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Thanks @erictopol.bsky.social for the kind praise for #ScienceUnderSiege! Due out 9/9, by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, courtesy of #publicaffairs/@hachettelibrary.bsky.social/ #BasicBooks / @scribepub.bsky.social www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...
Prager U is utter 🐂💩!
At PragerU, police are not biased against black men, and man-made climate change is debatable. You’ll find takes on animal rights (against), the gender wage gap (doesn’t exist), and why the South turned Republican (nothing to do with race). From 2018:
🤑☣️47☢️🤑 Of course it does... l.smartnews.com/p-63IWyU4E/y... #DCOccupation #NationalGuard #racism #wasteandabuseofpower #homelessness
These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice. data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact. futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans. By @abrahm.bsky.social
'How is your heart doing at this very moment, at this breath?' When I ask, 'How are you?' that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list. — Omid Safi The Disease of Being Busy
Outside Dupont north metro
They are willfully blind to their own hypocrisy.
Robespierre where are you?
Oh my God
Everything she wrote is worth the time to read!👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
When people moved from a low to high walkability city the chance that they met physical activity guidelines rose from 22% to 43%. Improving zoning and pedestrian/biking/transit infrastructure has a massive health benefit to the residents of a city. abcnews.go.com/Health/movin...
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
Gavin’s gesture clearly says, “ here is a boundary”. While the orange dipshit’s gesture is more like, “you have a spot of Ukrainian blood on your tie there”.
The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”
More of these people please!
If you're playing rock, paper, scissors against a Republican, pick paper. www.pbump.net/o/how-to-win...
It was prescience not hysteria!
Also, unpaywalled here: Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
I am watching all the twilight zone episodes before canceling paramount this month. This episode should be seen by everyone immediately. It shows the custard of America too clearly. The GOP has embraced evil as virtue solely for power.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
LIVE: 8/10/25 Sen. Sanders holds 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in Asheville, North Carolina www.youtube.com/watch?v=5maP...
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Babylon Decoded woketabletalk.substack.com?utm_source=n...
Huge episode of #TheWeekendShow tonight at 8pm ET with special guest, Pulitzer Prize winner, David Cay Johnston on the antidote to Trump's tin-pot authoritarianism. @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/live/jHtXcqP...
It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.
Once upon a time, Woodward and Bernstein/Watergate made a young girl want to study journalism in graduate school and pursue it as a career. (I spent 6 years in radio news before pivoting full time to screenwriting.) I can't fathom that this is happening. That people are letting it happen.
North Carolina gerrymandered its state for the 2024 election-giving Republicans a majority in the House They used it to pass Trump’s Big Ugly Bill In return, he refused to release $100 million in funds pre-approved to help NC victims of Hurricane Helene Because-for Trump-loyalty goes only one way
Generations of whining about media bias really paid off for the American right badfaithtimes.com/the-media-bi...
Imbeciles.
Since the interviewee must remain anonymous, we are now calling this Moynihan's Law: "The easier a governmental task looks to an outsider, the more likely it has been found to be impossible by many smart people in the past."
If only they could.
Yes! This needs to happen! Our local Sinclair station is a right wing sewer pipe if biased garbage. The National Desk is just another FAUX NEWS garbage source of right wing agitprop. The local news runs the most fallacious 🐂💩 fed via Sinclair.
::Pay Attention:: ::Please Repost:: It's all coming out now Donny!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZa...
Makes me hate Tuesdays just to be difficult.
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
For the morbidly rich, Republican recessions and depressions are “buying opportunities”: it’s class war, plain and simple.
Consequences are hard.
We stand with Jack Smith. We will not be intimidated by those who attack the rule of law.
This 👇👇
There are sources of hope all around us. Find them. Cling to them. Never give up. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-hope
If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
Thanks to Karl Rove’s redmap gerrymandering 2010 North Carolina got hijacked. There needs to be an end to gerrymandering in the entire country. It is just a nasty form of cheating the electorate of its will.
It is really astounding to see the orange shit gibbon fire the head of the BLS over not being honest when we saw this week his cheating at golf. The pettiness and immaturity are simply staggering to behold.
Have you no shame sir?
If you haven't read this 2020 story about Trump and his modeling company you really should. He and Epstein were engaged in exactly the same behavior in the 90s. 40+ year old men preying on teen age girls. It's really something www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Off With Their Talking Heads! Post Helene, our local public radio station was our primary source for information about WNC disaster recovery efforts, assistance, and emergency supplies. DAMN THEM TO HELL, saith His Lordship and his Trump 2.0 Saboteurs. digbysblog.net/2025/08/02/o...
🧵1/4 The IRS opened the floodgates: churches can now endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing tax-exempt status. This isn’t about free speech. It’s about sanctifying dark money and turning religion into a political weapon. More of the white Christian nationalist agenda.
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.” I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Shame on any media outlet or university that allows Trump to silence it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/trump-silencing-of-american-media
Sometimes being graphic drives home the point better.
I just realized I really don’t care about apathy.
I just realized that I’ve been putting off making a decision about how I feel about procrastination and ambivalence.
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ICE=Gestapo #iceout #notofascism
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
If there's no Covid testing to track Covid, there's no Covid.
We are eating popcorn staring at the headlights of The oncoming train. We are playing chicken with our species’ precious civilization.
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
I love micro friction 🤔
Love groj sailz.
What do you mean?
Listening to Sean Hannity attacking a progressive candidate made me realize something. Sean Hannity is what one would create if one had to make an entire human being but they only had for materials a giant bag of assholes.
Sean Hannity is what one would create if one had to make an entire human being but they only had for materials a giant bag of assholes.
I hope to see an end to unbridled greed ruining the world soon. It isn’t just human nature to be greedy scum. It is also human nature to be generous and civic minded. We need our better natures to become guiding principles instead of our avarice and indifference.
They Finally Say What Was Clear As Day https://twp.ai/4ipu5L
We need to quit giving the morons megaphones.
Imbeciles run the school. Yes you know a person that died from the vaccine, BUT how many more by a factor of____ died from Covid. Just for an example. People are 8 times more likely to develop myocarditis from covid than from the vaccine!!!!
Do these alleged adults check under their beds at night and inside their closets for monsters before hiding beneath their sheets? One wonders. digbysblog.net/2025/07/30/m...
“Against stupidity we are defenseless.” -Dietrich Boehnhoffer
Some generations were asked to storm beaches. Ours is being asked to stay engaged. That’s not too much to ask. I wrote this piece not just as a veteran or former congressman but as a dad. We are not the generation that lets this flame die. Not on my watch adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
Maddening!
Dean's 50 State plan was working until Obama won the WH and Kaine took over the DNC. Bring it back. www.governing.com/archive/gov-... www.tiktok.com/@at.our.tabl...
Roy Cooper raises $3.4 million in first 24 hours of his Senate candidacy. The former North Carolina governor set a fundraising record with his day-one campaign haul.
Trump admits that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young girls from him at Mar-a-Lago’s “spa” and brought them into his child sex trafficking ring. This includes Virginia Giuffre who died by suicide in April.
Maybe it would have been better to actually understand Jesus’ teachings and be tolerant and kindly compassionate here in the US. Our propaganda diet is seriously dangerous for us all. I feel sorry for this poor, unwise man and his family.
The MAGA stupidity is unrivaled.
good piece www.motherjones.com/environment/...
"The differences between the extremely rich and ordinary people are greater and much more politically salient than they used to be. As the rich become more isolated from mortal concerns, their weirdness effloresces." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-rich-a...
Eyes wide shut was a documentary.
It's official. @RoyCooperNC is in.
We own two Teslas and we regret it. He is just another example of our failure as a species to produce good people. I look forward to the day his behaviors collide with his profit margins.
We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have ever been in my lifetime. The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/28/bullies-moral-lives-robert-reich
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Not “overblown.” False.
We must try to do better. Soon.