"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.

Boooo!

Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president.

The unitary executive theory kills people.

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Fervently hoping that suddenly happens soon.

robert j bennett: liberalism is going to require something martial and vicious and somewhat fanatic if we want it to survive. it won't be the liberalism we grew up with. it will be an uglier, harder thing for an uglier, harder world.

the next generation of liberal leaders are going to have to be of the "we have to make hard choices now so that our children will have easier choices when it's their turn" variety

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

If ACIP chooses to ignore evidence, when it comes to vaccines, parents and clinicians must ignore ACIP and look to those who continue to offer data-based guidance, especially our medical societies.

I wish Grant Wahl was here rn

Everyone aiding and abetting the disgrace at HHS has blood on their hands. The blood of children and the elderly.

this is your fault, Bill

personally, specifically, your fault

you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it

you own this and I hope you choke on it

Aaron, I'm really glad that your audience (and hopefully engagement as well) continues to grow, despite the sorry state of the Twins. I've been following back to the Free Johan days, and I'd be especially bummed if bad ownership/front office trickled down with negative impacts for you.

Yeah, they make cool stuff and can choose to design however they want. I just think they'd do even better going all-in on the retro vibe instead of using essentially the current, modern Minnesota block M. They'd certainly get more orders out of me if they did so.

The Trump admin's claim that it was targeting criminal aliens was always bullshit, and it's just hard for me to believe that most Americans don't know that. And assuming they do, this signals just how broken our society has become—it's a sick game we're playing.

Kind folks at Homefield, these are awesome but I'm BEGGING you to stop using the double-outline Block M for "retro" Minnesota products. Look at Paul Bunyan's Axe and The Jug. The really good retro logos don't have the double outline.

Also, baseball pullover for the Gophers as well, pretty please?

The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.

You could ask the same thing about the field of public health, but the answer is probably even more unequivocally "no". If we get another pandemic, with this administration or similarly inclined successor, it will be a disaster.

I'd appreciate him more if he wasn't, net-net, supporting the Administration but yes, it's nice to know some GOP have lines they'll actually hesitate to cross.

I should damn well hope so.

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners" -The Declaration of Independence

It might even make gerrymanders counter-productive for the GOP because they've, in places, diluted their own strongholds to try and *just* cover Dem districts with a "safe" margin. But there's no way they can cover a ~20 pt margin swing safely.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs The wholesaler is the latest company to file a lawsuit against a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao

Yeah... yeah... definitely frustrating.

Mark Zuckerberg must go Meta protected profits. It didn’t protect kids. That’s not just a headline — it’s sworn testimony. And now we know: Mark Zuckerberg let this happen, again and again. Shocking new court filings show Me

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A basic and intuitive understanding of the law is that punishments should not be retroactive upon a policy change.

This is even worse. There is no formal policy change, they are simply penalizing couples for following common practice - explicitly allowed by Congress - for decades.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

RFK Jr. is obviously a dangerous fraudster. But he would not have the power he currently has without being aided by the Republican Congress—in some cases, by members who should know better.

I despise RFK Jr. but I also harbor a different flavor of contempt for doctors like Cassidy and Barasso.

Unvaccinated infants are the second most likely group to get hospitalized for Covid after older adults. Any effort to minimize the effectiveness for kids is evil.

I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.