Neal Parikh

I mean one of them is called Chad

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

There are no countries in the Middle East with names that are difficult to pronounce or confusingly spelled in English. They're all pretty simple. Several are only four or five letters.

science.orgNASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of fundingDecision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

She should obviously already have been fired. But Bari Weiss is both a massive bigot and incompetent, so I guess we will have to see. CBS is a disaster.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Hearing from my sources that this "over the top" tweet from Jan Crawford is being discussed internally at CBS. At the same time, as those same sources noted, "Jan is protected by Bari" and has been a very vocal acolyte of Weiss. "She just can't help herself," one network insider said.

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Mezer-Kiss of Death

@bananapantz.bsky.social

It's very sad that this is a microcosm about what's happenign to US science at the moment. And nobody cares to change it. And they shouldn't, it shouldn't take a mass popular uprising to get basic science that we've already bought to be funded.

Paul Voosen@voosen.me

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

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Matt Ortega

@mattortega.com

28 July

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

stlpr.orgOverland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

aclu.orgKnow Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLUThe Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...

26 July

This sounds niche but around 2/3 of Americans live in this zone. It’s at least 200 million people. Tons of entire states and cities are inside it.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com

The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

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Mark Harris

@markharris.bsky.social

25 July

Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...

nytimes.comAfter Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...

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Steven Beschloss

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

7 Feb

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

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Nature

@nature.com

6 Feb

Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is the latest hint of a US brain drain. go.nature.com/45S5Mvz

go.nature.comUS grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agencyRush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest hint of a US brain drain.

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Mar Hicks

@histoftech.bsky.social

6 Feb

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comGladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technologyShe made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

2 Feb

Man it would be so mortifying to ask someone to do this

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

lol nymag.com/intelligence...

31 Jan

How did I miss that Melania was directed by Brett Ratner. Very funny.

Catherine was so talented that she was funnier than almost everyone but also didn’t feel the need to be funny all the time. She was just Mom in Home Alone. But if she decided to be funny, oof, watch out.

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social

Catherine O'Hara was so talented she managed to be funny in Schitt's Creek, a show that didn't have any jokes in it

If you watch “The Oner” be prepared. It is one of the most stressful things I’ve ever watched and it is itself all done in one take. A masterpiece.

James Hell Brooks@kleinman.bsky.social

Now more than ever watch Season 1 of The Studio because Catherine O'Hara is aces in every scene she's in.

But also one of the most annoying things of all time

Also of course RIP to one of the greatest of all time. You would never see her coming.

Vaguely racist

This isn’t theater. They’re so lame. They want to be Delta Force guys from the movies so bad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state? HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

29 Jan

You’re standing in an American park lol

wyden.senate.govWyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of OregonThe Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

28 Jan

No. The president is not on board. The whole point is for him to not be on board.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

A potential off-ramp that senators are weighing: pass a CR for DHS (while negotiations continue) plus other full approps bills. “It's an item that has been discussed on both sides,” says GOP Sen. Mike Rounds. But he says a revised deal only happens “if the president is on board first.”

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Sahil Kapur

@sahilkapur.bsky.social

28 Jan

Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.

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Senator Ron Wyden

@wyden.senate.gov

27 Jan

Replying to @wyden.senate.gov

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

27 Jan

This stuff is new too. It is all post 9/11 and it’s a mess.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

27 Jan

Yeah people are saying that because they looked at the coverage. Literally not a response

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

In today's town hall, a staff member asked Bari Weiss about accusations CBS has become a right-wing outlet. "I would respond simply by saying, look at our coverage. Look at the coverage that CBS News has put out since I started. Look at the coverage of The Free Press," she said:

26 Jan

This stuff is actually kind of hard to predict. NYPD is majority minority and local cops tend not to like the feds much.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Meanwhile, there are a ton of unexamined assumptions about the loyalty of key groups. Local cops may be no friends of protestors, but are they so tied to MAGA that they'll jump on the 30-side of a 70/30 national split with potentially fatal personal consequences? Will the guard? Active military?

26 Jan

I’m friendly with a longtime deputy commissioner. He hates MAGA stuff.

23 Jan

He was the lead investor in my company, unfortunately, though I rarely had to deal with him. Guy’s weird as hell.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/

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Julian Sanchez

@normative.bsky.social

21 Jan

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

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Chris Ingraham

@cingraham.bsky.social

20 Jan

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

21 Jan

I agree.

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What union? There’s no union.

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My favorite Larry/Steve story is from when Steve went back to Apple. Larry goes, Gil Amelio is saying, “Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom. And my job is to get it *pointed* in the right direction.” Steve laughed so hard he fell off his stool.

wired.comWhy Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.

I remember in “Super Pumped,” Eddy Cue calls up Travis, the CEO of Uber, after Apple finds they are abusing App Store rules: “You need to be in Cupertino at 9 AM tomorrow and Tim is going to sit in and decide whether Uber exists or not.”

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

There are so many stories. There was one where Steve was upset with Palm. Ed Colligan goes, Steve, let’s not spend money on lawyers. Response: “When you say let’s not waste money on lawyers I feel you are overlooking the difference between our respective companies.”

Anyway. All old Apple lore.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social

Travis yells, did Eddy know Steve? Why is he here? (Dumb move to bring up Steve in that room.) At the end Tim goes, oh, Travis, just so you know, Eddy knew Steve, and I knew him better than almost anyone. He would have understood you but wouldn’t have liked you very much.

I do think this would be going differently on that side if Steve were still there. Trump would have been scared of him. On the other hand I am glad he did not have to see this.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social

Unfortunately, this is not the same situation.

It is a great scene in the show though. Travis is scared out of his mind. Hank Azaria plays Tim Cook. Travis yells in desperation, what, you are judge and jury and executioner? Tim just shrugs and grins.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social

Apple is brutal when it wants to be. The supplier NDA they have has a $50 million fine per violation and they enforce it all the way up to just bankrupting the company.

Why do we know this? It came up in bankruptcy proceedings when they bankrupted someone who talked when they absolutely should not have.

It’s even worse than this because he deliberately whitewashes the thing in his inbox and tries to make it sound like they all want these laws enforced legally and peacefully. They absolutely do not. Where is the description of that?

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

What an indecent waste of syllables--three paragraphs of "Gosh, things sure are complicated in this big world of ours and if we could all just sit and talk..." about the murder of an innocent woman by masked secret police. Centrist banality combined with narcissistic I-am-America's-pastor preening.

The whole thing has been them doing illegal stuff and ignoring judges. Literally no mention of this at all.