Deborah Shapiro

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Washington Post: White House begins destroying East wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote The U.S.

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

It’s remarkable that people who are not lawyers can always predict how six justices will rule on almost any issue.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

"The documents also show that ICE is planning to once again use location data remotely harvested from peoples’ smartphones after previously saying it had stopped the practice." -- @josephcox.bsky.social for @404media.co:

I loved The Snow Leopard, even though Matthiessen never succeeded in seeing one.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

Essential reading
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Every word they say is a lie including and and the. (Thank you Mary McCarthy)

Please stop using the word skeptics to refer to science deniers.

You don’t need an approval rating when you control all three branches of government, the military, and multiple state legislatures.

Nest of vipers

The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into. For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Florida experiment with children’s health and lives amounts to child neglect and abuse.

They will also provide thoughts and prayers

His claim that he saw children with “mitochondrial challenges” is tinfoil hat level insanity.

RFK Jr. said he saw children with “mitochondrial challenges” while he was walking through an airport. This is tinfoil hat insanity.

Save HHS Stop sharing false or misleading health information. Affirm CDC's Scientific Integrity Guarantee the safety of the HHS workforce Sign the letter saveHHS.org

NPHC & FBF stand united w/ CDC, NIH, & other HHS agencies in formal dissent of HHS Sec Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. & his political rhetoric that led to Aug 8 attack on CDC & his response.
Help ensure safety of public servants.
Hold RFK Jr accountable by signing the letter: savehhs.org
#HHSUnited #SaveHHS

Rickets is caused by severe vitamin D deficiency, in this case likely due to starvation.

Wood sculpture of Rosa Parks being arrested, was in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery but has just been removed

This wood sculpture by Marshall Rumbaugh depicting the arrest of civil rights icon Rosa Parks has been quietly removed from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The erasure of American history has begun. #rosaparks #smithsonian #nationalportraitgallery #americanhistory

This is chilling and reeks of naziism.

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

It’s ominous now. What happens when large protests start in major cities, like the No Kings protest?

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Cf Rudy Giuliani

His strategy is shooting the messenger

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

The loss of music listings is "the loss of a world," Gabriel Kahane writes. As a young musician in New York, they were his "bible, syllabus, and road map":

Marshall Pétain said that his intentions in capitulating to the Hitler and actively collaborating with the German occupiers for four years were good and honorable. He was found guilty of treason in 1945.

So who is actually writing the executive orders?

Update: Bondi has removed her replacement.

High fructose corn syrup is associated with gout while cane sugar is not. This is the consensus in the medical literature in rheumatology. The incidence of gout has increased significantly in recent decades.