Dan GillmorTop Trump official's failure to comply with ethics rules -- translation: he is blatant sleaze -- is merely "raising concern" at the NY Times. As usual, the Paper of Record normalizes these corrupt extremists.
Charles Buchanan
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Performative utterances & political commentary. I value rational discourse; I sing the body electric; I Photoshop.
Turns out, unsurprisingly, that American fascism is bad for tourism and U.S.-based conferences. (You'd have to be an idiot to organize an international gathering inside the U.S. at this point.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/las-vegas-tourism-decline-trump-immigration
Djembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪Laura Helmuth resigns as editor-in-chief of Scientific American. “[She said] that she supported an approach in which journalists tell readers what they know is true and how they determined it to be true, rather than telling readers “both sides” and letting them decide for themselves.”
“There are not two reasonable sides to every story. We know evolution is real and creationism is not; we know vaccines save lives and don’t cause autism; we know climate change is real,” Helmuth told the Edit Desk. “It would be malpractice to quote creationists or RFK Jr. or climate deniers in any coverage of these issues, other than to point out that these issues are being politicized but the science is clear.” #journalism #science
GristIt’s not normal for the East Coast to be on fire
https://grist.org/wildfires/its-not-normal-for-the-east-coast-to-be-on-fire/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Grist @grist-Grist
William Lindsey 
"The common theme is that he is constructing a kind of anti-government—not in the sense of being for smaller government, but in the sense of being government’s evil twin. Every appointee is selected as a deliberate negation, even a mockery, of the function of government he or she will be in charge of."
~ Robert Tracinski
#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #future
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-trump-administration-will-be
James GleickForgive me for stating the obvious, but apparently it’s not obvious enough:
The effectiveness of a vaccine—even the effectiveness for you, personally—doesn’t just depend on you taking it. It depends on other people taking it. The more the better.
Epidemics are complex systems, with feedback effects. https://mas.to/@gleick/113493200280387680
James Gleick (@[email protected])
“Bring Back Covid!” Battle plan for today’s GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/well/idaho-covid-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU4.uVrG.fTast2zadukg&smid=url-share
DJ Sundoglistening to a tape, or a cd, or any other form of physically instantiated recording, is intentional. it carries with it your intent to listen to the specific work you've physically placed in the player.
it hits differently than searching a streaming service for something to listen to. it brings with it the strongest and the weakest moments of the art you've decided to spend time with.
no one would say "I made you a mix tape" after asking a computer program to select a bunch of music based on heuristics and past signalling. the intent of the creator and the intent of the listener both come into play.
(this toot is about the fediverse.)
Gregg GonsalvesRFK Jr. championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa/
RFK Jr.'s involvement in this tragedy needs to be more widely known. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/measles-in-samoa/
Facts Central“Can you name the Court that issued rulings regarding imaginary crimes in the name of the belief that it was normal for religion to control everyone’s life, and to persecute the non-believers?”
“The US Supreme Court?”
“Well… I meant the Inquisition, but close enough”
“The US Supreme Court?”
“Well… I meant the Inquisition, but close enough”