BREAKING: Chicken Pox caused by Vicks Vap-o-Rub: White House BREAKING: Astigmatism caused by chewable vitamins and parental failure to invest in Trump Coin: NIH BREAKING: Havana Syndrome caused by component of Tito’s: CIA BREAKING: Red hair caused by potato consumption: Marine Corps

Francesca Gino - and academic fraud - as white-collar crime: "HBS determined that the file was last saved on Sept. 23, 2023, but had been intentionally backdated to appear as if it was last modified on July 17, 2010." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.

Being a Vegas bookie must be fun, because you get to cheer against all of the insufferable teams the general public loves (Notre Dame football, Duke basketball, New York Yankees, etc).

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Clemson doesn’t have a law school and it shows.

A totally serious commitment and not at all extended in only one direction.

The sensible thing would have been for the FBI to smoke the meth themselves - it's not like they have brain cells to kill.

There’s also this guy on Twitter who is trying to get an army officer fired for sharing Kirk statements without comment, and I am fascinated by how they refuse to see the disconnect in “Charlie was a hero and you’re a monster for accurately quoting him”

Thinking about him

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

"We need to get up from under our desks and persuade our fellow citizens that the institutions that they have helped create with their tax dollars are incredibly precious and important."

the two americas

I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man

We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.

Now I want a ridiculous camera.

My colleague is having an easier time working on her beef trachea than I am working on my code. #coworking

Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.

Take out "...in an effort to reduce crime" from the question and the disapproval gap would be even higher.

(Herman & Chomsky, 1988)

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

The first draft is like passing a kidney stone. The second draft is like a fun crossword puzzle.

A cautionary tale for all scientists. The GOP isn't going to stop with Kate and disinformation research.

I don't like Newsom, but this schtick is great.

Of course he was. And GOP Senators are going to rubber-stamp his confirmation.

Holy ****. For months —years — I have warned that Trump’s assault on federal statistics was beginning to resemble actions taken by authoritarian governments in China, Venezuela, Stalin-era USSR. Critics said I was being hyperbolic. How do they feel about this threat below? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Go see the Af-Am museum, while you can. And, because God knows what the MAGAs will try to do it, be ABSOLUTELY SURE to see the "Legacy Museum" in Montgomery, AL, while it is there. The most powerful museum display about American history (or almost anything) I have ever seen.

Well it’s certainly an interesting glimpse into how it must have felt to be from one of the many countries we colonised during the past 300 years or so.

"I am seeking clarification on how I—a student with Israeli citizenship—am allowed to speak about my government without violating these new policies."

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Geographic corruption. The Trump administration continues to innovate.

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back. You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

Picking them off one by one. Hang together or hang separately.

So I fired my bathroom scale. Next I'm gonna fire the nutritional label on a pint of ice cream.

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Have no idea what Shalala is talking about. Trump and his admin are impatient and easily give up one quixotic quest to move on to the next one. Just wait them out…

Not even seven months - six. After 186 days, one of America's leading universities and two of its most prestigious news outlets have already capitulated. And Trump's henchmen are just starting to wield the full powers of the federal government.

This is a reason why Columbia needed to keep fighting and drag out the fight with the Trump administration, even if it was an inevitably losing endeavor. Now there's a template and precedent that Trump will use with other universities.

Alumni fundraising at Columbia is going to be brutal for the foreseeable future. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

Look forward to future crackdowns on Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A.

Leopards. Face. 🐆

As a silver lining, lame duck dgaf Colbert is going to be incredible.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Make this Season 6 of The Wire!

If only the left had heeded the warning of the Harper’s letter