A Mind is a Terrible Thing

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

It’s time to end this.

In lieu of flowers they are asking for donations to Dolly’s Imagination Library, which she founded in honor of her illiterate parents. Every enrolled child gets a free book once a month addressed to them, regardless of need. Some 325 million books so far. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Bravo to there person who has put these flyers all over Capitol Hill and even thought to put them in waterproof sleeves.

Every single Republican voted against it.

Pope Leo XIV condemns the Trump administration in new speech: "Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

Israel bombed an Iranian synagogue on Passover

The great Len Deighton has died. IMHO the best writer of the spy genre. Better and more readable than LeCarre. In tribute to him I will do another reading of his Bernard Samson series.

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I post politically on eXtwitter and no science/tech, and here only post on science/tech. But we must not look away from what is happening right now, out in the open with no regard for morality or human life. Do not look away.

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Nobbies. Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. #travel #travelphotography

Flinders Street station. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. #travel #travelphotography

Like I said earlier: bsky.app/profile/pcun...

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Sadly spot on cartoon from Mike Luckovich.

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

I would gladly contribute to a GoFundMe to pay for a bunch of people to follow Tom Homan around (lawfully in public places!) with paper bags marked "$$$" with a Sharpie, and filled with Monopoly money.

PAM BONDI: "Tom Homan corruptly used his office to get $50,000 in cash." DONALD TRUMP: "Amateur."

This is amazing.

this doesn't look like a normal distribution

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EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This has been a terrible week for MAGA so far. The WH spin is going to be nuts.

Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.

“I’m about to lose my farm… Do you think we’re idiots? You know nothing about what a working class citizen does.” 🔥 Whew. Watch. Share.

Truth Art! #arresttrump #art

Spot on, #SouthPark!

Baltimore has seen a dramatic two-year decline in crime -- especially its murder rate -- with police and prosecutors working specifically and effectively to target repeat violent offenders. There's fuck all some National Guardsmen can do other than stand around and watch. Trump is a fatuous moron.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

And here I thought “defund the police” was bad… www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Except infinity-times worse

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

“So how was it that Israel had the capacity to destroy pinpoint targets in Iran, some 1,200 miles from Tel Aviv, and could not safely deliver boxes of food to starving Gazans 40 miles from Tel Aviv?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...

Mom, You Taught Me to Say “Never Again.” Well, It’s Happening Again. A letter to my Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

US taxpayers just paid $10M for Trump’s trip to Scotland so he could cut a ribbon on his new golf course, but we “can’t afford” pediatric cancer research.

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