Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

Looks like DOGE just made its first cut

HAPPENING NOW: TikTok appears to be coming back online. The website is now working and the app appears to be slowly reconnecting for users in the U.S.

This sums it up, yes.

BREAKING: Elon Musk and Republicans are trying to cut more than $190 million in pediatric cancer research in the government funding bill.

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

Pretty much, huh.

If you want to understand the rise of RFK and other crackpot anti-science types in the 21st century, you have to understand the fusion between conspiracy theorists and New Age flummery, as I wrote in the new edition of The Death of Expertise:

This is a real team effort, fellow patriots. 🇺🇸

I love this.

I like @repcasar.bsky.social…no notes!

I can think of no time in recorded history where people banning books ever turned out to be the good guys.

Fact.

If you are planning on going to a bookstore please take a shower first. Especially a small bookstore where people are standing right next to you for long periods of time.