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Designer/maker. Politics junkie and Good Government nerd. Pragmatic optimist.
As bad as Susie Wild’s Vanity Fair revelations are, none are as damning as Trump’s sociopathic take on the Reiner murders.
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
As bad as Susie Wild’s Vanity Fair revelations are, none are as damning as Trump’s sociopathic take on the Reiner murders.
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Not making America Healthy Again — 2025 US #measles outbreak at 30-year high — get the MMR #vaccine, which would have stopped this outbreak. Unfortunately, Ontario and Alberta, Canada, along with Chihuahua, Mexico, are experiencing large outbreaks too. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
2025 US measles outbreak at 30 year high — get MMR vaccine
As of July 15, 2025, the US has experienced 1,309 measles cases, marking its largest outbreak since 1991, with Texas leading the way.
www.skepticalraptor.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Not making America Healthy Again — 2025 US #measles outbreak at 30-year high — get the MMR #vaccine, which would have stopped this outbreak. Unfortunately, Ontario and Alberta, Canada, along with Chihuahua, Mexico, are experiencing large outbreaks too. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
This is a Rorschach test.
What do you see?
If AI could read your thoughts, how would it populate this image?
For some, what they see makes them giddy, gleeful.
“This is what I voted for”, they say.
What do you say?
What do you see?
If AI could read your thoughts, how would it populate this image?
For some, what they see makes them giddy, gleeful.
“This is what I voted for”, they say.
What do you say?
July 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is a Rorschach test.
What do you see?
If AI could read your thoughts, how would it populate this image?
For some, what they see makes them giddy, gleeful.
“This is what I voted for”, they say.
What do you say?
What do you see?
If AI could read your thoughts, how would it populate this image?
For some, what they see makes them giddy, gleeful.
“This is what I voted for”, they say.
What do you say?
DJT’s uplifting holiday messages have gotten so predictably outrageous that he could just be asking a chatbot to write them.
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
DJT’s uplifting holiday messages have gotten so predictably outrageous that he could just be asking a chatbot to write them.
We are not defending terrorists, gang members, or criminals.
We are defending due process and the rule of law. You know, those fundamental principles that separate a democracy from an authoritarian state.
We are defending due process and the rule of law. You know, those fundamental principles that separate a democracy from an authoritarian state.
April 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We are not defending terrorists, gang members, or criminals.
We are defending due process and the rule of law. You know, those fundamental principles that separate a democracy from an authoritarian state.
We are defending due process and the rule of law. You know, those fundamental principles that separate a democracy from an authoritarian state.
You may be a law-abiding U.S. citizen with the right sort of name. But without due process to prove it, you are no safer than the undocumented.
No due process = no democracy.
No due process = no democracy.
April 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
You may be a law-abiding U.S. citizen with the right sort of name. But without due process to prove it, you are no safer than the undocumented.
No due process = no democracy.
No due process = no democracy.
I hope the people who voted to “Burn it all down!” are enjoying this. The next Dem president is going to inherit an exploded meth lab.
April 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I hope the people who voted to “Burn it all down!” are enjoying this. The next Dem president is going to inherit an exploded meth lab.
Trump imposed these tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. And Congress can reverse them whenever it chooses. Every GOP enabler owns this fiasco.
April 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Trump imposed these tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. And Congress can reverse them whenever it chooses. Every GOP enabler owns this fiasco.
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No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it
March 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
No news organization should ever use the words "third term" without the word "unconstitutional" preceding it
Because civilization will not endure if Wisconsin doesn’t allow Tesla to operate dealerships.
March 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Because civilization will not endure if Wisconsin doesn’t allow Tesla to operate dealerships.
Apparently the National Zoo is too woke for the Trump Administration?
“The Order directs the Vice President…to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.”
“The Order directs the Vice President…to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.”
President.to
March 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Apparently the National Zoo is too woke for the Trump Administration?
“The Order directs the Vice President…to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.”
“The Order directs the Vice President…to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.”
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Every day this administration finds new ways — petty and profound, symbolic and consequential, buffoonish incompetent and cartoonishly evil — to embarrass the people it serves.
Report: A library and opera house that straddles the Canada-U.S. border and has been a symbol of binational friendship for 100 years will have its Canadian entrance cut off by U.S. authorities.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
L’accès canadien à la bibliothèque Haskell « sera fermé »
L'accès canadien à la Bibliothèque et Salle d'Opéra Haskell, à Stanstead, serait fermé unilatéralement par les autorités américaines, selon la présidente du CA.
ici.radio-canada.ca
March 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Every day this administration finds new ways — petty and profound, symbolic and consequential, buffoonish incompetent and cartoonishly evil — to embarrass the people it serves.
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“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”
NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
www.statnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”
As we wait for the #Severance season 2 finale, it’s interesting to ponder that one of Musk’s side quests is Neuralink, a company that implants brain-computer interfaces.
March 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
As we wait for the #Severance season 2 finale, it’s interesting to ponder that one of Musk’s side quests is Neuralink, a company that implants brain-computer interfaces.
43 days into the Dunning-Kruger Coup: “The mandate has led to a great deal of chaos, even as it continues to roll out, with many employees currently required to report in person and others’ deadlines coming this month. Workers have reported…1/2
March 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
43 days into the Dunning-Kruger Coup: “The mandate has led to a great deal of chaos, even as it continues to roll out, with many employees currently required to report in person and others’ deadlines coming this month. Workers have reported…1/2
We are witnessing the Dunning-Kruger coup.
February 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are witnessing the Dunning-Kruger coup.
These firings of probationary workers are going to backfire in a BIG way. Here’s why: they’re spread out in every state and virtually every county in the country. That means there are human interest STORIES everywhere. And the media can’t resist these stories, even in red states. 1/2
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
These firings of probationary workers are going to backfire in a BIG way. Here’s why: they’re spread out in every state and virtually every county in the country. That means there are human interest STORIES everywhere. And the media can’t resist these stories, even in red states. 1/2
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
Accepting these dystopian terminations of civil servants as necessary to end “waste, fraud and abuse” is a loyalty test for Trump’s voters.
February 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Accepting these dystopian terminations of civil servants as necessary to end “waste, fraud and abuse” is a loyalty test for Trump’s voters.
Wildlife biologists and Park rangers and science researchers will never be worth $400 billion. But people who are passionate about their work and choose the public sector over profit are NOT waste, fraud or abuse.
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Wildlife biologists and Park rangers and science researchers will never be worth $400 billion. But people who are passionate about their work and choose the public sector over profit are NOT waste, fraud or abuse.
Four years ago today, on 2/13/21, Mitch McConnell blew his best chance to change the timeline and prevent Gabbard and RFK Jr and the abdication of the Senate to the executive branch and whatever monsters inhabited it. A little late now, Mitch.
February 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Four years ago today, on 2/13/21, Mitch McConnell blew his best chance to change the timeline and prevent Gabbard and RFK Jr and the abdication of the Senate to the executive branch and whatever monsters inhabited it. A little late now, Mitch.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think tearing out systems like the FAA’s and replacing them with a technology that doesn’t understand human fingers is a rash idea.
February 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Call me crazy, but I don’t think tearing out systems like the FAA’s and replacing them with a technology that doesn’t understand human fingers is a rash idea.
Luckily we have government agencies to track and warn us about these dangers- oh, wait.
There’s an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda. There’s an outbreak of Marburg’s disease in Tanzania. Thousand of American diplomats leaving their posts abruptly. We just look so weak and a bit nuts. Foreign policy is hard, but this is just a very big early blunder.
February 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Luckily we have government agencies to track and warn us about these dangers- oh, wait.
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Scoop: A Canadian trucking company told WIRED 2 of their trucks were turned away at the US borders today because they contain de minimis (<$800) packages from China. USPS also announces it will stop accepting parcels from China, both an impact of Trump's China tariff EO www.wired.com/story/tariff...
USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
As part of new tariffs on Chinese imports, President Donald Trump eliminated an exemption for small packages, vastly increasing the amount of parcels US Customs and Border Protection needs to inspect.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Scoop: A Canadian trucking company told WIRED 2 of their trucks were turned away at the US borders today because they contain de minimis (<$800) packages from China. USPS also announces it will stop accepting parcels from China, both an impact of Trump's China tariff EO www.wired.com/story/tariff...