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Last week’s Nobel for optogenetics is already giving some sight back. Retinitis pigmentosa kills the eye’s light-detecting cells but leaves the nerve cells behind them intact. Researchers injected nerve cells with a gene for a light-sensitive protein. buff.ly/AGkscua #ShareGoodNewsToo

Spending the morning obsessively replaying audio of LBJ's White House calls over the Selma-to-Montgomery march

I was in Scottsdale Arizona yesterday. I saw homemade signs pointing out Flock cameras on the streets. That’s real not bots

On the brand new Trap One🎙Podcast Paul McGann breaks his silence on Richard E Grant in Celebrity Traitors, the new Wilderness years & much more in an exclusive interview with Special Correspondent @reecypontiff.com Apple tinyurl.com/2m85ve8c Spotify tinyurl.com/mryhacnx Podbean tinyurl.com/2v9z6nsw

$445 million (Elon alone) could be used as $5 million stabilization grants to 89 critical rural hospitals, keeping ERs open, preserving jobs, and trauma care. 👉🏼shape the future—vote! 👉🏼read Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26...

October 26, 2026

I was so excited to ride the new Acela, until I got to my assigned seat and realized it is mostly windowless, and the person who controls the window is gradually lowering it :-(

Police are looking for a Mr Ea-Nasir, of 1 Old Street, Ur, Kingdom of Babylon.

I still feel like all the street parties when Biden was declared the winner were just memory wiped. But we could have that again.

Go get him, Neil!

30 years of raiding tombs, happy 30th Tomb Raider.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Gotta stop playing the game where we strip white women of their agency and blame their politics on their SO. She’s there. She’s complicit.

The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

when a judge footnotes "sigh."

Per my previous posts, and to address a lot of what’s out there - if you’re a SAG-AFTRA member, or want to be - watch this message 🫶 youtu.be/A-xSCsOW4lo

We have a new video up! This time, it’s a #HomeHaunt Hop with 25 stops! youtu.be/kywlqE11sjo?... #Halloween

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Just an absolute treat: one of my heroes, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, stopped by @robreich.bsky.social’s AI governance lecture. Lots of truth about the privacy implications of AI agents shared. These are the things that keep me up at night too. And it’s always a privilege to see her speak.

🌊 The Coastal Flood Advisory has now been extended through Friday with up to 2.1 ft of inundation possible in low-lying coastal & bayshore areas during peak high tides. Never drive through flooded roads! #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2114931733934055672

A part of this not mentioned is that Texas used to let kids transition. I volunteered at a camp for trans kids in Houston when I was in college (pre transition I know I know how did I not know I was trans). Guess where part of that camp was? Texas Children’s. That’s how much we lost

Saw another sign on a lamp post offering cash for diabetic supplies. Assume this doesn't happen in Norway.

Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

One thing omitted from story below: A POLITICO reporter was excluded from today's hearing at request of Khan Suri's lawyers due to the "nature" of the testimony, including DHS cross-examination of Khan Suri's wife. DOJ judge allowed the selective exclusion. thehoya.com/news/khan-su...

Here's the excerpt I think @kyledcheney.bsky.social meant to append:

We’re so used to impunity we don’t even know how to process punity

Yes, and that's the other part of it: Protests are effective ways to raise awareness, but then (as Serbia and Hungary show) you have to follow it up with organizing and voting. Marching isn't enough. In this country, we valorize protest - but don't do the other stuff. (I hope this year, I'm wrong.)

The man's a hero #nzpol "John, a few weeks off turning 82, said simply getting up to change a light bulb was a hazard these days and climbing a ladder as high as 8m scared him “shitless”. But he was adamant he would not involve anyone else."

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

One of the hallmarks of Trump is that he lies repeatedly about elections that he won.

choosing to remember this version of walter koenig, the one with the mustache

Vivek Ramaswamy’s 8th grade teacher.

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.

don't know if anyone else on here is in culver city and hasn't finished their ballots yet but the culver crescent did some really detailed interviews with a bunch of local candidates which we're finding very helpful local news: it's good!