Love this shot of Saturn near the solstice. The rings are casting those shadows on the cloud tops.

More than that, the FBI paid tons of informants who infiltrated the Klan.

For one famous example, Gary Thomas Rowe was a paid FBI informant who was present at the murder of Viola Liuzzo.

But there were so many more. By one estimate, in 1965 a full 15% of the Mississippi KKK were paid informants.

Stepping Away Doing the right thing

"At its core, global health rests on the equal value of human lives, on dignity, and on solidarity across borders, a preferential option for those on the margins. Done right, it is inherently anti-fascist."

reimaginingglobalhealth.substack.com/p/stepping-a...

We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.

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"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

I'm not going to provide details, so don't ask. Nevertheless:

No, it is not OK to have one hallucinated cite. No, you can't delete that and expect me to take the rest of your work seriously. No, absolutely not. It should never ever happen.

PEPFAR scientist resigns in protest HIV clinician decries upending of long-running AIDS program for low-income countries

SEEMS NOT GREAT, YOU GUYS.

www.science.org/content/arti...

L'UE valide un prêt de 90 milliards d'euros pour l'Ukraine | RTS L'Union européenne a donné un premier feu vert mercredi au versement d'un prêt de 90 milliards d'euros à l'Ukraine, a-t-on appris de sources diplomatiques.

L'UE valide un prêt de 90 milliards d'euros pour l'Ukraine

Voilà, Magyar a débloqué le blocage de Orban.

www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...

Hegseth’s ridiculous tweet saying that a refusal to vaccinate is kind of freedom is an insult to all the men, women, and children who have rolled up their sleeves to protect themselves and their communities from the common threat of contagious diseases.

Here's the whole document, printed in Boston in April 1776 about a year before George Washington changed his mind after being convinced by his doctors, his soldiers, and his wife Martha to order the mass inoculation of the Continental Army. collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:...

This administration pretends to honor the 250th, but brazenly dismisses its most profound legacies. 250 years ago this month, Washington’s surgeon general John Morgan wrote that government must “provide for the safety of its members by rendering the practice of inoculation as universal as possible.”

I yearn for the days when you bought some new gadget never mind a pizza and just used it as intended without downloading an app or opening an account. It’s gone too far.

Tbh I think it's actually kind of obvious that if you think gerrymandering in a two party system is bad, and one of the parties is actively doing that and rejecting legislative efforts to curtail it, the correct move is to counter-gerrymander until you can restore equilibrium and force negotiation.

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised?

Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

55 rétractation pour Raoult. Dans une seule petite, il sera Top 10 monde égalité avec Yuhji Saitoh (56).

Keeping up with constant lying gets tiresome so we play games keep it fresh.

Join me and @jessicamalaty.bsky.social for Brainworm Bingo at today’s Senate HELP Committee hearing at 2 pm ET on our Substacks: rasmussenretorts.substack.com
makingsciencemakesense.substack.com
#maha

For many more fun insights - including shifts in gender, race and age composition, and much more - check out the full paper in JDQ:DM!

Open Access!

journalqd.org/article/view...

In a nutshell, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

It’s a crowded field but he is the worst Cabinet appointee by a comfortable margin.

If his job were to deliberately damage public health, he would not behave differently than he currently is

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Confusion over government agencies’ roles in fire oversight, probe reveals Testimony by fire service officers shows departments had different prerogatives in handling complaints regarding Wang Fuk Court renovations.

Day 17 Tai Po fire hearings wrapup: Based on testimony from Fire Services, residents raised dangers before the fire, but various departments had informal, unwritten division of labour which led to grey areas, allowing major hazards to go unaddressed

www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

This is one of the saddest pieces I’ve read in a long time; brace yourself, it’s devastating

I wish RFK Jr and his MAHA movement would read it (they won’t)

🎁 Link

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

So far SNAP RCTs have confirmed my practices:

1) ✅ cefazolin
2) ❌ clindamycin

#IDSky

Got to say "one enema away from solving world hunger" on cable news' most watched show last night. InfoWars is already paying off.

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New event!
📆3rd May
🕑14:00 Pacific Time

溫哥華手足 VAHK hold information street booth "Say No to CCP's Infiltration" at the shipyards in Vancouver (coinciding with the Vancouver Hong Kong fair)

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DXZ_dRrAS5G/