F. West

Man, you're not going to believe which political party this guy charged with sex trafficking minors belongs to, not in a million years, no way

Remember when Trump told John Roberts "thank you, thank you, won't forget it" like a mob boss?

John Belushi in "The Blues Brothers" saying "We're putting the band back together."

I used to think this. Until that time I was in the Dr’s office and we spent 20 min on the mechanism of the base catalyzed Aldol condensation.

Need to loop in @alexgoldberg.ca for a proper beef.

Premeds should not be required to take organic chemistry. As we all know.

Are there tariffs on tumbrels?

I enjoyed it but probably not as much as The Martian. Give it a try.

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided | Fortune It’s not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.

Time for the Butlerian Jihad.
fortune.com/2026/02/11/s...

For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”

ACS Deep Fry Au?

Chris, have you considered the possibility that Schumer and Jeffries actually favor the Republican positions and only feel the need to put on a pantomime of resistance?

Trump says Gordie Howe bridge won't open without Canadian concessions Canada has footed the entire cost of the $5.7-billion Gordie Howe bridge construction project, aiming to recover costs through toll collections.

Yet another example of an out-of-control President sacrificing the American economy and blocking good infrastructure.

It's also a test for Michigan Republicans: will they stand up for what's right, even when it means breaking with Trump?

LIGAND-AI aims to transform early drug discovery through machine learning Assistant Professor Rachel Harding is contributing to global initiatives to generate data needed to advance and accelerate drug discovery.

Assistant Professor Rachel Harding is helping lead LIGAND-AI, a global initiative using AI and machine learning to accelerate early drug discovery by generating high-quality, open data for the scientific community.

🔗Read more: www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/news-announc...

Assistant Professor - Biochemistry Assistant Professor - Biochemistry

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Biochemistry beginning July 1, 2026. Applications will be accepted until March 9, 2026 | 11:59pm. For more info: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... @chemjobber.bsky.social

Governor, it seems as if you have a State Police problem. bsky.app/profile/clar...

Will Lewis to join Harvard's Institute of Politics

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish articles and charge for premium content. Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform. Continue reading...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

The Guardian has been killing it lately on the breaking news front. Of course, with one less competitor in the ecosystem, and another that bends over backwards not offend Trump's circle, they have broad latitude to operate.

Let’s walk back to where we started. What motivates Trump? The answer is simple: racism. You might also say ego and raw self-interest, but the two are connected. Racism, among other things, is a kind of chauvinism, a belief in one’s inherent superiority, based on nothing other than a meaningless accident of birth. It’s an ideology that papers over feelings of inadequacy, that tells you that — no matter what you have or have not accomplished in your life — you’re still better than someone, some group. Let’s suppose you’re the spoiled son of a self-made man. Let’s suppose that, despite your flash and bravado, you’ve failed at virtually everything you’ve tried. You’re the laughingstock of polite society, a punchline for the privileged. You think you’re superior enough to be the president of the United States — the highest honor in your country — but the actual president is a man of humble origins, a minority of the kind your family didn’t even rent to when you were in the landlord business. And he is claiming power that rightfully belongs to you. He’s even mocking you, ridiculing you for all the world to see. For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism.

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Quite a scoop here. "Last spring [NSA] detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why did Trump remove his racist post? Because he became too woke.

Well, I'm sure the high salaries will make up for the diminished job security.

If they're all in a room together, I worry that a singularity of solopsistic mediocrity will spontaneously form and consumer the known universe.

Founding editor of Quillette thinks the Epstein story is a big nothingburger, except for the part where ordinary people care about what crimes were committed...that's a moral panic.

The psychology of Right Wing authoritarianism is rooted in backgrounds of being abused as children by authoritarians and then becoming abusers when they are adults.

That happens in families and it scales upwards to culture and politics. That’s what’s happening now.

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”