Jonathan Aul
@mudshark58.bsky.social
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Social science takes time. Here, social scientists analyze a decade of evidence to show that a Supreme Court decision designed to suppress the black vote actually did. SCOTUS may soon obliterate the rest of the Voting Rights Act and we should not be shy about calling out what's going on here.
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Writing about my wife’s naked political corruption like a Dan Brown novel
This is a lot, but (allegedly) Olivia Nuzzi sent a secret recorder with a sketch artist to tape Trump at Mar-a-Lago so she could feed campaign intel to RFK, where [pauses to take a breath] something Trump said about his assassination attempt “would shatter our understanding of recent history”??
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Writing about my wife’s naked political corruption like a Dan Brown novel
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If what he intimates here about the Trump assassination attempt turns out to be accurate, Lizza should never work as a journalist again. He’s as guilty as Nuzzi of hiding newsworthy events from the public.
"So stick with me here. We haven’t reached the halfway point, and I haven’t yet described the most bizarre, consequential, and newsworthy events."
Happy Thanksgiving, I guess
Happy Thanksgiving, I guess
Part 3: Catch and Kill
If you are new to this series, read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
www.telos.news
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If what he intimates here about the Trump assassination attempt turns out to be accurate, Lizza should never work as a journalist again. He’s as guilty as Nuzzi of hiding newsworthy events from the public.
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Between the NYT profile, the VF excerpt and Lizza’s Livejournal, the ONLY mention of a journalists’ responsibility to the motherfucking public was a brief mention of Kara Swisher saying she told NYMag editors when she found out about the affair because it was a betrayal of the public trust.
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Between the NYT profile, the VF excerpt and Lizza’s Livejournal, the ONLY mention of a journalists’ responsibility to the motherfucking public was a brief mention of Kara Swisher saying she told NYMag editors when she found out about the affair because it was a betrayal of the public trust.
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Access journalism has got to die. Anonymous source rules have to go back to being only for the vulnerable. Cover how politicians are delivering/not delivering for the public or GTFO
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Access journalism has got to die. Anonymous source rules have to go back to being only for the vulnerable. Cover how politicians are delivering/not delivering for the public or GTFO
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The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
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'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
🧪 🔭
🧪 🔭
Who will take the lead in space research as NASA cuts bite?
Proposed cuts to the NASA budget, which threaten US university-based space research programmes as well as joint space missions, have left internationa...
www.universityworldnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
'In anticipation of the proposed cuts – 25% overall and, crucially, a 47% cut to NASA’s science spending – NASA has flagged 40 major projects, including 23 active missions, for closure.'
🧪 🔭
🧪 🔭
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I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
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With all of the tragedy going on, please remember that you can’t trust anything the federal government says.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
With all of the tragedy going on, please remember that you can’t trust anything the federal government says.
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This fallacy should henceforth be known as a Barro's Blunder.
Anyway, the world does not need another post dunking on Josh Barro. What it does need, is a word for the fallacy where you make up some weird stereotype about people, and then when it turns out they don't actually act that way, you think that's something strange about *them*.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This fallacy should henceforth be known as a Barro's Blunder.
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Good Fast Times article on New York Times headlines. I was interviewed. One thing I should have noted: the rage-bait comes increasingly from the opinions section.
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
Annoyed by a 'New York Times' headline? It seems like that's increasingly the Gray Lady's goal
Several ‘New York Times’ headlines in 2025 have earned severe social media backlash. Is it happening on purpose?
www.fastcompany.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Good Fast Times article on New York Times headlines. I was interviewed. One thing I should have noted: the rage-bait comes increasingly from the opinions section.
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
www.fastcompany.com/91450316/nyt...
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So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
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Trump wastes no time targeting Sen. Mark Kelly after the indictments he orchestrated against James Comey & Letitia James are dismissed
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anntelnaes.substack.com/p/james-come...
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump wastes no time targeting Sen. Mark Kelly after the indictments he orchestrated against James Comey & Letitia James are dismissed
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/james-come...
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/james-come...
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Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
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This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
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I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
3. This map is wrong on multiple levels. Abortion is banned again in North Dakota as of last week; that state is the wrong color. Only 9 states lack a gestational limit and should be dark blue under this key. 41 states have bans
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.guttmacher.org/state-policy...
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I hate how we've apparently collectively decided that gestational limits simply don't count as long as they're late enough
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The Québécois are always fucking wildin out with this shit about how they’re being oppressed in their homeland — that they stole from Indigenous folks who they been oppressing the whole time
Like W I L D how loud they are about it
Like W I L D how loud they are about it
Bill 1 is a provincial constitution Quebec is looking to pass that focuses on French culture and states Quebec people form a nation.
However, the bill is being challenged due to the question of where Indigenous sovereignty fits into the new bill.
However, the bill is being challenged due to the question of where Indigenous sovereignty fits into the new bill.
Quebec looks to pass bill that challenges Indigenous sovereignty within the province | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The Québécois are always fucking wildin out with this shit about how they’re being oppressed in their homeland — that they stole from Indigenous folks who they been oppressing the whole time
Like W I L D how loud they are about it
Like W I L D how loud they are about it
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Judge Sara Ellis, mocking the goons, bc they don't know where they are.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Judge Sara Ellis, mocking the goons, bc they don't know where they are.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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publishing your greatest professional and ethical failures in a series of paywalled blog posts is certainly a choice.
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
publishing your greatest professional and ethical failures in a series of paywalled blog posts is certainly a choice.
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If you want to save time and money by not giving a shit about quality, there are much less resource intensive methods than "AI".
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If you want to save time and money by not giving a shit about quality, there are much less resource intensive methods than "AI".
I doubt any of them have a clue what kind of revenue the national parks have already been generating from foreign tourists alone, but I bet they'll be surprised at how much the income drops if this wrongheaded grift idea goes into effect.
ICYMI: The Trump admin will begin charging foreign tourists a $100 fee to visit the most popular national parks, in an "America First" approach to public lands.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Visitors at National Parks
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I doubt any of them have a clue what kind of revenue the national parks have already been generating from foreign tourists alone, but I bet they'll be surprised at how much the income drops if this wrongheaded grift idea goes into effect.
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It doesn’t matter where you live or how you vote – Social Security is a universal promise of economic security.
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It doesn’t matter where you live or how you vote – Social Security is a universal promise of economic security.
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really weird way to say "Trump's Special Envoy Working For Russia, Leaked Call Shows" CNN
President Donald Trump brushed off concerns about his special envoy Steve Witkoff’s engagements with the Kremlin after a new phone call transcript provided rare insight into how the president’s top negotiator advised his Russian counterpart.
Trump brushes off concerns about Witkoff’s interactions with Russians | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump brushed off concerns about his special envoy Steve Witkoff’s engagements with the Kremlin after a new phone call transcript provided rare insight into how the president’s top ne...
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
really weird way to say "Trump's Special Envoy Working For Russia, Leaked Call Shows" CNN