O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

i’m convinced they bulldozed the east wing so fast so they could ward off this kind of opposition by basically saying “but we CAN’T delay the ballroom and just leave everything a mess like this”

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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

After Tuesday's glimmer of hope, this is deflating. And also completely unsurprising. Well done, Ds.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Freiheit ist das Einzige was zählt. youtu.be/agKE1TuUOuM?...

We are in this weird situation where we would prefer they not think they are going to prison, because it means they are more likely to give up power peacefully. But they also need to go to prison, and we need to build a consensus around that point

Landgericht Halle (Regional Court) in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, completed in 1905

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

This is evil. Full stop.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I see posts saying 'Not now, death ball sponge', and I have to ask: Do you really think we can do better? Bring on the death ball sponges!

It's still hard to believe he just tore down the East Wing of the White House as if he owned the place.

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So tired of academic administrators who are AI-boosters calling anyone who expresses even mild concern "a dinosaur."

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Serious question: Is this legal? wapo.st/4hqBNiU

In the grand scheme of everything terrible, maybe this is small potatoes. But WTAF? wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

Folks we are watching the adjudication of some of the most important constitutional issues of federalism, executive discretion, and judicial review since the 19th c www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Cancer: You will be the worst possible version of yourself today, but no one will notice the difference.

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

Pleased to share that UNC PoliSci is hiring in political methodology! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

Yesterday I posted about how I used comet browser to take a Qualtrics survey almost undetected. Last night, I ran a pilot (N=400) on @joinprolific.bsky.social . I found that almost 10% of "respondents" identified as AI when directly asked.

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Best thing on the internet today, no contest.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

Russ!!

PSA: Today is a great day to unplug.

Don't be surprised when polling stations are crawling with ICE agents and military next year.

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

The song playing in my house today. youtu.be/z0Ht0QtbMXI?...

Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!

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Cancer: Spend some quality time with Mother Nature so she can remind you of how small and weak you are.

NYT going full Pitchbot. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

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Kamala Harris has decided she'd rather not. Barack Obama appears firmly retired. Prominent Democratic governors are hunkered down in their embattled fiefdoms. Democratic US Senators voice sporadic outrage (often at each other) then cut deals with Trump. Is there an opposition party in the MAGA era?

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Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️