Kayt Sukel

My neighbor Judy hits it out of the park again with her Halloween yard skeletons, this year the busted “Coldplay Couple”.

Well, I live in Kansas now.

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

I feel like every time I see Rubio he looks a little more dead inside.

The ANTIFA/DSA bogeyman functions in this admin as the Bolshevik/Jew threats did in the 30s and 40s

There is no America, according to these people. There's only Trump.

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

That is going to be a serious pile of dog shit bags in a week.

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Dusty, taxidermic armadillo in American flag bandana makes case to replace Lee Greenwood.

Reign of terror funded by our tax dollars

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

To “make” the proof. Jesus.

Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks The following is a list of outbreak and adverse event investigations primarily being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams.

This cites seven outbreaks of listeria, salmonella, and cyclospora in food, which have caused dozens of illnesses, since July. In NO case has the contaminated food product been identified. In case you wonder how the reduction of the FDA's food safety labs has been working for us all.

Not just subsidies! Everyone would be able to get one of those space age med beds and live forever!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

I mean, the Unipiper is kind of terrifying to the uninitiated.

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, who collected a Nobel Prize in Chemistry this morning. @kaytsukel.bsky.social wrote about his work using metal-organic frameworks back in 2023.

www.asme.org/topics-resou...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

DHS should be embarrassed.

Congrats @mengineeringmag.bsky.social!

Sarah Alburakeh and Louise Poirier with the trophies for best single issue and best body of work.

Incredibly proud of my old crew at @asmedotorg.bsky.social @mengineeringmag.bsky.social for nabbing two Eddies last night. Best little magazine no one’s ever heard of. Onward and upward.

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Well, that’s something.

I will never understand the desire to demonize affordable healthcare.

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

Americans have become so desensitized to violence that I'm not sure most get the gravity of this