Gratuitous Silence

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

IEA: Renewables will be world’s top power source ‘by 2026’ - Carbon Brief Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity “by 2026 at the latest”, according to new IEA forecasts.

"Renewable energy will overtake coal to become the world’s top source of electricity 'by 2026 at the latest', according to new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."

He’s back!

Holy shit can you imagine the public crash out if he actually gets ejected from Tesla. Please God. You've given us so little lately.

Kinda insane and shows how afraid the networks are of upsetting this administration that a guy who killed 7 people and wounded 48 with “47” literally tattooed on his face has all but been forgotten like there’s still not a very serious threat emanating from every pore of this pathetic cult

We're approaching the end of all of this nonsense. Pieces like these are the kind of bullshit you saw at the end of the metaverse and crypto bubbles - Roose wrote them then, too.

Humouring the most empty, cynical, nihilistic people in tech and pretending it means you're curious is ugly stuff.

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

“To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.”

Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard An antisemitism task force will review $8.7 billion in multiyear grants and $255 million in contracts with the university and its affiliates.

Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Here's an intriguing fine detail: @premthakker.bsky.social reports that university officials have discovered that the Trump administration has been revoking not only visas but also the student "status" (based on, e.g., maintaining required course load) that universities usually control

The big lesson of the last 50 years is that cynicism benefits authoritarians. As such, if liberals are ever able to regain power, we should prioritize restoring trust in institutions. The best way to do this is to mete out extremely harsh punishments against powerful people who abused this trust.

Four panel comic from Pizza Cake Comic (on Patreon as pizzacakecomic). First panel: A shoulder demon says, "I just had a Zoom meeting with my boss and he said empathy is a sin now." Second panel: Hapless Soul: ...What? Shoulder Demon: Yeah. Third panel: Shoulder Demon: So I guess I'm supposed to tempt you to... care about others? Fourth panel: Hapless Soul: I'm confused. Shoulder Demon: Me too.

Gooood morning sinners~! 🙃

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE!
Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin

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FBI investigates blazes at Las Vegas Tesla showroom as potential terrorism Federal law enforcement is looking into at least three other Molotov cocktail incidents at Tesla showrooms across US

FBI investigates blazes at Las Vegas Tesla showroom as potential terrorism

Federal law enforcement is looking into at least three other Molotov cocktail incidents at Tesla showrooms across US

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

Portable EMP generators

Here Are the Democrats Who Voted to Avert a Shutdown Nearly a dozen Senate Democrats joined Republicans to avert a shutdown with just hours to spare.

I don’t use this word much but these are traitors. time.com/7268499/sena...

guys they're going to stop feeding TSA's bomb-sniffing dogs, per Fox News nat security correspondent:

Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Shocking the extent to which a lot of the GOP is committed to killing their own voters

Panel 1: A pink wug holding a protest sign says to a pair of purple wugs holding hands: "look, I'm really a live and let live type of guy". Panel 2: The sign is revealed to be a no car sign. The pink wug continues: "I just don't think the government should cater to it". The first purple wug has the thinking emoji face and says "hmm". The second purple wug says quietly: "I will add this to the gay agenda".

They Are a Minority Get your mind right.

This x10000000000

“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

Cuomo isn’t the next anything, and the polling proves it.

People keep writing that diabetes can never be reversed. But Type 2 diabetes can, 80% of this time.
(No paywall)

archive.is/SH2Xa

There something about Trump no one is talking about. The Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution says that the Constitution, the laws, and the treaties we sign are “the supreme Law of the Land.”

When Trump shreds our treaties, it’s the same as shredding our laws.

Curious how quickly the swine are implementing Project 2025? Be curious no longer!! It's all being tracked right here:

www.project2025.observer

#bluecrew #proudblue #resist #project2025

AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline You know how chatbots can do fine in short bursts, but then you ask them how many ‘R’s there are in “strawberry” and they act like they’ve got a concussion? For the British Medical Journal’s Christ…

They gave AI chatbots the MoCA test for cognitive decline. They all failed.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/18/a...