It is not confusing. If you are making it so, you are failing the people who are counting on you to clarify it.

The effortless way the lyrics match the music is unmatched. (e.g. "The sin and shame in which you wallow...") And the Fugue for Tinhorns!

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Among the many should-immediately-end-this-presidency daily scandals is the fact that the current administration is dismantling research on the most incredible new scientific advance in the last several decades. Literally killing people.

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball.

You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

I did not know this, and this is really good news.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.

I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.

Wait Until Dark. Age 8, I think. In a drive-in. I spent it in the back seat, ducking down and occasionally peering over the seats to see if it was over yet.

I guess it was some kind of tough love I'll never understand.

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

It would be funny if it wasn’t real.

"A whole sector of mainstream media now functions as spirit mediums attempting to interpret Trump’s actions to try to fit them into the context of competent leadership and coherent and consistent agendas."

The failure to make this concrete points as much to the failings of the media as anything else. They say things are bad because the Republicans say things are bad, and the Rs have the message discipline to repeat it over and over while their guys are not in office.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

Space stuff is cool.

We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff.

Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran.

What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

Another possible reason is that Iraq and Gaza gave the world months to worry about which was also months to plan opposition. This round with Iran has not and it's not even clear enough what's going on. How do you plan to oppose something when it might not be relevant tomorrow?

Graphic with a quote of Julian Reyes, Chief of Staff at UCS. The graphic includes the image of Smokey the Bear: “My own experience as a civil servant at USDA working directly with Forest Service R&D scientists tells me this relocation is bad for the American people, bad for American producers and foresters, and bad for rural communities.

In his blog, UCS’s Julian Reyes explains how Forest Service restructuring is irreversibly damaging the federal scientific enterprise. It leaves the nation facing growing climate threats with fewer experts to manage wildfires just as risks are surging across the US.

🔗 act.ucsusa.org/4sqD11s

Only you can prevent the destruction of American science.

We built the envy of the whole world and it only takes a relatively few vandals who don't understand its value to destroy it. So yes, pretty easy to be angry.

Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry Kate Marvel reflects on her fiery resignation: “I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad.”

Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?

An analysis shows that about one answer in ten provided by Google Gemini is bad. You are warned.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/t...

So much of what is wrong today began with corrupting the media environment.

Precisely this

“I don't see myself stopping”: An interview with Steve Ahlquist ahead of his April 19 Fundraiser "I don’t shy away from sticking up for people. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people who abuse other people. So if I see these things happening, it’s hard for me to stay silent."

My friend and colleague @steveahlquist.bsky.social has a fundraiser coming up this month for his vital, tireless journalism. I asked if he'd let me interview him for the occasion, and he agreed.

Here's our conversation.

Why Japan has such good railways - Works in Progress Magazine Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

This is good