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I’ve been doing fantasy football since 1985, and you’re not wrong.
Wall Street Journal: Top of page one. NY Times: Bottom of page 19.
Weiss has one very specific skill of great value to the oligarch class— peddling reactionary authoritarianism to the disaffected middle class in a way that gets labeled as “common sense critical thinking.”
The old George Carlin line never fails about how 50% of people are below average...
For polio? For tetanus? For measles? Because that's what we're talking about here.
See also: "Some members of the court may claim that the lower courts are not following its guidance, but in fact it is the court itself that is doing so. It is at best ignoring and at worst defying its own precedent. It should hold itself to the same standard it demands of the lower courts."
Damn. Patrick Henry comes hard:
“Independent journalist Marisa Kabas was first to report on Borges’ resignation and his email’s disappearance in posts on Bluesky.”
The only two things it still does is omnibus spending bills (and debt ceiling stuff) that set a ceiling on spend, with subspending in it openly ignored and unclear if that would be circumvented in any case, and maybe confirming federal judges. Everything else at this point is actively suspended
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
I'm still mad that we spent a gazillion dollars on all sorts of stuff and we don't have HEPA filters in every school classroom.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
I worked in a movie theater that showed this. One of the all time great scenes, IMO.
Journalists ignored his well-documented history & wrote flattering articles about him. He’s doing the same shit he has for 40 YEARS. Did you actually think he’d stop being an anti-science profiteer? Of course not. Now he’s got the power and authority of the Federal government behind him. 2/
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
This is the way
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
I can
“..."In Covid’s Wake” [and] “The War on Science” – appear ever more clearly as advancing bad-faith arguments & contributing to the acceleration of attacks on science that undermine experts, expertise, & public health." joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...
as @70sbachchan.bsky.social emphasizes, this is **the** major geopolitical shift of this century.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill
I lived in Los Altos for 25 years. No sidewalks, to preserve the "rural character" and make it easy to trip at night in the dark. Minimal streetlights. Also, the street signs are impossible to read -- by design IMO. Because if you need to read the street signs you probably don't live there.
Atherton has been like this forever. I remember someone, 30 years ago, calling the police because a 7/11 Big Gulp cup was left at the end of their driveway.
Fed Chair Powell is silent on Trump's attacks on Lisa Cook. The Fed is buckling under.
senate dems made a deal to advance RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote within the first three weeks of the new administration & hold the vote on a thursday because a score of senators wanted to leave town on friday to attend a swanky european junket
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Good.
It is common for these searches to take days or weeks for lower priority requests. It’s a virtual certainty that there are murders walking around free who would be locked up if a gun found at a crime scene was able to be run through some kind of computerized database. www.gq.com/story/inside...
I’ve been dragging my feet on this one, but have moved it up on the list!
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.
Republican Congressman Mark Alford responds to angry constituents at his town hall: "If you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?"
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Someone tell DOGE a way that the gov't could have been more efficient, by not building a stunt concentration camp...
Next week it'll be September. So far no sign of Republicans standing up to Trump in any meaningful way.
Neil Gorsuch admit it: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/neil...
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
WTAF
Wow
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
You know, a friend of mine, his sister-in-law is a doctor in Toronto. Anyways, I feel like I’m gonna go have a nice dinner in Toronto in the next couple weeks, always wanted to try some of the restaurants up there. Absolutely no other reasons
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
i am sure most of u have seen those clips of the creepily sycophantic cabinet taking turns praising president trump one after another but did u know that meeting lasted three hours and fifteen minutes lol
… and this is the effect.
I'm more than a little gobsmacked at the Rumsfeld citation.
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
Hey, just gonna say here that I told you so. www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-mas...
2/3 The Supreme Court’s attempt to draw a line between the Fed and every other independent agency is transparent bullshit designed to simultaneously serve the conservative legal movement’s interest in deregulation via the “unitary executive” and corporate interests in not crashing the economy.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job
Cannot be emphasized enough that anti-housing NIMBYs in places like California and New York are objectively working to support a durable MAGA hold on Congress and the presidency.
Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...
“#LongCovid remains a hot topic among the public and researchers and has certainly raised awareness of postviral disease. Yet there persists an awkwardness, even a hostility, when it comes to the idea of SARS-CoV-2 undermining immune health.” www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Honestly amazing, I'm shaking my head about this every day. "Trump says..." -- so what? He lies all the time about literally everything.
Yep, there were two original sins, IMO. One was Biden should not have decided to run for reelection, and should have declared that early. The second was that Harris wasn't a great pick for VP to begin with. That being said, when he dropped out, she was the best choice at that time.
Reaching into the archives -- "Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to." Peggy Noonan, 2000.
Trump tariffs have increased wholesale vegetable prices by nearly 40%, the largest jump on record. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
How Google AI Surprised Me
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
The ICETrump Korean Hunters continue their courageous crackdown on immigrant classical musicians, engineers and researchers who are threatening the American way of life by existing and breathing
Ask and you shall receive. I was sent a polling/strategy memo that is being circulated in DC. It offers advice to Dems on Trump sending the National Guard to DC. "Distract" is used 10 times. "Stunt" four. I'll try to post it later, but I assume others have it as well.
“The musical community in Utah has been shocked after violinist John Shin was detained by ICE (the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Shin's wife, Danae Snow, has started a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for the retainer for his legal defense.” theviolinchannel.com/fundraiser-l...
There isn't a city, state, or county across this nation that doesn't have issues that make it far from perfect. None of that justifies military dictatorship as a governing solution.
I liked it, even though it is completely preposterous.
See? Trump even said that shit out loud! It's about the image. They're not gonna lose. Now project that attitude on to the upcoming elections and you'll get an idea of what we're talking about here
I was just about to say I can do a mile in less than 18 minutes and I’m 67.
Hard to see how an ethical district court judge could accept a plea as voluntary under these circumstances.
I’m a big fan of Kyla Scanlon, so I think it’s great she’s there. Young, very smart, not Ivy/“elite” background.
Finally getting around to @drilledmedia.bsky.social 's season on the Greenpeace/ Energy Transfer trial. It's very, very good and all of these people on the ET side deserve the worst, most tortured fate.
The bootlickers will just say this shows “it’s working.”
“America’s political gerontocracy is a genuine problem. It fuels dysfunction, distrust, and concrete negative policy consequences. We can’t sweep it under the rug any longer: too many of our high officeholders, including a disproportionate number of Democrats, are simply too old.”
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
I’m struggling to even come up with words for this story. DOGE intentionally got this family targeted for violence really for no reason except to substantiate their own lies.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
Probably doesn't matter much in the grand scheme. But I suppose the only useful thing left to do if you're on this Court, and KBJ seems to have this impulse, is shred their pretense of good-faith legitimacy and normalcy. Mock them, denigrate them, call them dishonest, and make them publish it.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
the newspaper that invented Whitewater, a fake-scandal about the Clintons *losing* 50 grand on a decade-old real estate deal, now calls *a campaign advisor trying to bribe reporters* a "bold departure from political norms"
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12 Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
It's goofy, I voted for him more than once, was OK doing it especially given the alternatives, and I still don't like him. I don't think I'm that unusual.
Mainstream media will never level-up to the "[Republican], who lies constantly, lied again" model of coverage that we need right now. RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
I think you might mean CFCs?
Audibly laughed, often. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
There are lots of very useful “driver assist” technologies that would be great for wider deployment, for example.
I'm insufferably, interminably on-record arguing that AGI discourse is alienating, historically untethered, and misleading (nymag.com/intelligence...). But now of its biggest boosters — and, as @himself.bsky.social points out, an influential figure in AI *and* foreign policy — says: ok, yeah
One of the biggest challenges to this is recognizing when something actually doesn't work, rather than doubling down on it.
I didn't learn about Tulsa until I was over 40. I know a woman who grew up there who was not taught about it in school.
This is among the reasons why I think the "defund" slogan was such a mistake; it allowed a deflection away from what the police were actually doing, and people said "see, these people just want more violence and no cops." "Demilitarize the police," "democratize the police," etc. would be better.
