I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.
The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.
Flights in the Caribbean turning away from Starship flight 8 debris.
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He should focus on his actual business
Tesla stock down another 5.6% today. 30% down YTD.
Chart showing Tesla stock down another 5.6% 3/6/25. 30% down YTD.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
A never-before-shared photo of scarlet elf cup mushrooms from March 2024. Three red cups grow from under a mossy branch on the forest floor. Their bright red velvet interiors glow from inside fleshy white cups. All photos by me
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In high school, I spent a lot of time in Detention. A teacher proctering we miscreants used to describe New Yorker cartoons and ask us to supply the captions. The NYer currently now has such a contest. I think it's even more fun to look at the cover and think up what the title might be.
Hello from the sea.
A rainbow over the ocean, with a dark blue sea over a cloud filled but still blue sky.
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I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender." The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.
People don’t ask each other what’s crack-a-lackin like they used to
I’m like 99% sure that mice don’t even have genders.
I'm not Christian, but if I had never learned anything about it over the years, today I would assume that all Jesus talked about is whose genitals people touched with their own. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Tariffs tomorrow and tariffs yesterday, but never tariffs today.
I will absolutely be voting against Durbin in the primary at this point.
It’s time to repeal Section 230. We must be able to take social media companies to court for addicting kids and enabling drug trafficking on their platforms.
i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.
Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
None of this would seem a revolutionary approach to rhetoric. Still, it was fraught with risk all the same: Democrats “have been on their heels since the election,” Slotkin told me, and the party faithful have been agitating since January 20 for someone, anyone, to stand up to Trump. The announcement of Slotkin had already been met with grumbling from progressives online; anything short of oratorical firebolts would confirm the complacent, feckless approach of the D.C. governing class.

Slotkin viewed the stakes somewhat differently: This speech could, at least symbolically, commence a new chapter of Democratic Party opposition to a president whose success is inextricable from the tone-deaf ineptitude of Democratic Party opposition. If her team’s resistance to Trump’s first term was marked by hysteria and hashtags—all the land acknowledgments and pronoun policing and intersectionality initiatives—Slotkin saw last night the opportunity to set a different tone.
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that’ll teach them 👍
House Democrats sing “We Shall Overcome” following Rep. Al Green’s censure:
We will be releasing some more tickets to my special taping in Chicago very soon. Likely today or tomorrow. I will post as soon as they go online. There will be a significant number; couple of hundred at the very least. The taping is on March 15th btw.
LINCOLN COUNTY, GEORGIA! 🍑 SATURDAY!  Join Homes for Our Troops in kicking off the build for Army Captain Joseph Caley’s future specially adapted custom home in Lincolnton, GA. 🇺🇸 RSVP:www.hfotusa.org/caley
I call him Elon Tusk because both his personal and professional life are seemingly as chaotic as the members of Fleetwood Mac’s were during the recording of their studio album “Tusk”
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I tested out Google's new AI mode and wrote about the uncertain future it suggests for the web www.platformer.news/google-ai-mo...
For the moment, AI Mode is just an experiment. But AI Overviews started as an experiment, too, and now they are default for more than 1 billion users of Google search. The good news is that Google is still working to highlight real websites, even as its AI gradually obviates the need to visit them. That bad news is that just because you show someone lots of links does not mean they will click on them.
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On today’s Prof G Conversations: Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and author of bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence