SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and *wife* and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14:26

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

"Laser Eye Surgery" does not, in fact, give you Eye Lasers. <sigh>

Millions of people who would have died of HIV/AIDS got to live because of Fauchi. Apparently the right wing finds that unforgivable.

I ask you to look past the headline, and watch the video. This is a comprehensive breakdown of what's been done, educationally, to the American people for generations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Mu... It doesn't have to be this way.

Why Are Americans So Bloody Stupid?

YouTube video by Taboo Education - Let's Talk Death

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"Should we treat as fine and normal that the fate of huge chunks of the economy and millions of Americans’ 401(k)s are in the hands of this unstable, thin-skinned, thuggish race-baiting conspiracy theorist?" www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

Opinion | Stop treating Elon Musk’s racist meltdowns like they’re normal

Anthony L. Fisher: The economy and millions of retirement accounts are tied to the fortunes of an unstable, race-baiting conspiracy theorist.

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youtu.be/Z6CgdvCm4r8?... One of my favourite working authors is, by self-description, aphantasic. As someone who's moderately hyperphantasic, I find this fascinating.

Adam Savage Visits Project Hail Mary's Props Department!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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All competent, peer reviewed analysis shows that mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Trump administration led to millions of excess deaths jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.

Instead of solving real public health problems facing us now (e.g. measles, cyclosporiasis) we instead have the Senators led by Dr. Sen. Paul engaging in a personal vendetta, attacking Dr. Fauci, who has saved literally millions of lives.

docs.google.com/document/u/1... I don't think we should have a government of violent rapists. Violent criminals aren't supposed to be in the Oval Office.

Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps

Impossible to tell if that look in her eyes is the glint of the delighted true believer finally getting the fascism she wants or the terror of someone whose company is hostage to the mercurial dictator she's introducing. In the end, it does not matter one bit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

GM CEO Mary Barra is introducing Trump at his rally. Something to keep in mind if you're in the market for a vehicle anytime soon.

"Would you like to buy some Itchy & Scratchy money? It works just like regular money, but it's...uh...fun!"

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

It's dihydrogen monoxide!

wargen@funeralpig.bsky.social · last wk.

Great point from @moiradonegan.bsky.social on the pod: Trump's gains with young men are vanishing as they realize Trump/Tate brothers faux masculinity isn't helping them: "They’re not being elevated in their own status." Donegan is just brilliant here all throughout: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

Trumpworld Shivs Hyper-Masculine Guru Andrew Tate as MAGA Cracks Up

As MAGA splits over the legal travails of influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the writer of a piece on the Tates explains why MAGA’s vision of masculinity is imploding—and what it means for our polit...

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Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Amazing that we're letting a violent rapist destroy America's institutions because it would be illegal to stop him. Amazingly pathetic.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were one of the cautionary tales my year tutor at Brunel used to put me off the nuclear track. I like people. I like fun. By the time I was working on anything interesting, I wouldn't be able to talk to anybody about it. The nuclear track wasn't for me.

One of the larger problem with tolerating bullshit-based beliefs is that they enable heinous acts. They provide what looks like deniability. They muddy waters which are an inch deep. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US mum who blamed vaccines for twins' deaths is denied bail on murder charges

Andrea Shaw, whom prosecutors allege suffocated her twins, has had her bond revoked by a judge.

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Presented as a thesis in defense of civilization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9L...

Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?

YouTube video by Veritasium

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I've been staunchly against the death penalty all my life on the basis that the government isn't trustworthy enough to make such decisions. I finally realize that the fix is that the death penalty should only be applicable to people who've had government jobs that they abused.

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