John Gaffney

Given that Trump got his ass handed to him by Putin, reminding that ALL THREE of his top spies have spent the past week lying about a Russian spy attempt to frame Hillary.

This is a boxing match and do you have any idea who my dad is?

I'm reposting this! Great find!

Federal agents board Southern California councilmember’s boat, ask for papers A Lakewood, California, city councilmember is speaking out after he says U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents boarded his boat without cause and asked for identification — an encounter he beli…

Federal agents board Southern California councilmember's boat, ask for papers

United States Daily COVID-19 Deaths: Actual Data, IHME/UW Model Projections, & Cubic Fit. Updated today (5/5/20), data through yesterday (5/4/20).

People should also remember that Hassett is the guy behind the “cubic fit” chart that predicted COVID deaths would go to zero in two weeks back in May of 2020.

/6 Institutions like the Federalist Society and Heritage Institute set anti-Constitutional goals and agendas. It matters not that they are based on nonsense: ambitious but amoral legal scholars and professors design rhetorical edifices of gossamer bullshit to support them.

I admit I was fooled by the deepfake AI video of AOC that was marked explicitly marked as AI parody. But what does it say about AOC that I thought it was real?

by Chris Cuomo

A.F.T.

I vote yes.

mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.

And I’m old; I watched Elway in person in college. Warren Moon, Aikman, etc.

I think it’s impossible to avoid this. High fixed costs and minimal differentiation. They will end up like airlines.

We need to relearn how to use AI when it’s on our bodies Gemini on the wrist is at war with your muscle memory.

anyway here is the whole piece, which captures some but definitely not all of the absurdity of all of this

www.theverge.com/analysis/718...

I think he was one of the top 5 college QBs I've ever seen.

Anything about protecting mountain lions?

I think that's fair. The topic is fairly complicated and people tend to think they are "generally reasonable" so they will use centrist as shorthand for that.

Not sure why you're in journalism if you're doing shit like this with your life in this moment.

You beat me to it! Robert Reich.....

it is not some accident that the people suing charlottesville over its efforts to build more housing are retired university professors and their friends

Pretty hilarious that she thinks the neocons are the problem.

One beat that @reason.com has covered for years is the stigmatization and criminalization of letting kids do things by themselves: reason.com/tag/free-ran...

Great to see it getting wider attention

I sort of consider myself to be relatively centrist, but "left centrist," and my concern with Obama was always that he really believed that purple stuff and intended to govern that way. Alas, I was correct. The centrists you're referencing were, at best, sand in the gears. They were useless.

GOP Senate chief changed consent law as relative faced rape charge involving 13-year-old The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. Newsweek reported a Salt Lake City Tribune piece that Senate President J....

The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

new rule: if your opinion column’s premise can be answered immediately with the word “no” you aren’t allowed to write it

LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0ypqo...

YouTube video by emptywheel John Durham's Crime

Reup: My 20-minute explainer on the evidence that John Durham framed Hillary Clinton.

youtu.be/F3MzRTszw2I

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If there were a Public Editor, she/he would dig into this story— and see who is telling the truth.

Lacking a Public Editor, NYT really needs its leaders, many of whom are former student journalists, to say more about provenance of this very damaging "Harvard bending the knee" report.