Jeremiah Baumann

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force. Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing. The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators. The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001.

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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

Very cool that cis people can just access hormones willy nilly but trans people have to jump through a million hoops to get the same exact treatment

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

South Park > Columbia University

Can the American Battery Industry Survive Trump? For solar and grid storage, it’s a race between technological progress and Republican malice.

The American battery industry was booming during the Biden years, with investment even exceeding the Chinese industry in some of 2024. But will it survive the Big Beautiful Bill’s onerous regulations? From @ryanlcooper.com:

Brazil rallies to defend much-loved payment system from Donald Trump’s attack

To connect the recent Steam and Itch situation to another ongoing bit of news: Visa and Mastercard (and other US companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Meta) clearly believe they are entitled to dictate how people spend money not just through their services, but anywhere at all

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Rooftop solar power in Australia is the cheapest power available to consumers in the world, full stop. I wish more people knew that.

New York Times 1977. Renee Richards, a trans woman, won the right to compete in tennis.

Speaker Johnson doesn't mind keeping the House in session to cut healthcare for 17 million Americans, but he draws the line at exposing child predators.

Exactly this

Literally

Old news but I still can’t get over that it looks like the pinewood derby designs I drew with a ruler and pencil as a 10-year-old

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

I don’t mean to be that guy but what do you mean what if? We’re building torture prisons, arresting people on the street who’ve done nothing wrong, and the government is shutting down basic services like disaster response

I know it’s easy to say this these days but I don’t understand how the press isn’t absolutely hounding the administration over this. They refused to provide *search and rescue* services in the middle of a disaster! What else do we have government for

Self-proclaimed Catholic fascist fired after Jubilee appearance

Man who advocates for system where people can be jailed or killed for their beliefs asks for money and sympathy because he was fired for his beliefs

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Not sure why Trump thinks it’s clever to release everyone’s files MLK, Hillary) but Epstein’s. It just makes his coverup of the Epstein files more glaring.

Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.

Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:

“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.

But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"

One can certainly debate the degree to which the Trump campaign knew about or encouraged Russian operations to influence the 2016 election, or the relevance they had to the outcome. But the evidence that such operations were real is overwhelming and widely attested by non-US intel agencies.

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

I don’t know why people are talking about labubu, I thought it was something I drank in the rainforest

EPA eliminates its scientific research arm The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

As long as I live, I will never understand how "it should be easier for chemical companies to poison the water my family drinks" became a politically popular position

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Thank you ❤️

Back when I was bike-commuting daily, I took a little bike maintenance course at the local bike shop and it blew my mind that I was supposed to inflate weekly (and what a difference it made when I sometimes did it)

The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If there had been some Obama conspiracy, we would have found it.

This latest lie is another sad, dangerous example of Tulsi Gabbard trying to rewrite history and erode trust in the IC.