Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

An end to our military and economic support for Israel should be part of our negotiations with Iran.

TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!”

IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?”

TRUMP: “Deal.”

FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”

One of my favorite Lab Leak fantasies - the $0.5 billion A/C. Utterly nonsensical from the get-go, yet, it became a driving force behind "official" reports.

You might think this is an isolated example, but alas - all lab leak conspiracy theories are built on such crumbling piles of tosh.

Since I broke the thread, it continues here.

bsky.app/profile/kgan...

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I) Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19.

The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I:

pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995

🧪 #covidorigin

A page from the book 1984

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

Regardless of how tomorrow goes i’m not sure any predictive piece i’ve written has aged as well as this one www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Astrud Gilberto was a housewife in 1964 when saxophonist Stan Getz decided he wanted his hit “Girl From Ipanema” to be sung in English — something her husband, Joao, who sang the original track, couldn’t do.

Sold 2 million copies.

Born today in 1940. 💕

Sakura archival black ink pens are best for adding the words “is a pedophile” to currency.

What Was Actually in the Mueller Report There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.

7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

How the Covid Disinformation Ecosystem was established Network mapping the international network's development in 2020, with a particular focus on the UK.

Sobering, important article by @karambales.bsky.social

Episode #1080 | The Skeptics Guide to the Universe News Items Cannabis Review AI Agent Breaks Out Of Testing Environment Life on Exomoons Strongest Carbon Fiber Bigfoot Hoax Revealed Interview with Professor Kristian Andersen https://www.scripps.edu/f...

I have been listening to @theskepticsguide.bsky.social since I was a graduate student!

It was therefore a great pleasure to join this weeks show to talk about the origin of COVID-19. One of the most succinct and on-point interviews I have done on the topic!

www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/epi...

Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false.

Here's his summary slide - let's start there.

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@saveamericamvmt.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social and @27unihted.bsky.social are co-sponsoring an event covering this lecture with the first NIH

Freedom From Science lecture

with scientists who have actually worked to find evidence and unravel the origin of COVID-19

#NIHFFS

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One man and his sycophants

Ken Starr was the President at Baylor University during their rape scandal - campus athletes raping students - all covered up by the administration. Not surprising that Starr and Epstein were friends.

Why wait?

Is Robert’s starting a new career as a stand-up comedian?

Ahh, but The strawberries! That -
That’s where I had them.

A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to COVID-19’s origin Analysis of Wuhan market map suggests China has not disclosed some of the earliest infections in animals and people

A ludicrous theory posted on WeChat by "Kunlun Sword" in 2021 asserted that Maine lobsters sparked the COVID pandemic. Evobiologist Flo Débarre now has found clues in the post that suggest China has withheld evidence about early infected humans and animals. www.science.org/content/arti...

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Since Friday?

But Kamala is the real president. Trump is just fiction.

Also known as the Third Gulf War.

Eisenhower