Jonathan Serviss

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

A completely serious question.

When people, and businesses, and institutions with the resources and reputation to stand firm…don’t, where does that leave this country.

cc Paul, Weiss. And Columbia. And so many others

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal.

The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.

Bruh, we know.

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Oh did the NCAA think fucking over their 10 transgender athletes, by acquiescing to transphobe demands, would appease them?

Counting down the days until the white house conditions access on how trans people are referred to or how democrats are referred to.

This fight isn't really about the name of a coastal sea.

Here’s the pitch:

They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident!

It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY!

Need a title.

Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"

Allegory alert!

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

New CDC data shows maternal deaths drop, except for Black women, who still die at three times the rate of any other race or ethnicity, with no improvement in 2023.

www.axios.com/2025/02/06/b...

Interestingly, in Loper Bright vs Raimondo, the conservative majority on SCOTUS ruled just last year that the judiciary can in fact overrule regulatory decisions made by the executive branch especially when those decisions are not specified by Congress.

their view is that high status jobs ought to belong to white men, who exist at the top of a natural hierarchy

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.

These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.

We are in a climate emergency.

I spent multiple years as a counterterrorism analyst looking at threats from the Islamic State. Brandon has this absolutely correct. This isn’t a classic CT event, it’s something else. It’s about mental illness, military PTSD and other things people keep sweeping under the rug in the wake of GWOT

Next year won’t be better so let’s just get that nonsense out of the way right now.

find it genuinely delighting that people with enough money to never work again (and do literally anything they want anywhere in the world at any time) seemingly have nothing going on in their lives and are so miserable they are just spending the holidays frantically posting

Fascinating murder data from the Real Time Crime Index:

* NYC murders down 8% year-to-date
* San Francisco down 37%
* DC down 32%
* Philadelphia down 41%
* Atlanta down 10%
* Baltimore down 28%
* Detroit down 14%
* New Orleans down 37%
* Cleveland down 30%

Etc.

realtimecrimeindex.com

Elon is just saying what every other Republican employer is about to say in 2025 - deport everyone else’s employees, but not mine because I really need them.

A nerf Gatling gun.

My sister’s 7 year old got the Nerf Gatling Gun with tripod gifted from her in-laws. She’s losing it lol. Look at this thing.

I like how 2000 yrs ago Jesus warned us against wealth & materialism and now Capitalism is propped up by his birthday

He won the popular vote on people who voted for contradictory and opposed things. The fires are starting and they’ll be constant.

He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.

One of the lessons of the last month is that great wealth cannot buy courage but it can reveal cowardice.

Democrats Lost the Propaganda War The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.

"Trump won 91 percent of “news desert” counties—where there is no local coverage of any kind—by an average of 54 percentage points. Notably, several of these are heavily Latino counties on the southern Texas border, which saw enormous swings toward Trump." prospect.org/politics/202...

Evergreen

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them