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This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

WOW. This is a major screw-up by the @nytimes.com. It's reporting 101 to ask people about their backgrounds especially when that is a key part of the story. Due diligence is not optional, it's the damn job. @froomkin.bsky.social has all the ugly details. presswatchers.org/2020/10/how-...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Read my latest and lemme know what you think.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Flow is on MAX. Yay. I'm going to watch it a second time tonight. Loved it. I plan to buy the Blu Ray as soon as it's available. Watching it the first time was *super* stressful. This second time around is going to be more fun, heh.

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 274 comments

Literally, this can be explained in one simple way: Conservative women are told they're failures unless they plaster on a smile and pretend everything is great, even when it's not. Liberal women aren't so oppressed and feel free to want more. ifstudies.org/blog/why-so-...

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 10 days ago • 1247 comments

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

RIP Christopher Norton Moore (1947-2025) We've all seen sci-fi book (and music album!) covers by British illustrator Chris Moore. We'll miss this prolific artist with his fascinating visions of the future. Our thoughts are with his loved ones.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 14 days ago • 3220 comments

If helpful: Elon’s statement here is a common type of falsehood, claiming that the existence of a vulnerability somewhere in the system means that the vulnerability has been successfully exploited (at scale). We see it a lot in “election fraud” claims. It’s a logical fallacy.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Sunday reading: A MAGA Feeding Frenzy Is Ravaging the Constitutional Order The assault is coming from different angles: Project 2025. The feudal tech barons. The America First nativists. Less a single master plan – and more comprehensive chaos. This week’s piece:

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

And there it is: Russell Vought is confirmed. I wrote a long profile of him, his worldview, his political project: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right. He is at war with pluralistic democracy.

submitted 16 days ago • 190 comments

Yes. It's why scams and grifts (like this one!) work so well. We are primed from birth to follow orders. And when those orders come from someone saying they have the backing of one of the world's richest people, who has the backing of the president, the Milgram experiment kicks into full effect

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

submitted 20 days ago • 197 comments

Babylon 5, brilliantly written 90s sci-fi series from @straczynski.bsky.social, had a long arc showing the Earth government’s slide to fascism. Love how well it was told. Hate how predictable it’s made everything feel. Well here’s the ISN news network being taken off air. 1/2

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

ppl ragging on this in the replies is so weird, this is literally the sort of thing they should be doing- finding new leaders to replace the feckless lich crew that helped get us here, these are not the ones to yell at, the schumers schiffs and klobuchars of the world are

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

headline: Elon Musk has constructed the Howling Engine, which converts the anguished cries of children into cancer democrats: in these dark times, the american people need us to reach across the aisle

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 23 days ago • 509 comments

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

submitted 24 days ago • 347 comments

We warned people. I’ve been debunking RFK Jr.’s antivax conspiracy mongering since 2005. None of this is a surprise to me. If confirmed, he WILL go after vaccines hard. He’s lying when he claims otherwise.

submitted 30 days ago • 24 comments

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 30 days ago • 483 comments