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THIS ESSAY IS SO GOOD. I don't know that I've ever read an essay so thoroughly saturated with sarcasm and yet devastatingly accurately shredding someone's stupid ideas. This is the kind of essay our world needs right now.

https://medium.com/@steve.desch/this-is-not-the-quality-of-pseudoscience-infotainment-to-which-i-have-grown-accustomed-34268f892ba8

"We’ve come to count on Loeb to turn legitimately exciting space discoveries into aliens, aliens, aliens with the regularity of movies in the Spider Man franchise"

This is not the quality of pseudoscience infotainment to which I have grown accustomed

Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…

Medium
Hegseth should be immediately removed for reposting a clip in which a white Christian nationalist pastor says women shouldn’t have the right to vote - but of course nothing will happen to him because that is the dominant, though unacknowledged, view in the Republican Fascist Party. https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d
Hegseth reposts video featuring pastors opposing women's right to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands. The extraordinary repost from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was made Thursday night. It illustrates his deep and personal connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme views on the role of religion and women. In the post, Hegseth commented on a report by CNN examining Doug Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The report featured various pastors of the denomination advocating the repeal of women’s right to vote from the Constitution and parishioners saying that women should “submit” to their husbands.

AP News

Whee. Billions to be made off stupidity.

#measles #welcometothedarkages

Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives.

Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation.

It should not be like this 💔

This man is a bona fide hero is what.

"He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All"

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979518/sacramento-music-archive-shayne-stacy-punk-metal-cassettes-vhs-demos-concerts

#Music
#MusicArchives

He Saves Decades of Underground Music and Makes it Free to All

Shayne Stacy's Sacramento Music Archive is a goldmine of previously unseen punk, metal and indie shows in the Bay Area and beyond.

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.

The New York Times

Jew-hating Trump demands a billion dollars from UCLA to restore federal funding, claiming it's about antisemitism, etc.

Trump is as Jew-hating as they come. He's using claimed "antisemitism" at UCLA as an excuse to gain control over education and research and to wipe out civil rights and gender care. It's the same lying sh*t he's pulling everywhere.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Why a NASA satellite that scie...
Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court
Advocates say Supreme Court shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/net-neutrality-advocates-wont-appeal-loss-say-they-dont-trust-supreme-court/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Geoff Duncan Leaves GOP For Democratic Party

Glad to have you aboard, sir.

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