the lying is obviously enraging, but the biggest problem is that they're all focused on shifting blame rather than addressing the problems.

So over on Meta platforms, people who should absolutely know better are pushing Kalshi gambling odds as polling equivalents for elections 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 (If you don’t use Meta platforms, congrats, here’s your 🍪)

The eternal rallying cry of the Democrats: BETTER 👏 THINGS 👏 AREN'T 👏 POSSIBLE 👏!

People are in motion, everywhere.

A spectre is haunting the coasts

REAGAN WORE IT BETTER 🤷🏽‍♀️

Here are the CDC positions they are saying are in the excepted service as policy roles — including "Epidemiologist," "Research Epidemiologist," and "Health Scientist."

Good to see some solid proposals to address this obvious corruption (so obvious that safeguards should not be necessary!)

1/If you read NPR’s article, the reporter failed to call anyone who is an expert on administrative law—I don’t know, someone who wrote a whole article on this exact topic, called Infrostructure, which is pinned to this page—and I would note be happy to note the rule’s many, many failings.

I’m already really sick of paying for militarism that primarily just lines the pockets of defence industries and transfers the money to the US military industrial complex, while other Canadian services get their budgets slashed. #cdnpoli

NEW: The Carney government has confirmed it is spending $2.6 billion on a missile system that the US has used extensively in its war of aggression against Iran. The deal signals Canada’s continued military integration with the US. www.readthemaple.com/canada-spend...

Striking to me how little reporting there is on this rule proposal, which is maybe the biggest change to American governance in almost a century. And this reporting is … weak. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

The New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned what it described as “a major gutting of our full-time faculty body”… saying that no explanation had been provided for why certain jobs were cut. www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Idk about Maine, but if you got time to debate people online about an election you're not participating in then you got time to pay attention to your local shit before shit gets weird-er

I love sneaking pride flags into figure colour schemes and seeing who notices 👀 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Only 34% of Black Mainers are able to make ends meet, in case you’re interested in understanding what kinds of calculations people are having to do about voting. wgme.com/news/local/r...

WHAT IF DARK MATTER IS MADE OF TWO PARTICLE TYPES?? New paper! My latest to get through peer review: Congrats to @cosmolooney.bsky.social @markneyrinck.bsky.social and our crew for getting this paper across the finish line! We show that two axion scenarios have 3 distinct ground states. ⚛️🧪🔭

Occasionally amazing people on the internet exist and @leftistlawyer.com is one of them!!

I’ve literally never listened to a whole Paul McCartney solo album and so I surprise myself when I say this new one ROCKS

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

this is happening in northern MI, where hundreds of folks went on a hunger strike at the end of April.

I fucking hate the term “content” because it presupposes my intellectual work exists to feed into some machine.

While yes, we should make political hay out of this, I think the practical thing that Dems should also be focusing on is almost-certain-to-happen destruction of evidence useful to future prosecutions. They're lighting things on fire, perhaps literally, the moment they feel the office slipping away.

I absolutely refuse to participate in this bullshit. I am an intellectual and a writer who works with ideas and that’s what I do! I’m not making content. I’m talking about ideas — to and with people.

There was a striking moment in the Summer House reunion last night where KJ essentially explained that being with a Black woman comes with the responsibility of *not* being part of what’s wrong with the world for her. This rarely gets said out loud, anywhere, much less Bravo. Anyway West is an ass

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“I’m not sure that the best way to show you’re a tough journalist is to fire the first person who hurt your feelings”

No major headlines to report for today [Jun 2]. Check the quoted post below for the latest. #KeepEyesOnSudan

New lead: CBS News fired veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, hours after a contentious meeting with management in response to his criticism of the newsmagazine’s new leadership. www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/m...

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

This is also an excellent reminder that your library card gives you access to so much more than books. My library system includes access to The New Scientist and hundreds of other magazines & they notify me when a new issue is available.

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

My latest column for @newscientist.com subscribers and for library users is about what exactly a quantum field is and how physicists arrived at needing them! ⚛️🧪 "a quantum field determines how many particles can be created or destroyed at each point in space." Enjoy!

AIPAC seems to be doing this everywhere, and it's disgusting.

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

'In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier.'

Genuinely increasingly at the point where I do not have it in me to be polite to snarky people who are snarking at me because they are too lazy to read to the point of comprehension or too confident to appreciate that they can’t

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See y’all soon!

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Happy Pride! Please read and share this gift link to a column I wrote last year about Thom Higgins, a Minnesotan who coined the term gay pride. He was a real pioneer who should never be forgotten.

The Trump administration is negotiating a deal that ties funding for HIV treatment for over a million people in Zambia to access to critical minerals, linking survival to geopolitical leverage.https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-weighs-making-lifesaving-hiv-treatment

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

spending more money on shit we don't need than the things we do. good plan.

📚 May 2026 reads: - Hope in the Dark by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - Elite Capture by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Chain-Gang All-Stars - The Killing Fields of East New York - The Edge of Space-Time by @chanda.blacksky.app

The Provost at Harvard is a former Scalia clerk who has inserted himself into all sorts of things that should really be up to the faculty 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...