Melinda Baldwin

Okay winter, we get it. Now would you PLEASE fuck off.

Opinion page of the Onion Jan-Feb 2026 issue with a piece titled "Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?" by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

This is a person who has no business teaching 18-year-olds of any gender. "This is how men behave"? Only if you teach them that this behavior is OK and expected.

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Total meltdown. Unbelievable, yet believable!

God forbid a woman have hobbies.

My kids’ art teacher did this on the school field! Brought his hockey skates and stick and waved to all the kids while skating around during dropoff. And yes, this stuff is that hard and frozen.

Bravo, @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social, bravo.

It is unforgivably appalling that someone who has regularly displayed these qualities & behaviors for decades on end was allowed to become the most prominent public-facing economist in the entire country, with access to the commanding heights of academic power & unlimited elite media platforms.

HE HAS HIS BACKPACK

GIVE HIM HIS HAT AND BACKPACK BACK YOU GHOULS

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

* I needed a 2-course physics sequence for my chem major, non-calculus was the only one that fit into my schedule, and I am here to tell you that physics is SO MUCH HARDER without calculus 😭

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Music of the United States
2. The New Testament
3. Differential Equations
4. The US in the 1950s
5. Physics Without Calculus*

So what I'm hearing is that, in the last five days, two Black Members of Congress have been assaulted in apparent support of the regime's deportation diktat (Rep Frost, punched at Sundance & told he'd be deported; Rep Omar at an ICE townhall) & the regime has arrested four Black journalists.

Huh.

Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Article about the CFPB with a picture of a CFPB Union picket on the front page of USA TODAY

Article about the CFPB with a picture of a CFPB Union picket on the front page of USA TODAY

Damn, our members look good on @usatoday.com's front page! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

a phd

I dunno maybe they should have tried launching it into the sun.

Do it do it do it

...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.

We used our soil turner to break up the top layer. The Claw was the MVP of this storm 😂

That stuff is SO HEAVY. It's like shovelling cement 🥶

It's not true activism unless you're on the Internet telling someone else they're doing it wrong. /s

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

You Are Reviewer 2 A solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you.

Dang, if I'd know this would be a hit I would have made a better post.

You Are Reviewer 2
A solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you.
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US federal agencies were gutted in 2025, losing ~20% of their staff relative to 2024.

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Area Mom looks up flights to Cancun, realized she doesn't want to share her snow days with Ted Cruz.