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Democracy enthusiast. Stoic, scientist, published author. Sometimes amusing.
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I wrote a review of James Watson's obituary by CSHL: liorpachter.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/r...
Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson
James Watson, who described himself as “not a racist in a conventional way”, has died at the age of 97. Below is a review of an obituary for Dr. James Watson published by Cold Spring Ha…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Invasion coming in two weeks!
Rep. Brian Mast says Trump is developing "concepts of operations" for Venezuela
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Invasion coming in two weeks!
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Mamdani: After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Mamdani: After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.
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Opinion | Virginia has a Republican governor and Republican attorney general and is in a country with a Republican president, Republican Congress, and a tacitly Republican Supreme Court. Here's why its election was rigged by Democrats.
November 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Opinion | Virginia has a Republican governor and Republican attorney general and is in a country with a Republican president, Republican Congress, and a tacitly Republican Supreme Court. Here's why its election was rigged by Democrats.
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I'll bet Biden actually knows who he pardoned.
The House Oversight Committee issued a report claiming a cover-up of Biden's mental state so all his actions/pardons late in the term should be voided.
The Minority's response, pointing out that everybody who testified said Biden was perfectly fine:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
The Minority's response, pointing out that everybody who testified said Biden was perfectly fine:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
November 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'll bet Biden actually knows who he pardoned.
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The members of my focus group were terrified by their new health insurance premiums, overwhelmed by tariffs, and anxious about losing SNAP benefits. Asked who they'd trust to get America out of this mess, 80% replied Donald Trump with the remainder divided among Eric, Ivanka, and Don Jr.
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The members of my focus group were terrified by their new health insurance premiums, overwhelmed by tariffs, and anxious about losing SNAP benefits. Asked who they'd trust to get America out of this mess, 80% replied Donald Trump with the remainder divided among Eric, Ivanka, and Don Jr.
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Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.
November 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.
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The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
(Published Sept.)
(Published Sept.)
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
(Published Sept.)
(Published Sept.)
Smart move by Gaines - she might have a better chance of winning a debate than a swim competition.
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Smart move by Gaines - she might have a better chance of winning a debate than a swim competition.
Whenever they say "They have no bottom", remind them about Mike Johnson, who is definitely a "bottom".
Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Whenever they say "They have no bottom", remind them about Mike Johnson, who is definitely a "bottom".
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The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The seeds are being planted to rig the midterms. It’s becoming more explicit.
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
(Also note the gratuitous shot at the NBA, aka Black athletes who oppose him)
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Angie Craig on Trump importing beef from Argentina: "This is either corrupt or stupid, and it's probably both."
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Angie Craig on Trump importing beef from Argentina: "This is either corrupt or stupid, and it's probably both."
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"Because Trump views the White House as his. For decades, Americans embraced the idea that electing non-politicians to office would improve governance, operating under the assumption that bringing an outsider’s view to calcified systems might spur fixes. This isn’t really how it worked out."
I should probably have just published this in the morning, but I had some thoughts about the East Wing — particularly given something Trump said during his 2020 speech accepting the GOP nomination. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...
The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his
Even if only intuitively, Donald Trump knows that the White House is a storehouse of power. He understands that, like the government itself, it is an institution that our impartial democratic system h...
www.pbump.net
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"Because Trump views the White House as his. For decades, Americans embraced the idea that electing non-politicians to office would improve governance, operating under the assumption that bringing an outsider’s view to calcified systems might spur fixes. This isn’t really how it worked out."
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Warren: So now Trump wants to give Argentina $40 billion.
He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival.
Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.
He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival.
Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.
October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Warren: So now Trump wants to give Argentina $40 billion.
He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival.
Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.
He talked about how tough things are for the people in Argentina and how hard they’re fighting for their economic survival.
Look around America. Look at all the farmers sitting on soybeans they’ve got no buyer for now.
The executive branch is led by the world's dumbest man, who can't do percentages, and the House by the world's least informed man (who, by the way, thinks the world is less than 10,000 years old).
It's no wonder their brightest ideas have to do with air-dropping poop.
It's no wonder their brightest ideas have to do with air-dropping poop.
Q: A pardoned January 6 rioter was charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries
MIKE JOHNSON: Terrible. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it.
MIKE JOHNSON: Terrible. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it.
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The executive branch is led by the world's dumbest man, who can't do percentages, and the House by the world's least informed man (who, by the way, thinks the world is less than 10,000 years old).
It's no wonder their brightest ideas have to do with air-dropping poop.
It's no wonder their brightest ideas have to do with air-dropping poop.
I guess my bar is low:
I just want a President who doesn't fantasize about taking the world's largest dump on American citizens.
I just want a President who doesn't fantasize about taking the world's largest dump on American citizens.
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I guess my bar is low:
I just want a President who doesn't fantasize about taking the world's largest dump on American citizens.
I just want a President who doesn't fantasize about taking the world's largest dump on American citizens.
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Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
October 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
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Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad -- that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad -- that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."
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I can almost guarantee you that there will be right wing agitators posing as Antifa to discredit the protests. Stay safe and keep your cameras on.
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I can almost guarantee you that there will be right wing agitators posing as Antifa to discredit the protests. Stay safe and keep your cameras on.
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New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection
"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social
"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social
Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection
"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.
www.publicnotice.co
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection
"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social
"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social
MAGA is the political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation:
It may feel good in the moment, but you can end up hurting yourself.
It may feel good in the moment, but you can end up hurting yourself.
a white cat is playing with a plastic bag in a living room ..
ALT: a white cat is playing with a plastic bag in a living room ..
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October 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
MAGA is the political equivalent of autoerotic asphyxiation:
It may feel good in the moment, but you can end up hurting yourself.
It may feel good in the moment, but you can end up hurting yourself.