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Meteorologist | TTU PhD Candidate | Predictability and Sensitivity | Moody Storm Pictures | Prog Rock
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 17 hours ago • 530 comments

I haven't really followed this case, but Baldoni's lawyer thanking the "Internet sleuth community who continue to cover the case with discernment and integrity" kinda gives the game away on their end, right?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

herein i propose a presidential fitness test, a televised gauntlet conducted right before the first presidential debate the candidate must do the following on stage and in sequence: 1. install updates on a laptop 2. pack an overnight suitcase 3. brush a dog’s teeth 4. air fry a frozen burrito

submitted 19 hours ago • 51 comments

JUST IN: California sues Trump admin, says Trump's order deploying National Guard is illegal/unconstitutional. AG says protests were 'under control' until Trump announced Guard deployment. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 2 days ago • 381 comments

I’m one of the people who left Twitter because of “unregenerate racism” but I sure am comforted to know that Megan McArdle thinks I could do better

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

There is no way to construct a “popularist” immigration policy because what the public wants is literally impossible. They want mass deportations without a crackdown, criminals disappeared without impacting due process, and nobody to be above the rules but exceptions made for the good ones.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 890 comments

TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

An active stretch of weather continues in the southern Plains today with very large hail possible in west Texas. This will be the third consecutive day of operations for #ICECHIP. Again, if you find any very large hailstones, please refer to the following:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

as bad as institutional wingnut welfare was and is, the fact that the new path to right wing stardom is performative harassment (LoTT, this guy, etc) is exponentially worse and extraordinarily corrosive to society hurting people should not make you rich and famous

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Obviously Biden was too old but the idea that the only possible explanation for saying something nonsensical while speaking extemporaneously in public is “dementia” clearly indicates you have never spoken extemporaneously in public. Record yourself speaking for an hour and see if you flub anything

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 10 days ago • 4931 comments

RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

submitted 11 days ago • 123 comments

I hate that Brooks and others like him have positioned themselves to be heroes when they finally speak what they knew to be true all along about Trump and his political movement. We are forced to applaud their stating of the completely obvious because we need them on our side, unfortunately.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Fake-populist reactionaries are forever demanding that broad political coalitions that include advocates somehow force those advocates to shut up, supposedly in the name of maintaining a broad political coalition

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.

submitted 12 days ago • 191 comments

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

submitted 12 days ago • 401 comments

Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

It's remarkable how much of this administration's agenda has been laser focused on simply making life worse for ordinary Americans.

submitted 23 days ago • 355 comments

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

submitted 25 days ago • 112 comments

If you’re a hack for whom intellectual honesty and consistency are alien concepts, life is just full of these little puzzles.

submitted 26 days ago • 85 comments