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Reading February '26 issue of Scientific American about the dangers of creating mirror organisms and pretty sure Big Dope (aka tech bros) is at work doing just that.

There are strong claims that ICE has been detaining an American citizen who was born in Florida. Phillip James, 39, has been detained for at least 10 months. He's currently in Indiana facing deportation to Jamaica. 🧵

Just found out Trump's EO of Mar '25 made English US official language. Ok minor thing, maybe add indigenous languages over time as we deTrumpify things. BUT the EO also removes mandatory accommodations for non-Englsh-speaking people. Which changes priorities. Everything is worse than you thought.

How much would $1 on it goes 7 pay out?

what gets me is that every time the assholes lose, their lives aren’t actually worse off in any meaningful way. they get to be grumpy about stuff that doesn’t concern them, but they don’t lose any rights and they still own everything. but when they win, everyone who’s not them suffers.

Winnewissa Falls in Pipestone National Monument. I love our public lands and want them to remain preserved for future generations, so I’m voting with that in mind. I’ll be voting straight-line Democratic, because it’s the only way to put a check on the movement that wants to sell them off.

if you nationalize spacex and deport musk, turn over hegseth to iran, nationalize palantir and deport thiel, the rest of them will start cutting any deal they can

"There should be horses pulling carriages in Central Park" is a perfect Trump position. Essentially none of his business, basically inconsequential, but squarely in the category of "tacky late-20th-century NYC tourist experience," which is the most completely developed part of his brain.

What happens when the government surveils a Black public figure, demanding that he “prove” his loyalty — while pressuring another Black public figure to testify against him? Find out the answer in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class on 10/26 ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/robeson...

I swear, if Klobuchar mentions bipartisan cross-aisle reaching...

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

Not having an egotistical moron for president; how would that even work?

And it's outrageous that "normal" media keep harping on fraud in MN as a crisis when the Republican-abetted Trump feds murdered two Minnesotans.

The objection to Zionism isn't an objection to 'national self-determination'. It's an objection to national self-determination - at the expense of another people. Palestinians have rights as much as anybody else.

The obvious Q — that the NYT doesn't address — is what is the political perspective of these violent threats?! Looking at interviews & cases here, the recipients are mostly: - Ds, or - Rs who buck Trump & the Cult. 🤔 Let's see a helpful breakdown, NYT. 🎁 t2m.co/33Tm8Qs

I came here to chew gum and despair, and I'm afraid I'm all out of gum.

Twilight Zone episode where the dummy comes alive.

Time for everyone to kick out their American ambassadors, or simply shut the fuck up forever about law and human rights (they will do neither)

France's debt problem is an AI bubble story deanbaker22.substack.com/p/frances-de...

Feels like a Twilight Zone episode where you've been invited into heaven and didn't listen to your dog and went right in.

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

"It is true that the mobility of capital and the relative lack of mobility of labor is an inherent problem that makes the class war more difficult. It is also true that this is the sort of perpetual objection that is crafted to ensure that nobody anywhere ever does anything about a big problem."

Tony Blair here, writing about extremist politics In Bari Weiss’s notorious crackpot far right propaganda sheet, keeping the company that he was born to keep and clearly loves (fascists, wingnuts and true believers)

This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.

Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

“Charged political climate” is quite a euphemism for a military occupation

My guess is that if the longest-serving Democratic Speaker of the House had been a convicted child molester, Republicans might mention it from time to time. By contrast the Democrats have always been committed to a discreet silence about Dennis Hastert:

“Every dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered—not gambling in stocks but service rendered. ..the swollen fortune..acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means.”

Democrats are waiting until they can get back in power and then pass a law saying "you must obey the law"

Where to go when you want to come in from the cold

"But that takes resources like smaller classes, student services staff ... Sure, it’s cheaper to have big classes and to give each adviser 1000 students while rushing students themselves to graduate as fast as possible, but less learning will happen as a result."

I’m disgusted by today’s press coverage, which mostly just regurgitates the DOJ press release. The story should be that a) they indicted the guy who got shot, not the guy who shot him and b) previous attempts by ICE to blame shooting victims have all been lies, so no reason to believe this. Shame.

STOP! Do not treat this cover story from ICE and DOJ with any credence whatsoever. So far, they have lied every time about what led to a shooting. At most, this suggests that the ICE agent who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez did so in anger, and had no body camera. wapo.st/4xP6VyM

Super Intelligence doesn't solve the sans serif problem.

Who charged these people? You don't state this info in your article.

In a letter sent to the company this week, US Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Apple of “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government." arstechnica.visitlink.me/zit76N

Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence

Trump will crash the market if he steals the election cepr.net/publications... Zimbabwefication is bad for business

MnDOT has identified revenue for roads of $37B over next 20 years and says it needs $15B+ more. So minimum $52B+, or $2.6B/yr. The MAX proposed amount in Bike+ Plan = $146M/yr.or. 5.6% Nowhere near enough.

Did anyone mention George Santayana?

Jeopardy! host @kenjennings.bsky.social opposes repealing his state’s millionaire tax. He wants “an America where it’s embarrassing for wealthy people to say, ‘Even though I could afford this, and it will improve public services in our state, I’d rather fight it.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast.

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.