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Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

Incredible.

The issue here isn't the Reflecting Pool (which seems trivial). The issue is the President ordering his subordinates to arrest and prosecute an innocent man on completely fabricated pretences in order to cover for his own corrupt contracting deal.

So the governor of the most powerful state in the country makes considerably less in a year than the president does on one pump and dump of shitcoins or branded cell phones? I'm okay with that.

LOL remember when Ben Smith defended this guy’s integrity at Buzzfeed

And in 1962, the year after USAID was founded, six of the top ten acts on the Billboard charts were black artists. Coincidence? I think not.

The funniest part is before cancelling it, they demanded a list of all my clients. Because SURELY there was some conflict of interest that was causing me to say such a thing. So I sent them my full client list.

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Also I’m sorry, this isn’t a private matter as the senator says, the guy is a member of the U.S. house and a well connected trump ally

""Tenure ... contributes to curriculum that drifts from the mission of educating our warfighters to the research priorities of the tenured academics." Nope, not really. What we teach and what we research are generally driven by different dynamics, but far right's hostility to academics is known 1/

I think I'm going to just attach this to my syllabi from now on.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...theonion.com

why does every politician talk like this now

Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.

Trump's absolute transactional corruption of the state here is staggering — and everyone who buys in is forever invested in this corruption and rationalizing and defending it (& even if you loathe/condemn it, if you have investments/retirement in an index fund say you can’t not be implicated in it)

What in the wide world of revolutionary socialist solidarity is going on here exactly? 🧐 thehill.com/policy/techn...

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companiesThe Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…thehill.com

When two columns buckled on the 21st floor of 235 E 42nd Street, City workers jumped into action.  Yesterday I invited the DOB and FDNY first responders to City Hall and thanked them for their bravery.  We’re fortunate to have dedicated civil servants like these.

Newsom is a clown who cannot be trusted to do anything billionaires don’t approve of.

Prescribed fire “burns off the susceptible material that wants to burn in a wildfire scenario when it’s hotter and drier and the winds are blowing faster,” said Jeffrey Stackhouse @ucanr.edu. “It’s a big moment in time for this work,” @lenyaqd.bsky.social told @laist.com laist.com/news/climate...

The key to protecting California’s giant sequoias from wildfire — controlled firesA team of UC Davis researchers found that giant sequoia trees that had undergone prescribed burns were around four times more likely to survive wildfires.laist.com