everything is terrible so here’s mamdani and obama laughing and reading to kids to soothe your soul

One of multiple parts of the Atlantic story that is one hundred percent true is President Trump’s frustration that the MAGAfied feds aren’t jailing nearly enough of his political enemies so u can read his words today in the context of liking his job title and wanting to keep it

Yellowish rocks comprise most of this outcrop scene. Darker, brown rocks cap the outcrop. Trees and vegetation are widespread. There is a person for scale at centre left.

See those yellowish rocks?

They're about 1.4 billion years old.

The rocks on top are around 500 million years old.

This is part of the Great Unconformity, where almost a billion years of Earth's history is just... missing.

“They’ll never close the Strait again” lasted a solid 10 hours.

Masterful negotiation (read: market manipulation) from Trump

Put science back in the driver’s seat Put science back in the driver’s seat

Don't miss my new op-ed on how space science is getting demoted to hitchhiker status at NASA:

spacenews.com/put-science-...

The Integrity Orion capsule European Service Module is at left; the Moon occupies most of the scene, but mainly the night (unilluminated) side is visible. A portion of the illuminated lunar surface is visible at lower right. Crescent Earth, partially occluded by the Moon, is in the distance at centre.

Whoa.

Check out this photo from the Artemis II mission—the Orion service module on the left, the lunar limb at bottom right, and in the middle, a crescent Earth rising from behind the Moon.

It looks like it's sci-fi, but it's real. And just happened last week.

"Most filthy and dark" sounds about right

Russell Vought must be impeached and charged. He is a danger to America.

House SS&T Dems just issued a report re NASA and the FY2026 budget: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval." Calls on Isaacman to "defend" NASA and not do the same w/FY2027 request.
democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

What happened to Amanda Ungaro spilling her truth about Trump, Melania and Epstein?

from the "Sorta F**KING Obvious" files:
subfolder "No, Actually Obvious!"
The next page of the epstein saga STILL has 47's name on it.
Just like aaaaaall the other pages we'll never see.

A screenshot of an opinion by Oliver Kornetzke from August 18th, 2025. There’s a photo of a tired, bloated Donald trump over the opinion that reads: behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleeves of economy, man, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a clansman, the sexism of a back alley creep, and the greed of a hedge fund ghoul – all spray painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a country fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been – arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed, exalted as ambition, and corruption worship like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol, proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spike, it doesn’t just lose its soul – it shits out this bloated, obscenity, and calls it a leader.

Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this

in that recent NYT piece about the runup to the war, trump told a dubious tucker carlson “it’s going to be ok” and when tucker asked how he knew, he said “because it always is.”

this may truly be the first time in his life that wishful thinking isn’t working. and he has no plan b.

Send him to Moscow.

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Whenever I see some leftist online these days say "Al Gore was actually not that bad," my blood pressure spikes.

Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. He was fantastic. He would have been an exceptional president. Glad you finally got the fucking memo.

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

this piece from the Economist explained a lot — certainly put words to some of my own experiences:
archive.vn/StErl (archive link). the only real question, then, is why some of us skewed so liberal and others didn’t.

the Original Restaurant Sketch (aka Dirty Fork Sketch) YouTube video by TheFullMontyPython

Yes indeed, but I still maintain that they're not as good as Monty Python's Dirty Fork: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VL...

A thin crescent Earth, some details of its cloudy surface barely discernable.

Earth.

In the dark.

From Artemis II.

For that, you get:

- the International Space Station and Artemis
- development of new space and aeronautics technologies
- maintenance of centres nationwide, each generating ~$7 per dollar invested
- dozens of science missions, focusing on Earth, the Sun, the cosmos, and the entire Solar System

The Artemis II mission launching.

A reminder that the entire NASA budget is 0.37% of the U.S. government's annual spending.

That's one two-hundred-and-seventieth of the yearly federal budget.

NASA -- Artemis II crew

Iconic Photo

Artemis II Astronaut Victor Glover gave an inspiring speech about how special life is on Earth and how we should all appreciate it and those who live on it with us! 👇👇👇👇

Artemis has more balls than congress.

It will end, because he’s in bad health and eats enough saturated fat to short circuit an elephant.

A lot of them probably won’t be held legally responsible, but we can make the political consequences severe.

Unemployable is almost as good as in prison.

That’s one of my biggest concerns. I don’t *think* he will opt for nuclear weapons, but I also know there are no guardrails like there were last time, flimsy as they were.

I’m confident that Hegseth wouldn’t even try to push back on a nuclear strike.

This is why we shouldn’t elect insane people.

1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.

scrub harder, lady macbeth

[satirical statement from george costanza] Good afternoon. The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jerry Seinfeld need to end today. I have never been friends with Seinfeld. I was invited to the same parties as Seinfeld from time to time, since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City. The first time I crossed paths with Seinfeld was in the year 2000, at an event Elaine Benes and I attended together. I never had a relationship with Seinfeld or his accomplice, Kramer.

just gonna leave this here. for no reason.