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This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 387 comments

This is the story of a pathological liar who was immunized by the Supreme Court, is drunk on power and thinks a journalist should not confront his obvious lies. It’s all there in a two-minute exchange about an obviously fabricated photo. www.americaamerica.news/p/trumps-ris...

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Holy shit. I knew this @nytimes.com editorial would be bad, but it's so much worse than I could have imagined. I mean, it is indistinguishable from a parody of reactionary centrism. This is every center-left pathology, laid out for your examination.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 2 days ago • 537 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 3 days ago • 611 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 4 days ago • 1143 comments

Most points scored in the 4th quarter in the postseason since Jalen Brunson signed with the Knicks: 1. Jalen Brunson: 248 points (in 26 games) 2. Nikola Jokic: 241 points (in 36 games) 3. Jayson Tatum: 233 points (in 38 games) "The Knicks don't have a 1A dude"

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

4th quarter this series: Jalen Brunson: 53 points on 65% shooting 8 assists vs. 1 turnover +25 plus/minus Cade Cunningham: 26 points on 35% shooting 10 assists vs. 8 turnovers -15 plus/minus "Cunningham is the best player in the series."

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Complete list of all players to average more than 33 points, 8 assists and 4 rebounds while shooting above 45% from the floor and 80% from the FT line over the first four playoff games in any postseason in NBA history: Michael Jordan and Jalen Brunson -- end of list --

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

🇮🇱Israel stops sending aid after delivering 1,774,459 tons of aid to Gaza, because Hamas refuses to release 59 hostages held for 18 months. ➡️ GLOBAL OUTRAGE 🇮🇳India cuts off water to Pakistan after a Pakistani murders 26 Hindus. ➡️ 🦗 Tell me again how it’s not about the Jews.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...

submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

Our cover this week.

submitted 9 days ago • 1343 comments

Hamas captivity survivor Eli Sharabi, whose wife and two daughters were murdered during the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, shares powerful words from Auschwitz on Holocaust Memorial Day.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“I am sort of open to an entirely unrealistic idea that requires an absolutely 100% fucking impossible logistical scenario and would require 340 million people to have a small object with them at all times or else they could be shipped to El Salvador”

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

“The EU bans those synthetic food dyes” is just misinformation pushed by ignoramuses like RFK who don’t care about facts & lie to you for their own profit. None of these synthetic food dyes are banned in the EU Red 40 = E129 Yellow 5 = E102 Yellow 6 = E110 Blue 1 = E133 Blue 2 = E132 Green 3 = E143

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

submitted 12 days ago • 461 comments

“Why do we even plan on doing great things if, on a whim, we can just decide ‘nah’?” the senior space scientist says. “These things take a generation to build and enable multiple generations of scientists. They should not be blithely thrown away.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

This headline construction could apply to nearly anyone in the Trump 2.0 administration. "The EPA Head Who Hates the Environment." "The HHS Secretary Who Hates Science-Based Medicine." "The Education Sec. Who Hates Education." "The President Who Hates Democracy." The nihilism is a throughline.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

submitted 14 days ago • 394 comments

“They showed me terrible videos and told me that my mother was captured, and that Israel didn’t exist anymore.” “When I cried, they put a gun to my head and told me to be quiet.” — Released hostage Eitan Yahalomi, 12

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

PA voted for Trump, and UAW endorsed Trump, now Mack Truck is laying off workers at their Lehigh County plant with tariff as a significant cause. https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1k2gbp0/pa_voted_for_trump_and_uaw_endorsed_trump_now/

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).

submitted 15 days ago • 300 comments

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

submitted 16 days ago • 95 comments

By @hcrichardson.bsky.social:

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

AOC: When he talks about rapists and criminals, he should look in the mirror

submitted 19 days ago • 547 comments

Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

submitted 21 days ago • 293 comments

Just an astonishingly stupid person.

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

No matter how many times Republicans say otherwise, there is no way they can pay for their tax cuts for the rich without gutting healthcare and food assistance for the poor — along with other programs that millions of people rely on. Don't believe their lies for a second.

submitted 23 days ago • 99 comments

Here's what happens when you surrender to the despot. He punishes you even more. https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114313927555263388

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

If I have my numbers right, the cost of Trump's self-fellating parade would be enough money for PEPFAR to give HIV prevention treatment to nearly two million people.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 26 days ago • 314 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 40 days ago • 922 comments

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

submitted 26 days ago • 158 comments

Bro took one look at the stock market and said "pay me in Canadian dollars please!"

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

None of this damage by Trump or Musk would be possible without the full and unwavering support of the Republican Party. This is like pretending that the problem with the Civil War was that Jefferson Davis thought too much of himself.

submitted 26 days ago • 23 comments

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

submitted 27 days ago • 231 comments

"Vanilla is in vanilla ice cream and what else?" is such a perfect encapsulation of the surly self-confidence of the people who are ripping the wires out of our government and our economy.

submitted 27 days ago • 179 comments

NEW -- President Donald Trump skipped the return of four soldiers who died in a training exercise to Dover Air Force Base Friday and instead spent $4.2 million of taxpayer money to attend a dinner for one of his business interests and to play golf. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 29 days ago • 170 comments