James Pitt
this is all Tiktaalik's fault
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- Reposted by James Pitt>I open twitter >American ambassador to Poland is arguing with random Polish college students >he's threatening to withdraw all American forces
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- I am going to go bench but first I am going to eat AT LEAST two 7/11 hot dogs
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- Reposted by James PittLower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study news.mongabay.com/2026/02/lowe... 🧪🌎🦑
- Reposted by James PittA growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This story was published in partnership with @kff.org.
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- Reposted by James PittI'm 45 years old and the Golden Age stuff made me so fucking annoyed in 1995. Like man just THINK about what you're telling teenage girls to read because I promise that you probably shouldn't be doing it. 😑
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- Reposted by James PittLife pro tip: if the judge is saying “sir” to you this much, you are already dead and buried
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- Reposted by James PittThe main "study" Kennedy refers to had a sample size of two. TWO!
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- Reposted by James PittThey’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
- Reposted by James PittThis reminds me a lot of one of my favorite Steven Gould quotes: I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshop
- Reposted by James PittEpstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by James PittReally wild to see this termed as a "rival" situation because Novo is a pharma company that actually developed and manufactures the drug in question for highly regulated distribution to the public and Hims & Hers is a uhhhh telehealth company selling unauthorized gray market versions of Novo's drug
- Novo Nordisk rival Hims & Hers launches cheaper weight-loss pill ft.trib.al/DBF61eT
- Reposted by James PittAs I have said many times: Nick Land's The Dark Enlightenment isn't some ur-text of the dark and sinister limits of anti-humanist thought; it's a guy who's always on the computer complaining about Slate articles and how everyone laughs at race science.
- Reposted by James Pittamong other things, this means no more OSINT analysis of events like the Good and Pretti homicides in MN
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- Reposted by James Pitt4 million tenth grade global studies students wept
- Reposted by James PittThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by James PittDan Kaszeta FRHistS My own experience, which is not inconsiderable, allows me to put out Captain Dan's Tear Gas Laundry guidelines. Specifically, this is for your street clothing that has been exposed to tear gas in smoke/aerosol/dust/particulate form. A small thread 🧵
- Reposted by James PittMAGA coward attacked literal children for protesting against ICE. Despite facing a large, grown ass adult, the kids came to each other's aid, kicked his ass, and sent him packing. Our courage and solidarity is our strength. We shall be victorious.
- Reposted by James PittThis is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Context on the most prominent use of that style of skull mask, for those who don't know: ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-mar...
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- Reposted by James PittJournalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
- Reposted by James PittNew Data For Progress poll: Voters support removing Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, and think Dems should refuse funding for DHS unless multiple reforms for ICE are put in place (including requiring ICE to focus on deporting convicted criminals — at +48) substack.com/profile/4791...
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- I literally did this, I owe an apology to a presumably retired Brooklyn Aquarium docent. 😅
- Reptile Handler At Birthday Party Ruthlessly Heckled By 6-Year-Old For Showing Amphibian theonion.com/reptile-handler-at-…
- Reposted by James PittThis is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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- 1640s Dutch fur trade (maternal grandmother's side) 1650s Puritan objections to Charles II (maternal grandfather's side) 1650s Puritan objections to Charles II (paternal grandfather's side) 1890s pogroms (paternal grandmother's side)
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- is that good
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- Reposted by James PittTens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
- advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
- NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release. The faces of those people were also left unredacted. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- Reposted by James PittIt appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
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- Reposted by James PittThe fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.
- ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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- the squat rack was free for once!
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- Reposted by James PittAntebellum northerners never *liked* southern slavery, but they didn’t get angry enough to destroy it until it sent armies and spies into their cities to serve as kidnappers
- Reposted by James PittIt looks like the Republicans are conceding Texas's #SD09 to the Democrats. They're conceding a Trump+17 district in an area of Fort Worth that's been favorable to Republicans for decades, just a massive massive loss for them.
