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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there are conifers, mountains, rivers and the Pacific Ocean. I’ll meet you there.
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@mikeisraetel.bsky.social Great explanation of obesity epidemic by Dr Mike.

For anyone wondering when he became such an insufferable asshole, he's always been an insufferable asshole. Good work, as usual, by Common Sense Skeptic.

Are we a nation of laws? www.theverge.com/elon-musk/60...

Just wanted to say thanks to all the liberals who said Harris and Trump were the same. That's really working out great. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

"A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED." WIRED is doing some amazing journalism. I just subscribed. $5/year

rep raskin speaks to a crowd of 100 outside usaid hq “we don’t have a fourth branch of government called elon musk…you don’t control the money of the american people. the united states congress does.”

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this new piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

"Why won't California let all the water flow from NorCal down to SoCal so they can put out all the fires?" Well, if you thought about it for more than 3 seconds, you might realize it's a complicated situation. If you want to learn about the complexity and reality of California's water situation: