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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...

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

"The number of billionaires with Rosebud issues has climbed dramatically but there are fewer places to sled because oil companies and technofascist industrialists are sous-viding the planet and one of the ones who makes rockets felt empty so he poured a bn into an over-leveraged consent factory."

Welp. Pretty much confirms a systemic problem.

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

Here’s what greeted me when I opened the app that is definitely back and that only little babies don’t want to use. (Musk snatched the at-America handle for his political efforts.)

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

1999 me: So, what's the future like? 2026 me: Donald Trump is president and in an appearance with Mike Tyson he just confirmed that he absolutely approved of a public execution by firing squad 1999 me: Fine, don't tell me, but you don't have to take that sarcastic tone

Game of thrones. Ruined it as a rewatch. For a long time it was the BSG remake but it has grown on me since.

That’s wild.

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

john carpenter writing the soundtracks to assault on precinct 13 and halloween

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

This is up there with the Washington post “let’s just humor him, what’s the worst that could happen” quote from November 2020 for “most revealing anonymous quotes of the Trump era”

say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute

Surprised it took this long tbh

it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)

We need to get the scientists to look at the ‘thoughtful sensitive introvert tech guy’ to ‘raging bigot’ pipeline. There’s a clear pattern there. Maciej Cegłowski Paul Graham Palmer Luckey Etc

huh, this piece nailed the AI bros like a decade ago

Ross Douthat looks like if The Brain was also Pinky

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

lately

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

oh...this is bad

Me: I don’t like her sitting and watching me eat My kid: “that’s the point of a cuck chair Dad”

KC is a rushing team now

BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

you ever see a graph that makes you just sit for a minute and contemplate how stupid everything is

Riley Grunch, I apologize, I was not familiar with your grasp of geopolitical vibes

"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"

[creating women] give em 2 boobs [creating cats] no boobs but like 8 nipples [creating cows] do just 1 boob but with a fuckton of nips on it lol

he got him. he finally fucking got him

This is absolutely true. My old boss was pushing immortality pills talking about how great it would be to live to be 150. I was like have you ever fucking met a ninety-year-old? By a certain age it hurts to sleep, hurts to wake up, hurts to eat, hurts to take a shit...

Seth Moulton ran the campaign Third Way has been asking for and

Just cancelled @1password.bsky.social “There are people who are afraid to speak up simply because they will be personally attacked.” Racism is non-negotiable. Yes, you should feel afraid of speaking up in support of abhorrent views.

so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes.

This is a great podcast in that it shows how analysis of politics that is grounded in data and empiricism (Bouie) has an uphill battle in DC/NY against ideology and pure uncut reactionary ignorance (Cottle) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

the funniest thing is jeffries being surprised jared leaked the meeting lol

You can't make this stuff up.

OK I actually do want to know where the beef is coming from now

Where is the beef coming from

Awesome country we have here where we fuck over our allies and neighbors and suck up to despots and dictators.

Hey quick question, what the FUCK does this mean