Congressman Tony Gonzales must be forced to resign. Public pressure from the American people must rise to a fever pitch. More people must know about this. Tell someone. They must not be allowed to get away with sexually harassing a woman to death.
I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.
All of us for our rain* gathering @raincooks.
Merry Christmas to all !
Published a year ago, and still my favourite bit of research to date—it involved, among other things, dozens if not hundreds of hours of playing with string.
A fun paper on one of the most commonly shared forms of entertainment across human cultures, string figures (cat's cradles):
A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/
(WSJ) Just when I thought that Trump couldn't surprise me anymore (SHAME ON ME), the latest edict proposes making Europe the BAD GUYS in our eyes and the Russians as OK. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Can Trump get any more embarrassing?
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN
Dear World: please disregard this as it’s not what we stand for or represent.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
#backyard dusk scene on TG eve in #HVL
Theo’s appreciating it with me.
Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.
I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.
But did we reach the 3.5% threshold, anybody know?
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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This is very cool. Tonika “folds her maps” to align the same address in a different quadrant of the same city, like NW versus SE, and compares the results which reveal longstanding patterns of wealth concentration by race. Kudos to Tonika for the Award.
George himself would be proud: GW earned a platinum rating in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), a comprehensive framework for colleges and universities that addresses the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability
gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-earns-sta...
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
Yet there are stations decades older where @bikeshare.bsky.social still has not been placed (ahem, Greenbelt). Why can’t Prince George’s County (who funds the system within the county boundaries) figure this out and create an actual usable “last mile” network???
Geography matters. Borders matter. Neighbors matter.
re: the Trump-Putin documents found on a hotel printer, NPR is being very low key about it being their scoop.
www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Keystone Kops at it again.
Your interview with Scott Simon went really well. Go you!
In honor of the extremely clever Tom Lehrer, who has died, here is his song about religion that was rather controversial. It is also very funny.
youtu.be/pvhYqeGp_Do?...
RIP Tom Lehrer- who wrote the soundtrack to a nerdy boomer boston burb childhood.
“If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”
wapo.st/3J6GVeA
In case you wondered how summer visitors to Washington coped with the heat and humidity before air conditioning, they didn’t. They stayed home. Most Washington hotels closed in the summer, according to Karl Baedeker’s United States- Handbook for Travellers, 1909, p. 211.
#dc #heat #climate #swamp
Inexpensive heat shelter will save lives of outdoor workers
apnews.com/article/indi...
Posting this in support of ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran.
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch
billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...
Bring on the CDC’s Global Rapid Response Team, assuming they haven’t already been defunded. #cdc
