John Leone

Besides being nakedly racist and bigoted, this is just hilariously wrong on all levels. I mean, Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year, and he won the Wolf Prize in 2018. And that's just one example.

MJ: So DOJ is now essentially creating a new way of charging people....? This is very concerning....throwing gasoline on what defendants are saying about this being unusual. Why would you not just want a MJ to make a PC finding as you would in every other case?

113. (One Hundred and Thirteen). nedboulting.substack.com/p/i-have-bee...

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

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Hello, I would like my $4,000,000, preferably stuffed into a bag from a Cava restaurant.

Update: Ukyo is linking up with the Polti-Malta team. Press release doesn't say it's a merger but it sounds like it teampoltivisitmalta.com/en/ukyo-kata...

Obama: Trump is like Saddam Hussein. Every Republican in unison: He said WHAT about the Cheesecake Factory???!!

A 45-year-old Republican candidate in Iowa is being sued by his parents for $275,000 in unpaid rent. trib.al/ihJjZc5

Rising health care costs are weighing on Americans ahead of the midterms. For Cindy Banda, a Texas mother who voted for Trump three times, breast cancer bills reshaped her life and her politics.

"The director won’t protect even our most respected analysts when they tell hard truths, so they stopped telling them and learned to avoid topics the White House didn’t want to hear,” newly retired CIA official tells @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

If we had thought for one second that our dystopian metal death machines would be used for evil we never would’ve made them and then released videos showing how terrifying they are

Happy Saturday. It's time for another Casey Kasem American Top 40 flashback #AT40. Let's travel back to October 20, 1973. Who will be #1? Listen to Casey on SiriusXM 70s on 7, and follow this 🧵 to find out.

Congratulations to Paula Moltzan! World Cup leader!

Does anyone need an 8 foot tall horse lamp

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

A half million people have ridden RAGBRAI across Iowa in the last ten years.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."

Tom Horman quietly raises his hand

"Honestly, if we end up with two hundred and twenty-five seats on the White Council, I would be disappointed. I would rather Sauron keep control of Middle-earth by five seats than have the Fellowship win by five, because then we’d be hostage to the Ents." buff.ly/9WluK1y

I don’t believe they’ll do anything but light money on fire here but fuck them for even thinking it.

//INRNG: Tour de France 2027 route, a look at all the 21 stages + stats, trivia inrng.com/2026/10/tour...

JD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a 56-year-old lawful permanent resident, died in ICE custody on Saturday, federal officials said.

“honey, u noticed anything a different about dave lately?” “hmmm?” “dave..the guy next door” “oh honey-you are just getting old. what is it this time” “he never calls me by my name- always “dude” or “hey man”” “haha, that’s *it*? awww honey” “also didn’t he used to be black?” “aww honey”

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP

Note: I have not weighed in on the “are we really economically badly off? Can you even read a chart?” debate, mostly because I assume most interesting things have already been said, and I don’t want to read through it all. But health care is a useful prism through which to view it, I think.

When JD Vance says Abdul El-Sayed should express "gratitude" for what America has given him, Vance is really saying he's lower on the American hierarchy than "heritage Americans" are. I asked El-Sayed to respond to this point. Here's his answer: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Religion scholars! The AALS Section on Law & Religion seeks nominations for the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. More details below!

44k-Mile 2014 Porsche Boxster

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

News: The Trump administration is getting ready to move forward w/ garnishing wages & benefits of defaulted student loan borrowers after an internal dispute b/w Treasury, OMB & Ed “This is not who you think it is. The demographics are not good for us" www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...

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After all that, yep, it was Elon who ordered the slowdown of Starlink's Ukrainian network. www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

//INRNG: UCI Team rankings (a look at who gets grand tour invites the wildcard contenders + promotion/relegation) inrng.com/2026/10/uci-...

JK Rowling’s transphobia has ruined Harry Potter. That is a shame, there was a real magic in the fantasy of it. As a kid, I always loved imagining going to private coed boarding school. Inheriting a big pile of money. Drinking non alcoholic beer. Owning a little slave guy