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If Kennedy’s larger point is that some political cultures are associated with an unfriendly attitude to knowledge that might be slightly more persuasive if he was not a MAGA anti-vax ideologue who is undermining the largest US research center (NIH) as part of a broader assault on higher education

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...

FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

This took three people? Truly embarrassing shit.

It was disappointing that @60minutes.bsky.social, with all its resources and expertise, broke zero new ground on the Tina Peters story. The report was just a repetition of what local journalists reported long ago.

JFC

Here's the signature line on the information -- the people who decided to just bareback it, w/o a grand jury.

Charges have been declined in this case twice before -- once by John Durham, once under Bill Barr. Todd Blanche just took his dick out and said, well, then I'll do it. Without a grand jury.

The number of inane, false, illogical narratives about Ukraine is already too large but the latest-- Putin offered to withdraw all Ru troops in 2023 but Zelensky refused-- breaks the bullshit-o-meter! It tops "Boris Johnson forced Ukrainians to fight" in lack of logic and situational awareness.

If we ever get to the full truth of the massive Republican corruption and outright thievery, this very well could be at the top of the list.

Crush him. Now.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Grok fact-checks its master 👇🏽 👀

This is spot-on from @rickhasen.bsky.social as usual. I strongly suspect this Alaska move is only happening now because the White House is finally admitting to itself that the House will flip on Election Night. So they need a Senate race to call into question.

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

Revelations about WH's involvement in Epstein memo in files pried loose by @democracydefendersfund.org lawsuit Trump was briefed his name was in the files--Weeks later his deputy chief of staff was editing the DOJ-FBI memo that declared the matter closed Patel sent the draft: "Here you go"👇 -TN

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

But… But… Brett Kavanaugh told me these things would be easily resolved.

Eleven days after Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, there is still nobody in Washington who wants to take responsibility, while Trump administration officials continue pointing fingers firmly at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

If it is possible to know which specific companies are now going to be selling Russian fuel in the US, someone please let us all know because that’s something many of us want to know.

Russian operatives used AI-generated videos to falsely accuse Texas Senate candidate James Talarico of sexual assaulting a former student. A smear campaign was led by Storm-1516.

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Trump’s former lawyer a $50 million job while she still worked at DOJ. Weeks later, he got his pardon. Wait. Is that legal? My write-up in the link in the comments.

This is so depressing.

What a surprise that former Epstein pal Donald Trump is enthusiastically all-in with someone exploiting child sex assault in the OH governor’s race.

I can finally tell you all about this project that has consumed my life. I am so excited to announce this searchable dark money database aimed at exposing political influence networks. This is just the first phase of the project too. We have big plans.

Katie Miller says she never had sex with Steve Bannon.

A 90% drop

This extraordinary story shows that Kushner sold out the foreign policy of the United States for fantastic sums to foreign despots, and that Trump was foursquare behind it. Treason for profit. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

@michaeldweiss.bsky.social nails it, as usual. What an inept, corrupt, blindingly idiotic administration in charge of the USA. Absolute fish in a barrel for foreign adversaries.

The numbers are cooked. Just like eveything else this administration has done - a lie. How does an efficient marketplace run on cooked books? It doesn’t. This is not going to end well.

Lost among the noise yesterday, ProPublica describes the terms by which Trump plans to steal Venezuela's oil. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Meanwhile, this comes days after TikTok, in which Larry Ellison has a major stake, suppressed promotion of the Musk documentary that Elon doesn't want anyone to see, raising suspicions that it was tied to the pending investment. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Dozens of reports now that Tennessee voting machines have been rigged by the state's GOP to make it impossible to vote for any other than GOP candidates. This story is viral in British media, but not in the US. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Not good.

If you happen to know the identity of the HHS attorney who submitted the AI-generated error-ridden agency's brief in support of exceptions, let us know in the DMs, or at info at glowlaw dot org

no they are not. Vance is a weak, depraved and deeply unlikeable man who has no ability to even fake empathy

Elon Musk is too big to trust. A THREAD.

The ICC has outstanding arrest warrants against two national leaders for war crimes. One of whom the Trump administration just lauded as a "humanitarian" and the other one President Trump endorsed for reelection. And of course the Trump administration is trying to destroy the ICC.

Here he goes again. Senile fool manipulated by criminal Bibi.

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this