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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

This is an excellent thread:

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

Civil. 👏 Asset. 👏 Forfeiture 👏

Civil. 👏 Asset. 👏 Forfeiture 👏

We absolutely need higher standards than this:

It's fucking wild how openly "trying to put a bandaid on oil before the midterms" is Trump's only goal and something he's using our nations armed forces to achieve and all the normal "uh you gotta respect the troops!" guys don't say anything about it

anyway, I think we can all agree Portland, Oregon caused Pearl Harbor

this is what a lawyer's anxiety dream looks like:

It's one thing for governments to do stuff people disagree with in a normal partisan environment. It's another thing entirely when governments, from the local to the national, brazenly disregard the will of most, if not all, of their constituents in eager service to the plutocracy 's wishes.

seriously go fuck yourself. if you have 8 zeros in your investment portfolio, Adam Schiff will be your bitch for free.

Don't be racist. That is a very common surname in the Frumunda region of Deez.

bet I could fit my whole head in big bird’s cloaca

I'm not sure a government run by literal clowns could do more damage than this one:

missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!

Yes, well when I see five weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards. That's my policy.

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

I think among my greatest pet-peeves are non medical professionals giving my family members medical advice. "There is a great non-narcotic injectible for pain called Torrid-" seriously shut the fuck up, I'm trusting the people who went to school for this not some half-ass project manager.

whatever anabolic steroid cocktail he's on makes it look like he's an inch away from getting scurvy

This is a very sweet story 💖

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

John Roberts' ruined Maine vacation is my new Spirit Animal

this is quite insightful:

“Someday military academies will teach Trump’s Glorious Iran War as a case study in armed incompetence.” @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/our-low-iq...

yeah, they're always slipping the newest country pop songs into the MF DOOM Pandora station, ya fuckin dummy

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

Liege of all loiterers and malcontents, Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces

Beating disorder

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

pathetic cretins to a man

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

Apparently I don’t know how to use this phrase.

i quote "his work is agricultural / everything he makes, the lords tax it multiple" daily at this point

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

I’m really trying not to go for cheap heat on here but you can write off any politician that does not support trans rights without equivocating because it’s the morally correct thing to do and additionally because it means they’re not above selling anyone out.

I'm not sure by what precise mechanism this happened, but prior to this week I thought Ed Sheeran was the actor from The Office who hit Dwight with his Prius. It was weird to me that so many people talk about him 'in the culture' but I never examined it. 🤷

"Its purpose is to rebuild bonds between leaders in the artificial intelligence sector and Democrats who are demanding new rules to regulate the technology." -Put a different way, this is a lobbying effort whose target is Democratic operatives, and whose goal is to prevent Dems from doing their job

Excellent thread. It would be lovely if @nytimes.com and @theatlantic.com 's education correspondents would learn how to read so they can also read it!

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

This dude Paul is a walking advertisement for why developers need MORE liberal-arts education and he's too goddamn under-educated to see himself doing it. What a pity. 😐

I would pay good money to see any number of left-of-center pundits chained to a chair and forced to address this point at length. Ezra Klein specifically is in the wilderness on this specific aspect of American politics, and it's infuriating.

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She looks great. He looks like Bakersfield Philip Seymour Hoffman.