $200 tax on suppressors to be a burden and are flooding her phone lines and e-mails.
Since it is now established that Gabbard will simply fire anyone who produces a report that would make the President look bad, how can we distinguish this from propaganda?