“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

We aren't on a slippery slope to a constitutional crisis. We are IN the crisis. Time for leaders - political leaders, business leaders, civic leaders - to pick a side: democracy or autocracy?

New in PN: The Trump Murder Policy

"Trump has claimed Venezuelan boats are being attacked because they’re smuggling drugs, but his evidence doesn’t amount to much more than 'trust me, bro.'"

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

People who are thrown in solitary confinement aren't told how long they'll spend there.

Some people end up there—for years. There are so few restrictions.

Read how this Texan who's experienced this describes it: boltsmag.org/designed-to-...

FYI Spotify and ABC are owned by the same company fourthwall.com/blog/spotify...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Avian Influenza is scary, but we have the tools to deal with it. Our research showed that current biosecurity options effectively reduce risk of outbreaks on farms. This is a wild to domestic disease, very difficult to anticipate, so having biosecurity in place before arrival in an area is crucial.

“Democrats cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Democrats cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed & so are we”

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

HEHEHEHEHEHE!! I LOVE THESE WEIRDOS!! I FEAR THEM, BUT I LOVE THEM!!!

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Similar potential with whooping cranes in US, huge number of sandhill crane interacting with them regularly. Probably should vaccinate www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced. n.pr/4g7YKqg

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

The only possible excuse for not slamming the brakes on emissions at this point is "fuck them grandkids" which, if you think about it, is not a very strong moral argument.

i think that people are conditioned by the absolutely tiny changes we have made over the past thirty years to believe that nothing is possible, but we built the administrative state in four years

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight.

In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well.

Here are from two of the resignations:

New pub alert! Very excited to share work providing actionable insights into how we can better implement biosecurity and plan surveillance for avian influenza in the US. This virus doesn’t look to be going away so best to adjust accordingly.

Important

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew.

They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.

Presenting on the avian influenza risk modeling I have been working on the past few years at #ESA2025 tomorrow morning (at 8am, oof). Grab your coffee and come find out how we can reduce HPAI spillover risk