Glutenant Dan

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

You have to hold two things in your head at once here: This is embarrassing shit that will get laughed out of court, and also, the fact that the president is even trying it is fucking terrifying www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Planning to watch an execution via livestream? Now you'll have to find a new psychotic thing to do

this, too, is america (extremely complimentary)

Sean Casten is one of the smartest members of Congress.

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

James Ho has spent almost a decade desperately trying to get Trump's attention for a Supreme Court seat, and it's all going to be for nothing. Couldn't have happened to a worse person. Eat shit, loser.

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000 nfap.com/research/new...

Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

it’s just great marketing

Texas high school shut down a production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. School cited Senate Bill 12, best known for its anti-drag provisions...but the law has twice been ruled unconstitutional. From @hesherman.bsky.social: hesherman1.substack.com/p/little-sho...

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

It’s been a rough week for LA. Another heatwave, $7 gas, the president wanting to bomb us, and now we have a tropical storm penis heading to us!

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

There is absolutely no clinical equipoise to justify the study, which will only lead to morbidity and mortality for those who do not receive the vaccine. Crimes against humanity. RFK Junior belongs in jail. 

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

Holy shit.

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.

These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

This is a SMALL version of the largest JWST image released so far—of IC 348, a star-forming region about 1,000 lightyears away. Open up the image and marvel in the incredible beauty even in our galactic neighbourhood. This is what it looks like when stars are born.

I’m so bored with all the discussion around AI. Can we talk about some useful technology, like heat pumps?

Extremely disturbing news about the lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban. Watch this sitting down, and please help spread the word. youtube.com/shorts/veF5d...

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Did you see this business about Don Jr.'s wedding in The Bahamas?

youtu.be/jjonGtrCyVE

BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.

My dad is a Republican. He voted for Lindsey Graham and Fox News is his go-to channel. But he knows exactly who I am: someone who listens, works hard, and puts South Carolina first. That’s why he’s proud to stand with me — and I’m proud to have him in my corner.

From the never-produced Mr. Show movie HOORAY FOR AMERICA! Late ‘90s.

Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific experts. (3) and one of the byproduct of their endless confidence is marketing hype.

It’s normalization that keeps me up at night. Big thanks to @propublica.org for their always-excellent work. I wish it wasn’t necessary.

Sometimes when you get up at the crack of dawn (begrudgingly, it must be said) you can see interesting things, like a sunrise rainbow.

L'Arc de Participationne

the most dudes rock thing i have seen i a minute. also yes this is what my algo serves me

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Apollo 11 photo As11-44-6642. Taken by Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins, this image captures every living human alive at the time in a single frame—except for Collins himself.

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026