A Singular Monkey

Politics is the art of forcing the votes "there." You do that by ratcheting up the pressure through relentless accountability.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?! Is it brain damage?

New Plutoid dropped

A former Miss Switzerland beauty pageant contestant has accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at New York's Plaza Hotel in 1993, according to her account to Congress. Trump has denied the allegations.

Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t care what the courts say. trib.al/U3xRCsH

Citation Oil & Gas is named more than any other company in an Oklahoma database of violations — over 1,000 times in the past decade. State regulators have never punished it, despite repeated staff recommendations to do so. By @nickbowlin.bsky.social for @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social

So if you're following, DOJ's theory here is they can file an initial complaint with probable cause based on incorrect facts, then file a superseding complaint that removes those facts and proceed without probable cause. Novel indeed.

Physics postdocs at Johns Hopkins! I would love to advocate for someone doing physics and complexity (though the committee has the final say). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/JHU/Phys...

❗️According to the Financial Times, in late August the son of the US President, Donald Trump Jr., arrived in Mongolia for a hunting trip accompanied by the Secret Service and Republican sponsor Kevin Small; later, Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev and Artur Martirosov joined him from Kazakhstan.

Gutter racism

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

perfect, no notes

And they would be correct

And the media refuses to report on the fact that he is completely insane

Something is crazy here

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

These guys are fucking nuts

elon musk, who is spending nearly half a billion to buy the election for donald trump and republicans, is running ads attacking mary peltola for being a puppet of "liberal billionaires" *blink blink*

Canadian stock market outperforming U.S. for second consecutive year

i caught them doing it last year to overstate black support of trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

this happens way too often in @nytimes.com for it to be a happy accident

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

I have at this point written literally hundreds of stories about Trump since 2015. I make it a point in the bulk of them to point out he was the lead proponent of the racist birther conspiracy. The mainstream media has all but disappeared this yet it is the main reason he became potus.

NEW: Trump appointee Judge Bennet on the 9th circuit, after questioning whether they even have jurisdiction to hear the case - asks DOJ how they can possible get around the fact that STATES administer their elections.

How do you feel about someone setting up an automated process that hammers restaurant-reservation websites to gain an advantage in booking a table? The NY Times thinks this is not only acceptable; it's a "killer task" for AI, worth paying $100/month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/t...

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

I’m guessing the results from the first batch of GPUs in space are bad because instead of hearing about how wonderful orbital data centers are Elon has pivoted hard towards “only I can break regulations fast enough to build regular earth based data centers, unlike those losers at Coreweave”

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

The response is reality….

Armed agents at your door asking if you’re registered to vote? That’s not fighting election fraud. That’s intimidation, plain and simple. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Q: What are you hearing is the top issue for voters? Trump: I’m hearing we turned the whole thing around.

Weird how this keeps happening

And people cannot sell the stock that corporate criminals hand to their kids. It's like a drug dealer hands your kid $100 and the police will arrest you if you don't let them keep it.

In all likelihood this story ends badly www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Q: Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad? Trump: No. I don't care

Dan Bongino coined the phrase "Free Market Healthcare." How does supply and demand work when you need life-saving treatment and the insurance you've paid thousands of dollars in premiums for denies coverage. That's not exactly the unseen hand of the market.