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02.04.2025
Guess who’s considering running for governor of Minnesota? MAGA election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has eyes on what could be his next gig. And it isn’t selling pil…
I arrived at my office door this morning, and what do I see? I didn’t do it. I’m going to have to scoop them up and bring them inside before the custodians dispose of them.
The students don’t have any significant voice in the management of the university, oh heck no. It’s definitely not the faculty, either — they are allowed to contribute to strictly…
I have stumbled into a strange YouTube niche: feminization hypnosis. It’s a category of delusional videos in which voices whisper at you, telling you to put on make-up or become trans or enco…
01.04.2025
Pay attention!
Teen Vogue is the surprising vanguard. Here’s an article by a former Democratic staffer who has some strong criticisms of the Democratic leadership. I walked away from my job as a writer for …
In class today, I was telling students what to expect on the big genetics exam on Wednesday. I got an unexpected question: “What if we get 6-12 inches of snow on Tuesday and Wednesday?”…
This video from Some More News has some good suggestions about what how to resist a fascist takeover. One little suggestion I want to bring up is that the video recommends a pamphlet, the Simple Sa…
30.03.2025
We’re all aware that the Secret Police swept in and sent a Tufts graduate student to a concentration camp in Louisiana. They also detained Mahmoud Khalil from Columbia University (we also kno…
Every few weeks, I get a fresh comment on an old video I made a about a year ago about Gilbert Ling. It’s low level stuff, remarkable only for the persistent trickle of comments I get, and be…
29.03.2025
Only two months into Trump’s reign, and three prominent Yale professors depart for a Canadian university. These professors started planning to leave the country back in November, which is ama…
Here’s a provocative idea from Gregory Paul: the churches are dying. One might think that the religion in its vast array of guises continues to be a potent force in human societies. And of co…
28.03.2025
Not us. We have to welcome spring with something more … elaborate. Not visible: the three guys with shovels and wrenches deep in the hole.
Way, way back in time, when the atheist schism was running hot, Freethoughtblogs and Skepchick were accused of being like the Stasi by Paula Kirby, a journalist (and also Richard Dawkins’ mis…
27.03.2025
AI spills the beans. An alternative to humanity is being developed from mouse stock. You should feel guilty if you put out mouse traps and squish those mega-brains.
We now have excerpts from that Signal chat, where a reporter was accidentally included as they discussed bombing the Houthis in Yemen. Jesus fucking christ. Emojis? Cheering while they gloat about …
Martyn Iles lost his status as Ken Ham’s successor at Answers in Genesis (there’s a story there, I’m sure, but no one is talking), and now he’s an immigrant wandering loose …
Things you don’t like to come home to: a backhoe parked on the grass and an 8 foot deep trench dug in the yard. We noticed with the spring thaw that we were building a lovely swamp in the yar…
26.03.2025
Male tarantulas, when they reach sexual maturity, are focused on wandering away to find sex, to the point where they may lose interest in eating. Females, on the other hand, turn into voracious con…
Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama are even more relieved that the American war machine is run by idiots and incompetents. When they make war plans, they invite random journalists to the meeting…
NASA’s budget is getting slashed. NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what…
This is how I start my morning? Make sure you’ve got a clear path to the toilet before you click on play. The good news: it’s not an earworm. As soon as it stopped, I figured out that t…
Apparently I need to go back to bed and shut down all social media, because this is the dreck I’m getting now on Bluesky. I can’t resist, let’s look a little more closely at the s…
25.03.2025
Blue is the lab mascot, a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, and after their last molt, they’ve acquired the dark blue and blue-green colors of a mature greenbottle blue tarantula, and maybe reac…
We have two kinds of Democrats in the party, and I want to see more of the JB Pritzker kind. He gave a great speech. Donald Trump cannot take anything from us that we don’t choose to give him…
Remember Justin Eichorn? The Minnesota Republican who was caught in a sting trying pick up 16 year old girls? This is what he looked like before his arrest. Update: here’s his latest availabl…
They should be ashamed by their cowardice. Trump threatened and Columbia caved. The US president has made no secret of his intent to control what is studied, thought, and debated. His administratio…
Kat Abughazaleh is running for congress. We need more of this: young people rising up and running against the tired old do-nothings currently holding down sinecures in congress.
24.03.2025
The historians all saw this coming. In a prophetic post from long long ago (2023), Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains the authoritarian playbook, and it all starts with stifling the universities. As the GOP t…
This little meme was posted by Will Stancil. I’m wondering if I’m just too online, because I got the joke immediately. In case you haven’t heard of him (you live a blessed life), …
23.03.2025
If this weren’t so horrifying, it would be ridiculous. Trump & Co. want to eliminate federal support for libraries. When President Trump recently proposed eliminating the Institute of Mus…
Warning: cancel your travel plans. The US is not a viable destination anymore. Read this account by a Canadian professor who was trying to give a lecture in this country. So much bureaucracy. So mu…
For those who care, I’ve switched my Mastodon server. I’m now @pzmyers@freethought.online. HJ Hornbeck set this up for us a few years ago, but I didn’t bother to move at the time,…
22.03.2025
I’ve seen this game of Telephone played out in my cell biology class, but to a greater degree. Square units? Far too easy. Our first lab in cell biology is about observing cells and then doin…
The people who hate DEI really hate it when you say they’re racist. They claim their motivations aren’t racist at all — they’re just trying to be fair. They’re concern…
Don’t blame Minnesota for the mess we’re in.
21.03.2025
Day one: Day two: And now, day three: I don’t think it’s gotten any more complex, but is it changing?
Vivian Wilson is interviewed in Teen Vogue. She is not a nepo baby — she’s been cut off from the sperm donor, Elon Musk, who contributed in a minimal way to her birth. Wilson entered th…
It’s been a while since I mentioned Joseph Mercola, the alternative medicine cancer quack with a vast empire of snake oil supplements. If anti-vaccine influencers had a king, it would be Dr. …
A French scientist flew into Houston to attend a conference, and DHS searched his luggage. To their horror, they found…a phone. That contained messages that were disrespectful to Donald Trump, and …