Scott in SF

Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.

How Scientific Empires End And what it means for America

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

Totally not a cult.

The girls they raped have been threatened, silenced, ignored, disrespected and forced to watch one of their abusers go on to become President, twice, even with multiple felony convictions to his name, and an insurrection under his belt.
It’s time for women to take a stand and fuck up the patriarchy.

Peoria sushi shop owner faces deportation after 21 years of living in the US Kelly Yu, who does not have legal status in the U.S., is in ICE custody in Arizona, leaving her business, customers and family behind.

"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams...

“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”

www.12news.com/article/news...

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

Trump 2017: "It is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell."

Trump today: "He's a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised frankly that Biden put him in and extended him."

Every news story will include both clips, right?

They just say shit--no matter the consequences. This is not justice.

As I wrote yesterday, It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. Here's some more destruction.

Defense Department to begin using Grok, Musk’s controversial AI Model Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up said its models are now available to federal agencies.

The U.S. Department of Defense will begin using Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk’s start-up xAI that came under fire just last week after launching into an antisemitic rant and invoking Adolf Hitler.

And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota

Unpresidential. Inhumane. Inexcusable.

Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.

The mugging of the only Black foreign leader to visit the Oval Office so far this year was the tell: Donald Trump does have a few human rights lectures in him, after all, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin.

my new column:
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

Literal fascism - playing this for crowds to cheer

Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

Goldman on Trump threatening to deport Americans to a gulag in El Salvador: "This is the stuff of dictators ... Republicans in Congress have completely acceded to his wishes and turned over all of their own authority to Donald Trump. There is no check and no balance from Congress."

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the quiet part out loud: “We are all afraid… I am oftentimes very anxious about using my voice because retaliation is real.”

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

Trump could be embalmed and the WH physician would claim he was in excellent health

One of the most touching protest videos I’ve seen all day. #Handsoff Senior Speak out!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen ). The post reads: "Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state." Below, a post by Elon Musk (@elonmusk ) at 10:23 PM on 4/1/25 with 1.1M views states: "The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary."

Musk lies brazenly to hide his own conflicts.