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Sen. Duckworth on the Trump administration removing 4 Americans killed in the Iran war from the official death toll:

"It is a slap in the face of the servicemen and women and their families."

This is ridiculous! In a setback for voters, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed parts of a lower court’s ruling involving President Trump’s executive order on mail voting. The decision allows key portions of the order to remain in place for now, including directives that:

On a post yesterday, I accidentally used the HTML tag <strike> instead of <del>. Just noticed that Mastodon doesn’t display <strike>, so I edited my blog post. Very cool to see Mastodon update as the edit change came through via ActivityPub.

The Great Mouse Detective was released 40 years ago. Cartoon Brew has a look back at it and many other animated detectives.

Love that movie, will never forget seeing it in the theater as a kid. That and seeing the original Transformers had a big influence on my love for animation.

Within a few weeks of the country's highest court giving states permission to ban trans girls from nearly all school sports, the influential right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation made clear its newest target: The rest of girls' and women's sports. Specifically, as la...

Jonathan Lemire, co-host of Morning Joe on MSNOW; writer for MSNOW and contributing writer to The Atlantic, talks about the latest national political news.

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement on American nuclear innovation in the Oval Office at the White House on July 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump is signing multiple executive orders targeting the nuclear energy sector and easing rules for new reactors and nuclear fuel supply chains. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)

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Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC and Gothamist newsroom, talks about some recent proposals for faster buses and an alternate-side-of-the-street pilot program that could mean cleaner streets with with less car-moving hassles.

Photo: Street in Park Slope Brooklyn residential area on a sunny day, New York City, USA - stock photo

 

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Francesca Paris, reporter for The Upshot section of The New York Times, talks about why some states have rolled back incentives that unlock savings for residential solar customers and how batteries may be the solution.

Photo: Modern house with solar panels for energy storage.

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Jo Piazza, writer, podcast host and the author of many novels, including her latest, The Parisian Heist: A Novel (Dutton, 2026) and Anthony Amore, art theft expert and the author of The Rembrandt Heist (Pegasus Crime, 2025), talk about our collective fascination with heists ...

Appreciate the love, Survival of the Thickest.

Y'all know me... if it needs to be said, I'm gonna say it.

See y'all at the next hearing. 💅🏾

Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services. “No ads,” he boas...

New reporting reveals 86% of revenue from MAGA influencer Nick Adams' K-12 education nonprofit goes to him and his mother.

A new Reuters/Ipsos survey finds that just 33% of Americans approve of U.S. attacks on Iran, with 62% who said they disapprove.

“President Trump responded to recently released entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying he grew tired of the former White House medical adviser,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “He was a much bigger player in the Biden administration. I grew tired of him… He wanted to close everything down. I allowed it to be up […]

Trump is fixated on the false, long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

To celebrate 2026 Peer Review Week (September 14-18), PREreview is organizing a Review-a-thon: a global event where newly-formed and existing PREreview Clubs synchronously carry out collaborative reviews of preprints and datasets. Our goal is to showcase how human, community-driven peer review can help drive change

19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively Illustrate the Inner Workings of the Human Body. Love these.

“President Donald Trump on Tuesday said new U.S. tariffs are functionally the same as the ones the Supreme Court struck down as illegal earlier this year,” CNBC reports. Said Trump: “It’s a shame that I have to go a harder way for the tariffs because the Supreme Court, in a very close decision, you know, […]

The new BMW iX3 has already received nearly 100,000 orders. Now, BMW is ramping up production at a record pace to meet the strong demand.

Multiple challenges to President Donald Trump’s March “election integrity” executive order are moving through the federal judiciary simultaneously, including one...