I’m not a psychologist.

But Trump’s malignant narcissism seems plain.

I’m not a lawyer.

But the collapse of checks and balances and the resultant constitutional crisis seems plain.

I’m not an economist.

But the hollowing out of the public sector for the benefit of corporations and billionaires seems plain.

I am an historian.

And the convergence of these forces has never ended well.

Midnight in America.

#uspol #democracy #fascism

Infant born with deadly disease now thriving thanks to customized CRISPR treatment six months after birth

A newborn boy, KJ, was diagnosed at birth with a rare and potentially fatal genetic disease. He received a novel, on-demand CRISPR therapy in record time.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) worked with the boy’s physicians at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to test the safety and efficacy of a CRISPR base-editing therapy that hospital doctors had developed.

“A remarkable multi-institution team — CHOP, Penn, IGI/UC Berkeley, IDT, Aldevron, Jackson Labs — came together to show that one can create a CRISPR on-demand therapy in six months. It can be done even faster. Now, we have to show that we can scale this from CRISPR for one to CRISPR for all.”

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/15/infant-born-with-deadly-disease-now-thriving-thanks-to-customized-crispr-treatment-six-months-after-birth/

how do we know this world isn’t a simulation glitching?

yes yes I know…

….but how do we KNOW???

as if CERN would tell us if they skewed our reality in the 4th quarter of 2014? (that’s when things got weird. not just bad, but bizarre, extreme horror movie kinda bad)

I’m just so tired guys 🥴

"Despite whatever is rattling around [Stephen] Miller's febrile cabeza, habeas corpus is not a revocable privilege. It is a right guaranteed to everyone incarcerated. In calling it a 'privilege' that 'could be suspended' to suit the whims of his boss, Miller proves himself to be a traitor not only to the American idea, but also to the freaking Magna Carta (!),"

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #StephenMiller #HabeasCorpus #immigrants
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64745130/stephen-miller-trump-habeas-corpus/

For more than 60 years, hundreds of unclassified reports from the US defense and intelligence community have assessed the threats to the US from environmental, #water, and #climate risks.

Those reports are disappearing from government websites and the military is being ordered to cancel, and censor, these security analyses.

I've documented, annotated, and linked to them on my website in three blog posts. The first one is here (the next two are there as well):

https://www.gleick.com/blog/climate-change-water-the-environment-and-national-security-an-annotated