Broad Categories

Posted on Wednesday 3 June 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Scott Pelley fired: the destruction of 60 Minutes;
  • David Brin on the dismantling of the ocean monitoring system;
  • Several posts about how Trump and his administration are simply in it for the money;
  • And several posts about conservative morality: demons, hating homosexuality, approving abusive parents, hating Islam, admiring fascism, and the dumb plan to restrict international flights from blue-city airports.
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Try to take a bigger view. There are certain broad categories all these items fit into.

— Destruction, Tear-Downs, Cancellations —

Another shoe drops.

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  • FB: David Brin on the dismantling of the ocean monitoring system.
  • “Pure vandalism. Climate change, and all the associated effects, don’t exist if we destroy the data. The barbarians are inside the gate. Trump administration to dismantle ocean monitoring system. They already savaged NASA science (to fund the insane Artemis moondoggle), especially Earth atmosphere science. But it’s not just Climate. It’s ALL science and all fact professions who are the main obstacle vs restoration of 6000 years of filthy feudalism.”

— In it for the money —

NY Times, opinion by Thomas L. Friedman, yesterday: Trump Has Failed as Commander in Chief

With each passing month of his presidency, Donald Trump behaves more like America’s commander in thief than its commander in chief.

With the example of that $1.776 billion slush fund. And protection fro him and his family from tax audits.

Also:

(There *are* idealistic people in the world, but they’re not conservatives.)

— Conservative morality is superstitious cave-man tribalism —

  • Salon, Amanda Marcotte, today: MAGA fails to conquer arts and music, subtitled “Trump’s losses at the Kennedy Center and Freedom 250 follow Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl humiliation”
  • I’ve noted this before. Conservatives and MAGA has very basic tastes. Trump has never invited great artists to the White House, as all previously presidents have done. Trump’s idea of culture is Kid Rock.
  • Many stories about this. I’ll pick this one.
  • The Hill, yesterday: Mullin faces backlash over ‘naive or dumb’ plan to pull CBP from blue-city airports
  • Trump’s current Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin suggested that the government might restrict international airline flights from landing in airports in Blue States.
  • Does he not realize that all big cities in the US are blue? Even in states that are otherwise red? What other international airports are there?
  • This is why, over and over, I can’t help but observe that conservatives are dumb, uninformed, or dimwits. Or merely selfish.
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More Tear-Downs and Cancellations

Posted on Tuesday 2 June 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Several items on the murdering of “60 Minutes,” and how loyalty to Trump is more important that expertise or experience;
  • Another Trump appointee with no experience, only loyalty;
  • The dismantling of an ocean monitoring system;
  • The motivation behind the cancellations of Pride Month by red states;
  • White supremacy, and Christian deference to a higher world.
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Progressives build and expand, in the name of increasing knowledge and understanding and improving the human condition; conservatives tear down and reduce, in the name of preserving pre-Enlightenment traditions and obsolete cosmologies. The latter is much easier.

NY Times, yesterday: Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’, subtitled “In an explosive staff meeting, Mr. Pelley, a correspondent for the long-running Sunday news show, blasted Bari Weiss, the CBS editor in chief, and Nick Bilton, the show’s new executive producer.”

CBS News faced a fresh wave of turmoil on Monday after Scott Pelley, the “60 Minutes” correspondent, laced into the show’s newly hired executive producer during a staff meeting and accused Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief, of “murdering” the longstanding Sunday news program.

In an extraordinary exchange, Mr. Pelley, his newscaster’s baritone sometimes shaking in anger, told Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, that he had “slender” qualifications for his new job and questioned the network’s commitment to the future of the program, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The New York Times.

The 10 a.m. gathering, held at the program’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, was intended as a formal introduction to Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker who was appointed last week as part of a major shake-up at “60 Minutes.” CBS fired Tanya Simon, the previous executive producer, and her deputy, along with Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, two of the show’s correspondents — an event that Mr. Pelley referred to as “Black Thursday.”

The meeting quickly turned tense — not a surprise after months of strain between veteran journalists at “60 Minutes” and Ms. Weiss, an opinion journalist who was a longtime critic of legacy media institutions before she became the head of one last year. She was appointed by David Ellison, a tech scion who took control of CBS’s parent company, Paramount, in a multibillion-dollar merger.

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[Mr. Bilton] also warned that the broadcast television industry that incubated “60 Minutes” would soon be obsolete. “Broadcast is an ice cube that is melting, OK?” Mr. Bilton said, saying the show had to adapt. “Bari loves this institution,” he added. “She loves ’60 Minutes.’”

At that, Mr. Pelley interrupted.

“She is murdering ‘60 Minutes,’” the correspondent said. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.”

Mr. Pelley added: “She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”

Recurring theme: replace experience and expertise with loyalty to Trump.

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Salon, Sophia Tesfaye, yesterday: Bari Weiss brings Trumpism to “60 Minutes”, subtitled “CBS News is pushing out dissenters, replacing them with inexperienced hires”

Bari Weiss is running the Trump playbook at “60 Minutes.” It goes like this: Take an institution that still commands public trust, install loyalists with no relevant experience in positions of authority, fire the people who push back, dress the whole operation in the language of reform — fairness, innovation, a new direction — and you dare anyone to prove that what you’re really doing is building a protection racket.

For years before she landed at CBS News in October, Weiss built a career criticizing ideological conformity and supposed institutional intolerance. Yet in her brief tenure atop the network’s news division, she has presided over exactly the kind of purge-and-replace operation that has become synonymous with Trumpism.

Donald Trump does not govern by expertise; he governs by loyalty and the elimination of dissent, filling critical posts with people whose chief qualification is that they will not tell him no. Weiss has imported this model into the most-watched program in American television. 

Again: “Donald Trump does not govern by expertise; he governs by loyalty and the elimination of dissent, filling critical posts with people whose chief qualification is that they will not tell him no.” Authoritarianism.

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Two more.

“Since I retired, I often wondered what would happen to ‘60 Minutes,’” said Kroft, who concluded his run at the program in 2019 after 30 seasons. “But I never expected it would be executed by the president of the United States.”

“There is no smoking gun,” he continued. “But [Trump’s] fingerprints and DNA are all over this. He’s been making threats against ‘60 Minutes’ and how he wanted it gone. And he finally got his wish.”

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  • Robert Reich, today: Who Murdered “60 Minutes”?, subtitled “Hint: It wasn’t its renowned correspondents or former executive producer. And it certainly wasn’t the viewing public.”

    CBS News’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, recently announced in an email to staff a major shakeup of the revered broadcast, starting with the removal of “60 Minutes” executive producer, Tanya Simon, for Nick Bilton, who has no experience producing a television news show.

    In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Bilton said he was excited “to take what I believe is largely an unutilized news brand and take it into the modern age.”

    Unutilized? Modern age?

    “60 Minutes” is the most successful television news broadcast in U.S. history. It has remained the #1 news program for 50 straight years and consistently ranks among the top 10 of all Nielsen-rated television programs.

    And it pulls in a fortune for CBS. “60 Minutes” is one of the most profitable programs in all of television, generating tens of millions in annual profit for CBS. In one recent year, its advertising revenues were $67.5 million. The network wholly owns the franchise, which makes it a gold mine. It’s the most lucrative and prestigious journalism operation on the network.

    This goes beyond “if it ain’t broke ….”

    So what then?

    This much is clear. CBS is being “murdered,” as correspondent Scott Pelley calls what’s happening, not because of economics but because of politics. Economically, “60 Minutes” is a gold mine. Politically, Trump thinks it’s dangerous as hell because it tells the truth about him and his regime, and wants it killed.

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    One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s despicable reign.

    In the meantime, boycott CBS.

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    Short items. First one related to the above.

    • Once again, Trump values loyalty over experience or expertise. The worst get to the top.
    • The Atlantic, David Frum, today: Trump’s Strange Choice for Director of National Intelligence, subtitled “The president’s selection of Bill Pulte is both baffling and predictable.”
    • “Pulte has no intelligence background; no national-security expertise. He’s an ultra-partisan with a highly quarrelsome personality and great inherited wealth. Beyond that, there’s not much to say about his record of public or personal achievement.”

    • NY Times, yesterday: Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System, subtitled “The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research. (Via)
    • They’re not only cutting off funding to research programs, they’re spending money to dismantle them. Why again is the Trump administration not an enemy infiltrating the US to bring it down? Can MAGA explain this? Is it all about reverting to cave-man priorities?

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Tear-Downs and Demons

Posted on Monday 1 June 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Trump’s cancellations, which I can’t keep up with;
  • How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will impact public schools;
  • How UFOs are interpreted by the religious as demons;
  • Preisner’s “Silence, Night & Dreams”
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I’m not sure I’m keeping up with all the things Trump has planned and then cancelled, all the people he’s hired (he only hires the very best people, remember) and then fired, all his back-and-forths about the war with Iran.

Today, apparently, he’s withdrawn his idea for the $18 billion dollar fund to compensate law-breakers who think they were unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration. When a judge forced him to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, he renounced control of it. So many musical groups cancelled his 250th anniversary party, he cancelled the party, and will instead hold a rally. (Who were those musicians anyway? All of them obscure to me. Surely there were much better acts at the 1976 celebration?) While his cage match in front of the White House, an embarrassment on many dimensions, is still a go.

Everything Trump does is a tear-down. This is consistent with the conservative project to reverse the social and moral progress of the past two centuries. In favor of base, primitive, Biblical morality.

Slate, Adam Laats, today: Wave Goodbye to the Last Normal Year for American Schools, subtitled “Thanks to Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ the ’26–’27 school year will look wildly different.”

As schools send children home for the summer, we need to recognize a frightening fact: This could be the last year of public schooling the way we’ve known it. Donald Trump’s new school funding scheme, pushed through as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will kick in during the middle of the next school year, in January 2027. It’s going to create a financial tsunami for public schools. The real tragedy is that there’s no mystery to it: We already know what will happen, because the scheme is not really new at all. It brings us back to the bad old days, to the failed and inadequate divided school budgets from before the Civil War. Trump’s plan brings back the devasting problem that our modern public school systems were designed to fix.

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This is a significant piece, though I’m not sure why it was published today.

NY Times, Ruth Graham, yesterday: In U.F.O. Files, Some Christians See Vexing Questions — and Demons, subtitled “The prospect of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe raises unsettling theological implications.”

This is the problem with acquiring a worldview as a child, and then imposing that worldview on everything that follows.

The dozen or so pastors and podcasters who arrived at the Airbnb in Nashville one night in February weren’t sure exactly what they were in for. An organizer asked them to turn their phones on airplane mode. Snacks were served. Then, for at least two hours, two mysterious men presented a slide show laying out the evidence, as they saw it, for some kind of extraterrestrial life and the spiritual confusion that coming revelations could sow among Christians.

“It was the weirdest meeting I’ve ever been a part of,” said Alan DiDio, a pastor in North Carolina who attended. “You’ve never seen that many Pentecostals in a room that quiet.”

For many of the pastors in the room, and some other Christians, there’s only one possible explanation for extraterrestrial beings: They are not neutral visitors from other planets or dimensions, but demonic entities.

Nonsense. This kind of limited, closeted, unimaginative thinking, in which every new discovery about the world can only be understood in terms of childhood religious stories, is what led me to abandon religion early on. Human intelligence is better than that.

Christians in the United States are significantly less likely than the general public to say intelligent life exists on other planets, according to a 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center. Among atheists and agnostics, 85 percent say their best guess is that intelligent life exists outside Earth. Among white evangelicals, only 40 percent say the same.

“The U.F.O. topic in particular is a big challenge to any religious worldview,” said Jeffrey Kripal, a professor of religion at Rice University, where he has compiled an archive on paranormal subjects, including accounts from U.F.O. “experiencers.”

The religious, especially Christians, look out at the vast universe that has been perceived in recent centuries, and can’t overcome their faith that “it’s all about me!” Humans are at the center of the universe! God created the universe for us! Or at least, the humans who follow their religion. People who follow those other religions are irrelevant.

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A portion. Zbigniew Preisner, who wrote many admirable film scores, also did at least three albums of contemplative orchestral music. Here’s the second, which I’ve been listening to today. Based on Job, apparently.

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How Americans Don’t Realize How the World Views the US

Posted on Sunday 31 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Distracted from being able to write a blog post three times in the past week, a record perhaps. But gathering notes, compiling thoughts, as always.

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Salon, Andrew O’Hehir, today: Do Americans really know how much the world hates us?, subtitled “The global romance with America turned sour years ago. Now the world’s ready for a divorce”

In part about Americans who are trying to flee the country they’re now embarrassed by.

If being an American of approximately liberal inclinations in the 21st century seems to require constant public apologies, some disgruntled Yanks actually are exploring their escape options. Applications for foreign citizenship have reportedly exploded over the past couple of years, for reasons I hardly need to explain. Nearly 20,000 Americans applied for Irish citizenship in 2025, while about 9,000 applied for British citizenship, a considerably more difficult and expensive process. Both were record highs.

Examples follow. Concluding: it’s not just Trump; it’s about the decline, for whatever reason, of America. Ending with a family scene.

That precipitous collapse in global perception is, without question, an aspect of the Trump effect. But if we understand anything at all about the last traumatic decade or so, it should be that the rise of Trump — not once but twice — is itself a symptom of the catastrophic decline of America over the last five or six decades, both as a coherent, functional democracy and as an intermittently constructive force in the world. (Assuming, for the moment, that it ever was either of those things.) Whether that trajectory can be altered this late in the day, and whether Americans are ready to stop lying to themselves about how the rest of humanity sees our country, is hard to say.

I always spend the Fourth of July with my kids. When they were younger, we did fireworks, BBQ, a summer night alive with fireflies and bullfrogs, all that stuff. Not this year: We’re going to an Oscar Wilde play in Dublin, no doubt followed by a couple of pints in the pub. It’s just a momentary escape. We’re still a bunch of Yanks, despite the passports. I’m pretty sure we’ll be coming back, but not that night.

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A point made many times. And this is a conservative NYT columnist.

NY Times, opinion by Ross Douthat, 30 May 2026: The Best News in America [gift link, the last for this month]

I’ll cut to the lede. He speaks of Baltimore.

In the last few years it’s become a case study in how remarkably and rapidly crime rates can fall. In 2008, the end of what I remember as Baltimore’s halcyon days, there were 234 murders in the city. By 2019, there were 348. In 2025, there were just 133.

The national trend is similar and striking. There are many ways in which America in 2026 is not experiencing the “golden age” that our president promised upon his re-accession to the White House. But with crime rates, there’s at least an argument that we’re headed there. Murder rates haven’t just fallen back from the heights they hit during the Covid-era urban crisis. They’ve fallen to a point where the crime analyst Jeff Asher can plausibly predict that this year might have the lowest homicide rate ever recorded in F.B.I. statistics.

Of course, I would hazard to guarantee that this has not come about from anything Trump has done. What then?

Relative to the 1960s or 1980s or almost any prior era, we ought to expect a lower murder rate today, for three big reasons: American society is older than ever and violent crimes are mostly committed by young people, American society is much more surveilled than in the past and young Americans today spend way more time inside and online.

These forces should make the murder spike we just lived through seem that much more unusual and terrible. But they also limit how much credit any mayor, prosecutor or bureaucracy can reasonably take for pushing the trend downward once again.

I’ve noted before two things. First, that no president, especially, has much influence on policies or their implementation, because there are two other branches of government (though Trump keeps trying to autocratically order things into place, and gets shot down by judges who note that he’s breaking the law). And secondly, that anything a president does likely has effects that take years to appear. So anything that happens today is probably due to something Biden did, and so on. Of course most people do not appreciate this.

My conversational orbit is filled with people convinced that our nation is trending inexorably toward internal ruin, that our social order is dystopian or unsalvageable. Meanwhile, outside America, from Europe to China, a vision of the United States as a violence-plagued Hobbesian nightmare often serves as anti-American comfort food.

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Briefly noted.

  • The Bulwark, Jonathan V. Last, 29 May 2026: The Murder of ‘60 Minutes’
  • Subtitled: Bari Weiss is turning the best TV news show ever into Trump’s personal fleshlight.
  • JMG, today: Trump: My Physical Showed “Extreme Intelligence”
  • He’s a moron. The tests he took only indicated he’s not demented. (Though I suspect he fibbed even those tests…) The question is why his doctors have needed to give him this test so many times. He’s never seen a real intelligence test in his life.
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Today’s Words of Wisdom

Posted on Friday 29 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Richard Dawkins defends being a “cultural Christian” and suggests being a cultural scientist, appreciating the grandeur of our “increasingly understood universe”;
  • Bertrand Russell suggested that intelligent people are those who see the world as it is, not as they would like it to be;
  • How creationists and flat-earthers are proud of their ignorance;
  • Short items: the right accuses Talarico of child sacrifice and wearing women’s underwear, and Mamdani of being like a KKK Imperial Wizard; how those boat strikes have had no effect on the coke supply; and how a judge rules against Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center;
  • And Jonathan V. Last on how low-IQ Trump is too stoopid to win the war against Iran.
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Free Inquiry, Richard Dawkins, posted yesterday: ‘Cultural Christian’? So what?

Earlier this year Dawkins wrote about being a “cultural Christian,” i.e. a nonbeliever in the supernatural matters of the Christian faith, but raised in a culture permeated with Christian traditions. He likes Christmas carols, and so on. The press misunderstood what he meant — or rather, wanted him to appeal more to believers. Now he writes,
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More About the Contrast between Principles and Tribalism

Posted on Thursday 28 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • The January 6th rioters feel entitled to reparations by the US government for the inconvenience they’ve experienced from having broken the law and been arrested;
  • Contrasting views of Christianity in Texas;
  • How the GOP fires people who value principles over loyalty to Trump;
  • Free Inquiry’s Ronald A. Lindsay about how the US is a product of the Enlightenment, not Christian principles;
  • Examples from American history: Do contemporary Christians realize that Christianity has always been against the expansion of human rights, to slaves, interracial marriage, women’s suffrage, civil rights, LGBTQ rights?
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They feel entitled??

Slate, Lionel Augustine and Matteson Epstein, today: “I Think I’ve Earned My Peace”, subtitled “There have been many negative reactions to the $1.8 billion slush fund, but perhaps the most illuminating one is from the people hoping to access it.”

On Jan. 6, 2021, Larry Rendall Brock Jr. marched on the Capitol and became one of the riot’s most indelible figures. Many remember him as one of the “zip-tie guys”—he was photographed crossing the Senate floor in tactical gear, white flex cuffs dangling from his fingertips. Before actually showing up in Washington, the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel had discussed, over Facebook, seizing members of Congress. He also floated applying the same interrogation techniques he once used against al-Qaida to “gain evidence on the coup” he thought the members were perpetrating.

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What Scientists Do…

Posted on Wednesday 27 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • A revision to climate change predictions doesn’t discredit science, as some people would like to think;
  • Yuval Noah Harari on the global liberal order; the stories of fascism, communism, and liberalism; redemption; and self-correcting mechanisms;
  • Short items about Trump’s Ebola prevention defunding; childish cave-man insults from the right of James Talarico; a sample Jesus’n’Mo cartoon; a defense of child marriage from the Bible;
  • Fb graphic considering the Torah, New Testament, Qur’an, and Book of Mormon as a series of disconnected movie sequels;
  • And a Fb comment about ethics and religion.
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Here is what scientists do. They continually update their provisional conclusions as new data comes in. The motivated-reasoning science deniers insist on misunderstanding this as somehow invalidating the scientific method. And the consensus about climate change.

NY Times, yesterday: Why Scientists Retired the Dire Climate Scenario Used for Over a Decade, subtitled “While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether some risks have been overstated.” [gift link]

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Sunday’s Post

Posted on Monday 25 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • How smartphones are implicated in the decline of fertility;
  • How the latest Star Wars film waters down its franchise, as happens with much popular culture;
  • Crime in LA in the lowest in decades, but voters are still very concerned about crime;
  • How Pete Hegseth doesn’t understand diversity.
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This is Sunday’s post, finished today Monday, since family events took priority yesterday, given the holiday.

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Now smartphones are a cause of declining birthrates?

Washington Post, opinion by Megan McArdle, today: A suspicious decline in birth rates points to a new culprit, subtitled “The infinite scroll could contribute to lower fertility rates and smaller graduating classes.”

The drop in U.S. birth rates is well known, as are the problems that demographic change will cause: closing schools, slower economic growth, climbing budget pressures and a politics that is increasingly locked into zero-sum intergenerational battles — something evident as established homeowners vote to exclude new housing that young people need.

What’s less understood is that this isn’t just America’s future. It’s everyone’s.

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Deep Thinkers

Posted on Saturday 23 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Hakeem Oluseyi
  • Lucas Bean, provisionally
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I dwell too much on MAGA (because they are an imminent threat); the very opposite of them are the deep thinkers of our time. The ones making progress in the world.

Big Think, Hakeem Oluseyi: The quantum realm, the cosmological realm, and the multiverse, in 69 minutes

Subtitled: Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi takes us from the quantum realm to the cosmological and out to the multiverse, answering physics’ most profound questions.

Quantum physics is weird because it breaks every intuition of the physics that we normally experience in our regular world. The rules break. Serenity breaks. Things become probabilistic.

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Primitive Morality, Stories, Politics

Posted on Friday 22 May 2026 by Mark R. Kelly
  • Oklahoma and child marriage: an example of how modern morality is not (and should not be) beholden to the Bible;
  • A Yuval Noah Harari video on how cooperation throughout human history requires common stories, e.g. religions;
  • An economic experiment that overturns the conservative assumption that raising the minimum wage kills jobs;
  • Numerous items briefly noted, about Trump, a Christian sect and pets, daylight saving time, capitalism and socialism.
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JMG, from Oklahoma Watch, today: Oklahoma GOP Rep Opposes Ban On Child Marriage Because Mary Married Joseph When She Was Underage

Senate Bill 504, which removed exceptions in the law that allowed minors to marry with parental consent and court approval, passed the House 51 to 36 after unanimously passing the Senate in March. All 36 no votes were cast by Republicans.

Some against the bill, such as Rep. Justin Humphrey, argued that the government should not interfere with parents’ rights. Others argued the bill would impede the creation of stable families; Humphrey anecdotally cited knowing people who married as minors and “remained married until they’re dead.”

This is precisely the problem with applying primitive Biblical ‘morality’ to the modern world, which *does* have standards of morality, for the sake of non-tribal, non-zero-sum civilization, that are more advanced than the morality of all those stories in the Bible. Note how this guy quotes scripture. Keep scripture out of the government.

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