"Capt" Trevor Sloughter, PhD

As Trump is about to round up people who, as the result of America's deliberate policy choices, are living outside on the streets of DC, some important messaging guidance:

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Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Banning trans people isn't the first step in dismantling American military hegemony, no matter how much you wishcast it to be.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely

it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society

fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

The Media Bias Wars Are Over The American right's conquering of CBS is the product of generations of bad-faith complaining

Generations of whining about media bias really paid off for the American right

badfaithtimes.com/the-media-bi...

I am so embarrassed for humanity.

We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.

And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.

Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.

One of the most staggering things about modern centrist politics is the vehemence with which they maintain that course correcting to regain ground in the polls in inherently wrong. No matter how poorly they perform, they'll always insist they're more "electable".

A popular belief that bothers me is the idea that one can always eyeball a badly designed district. Sometimes for geographic reasons the shapes have to be super weird, and sometimes making weird shapes helps protect minority demographics from being intentionally diluted.

Labour are a complete lost cause. Here's an MP saying "I refuse to do my job, instead I will allow an incomplete product to harvest your data for a foreign country while giving the public unverified potentially inaccurate responses." Sewards is practically saying "I hate my constituents."

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

The AI industry is a disaster of grifters and fascists and governments shouldn't be uncritically nodding along with what these companies are doing, let alone actively funding them or funnelling citizens' data to them.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Related: "Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to ‘Unregulated’ Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records"
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...

"Keir Starmer's Government is Sleepwalking Britain Into the Grip of Trump-Supporting Big Tech"
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/g...

Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four’ Craters by 66% in Second Weekend, ‘Naked Gun’ Debuts to $17 Million "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" is quickly losing steam at the box office in its second weekend.

Why aren't people seeing The Fantastic Four: First Steps 😢
It's really good! ... it's not perfect, but it's still quite good, and a lot of fun. It's fun and creative in ways the MCU hasn't been in soooo long, come on ☹️
variety.com/2025/film/bo...

Instead of interviewing a living survivor, or the relatives of any of the deceased, you choose to interview the product of a corporation whose broader industry helps fund the party that actively promotes gun violence. Good job you utter ghoul.

As much as QAnon can be defined by its guiding narratives—the secret sex trafficking cabal, their day of reckoning—the story is always evolving. For promoters like Patel and Trump, the specifics may not matter nearly so much as their ability to tap into its deeper strains. The sex trafficking cabal harkens back to much older antisemitic tropes; the storm is a variation on the "day of the rope" dream among far-right groups, when all those who don't belong in their white nationalist paradise will be hanged. The throughline of Trump's campaigns and presidencies revolves around protecting (white) American children (and infantilized women) from the constant threat of monstrous sexual predators—a piece of American lore, really, that has justified everything from lynchings to mass deportations. To see America that way today is to live in QAnon's America.

I wrote about how we live in QAnon’s America now. newrepublic.com/article/1986...

This is very anecdotal of me, and there's no doubt climate marches have shown how strong public support can be. But sci-comm remains incredibly crucial to keeping that support and helping laypeople see through the liars and the "Just Asking Questions" grifters.

I know why this is of course. A part of the answer is that the person most likely to needle me is the biggest sceptic, while others will just take a back seat.
Still, I do worry polls might under-estimate how easily ppl who say they support climate policies may be swayed by the loud deniers

Polls keep showing broad public support for climate action and trust in scientists, yet it seems every time I let it sleep in a public setting that I am (or, as is the case right now, was) a climate scientist, I get people asking "yeah but it's not that bad right? And it's not really settled right?"

The issue is why you don't believe in coalition building. You say stopping fascism is all the matters, but refuse to do anything to improve those odds. Nor will you actually point to a specific single policy of fascists you dislike.
Sounds like you are just a Reform voter scared to admit it.
Bye-bye

I don't accept anything is "outside of politics" but I do agree fascism is a movement beyond typical party politics. Which is why it's really bad to reinforce fascist ideas. Can we at least agree Farage's mass deportation plan is evil? Can we please find common ground? I know we have common ground

So yeah, when I ask what you dislike about Reform, you're damn right I expect concrete examples. Because my point is Labour need to stop endorsing ideas like "we can't fund public services" or "there's too many refugees" if they want to beat back growing support for fascism.

Yeah, and fascism is the most vile extreme end of a larger horrible spectrum. For example, Labour's immigration policies are not as evil as Farage's or Trump's, but they're still deplorable. If we can't call that out *now*, we reinforce a false narrative that fascists use for propaganda.

Actually, I see where you're coming from here. You're not wrong to be suspicious of my word choice, I have seen way too many people say "actually centrism is as bad as fascism". And that's deeply wrong. In the present, material reality is Labour are preferable to Reform.
I want to keep it that way,

What I see is someone unable to explain what they dislike about Reform, and appeal to Labour without any clear reason for it.

I support Labour because I believe it is tactically useful toward the larger goal of improving society.

Yes, Corbyn's antisemitism was horrid. Sadly Starmer still got fewer votes! We cannot continue to rely on collapsed turnout and split votes for Labour victories, there has to be a plan to increase support and you're going around telling people Labour are god-kings who shouldn't ever be petitioned