Chard Nelson

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Before he trashed it with the Ilhan Omar search, AG Blanche was quite passionate about DOJ's 60-day rule against "actions that may have an impact on an election," which must "never be countenanced." And that was just a judge-ordered filing in a case indicted more than a year before the election.

She done lost her damn mind.

No American should have to walk past soldiers to vote!

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

106 Years Ago Today: Cleveland Indians second baseman Bill Wambsganss turns the first and only unassisted triple play in #WorldSeries history! Here's Bill posing with the three Brooklyn Dodgers players that he got out! (October 10, 1920) #MLB #Baseball #Guardians #Postseason

My take on what Democrats should do in the majority  newrepublic.com/article/2161...

People say Bluesky is a bubble, but mostly it's because the entire rest of the internet is an absolute sewer

Pocket, a small, indoor fool, makes Jeopardy tonight.

The BBNJ Agreement just reached 100 ratifications! We celebrate this milestone and look ahead to a strong network of protected MPAs on the high seas. Congrats to Germany, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Australia & Brunei Darussalam. Now: turn ratification into real, lasting ocean protection.

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Everything you need to know about Mike Johnson's character and the GOP's views on sexual harassment can be seen in the way he handled the censure of Chuck Edwards as compared to the way Kevin McCarthy handled Adam Schiff's:

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.

the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

DO IT NO MATTER WHAT.

I Remember, Hope you do….

Slotkin: "The president is using an authoritarian playbook I have seen tons of times abroad, where he's sowing misinformation & disinformation about our elections...it culminates in a in him creating a security incident that requires uniformed military or federal law enforcement to go to the polls."

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

When corporate tax rates were 90% it created incentive for money to go back in to the company, so a lot went to R&D. Now it all goes into the pockets of executives and shareholders. Tax corporations.

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

Crowd on the National Mall at the Folklife Festival in the 1980s (photo: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives).

More green herons because they are so pretty. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

NEW Trump has now opened all five U.S. marine national monuments to commercial fishing, ending long-standing fishing restrictions across millions of protected ocean acres. Conservationists warn the move puts habitat for whales, sea turtles, sharks, and coral reefs at risk.

live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.

Today In 1932: Legendary manager John McGraw steps down as the skipper of the New York #Giants and retires from baseball. He finishes his career with an amazing 2,763 wins! #MLB #Baseball #History #SFGiants

Don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't get 4 cognitive exams in 18 months unless they're monitoring your dementia.

"Instead of getting to enjoy a planet bursting with life and love, I have to watch while the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet kill everything in their path on their quest to hoard the most amount of money possible."

It takes strength to look the person who could fire you in the eye and tell them that both they and their boss are giant pieces of trash. You usually don't win, but you definitely leave a mark, and you write your place in history. That's what Scott Pelley did today.

FYI this is the test Trump is bragging about “acing” 4 times It’s a fucking embarrassment that his handlers are still letting him gloat about this like it’s some extreme act of intellect

freedom of the press and freedom of assembly now require laboriously pantomimed air quotes

It’s weird how Trump can go scorched earth on any Republican who advocated releasing the Epstein files and the media doesn’t treat it like a pretty conclusive admission of guilt.

Four-wheel FAFO www.fox6now.com/news/driver-...

Jon Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, the first family's wealth is growing by billions. Because they're crooks. And everybody knows it." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

The facts: -Bezos paid $0 fed'l income tax in 2007 -He paid $0 in '11 -Btn '14-19, his wealth grew by $99 BILLION and he paid $973 million in taxes. Sounds like a lot but it's 0.98% of his wealth growth (which is his true income). www.propublica.org/article/the-...