Cynthia Froning
@astra2.bsky.social
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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Thomas Chatterton Williams & co are desperately flogging "the work right" to justify their focus on the left. The more obvious parallel is that the right is obsessed with a form of identity politics that far outstrips anything you see on a college campus, and with much more radical policy goals.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thomas Chatterton Williams & co are desperately flogging "the work right" to justify their focus on the left. The more obvious parallel is that the right is obsessed with a form of identity politics that far outstrips anything you see on a college campus, and with much more radical policy goals.
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
A month of Elon Musk on X: Conspiracy theories, fringe politics and self-promotion
An NBC News analysis of one month of Musk’s social media posts shows what’s been on his mind, including a broad cross-section of fringe political topics.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
@deschscoveries.bsky.social continues to do yeoman's work demonstrating why speculations of the alien origin of 3I/ATLAS isn't just wrong, it's really crappy science. His writeups are also very funny.
There’s No “I” in Team. But There Is One in “ALIENS”
Yelling “Tarantulas!” in a crowded movie theater has its time and place. If you’re enduring Madame Web, everyone will be relieved you…
medium.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@deschscoveries.bsky.social continues to do yeoman's work demonstrating why speculations of the alien origin of 3I/ATLAS isn't just wrong, it's really crappy science. His writeups are also very funny.
Incredibly infuriating when the "pro-life" position allows a woman to die rather than provide her with proper medical care.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Incredibly infuriating when the "pro-life" position allows a woman to die rather than provide her with proper medical care.
I dunno, can I hope that when Larry Summers says he will honor his teaching commitments, he's just referring to this semester, of which there are just a few weeks left?
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I dunno, can I hope that when Larry Summers says he will honor his teaching commitments, he's just referring to this semester, of which there are just a few weeks left?
I too was very fortunate in my career and wish everyone could have said the same.
never realized until #MeToo how lucky i was that all my male professors & both of my male PhD advisors were not only never inappropriate but also both treated me like i had a brain. i wish that were true for every woman. also wish it were true now of my male colleagues, but idc that much about them.
truly it is a mystery why women find it hard to get ahead in academia
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I too was very fortunate in my career and wish everyone could have said the same.
No defense of Nuzzi, who should have been permanently sidelined after breaking one of journalism's sacred rules, but her writing isn't always terrible. Her articles about Rudy drunkenly butt-dialing her were on point. It's also why her Biden article hit harder than others of the same ilk.
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
No defense of Nuzzi, who should have been permanently sidelined after breaking one of journalism's sacred rules, but her writing isn't always terrible. Her articles about Rudy drunkenly butt-dialing her were on point. It's also why her Biden article hit harder than others of the same ilk.
This is why his colleagues are so annoyed by Loeb's work. It is not good science to ignore the work of experts who know more than you.
Avi Loeb's calculations about 3I/ATLAS are 100% wrong because he has never understood that dust in the tail(s) responds to solar radiation pressure. Solar wind shapes the ion tail. But the radiation pressure is about 1000 times larger than the solar wind ram pressure, for particles that feel it.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is why his colleagues are so annoyed by Loeb's work. It is not good science to ignore the work of experts who know more than you.
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Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.
We just said goodbye to Willow. For 15 years, she was our best companion. We’ll miss her so much.
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We just said goodbye to Willow. For 15 years, she was our best companion. We’ll miss her so much.
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
What I wonder is what is driving MTG and Hanania to articulating positions of relative normality. Is the MAGA craziness about to lose its grip?
You are all a bunch of suckers with short memories you can all get fucked!!
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What I wonder is what is driving MTG and Hanania to articulating positions of relative normality. Is the MAGA craziness about to lose its grip?
OMG that’s hilarious.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
OMG that’s hilarious.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A whole bunch of horror-y folks recommend the scariest stories they’ve ever read. I wrote about @lairdbarron.bsky.social ‘s “Tiptoe.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Hey, @chanda.blacksky.app, I was just reading about your mother and grandmother last night.
I Stand Here Ironing | Dorothy Sue Cobble
At a moment of unparalleled assault on state social services, a new book recovers the daring ideas of a movement that struggled to win compensation for domestic workers and caregivers in the home.
www.nybooks.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hey, @chanda.blacksky.app, I was just reading about your mother and grandmother last night.
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
Whoa, I hadn’t heard who was ousted. I worked with Markham in 2020, when we worked with the UT admin on covid response planning. He put an enormous effort into serving the university during that time. What a farce.
“The ousting comes amid a critical dispute within academia about how to rebuild confidence in higher education in a politically polarized moment.”
This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.
This is such a tortured story frame it is functionally a lie. Greg Abbott is not trying to rebuild confidence, he is proudly conducting a purge.
Texas professor ousted from admin role over "ideological differences"
Art Markman had served as a senior vice provost for academic affairs since 2021.
www.axios.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Whoa, I hadn’t heard who was ousted. I worked with Markham in 2020, when we worked with the UT admin on covid response planning. He put an enormous effort into serving the university during that time. What a farce.
Does anyone have a word for the guilt you feel when you are working but you are avoiding the hard task you really need to be addressing?
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Does anyone have a word for the guilt you feel when you are working but you are avoiding the hard task you really need to be addressing?
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Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
October 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.
I wrote my last term paper (on boron in the interstellar medium), finishing at 3 a.m. the day it was due. I was pulled over by a police officer as I left campus. He let me go when he realized I wasn't drunk, just dorky.
I wrote my take-home final for Law of War at 4 a.m., still half-drunk. It was due at 9 a.m. I got a B, which was my school's equivalent of taking you behind the barn and shooting you. It dropped my honors one level. My father was perturbed.
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I wrote my last term paper (on boron in the interstellar medium), finishing at 3 a.m. the day it was due. I was pulled over by a police officer as I left campus. He let me go when he realized I wasn't drunk, just dorky.
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E Pluribus Dumdum
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
E Pluribus Dumdum
Ooh, the next SPIE meeting is in Copenhagen. Getting excited already.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Ooh, the next SPIE meeting is in Copenhagen. Getting excited already.