Steve Mirsky

Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:

Somebody tell Trump, “Except when Jefferson dined alone.” Then spend a half hour trying and failing to explain it to him.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

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I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck We’re all susceptible to what our bodies tell us. When there’s a strange pain or sickness, our bodies are hinting at us that there should be something

I don’t know if it’s irony or adumbration that Michael has a medical condition named for him in which you can’t look up to see what is right in front of you. www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/08...

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All Nobel Laureates have a moral obligation to offer their prizes to Trump—in exchange for policy concessions. Med Nobel to restore vaccine schedule. Physics Nobel to rejoin climate agreements. Literature Nobel to read Camus’s Caligula.

TELEVISION REVIEW Now for a Politically Correct 'Star Trek'. By JOHN O'CONNOR "Sequence under way. Engage!" And the "Star Trek" franchise blasts off once again. Consider mere-ly this one statistic being bandled about by the producers: There are already more than 325 hours of "Star Trek" productions, including the original series (which began in 1966), the seven feature films and the television spinoffs, "Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)." And now, with the centerpiece of the new United Paramount Network, Trekkers can focus their notoriously intense scrutiny on "Star Trek: Voy-ager," the first of the series created after the death of the "Star Trek" creator, Gene Roddenberry. Much will be made of the political correct-ness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman, but "Star Trek" has long been a multicultural champion of erasing prejudices of all sorts. This time it just goes a bit further. After all, it's the 24th century. Capt. Kathryn Janeway, played with unmistakable authority by Kate Mulgrew, takes the U.S.S. Voyager to search for a ship belonging to the Maquis, Federation colonists unhap-py with a new treaty. The problem is that the captain's chief of security is an undercover agent on the missing ship. But the Voyager, with 15 decks and "bioneural" circuitry, is soon swept up in a displacement wave that pushes the star ship 70,000 light years away on the other side of the galaxy. The Federationists and the Maquis are forced to work together for survival. It's an ingenious concept, bringing the series back to its early days of anything-can-happen suspense. Cap-tain Janeway spells it out: "We're alone in an uncharted part of the galaxy. We have no idea of the dan-gers we'll have to face. Somewhere we'll find a way back." Tonight's two-hour pilot is certain-ly a marvel of special effects. Com-paring early "Star Trek" with this is like comparing "The Great Train Robbery" with St…

Voyager is 31!

"Much will be made of the political correctness of this new venture, not least in that the captain of this ship is a woman".

A woman, captain of a ship 😱

Just a reminder that we've come a long way, and that the reactionary whiners of today are just the latest in a long line. 🖖

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After lying about this baby they gassed and almost killed in their own neighborhood, DHS deleted their post

Cartman is the dream ICE recruit.

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. — Slate What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We’re all finding out.

Article by journalist who applied to be ICE to see what would happen. Punchline: hired with none of the required background checks: apple.news/AveRXV3vUTQq...

Pentagon says it will ‘refocus’ Stars and Stripes content The Pentagon suggested it would take over editorial decision making for Stars and Stripes, which has long retained independence under a congressional mandate.

📌URGENT: Trump's regime is trying to turn Stars & Stripes into state-run media.
I was the ME of S&S.

It's MANDATED BY CONGRESS to be an editorially independent paper that reports ON the troops FOR the troops.

So I type this with precision: The draft-dodging, America-attacking slob can KISS MY ASS.

What Would Jesus Do (Contemplating A Vaccine)? In which recent discoveries in genetics make clear how vaccination is an act of love.

I've got a new essay up at my (free!) Substack, Inverse Square, in which I use a new report out in Nature about the genetic roots of differing responses to pathogens to speculate on what would Jesus (or the religious leader of your choice) do if asked to get a jab?

Spoiler: not what RFK Jr. does.

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I finally got one of these:

Very nize!

Trump kicks his golf ball back on the course so much that caddies have nicknamed him 'Pelé' The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

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He’d be a Marxist.

He was great as Rorschach in Watchmen.

Opinion | Where do Americans want to live? The U-Haul index proves a point. Decline is a choice.

A tapestry of bullshit from editorial board of the new Washington Post, saved only by the hundreds of comments pointing out flaws.

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How Congestion Pricing Proved the Haters Wrong and Is Changing New York for the Better - Streetsblog New York City Happy birthday to the toll cameras! Congestion pricing is working as promised — defying haters and doubters, including President Trump. Here's why.

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Searching for Trump’s Soul Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.

“Whatever complicates the world more I do.”—Trump, 1997 New Yorker profile. www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

And the rest of these man, Jay Bhattacharya at NIH, Marty Makary at FDA, Mehmet Oz at CMS and Donald J. Trump share this responsibility, this culpability for the coming waves of suffering, sickness and death of children.

Large sculpture of a squirrel.

Jeffrey Gibson (American Mississippi Choctaw Cherokee, born 1972) The Animal That Therefore I Am, 2025 Patinated bronze Courtesy the artist Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, has created four bronze sculptures, his most figurative works to date, for The Genesis Facade Commission. Each references an animal-a deer, coyote, squirrel, or hawk-that carries Indigenous significance and inhabits Central Park and the Hudson Valley, where Gibson lives and works. Titled after a book by philosopher Jacques Derrida, these works underscore the importance of the interconnected relationships among all living beings, proposing how we might live differently as we navigate between the human and environmental realms.

Nov 9, outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Before the days of carrying a camera at all times, I saw a squirrel schlepping a split-open coconut up a tree. The two parts were being held together by surface fibers. Squirrel was struggling mightily, but must have figured it was worth it for such a bounty.

Black squirrels in NYC too.