Rachel Larris

Interesting David Agus is the only one who was very deliberate with this choice and (at least according to him) he made it: not his wife or mom

So Ailto is retiring and someone is softening the field?

Counting the coverage: The UKs media war on trans rights Data reveals the scale of the UK media's focus on trans issues: 6,450 articles in 2025 and more than 1,146 in the first two months of 2026.

UK mainstream media published 6,500 articles about trans people in 2023. It published a similar number in 2025, almost none of which were written by trans people

Reminds me of Hannah Arendt’s description of Adolf Eichmann & others like him becoming “experts” on The Jewish Question in 1930s Germany

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

The humanities are female-coded. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

He will be able to call on his extensive homeland security experience as… a guy who inherited a plumbing company from his dad.

congress needs to stop this madman

Hobbes the Toyger rolling for company showing his faux-tiger belly stripes

Hobbes has been trying to be all extra cute for company this morning by showing off that belly

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

Museum sign showing a roaring sabretooth cat. A small child is included for size comparison, and looks like he's about to boop it.

DO NOT BOOP THE KITTY

The cyberpunk dystopian future is here

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

I like the “we’ve been at war with iran for 40 years” talking point because by implication surviving members of the reagan bush natsec team should be tried for treason

he is 73 years old. my god.

chuck schumer, take note.

Randomly Rainn Wilson is Bahai iirc

ICE, like Chris Cillizza, missed one very important thing about the politics of all this. Here's me in August 2025: www.findinggravity.net/donald-trump...

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.

Hasn’t everyone seen the Black Mirror episode? It’s sadder than processing grief to hang on forever to that immediate feeling of sadness

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Screenshot of excerpt from opinion that reads: "Despite this, the New York courts refused to stay the trial court’s order. After that highly questionable injunction was issued, the applicants filed appeals in both the Appellate Division (the State’s intermediate appellate court) and the Court of Appeals (its highest court) challenging the trial court’s order on federal constitutional grounds. At the same time, applicants asked both courts to stay the trial court’s order. The Appellate Division refused to issue a stay, and by order issued on February 11, the Court of Appeals sent the appeal filed in that court to the Appellate Division and dismissed applicants’ motions for a stay."

With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls within that category.

1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.

I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

Trump’s lies are often a tell, addressing something he’s feeling vulnerable about.

Under that interpretation, “virtually unlimited supply of weapons” means the depletion is real and serious, most likely with air defense interceptors the biggest concern.

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.

This is welcome news for musicians!

this 100% sounds like a ryan grim problem of only listening to antisemitic podcasts

i dont think pundits and columnists should get a mulligan after being catastrophically wrong on the most important issues of our time

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom Trump is basically calling up every journalist in his phone to workshop different timelines and goals for his war. In the past two days: @washingtonpost : the aim is "freedom for the people" of Iran @axios : maybe we can "end it in two or three days" with a deal @nytimes : might be "four to five weeks", I have "three very good choices" who might take control in Iran @abc : actually, nevermind, we killed those choices He doesn't sound convinced by any of it. He's throwing spaghetti at the wall. Ultimately I suspect he just wants to say he "solved" a problem that has vexed every American president since Jimmy Carter. But there's no clear idea what that looks like and no plan for how to get there. And there are plenty of possible scenarios in which Trump declares victory and leaves the region with an absolute mess

The Mad and Senile King is just using reporters as a sounding board to see what might sound good in the press.