Lee Drake

Easily refuted. Just a handful for the specific “don’t win the Nobel Prize”. Anwar Sadat (Peace, 1978) Naguib Mahfouz (Literature, 1988) Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry, 1999) Tawakkol Karman (Peace, 2011)

The fact that Grok’s first few minutes of the Odyssey trail Nolan’s release (and the cultural moment) by months shows how hopeless reactionaries are without state force to dictate culture.

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

Muito bom

NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

This is a town of three stoplights, five gas stations, five Mexican restaurants, and five churches. It is — or was — 45% Latino. Yet within a year of the flood, the town’s tiny PD had delivered the equivalent of 10% of Ingram to ICE.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

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...

So the feds can simply abduct you claiming you’re not a citizen and put you on a plane to Eswatini?

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

I also think this is a very powerful graph. Most people don't know it, but the US is a *very* low-tax country. We tax below average and we spend below average, among rich nations. Fixing our fiscal situation entirely through taxes would still leave us *very* low tax. bsky.app/profile/bren...

It seems Elon is successfully squashing the @alexgibneyfilm documentary about him. We can confirm showtimes in the Nashville area have disappeared. www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...

It turns out that choosing the lesser of two evils is, in fact, a moral imperative. And some folks want to wait for the Revolutionary Perfect, but I would equally challenge them to demonstrate a single time where a 'start from nothing, year-0' revolution has turned out well for most people.

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

It seems politically unhealthy that the executive has these massive discretionary slush funds it can just dole out checks from without further congressional authorization.

🚨 “Armed and in uniform, federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been knocking on doors in several states to ask residents about their immigration status—and to inquire if they have registered to vote or cast votes in past elections” 🚨

North Carolina’s Democratic governor warns that the absentee ballot rejection rate is twice as high as in 2022 thanks to last-minute changes by Republicans. He recommends voting in person if you can (early voting is even better!) wcti12.com/news/local/g...

Engineering equipment is incredibly important to save the lives of Ukrainian defenders, so if you have money for donations to good causes, please donate to this fundraiser!

Trump said that “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine” and that “they haven’t been doing much” — even as Ukrainian civilian casualties from Russian attacks have reached new highs, rising by 85 percent last month compared with a year before, according to the United Nations.

And so we end up at the horrifying reality that the Nazis murdered so many people that the Holocaust - with all of the soul-crushing weight the word rightly has - represents 'only' about a third of it. Crimes so vast, I always worry talking about one that I might be taken to minimize the others.

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

Russian drones hit western Ukraine as nationwide attacks kill 10, injure 73 Russian strikes hit 20 locations, while falling debris was reported at four other sites.

Really appreciate how Marisa got this figured out before we suffered through the NYTimes glow up.

If you had told me a year ago there would be an Ebola outbreak of this scale and the world would take this little notice, I probably would not have believed you.

Another 67 new Ebola cases confirmed in the DRC in the past 24 hours. More than 9400 cases now and more than 4500 deaths. At this rate, the outbreak will pass 10,000 cases this month. 🧪 #IDsky insp.cd/sitrep-n155-...

[7 months later] would this work?

Better than what happens when the dust quite literally starts to settle.

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

watch the movie, you'll see why they're doing this

He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."

He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory." "They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this."

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

Unfortunately police are no closer to identifying the the Neanderthal’s attacker.

Lead poisoning was pretty much the norm from the start of copper use.

Looks like Trump dealt a good hand of cards

<Tori Amos voice> a sort of pyramid scheme

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If a president can direct his subordinates to commit crimes against US for 4 years, then pardon everyone (including himself), then we are going to have presidents keep committing crimes against US.

📣 PRESS RELEASE 📣 Complex Upper‐Mantle Anisotropy Beneath the Pacific Triangle Revealed by Shear‐Wave Splitting #SRL ⚒️ Seafloor seismic data reveals “fossilized” traces of mantle flow beneath the Pacific Ocean’s oldest piece of crust. PRESS RELEASE: buff.ly/ThmrlhH PAPER: buff.ly/fA6p3Bj