Alexander Reid Ross

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

I think this clarifies how AI is often used as a substitute for objectivity. Actual scientific objectivity refutes conservatives at every turn, but w/ AI they can disavow their own perspective by deferring to an automatically produced reproduction of a part of the world.

The intersection of environmental politics, regionalism, and Congressional policymaking is not well-examined by extant scholarship, so it is unclear to what extent regionalism within parties explains Congressional actions, particularly as it pertains to shifting partisan dynamics and focus on nationalized issues, such as climate change. The authors use data from the League of Conservation Voters to track voting behaviors among members of Congress from 1971 to 2022. Findings indicate that regional differences within parties did not emerge until the Reagan administration, but subsequently increased in significance, hitting their peak during the Obama administration. By the Trump administration, regionalism within parties began to dissipate as partisan voting practices converged on environmental issues.

New article!

Party polarization, disappearing regions, and nationalized environmental politics: evidence from US Congress by Luke Fowler & Charlie Hunt.

@charlesrhunt.com

doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2627172

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

imagine Hugh grant saying "sapiosexual" over a glass of white wine

the Waffle House brand is such an incredible composite. it means so much to us all.

babe, I'm hella sapiosexual for u

is "sapiosexual" the most English-coded thing of all time?

not sure why they gave matisse thybulle a technical foul there. refs going nuts as usual.

​Graham Platner uses DC consultants, despite his claims Despite heavy spending on out-of-state consultants, the campaign is being driven by volunteers and grassroots organizing, campaign manager Ben Chin says.

Anyways

this is every reason distilled that these guys were against cancel culture. they just want to say some slurs, as a treat, and don't want the plebs talking back to them about it

wonderful idea but the problem in the US is not rail capacity (we have way too much that the companies don't even maintain), it's private ownership and the rail companies refuse to sell even disused lines

Diversity and ecological roles of hidden viral players in groundwater microbiomes - Nature Communications Groundwater viruses are less well studied. Here, using large-scale sequencing, the authors uncover extensive, largely uncharacterized viral diversity in groundwater, showing that viruses infect domina...

New paper from @adjiep.bsky.social on viral impacts in groundwater at Nature Comms. Congratulations Adjie and team!

Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#viruses #viromics #groundwater

Wind shear enhances soil moisture influence on rapid thunderstorm growth - Nature Analysis of millions of events over sub-Saharan Africa shows that wind shear amplifies the impact of soil moisture in triggering rapidly developing thunderstorms.

The UKCEH-led study in Nature found interactions between soil moisture patterns and wind in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere influence where storms develop – so monitoring these patterns would provide earlier warnings.

Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"The Russian negotiating position is based on a bluff and a lie. The bluff is that the Russians will overwhelm Ukraine and take what they want anyway. The lie is that they will be satisfied with less than what they continually demand... (1/2) wapo.st/3MHUlAh

it's amazing to see Trump continuing to burn the EU while also picking a war with the Russia-China axis on somewhere south of 40% domestic approval. just the bane of any form of order. pure chaos.

Re: the debacle in the Texas primary today: Lies about voter fraud (from past elections) motivate and justify retaliatory actions and policy changes that make elections less fair and lead to more turmoil, more confusion and uncertainty, more rumors and legitimate greivance, and diminished trust.

The radical history of the PNW has been one of the few things to give any sort of light in a really dark time…but also the Seattle Mariners PNW patch on their city connect uniforms is fire 🔥

RFK Jr. coming off a crack binge: "they're right! that was a lot like drinking Dunkin's iced coffee! I now know what I must do."

Data centers are cut — for now — from a bill expanding Oregon tax breaks The move is a reversal for Gov. Tina Kotek, who said last week she didn’t see a need for the centers to be exempted.

Oregon's pausing tax breaks for data centers, which obv means less abundance 💔

www.opb.org/article/2026...

haha, I was trying to write a whole sentence (!) but this it just posted this for some reason, and I was like, "fuck it, we ball."

get in, loser. we're starting our own maple syrup economy.

www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

PNW

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Let's include this data in Portland's Economic Opportunities Analysis.

This is unbelievable, somehow in all the countless tens and hundreds of thousands acts of cruelty this one stands out. The American people are not gonna tolerate this and many similar acts of cruelty. Huge wipeout for GOP coming in November.

tbf, you can't measure the position and momentum of a Carney policy at the same time.

ha, that's such a funny coincidence!

yeah! we're a Wolverhampton family on my dad's side, so this is absolute madness.