Charles Scott

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Gotta love the Brits!

My latest on the #wildfires burning across the Northern Hemisphere: time.com/article/2026... via TIME

Likely gonna take a pass (ahem) on season pass for upcoming ski season. www.nature.com/articles/d41... unofficialnetworks.com/2026/07/15/e...

Everyone should read this really informative posting from @zekehausfather.com about the Boreal forests, the Boreal forest fires, and climate change. Expert knowledge and information. bsky.app/profile/zeke...

The mind boggles, absolutely. What a horror show. Utterly dystopian. I can only hope they didn't ban Plato's Symposium. I totally get why they would ban Republic (partially because they misunderstand its thesis). Read the entire thread and stay tuned to when Dr. Hester reveals the entire list.

Wow. J.D. Vance just can't resist going theological ... and getting it badly wrong. Advising the Pope to be careful about matters of theology. I recall Nobel Laurate Bob Dylan had a something to say about God being on *your* side. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Trump just wished everyone a ‘happy’ Good Friday, my dude has zero clue as to the story of Jesus which is ironic as a bunch of Evangelical MAGA freaks worship the sorry POS. The only Bible he ever touched was upside fn down.

Interesting to compare what is in this article to, um, present day events .... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

Everyone should see (and think about) this: Sir Ian McKellen as Sir Thomas More, in a play partly written by Shakespeare, pleading for some humanity with respect to immigration. Sadly so relevant today. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Don’t count your chickening-out before it’s hatched.

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump to NY Times: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” Somehow, that is not so reassuring. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

William Shakespeare, through the voice of Sir Thomas More, has a few thoughts in response to Trump's hideous and paranoid xenophobia on full display on Wednesday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceE...

This is one of the ways science is destroyed. What amounts to petty vengefulness.

A great review by Dr. Jacobs of an utterly horrid research project that would NEVER be approved by an IRB/REB. The new gold standard science? This clearly shows why RFK Jr. is such a danger.

A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

Let's be clear: She knew. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social knew long before so many others.

“For decades, the media did not cover Epstein. They covered *for* Epstein.” From 2022, from the chapter “Epstein Wasn’t the First”, featuring Landon Thomas Jr.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social had the goods on Trump, Epstein, and others years ago. Read her book "They Knew." It will curl your hair when you read the details.

Wouldn’t be surprised if new Lincoln WC had some hidden cameras installed during remodel-would venture to say it’s part of his motivation. That’s a go-to Trump move re: Mar a Lago & TT. Those ‘free’ condos he gave Miss Universe & Apprentice contestants came with a cost. Pervert.

Another fantastic essay by @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social. Noel gets to the heart of what makes Trump such a danger. Wonderfully written; searingly insightful. In a nutshell: pay attention to the aesthetics; they tell us much about Trump's deformed character. noelcasler.substack.com/p/breakdown?...

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. This is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first." - Six former U.S. surgeons general, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Needed some light relief

I hope America can awaken to what is happening. As someone who has traveled to China six times since 2010 on behalf of my university, I have witnessed the meteoric rise of these Chinese universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Good grief, the Edmonton school board has gone full bonkers, removing books from shelves. The perfect irony is in removing Brave New World, 1984, and The Handmaid's Tale. globalnews.ca/news/1135609...

This clip needs to be spread far and wide. Of all the insane things he has said and done in the past few days, this is perhaps the most chilling. Right out of Orwell's 1984.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Have you seen this clip of RFK Jr.? Truly, the Orwellian death of expertise. bsky.app/profile/rpsa...

You can't get much more honest about the potential (and increasingly likely) dangers ahead than this short clip from one of the world's leading experts. We all should be following her and her colleagues.

Everyone should absolutely watch the clips of today's Cabinet meeting posted by @atrupar.com Truly surreal. Utterly dystopian. The sycophancy! The ignorance. Total buffoonery. Hard to imagine how this group could be any worse than they already are.

Not so subtle dig against Zelensky.

Anne Applebaum has it exactly right: Trump has no cards. Zero cards. Zero interest in ending the war (beyond seeing himself get a Nobel). Putin owns him. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"The U.S. has no cards because we’ve been giving them away. If we ever want to play them again, we will have to win them back: Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and win the war. Then there will be peace."

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Such a timeless classic ... and so relevant today.

Again, as an arts educator, I can't stress enough what a incredible posting this is from @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social One of his best. He gets to the heart of the power of the arts and how Trump represents a threat to the arts.

This one of Noel's best ever postings. An amazing piece about the power of the arts ... and how Trump can (will likely?) destroy much of what The Kennedy Center offers. Trump's ignorant attacks on the arts are as dangerous as his attacks on science and education.

Chilling to the core. Nazism comes to America?

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.” (ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

Tariffs already causing woes for U.S. business: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.

Trump's attacks on higher ed have consequences : Stanford University will cut $140 million from its operations and may lay off employees as it contends with “significant budget consequences from federal policy changes” including reductions in research www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.” Call your senators and demand a NO vote.