Jay Bhattacharya, who is best known for ranting about COVID conspiracies and “coverups” for the past 5 years, is now literally suppressing the data on COVID vaccines…because he is an antivaccine hack not a scientist
Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.
One of the ways to tell if an expert is full of shit is to check his replies and see if he is engaging with peers questioning his conclusions.
/Crickets…..
Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
LOL MEEE TOOOOO!
I am blocked by a member of the Bluesky team with whom I have never interacted because “Subscribes to anti-Al blocklists or otherwise seems poorly disposed for productive conversations.”
Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.
🧵 I want to crack down on Big Tech as much as anyone, prob more than most. But the draconian and unworkable kids' online safety bill that the MA House passed earlier this month is not the way to do it. From @evangreer.bsky.social & me in today's @bostonglobe.com : www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...
Conservative pundits are calling out Trump and the GOP for starting the gerrymander fight that they are now losing.
At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.
The latest drama on Bluesky & how the anti-"AI" community here is being perceived and slammed by certain people in charge is making me very worried about our future here
If a dev is blocking 300K of us by using a not exactly accurate blocklist + killing user's feed functionality
While others in
NEW: The naysayers said there were no good uses for AI, but as @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social explain, it actually appears to be pretty good at letting North Korean hackers inept enough to expose the prompts they used to "write" their malware steal millions in crypto.
There is a complete discord between US news and the rest of the world. 3 different international news agencies report that Iran will not entertain any negotiations until the blockade of Iranian ports is lifted.
Do not believe anything the regime in the US is telling you.
News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering.
It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules:
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
it's so funny
we explicitly know for a fact Israel sells American defense stuff to China!
www.military.com/defensetech/...
here is the thing about vote scolding: it doesn't work
my personal position is that the right thing to do is to vote and - because the republican party is so completely world-destroyingly insane - to vote for the democrats
but you simply cannot change minds on this by scolding people
If Republicans are really upset about gerrymandering, then they can join Dems in doing something to end it on both sides.
Rep Jamie Raskin tells me he'd be "delighted" to work with Rs on future bills (epic trolling here):
newrepublic.com/article/2093...
One of the #MayDayStrong activities I recommend here is a #CancelParty to cancel/unsubscribe from billionaire-owned services you don't need.
Would any of y'all be interested in a virtual #CancelParty event???
I'd just say, shortly before I block you: cities are primary sites of human flourishing in our present lives, & while we should respect & embrace all forms of human living, a pretence otherwise veers on a flatly reactionary impulse romanticizing anti-urbanism in ways indistinguishable from fascism
I hope it was elsewhere, because here it's nonsense
Everything anyone has seen points in the other direction. He has an aesthetic posture, not an empirical one
If you measure it incorrectly sprawl might seem more efficient, i suppose-- for instance, by ignoring the scale and nature of non-urban consumption. But in the world of the actual world, dense agglomerations of human settlement remain more efficient on every score, and we've long known that
After a solid 20 years of watching rural and exurban voters consistently attempt to illegalise my existence and my career, forgive me if I’m not filled with a deep well of compassion for their oh-so-precious needs.
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"
yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
Cenk Uygur: Did I miss the requirement to agree with all of his positions in order to accept his help in combating war and genocide? And do you think it's a good idea to reject allies when we desperately need them to end Israel's control over this country? I didn't ask you to marry the guy, I asked you to take yes for an answer when he's a very rare media figure in America who is willing to treat Muslims like they're human beings and say their lives matter. This is not a hard question. In reply to Mehdi Hasan, here: https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/2046763884753879081
Media March 12, 2019 Tucker Carlson Calls Iraqis “Semiliterate Primitive Monkeys” in Latest Round of Tapes The Fox News host refused to apologize for another set of remarks. Inae Oh Senior News and Engagement Editor Bio | Follow
What's a little lie for a Nazi when there are tens of millions of dollars waiting to be grifted?
AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
goodfellas
the dirt