I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

The national marine fisheries service is about to identify the nation’s first aquaculture opportunity areas, and I wrote one of those whole programmatic EISs damn near by myself!

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Oh HELL yes

This is such a bad and out of left field take I honestly wonder if Shatz is criticizing HI public health because Gov. Josh Green is getting more national attention. And ugh, focusing on a future hypothetical rival (like that political future even exists) instead of MEETING THE FUCKING MOMENT?!?

JFC this is disappointing for so many reasons.
A) bars/schools very different
B) HI had like the best COVID response/outcomes
C) it was right and appropriate to be conservative in HI because we have less than 250 ICU beds in the whole damn state 1000’s of miles from any other help

Kid(4): mommy, do chairs have bones?

Kid (4) has recently internalized that 100 is A LOT and now uses it grammatically to mean large, saying things like “the giraffe has 100 neck”.

My kid (4) is trying to understand the concept of concepts and says the alphabet and numbers aren’t real

The guffaw I just guffed…

/grandly, in a voice that sounds like heavy rain falling on a tin roof "It's a little something called Apple Cider Vinegar."

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Sigh. Our house is not in an evacuation zone, but a few blocks away from it on three sides. Perhaps it was the wrong choice to go up the hill to a friends for the tsunami, because we have no idea now when we can go back home. The toddler is supposed to already be in bed…

Damn, knowing what is going on in an emergency is a lot harder without twitter.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Cabot Cheese is a farmer’s collective based in Vermont named after the town where it started! Not a cheese empire. More a cheesy anarcho-syndicalist collective 😹

Due to having a three year old, in our house we say “ready, set, squid”, so yelling squid means RUN

Cute but sad little corpse by the canoes this morning

Cool

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

just setting these next to each other

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere.

The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

$10 billion. Every hurricane season.

The **entirety** of NOAA requested $6.6 billion in FY25. Or 66% of those estimated costs of hurricanes (thus excluding their efforts to also monitor/warn/research flash floods or droughts or wildfires or severe weather or fisheries or tsunamis or solar flares).

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

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What Ocean Ramsey does is not shark science or conservation: some brief thoughts on “the Shark Whisperer” documentary Netflix has a new (sarcastic air quotes) “documentary” out about Ocean Ramsey, who longtime readers and followers know is a serial wildlife harasser who also coordinates massive online …

Enough of you asked me about this that I wrote some brief thoughts on Ocean Ramsey's particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense. I believe this addresses almost all of the frequently asked questions I receive, but as always I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith.

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