Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
banner
andrewjballou.bsky.social
Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
@andrewjballou.bsky.social
390 followers 400 following 1.8K posts
Geek, historian, National Parks lover, teacher, writer, and probably the tallest guy you've met.
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
It’s still weird that this kind of thing 1) is not surprising and 2) gets barely any news coverage.
POLITICO: Ingrassia “told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be ‘tossed into the seventh circle of hell’ and said he has ‘a Nazi streak,’ according to a text chat ..

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
When Sam Altman talks about a 1GW AI data centre:

1GW over a month, released instantly, would be an 850 kiloton explosion.

A 1GW AI data centre uses as much energy as detonating ten 1-megaton H-bombs a year.

/1
This is the same outfit I’m wearing to church. Weird.
in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
reposting with alt-text

Zero arrests by NYPD is actually astounding to me
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.
Happy No Kings Day!

(Seen in a local porta-potty.)
Now do DT
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew to stop using titles and honors, including the Duke of York.
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
Now we see the violence inherent in the system!
For the Trent Reznor fans enjoying the Tron: Ares soundtrack, don’t sleep on the score for Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War (Original Score) by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross on Apple Music
Album · 2017 · 17 Songs
music.apple.com
“…nearly twenty children, two of whom have cancer.”
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
No lies detected
It really feels like Sam Altman promised a lot of Very Serious Old People he was going to create capitalist blowjob jesus based off a tech demo, and now that the bottom’s falling out he’s throwing whatever he can think of at the wall to avoid getting disappeared because he wasted all their money.
This is Cape Cod, with a heavy emphasis on slow growth.
Or, as locals might say, preserve the “character” of the village.
the basic problem of suburban municipal finance, in a nutshell:
This is a great thread! She skillfully talks about the data and addresses misconceptions.
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
Listen, gymfolx: you probably don’t need all that extra protein. You’re not The Rock. If you’re protein-maxxing, you’re probably just excreting that extra protein into the toilet.
i feel like this story is particularly important right now, because protein-maxxing is *so* in vogue. before working on this, i believed i was woefully protein deficient

it turns out that's just a myth that has been floating around for decades—the average american gets more than enough protein!!
Re: lead in protein powder.
In 1994, Congress passed a law that exempted dietary supplements from FDA oversight. The supplement industry was large and wealthy and it has become much larger and wealthier over the past 30 years. Only regulation can solve the problem of tainted supplements.
i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
Hey, y’all remember when Zuck apologized to Congress for talking to Biden about removing Covid misinformation from Meta platforms?
I’m sure this recent talk with DOJ was nothing like that terrible government overreach.
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

1/2
Reposted by Sir Not Appearing In This Feed
Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.