Hewan yang Dapat Memprediksi Gempa Bumi

Jakarta – Gempa bumi adalah musibah alam yang datang secara tiba-tiba dan bisa memunculkan kerusakan parah. Meskipun teknologi seismologi terus berkembang, prediksi gempa bumi yang akurat masih menjadi tantangan. Kecuali … Read More

The New Frontier in Weight Loss: Innovations and Insights

Weight loss has been a perennial pursuit for many individuals around the globe, prompting a continuous search for effective strategies and innovations to shed excess pounds. In recent years, the … Read More

Observational data finds a 90-fold-increase in heat and rainfall extremes in the past ten years

The 26th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP-26), scheduled to open on 10/31/21 in Glasgow, Scotland. COP brings wealthy and developing nations together to discuss fighting climate change as … Read More

Opinion: That Swirling Sound is the Republican Party

Voting for the current crop of Republicans is like brushing your teeth with the water running. It is a waste of resources, has no purpose, but all your friends do … Read More

Unfortunately, We Need Real Republicans

The tens of tens who showed up in Washington, DC Saturday had a face, former Trump staffer Matt Braynard. Braynard, who presents himself as one of the many “voter fraud … Read More

That Tears It

“He's crazy. You know he's crazy,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  “He's crazy and what he did yesterday [Jan. 6] is further evidence of his craziness,” Her words were reportedly … Read More

The Myths of Defiance by the GOP

Paraphrasing Pvt. Sam Watkins, 1st Tennessee, Co. H. ‘America has no north, no south, no east, no west,’ those words could apply to the pandemic. Watkins was lamenting brother against … Read More

The Nazis Burned Books: America is Burning Science

…suppressing your opposition with power; strong regimentation of society and economy, and dictatorial power- Fascism In the collegial setting, politics is taught as a science. It is meant to be … Read More

Opinion: Why the Pro-Life Party Thinks Death is the Only Answer

Let me start by saying no one—for or against—is in favor of abortion. Subjecting a woman and her partner to outside scrutiny from what is the most anguished-filled decision of … Read More

Fanaticism!

“…wearing a mask while playing was no different from wearing a parachute while skydiving.” The above quote is purportedly from the late Jacques Plante, former goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens … Read More

Time to Stop Coddling the Children Of America?

As the grandfather of 12 grandchildren, I worry about their safety, health, and lives in this time of excessive gun violence, denial of history, and the life-destroying spread of the … Read More

The Cognitive Dissonance of Guns, Bibles and the Vaccine

Reminiscent of the unfounded fears spread around by conservatives about the Affordable Care Act and “death panels,” President Biden’s call for a door-to-door educational program about the coronavirus vaccine sent … Read More

The backlashes to critical race theory leave scars: racism is never funny, even if ignorance is.

Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida’s State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor of an amendment banning the teaching of critical race theory … Read More

Marjorie Greene demands Biden respond to Wuhan lab questions by 'June 31' … which isn't a thing

A couple of days ago, alleged congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to Joe Biden. I read it; you don’t have to. Unless you read at a third-grade level … Read More

Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”

Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill in December 2020. More inexplicable … Read More

13-year-old rape and incest victim would have been out of luck under Texas' new abortion law

A few years ago, a pro-choice science fiction author named Patrick S. Tomlinson challenged anti-choicers about their priorities when it came to protecting human life. He set up a straightforward … Read More

Rick Wilson: Marjorie Taylor Greene is 'the heart and soul of the Republican Party'

The devolution of the Republican Party has been a sight to behold—but it’s been a particularly fraught experience for ex-Republicans. I know if the Democrats had nominated Charlie Sheen for … Read More

I am Masked and Fully Vaccinated

I took my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine two days after my birthday. I had my second shot 21 days later, and I am well past the two-week waiting … Read More

The former guy's new blog gets pathetically low engagement: analysis

I say “schaden,” you say “freude”! Schaden! … I can’t hear you! Okay, we’ll come back to that. This is all you need to know for the time being. Donald … Read More

Rubble-necking: Niall Ferguson pimps Doom

He’s got a new book, so a conservative Niall Ferguson appeared on TV this morning whitewashing the Trump administration’s competence, or lack thereof, as if the fault lies with more … Read More

Oklahoma just returned its hydroxychloroquine stockpile … like we returned our toddler president

Remember hydroxychloroquine? It’s the anti-malarial, anti-lupus drug that people started taking last year because a sweaty, out-of-shape ball of malignant insecurities and congealed ghee saw a tweet about it, envisioned a miracle cure … Read More

disarming the predators: Intellectual property regimes cannot be overthrown

There is a capitalist propaganda battle at work, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that “ Biden has sent a signal around the world that nobody’s intellectual property is safe in America.”. The … Read More

WI-Sen: Amy McGrath Is Back To Help Give Sedition Caucus Member RoJo The Anti-Vaxxer The Boot

Yesterday was a very busy day for me so I’m playing catch up today. Received this e-mail yesterday from former Air Force Pilot and U.S. Senate candidate, Amy McGrath (D. … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: elephant capital and wild skies

More elephants will get killed as trophies. Cash-short countries do have to think about revenue, and carrying capacity is but a rationalization when eco-tourism is crippled by a pandemic. What’s … Read More

Tiffany Cross: Tim Scott embarrassingly on the wrong side of history. 2 sides to every token. OUCH!

Senator Tim Scott was willing to allow the Republican Party to make him a sacrificial lamb. Tiffany Cross called out Scott like no other. Tiffany Cross makes minced meat out … Read More

Oops! White House Chief of Staff threw shade at Sen Tim Scott’s presidential address response. Deep!

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain threw shade at Sen. Tim Scott’s attempt to minimize President Biden’s early successes at presidential address. Epic! Tim Scott’s dis of presidential address … Read More

WI-Sen: Dr. Fauci Goes After Another Idiot Anti-Vaxxer, RoJo The Traitor

Dr. Anthony Fauci is on a roll. First, he went after this clown: x “You can get infected, and will get infected, if you put yourself at risk.” -Dr. Anthony … Read More

CA-Gov: Rep. Ted Lieu (D) Brilliantly Trolls Uninformed Idiot On Twitter With A Politics 101 Lesson

Fail: REALITY BITES: That didn’t take long. Reality TV star and political neophyte Caitlyn Jenner was about 24 hours into the rollout of her California gubernatorial campaign this weekend when she … Read More

A Weird Path to the Acceptance of Self.

I was raised Lutheran i.e. by the doctrine of Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, and  Sola Scriptura. The only part of which spoke to me was that my neighbour needed more … Read More

“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin

A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter Benjamin recognizing those moments of historical contact as acts of recognizing the constructed historical object. “Historicism … Read More

Another piece of Arctic sea ice destruction confirmed; 'Heat Bombs' from the Pacific.

According to new findings from the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, primarily in summer, unprecedented quantities of heat from the Pacific are pouring into the … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: no let up in Russian disinformation

Not very much has changed with the disinformation being generated by the usual external players. Russia Studied How to Get Americans to Make Mistakes…(how Americans take the Russia disinformation bait) … Read More

Lindsey Graham fesses up that the climate crisis is real after all.

One of the more despicable senators in the US Senate now acknowledges that climate change is real after four years of kissing Trump’s ass as the know-nothing did all he … Read More

WI-Gov: Gov. Tony Evers (D) Hits Back At Idiot GOP WI Supreme Court For Overturning Mask Mandate

Received this e-mail today from Governor Tony Evers’ (D. WI) re-election campaign: As someone who believes in science and keeping Wisconsin safe, I have trusted public health experts to guide … Read More

Trump'd still be emperor with real infrastructure week(s), but his goal was to kill 250,000 people

Many times during his reign, Trump could have saved his presidency by taking moderate positions and co-opting the Democrats. He felt, however that he should obey his benefactors like a … Read More

Vaccine Fear

I check off a day every morning on my calendar because I am counting down to the day of my second Covid-19 vaccination. I, like a lot of other Americans, … Read More

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences

Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far exceed the benefits. Austerity would have … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: “it works” a pragmatics of lived experience

We remain weary about the callow stupidity of the GOP/GQP but we must not patronize or condescend about how superfluous their grievances have been and continue to be. Now that … Read More

The Daily Bucket–All-Union and Carbon free Energy Source Project proposed for SW Washington

Rye Development is proposing a massive pumped storage power plant uphill from the site of the closed Goldendale smelter, next to the Columbia River.  This facility will take over a closed pumped storage … Read More

Just one more reason Ron Johnson is too stupid to be in Congress

He’s not the only one, of course. For instance, I’m convinced Matt Gaetz has the largest head-to-brain-size ratio in the animal kingdom and that Louie Gohmert is the lamentable result of … Read More

Lauren Boebert is so dumb she’s boosting the hashtag #LaurenBoebertIsSoDumb

I don’t know, maybe this works for her. I’m not sure how Twitter’s trending topics actually become trending topics, but I can only assume that if, say, someone started the … Read More

“Eat the Rich”, because they still tasty

Twitter is dragging Jonathan Turley because of attributing a Rousseau quote to the Reign of Terror, but more likely because they mistook him for Jeffrey Toobin. That’s the nature of conservative culture … Read More

Ted and Greta more like 'Son of JFK Killer' versus TEDtalks Climate

There’s really only one Ted that’s applicable to an unconfirmed source trying to connect Greta Thunberg with the Unabomber and that’s Ted “Zodiac Killer” Cruz. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has mocked … Read More

with 850 wolves remaining, can humans and feral pigs be more at-risk in Montana

In the choice between wolf predation and human predation wolf culling seems more about sport than the economic threat to herds. Subsidizing trapping and killing with wolf bounties doesn’t begin to … Read More

Arizona House rep says we didn't need masks for AIDS so we don't need them now

From the Church of the Perpetual Face Palm (aka the modern-day Republican Party) comes another wee dollop of “what the fuck?” So how do you even begin to respond to this? … Read More

The Daily Bucket–In the Seventh year, Seven Daughters begat Seventy Sons.

Hi, Hoomans!  The last couple of months have been a whirl!   All I remember is waking up really horny and cold in the middle of January. “Hey,” I thought to … Read More