They are really scraping the bottom

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE HATEFUL, TRANSPHOBIC GENDER PANICKING ADS TO BE OVER. They are literally rerunning the “for they/them, not us” tag line. Because it’s all they have.

NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A couple weeks ago, these blowdried chucklefucks were "joking" about how they should reclaim the word Nazi and now they're "joking" about blowing up the UN or gassing the foreign leaders inside. But they didn't say anything questionable about Charlie Kirk, so no big deal.

In case anyone needs a reminder—or to remind others

All that needs to be said, really.

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

Quality research that 🙄

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

And it comes out of Silicon Valley? Quelle surprise 🙄

Subtly downgrade a band The Dejectedly Hip

I knew I’d seen that lawyer’s picture before

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

1) Some of my speech got negative social reactions, which felt bad 2) That’s equivalent to state repression 3) Big name elite didn’t validate my feelings (ok, they did, but not enough) 4) This entitles—nay, requires—us to overthrow democracy and do state repression for real That really is the logic

I was deeply disappointed by the renovation of the Musée Carnavalet, one of my favorite Parisian museums. The editors of @frenchhistory.bsky.social kindly invited me to explain why. Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Our results establish that people are more likely to request unethical behavior from machines than to engage in the same unethical behavior themselves,” the paper concludes

You don't say!

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

They're now running this across multiple markets. Which is a signal of two things 1) They have more money than they know what to do with, for which you can thank Republicans in Congress 2) They're struggling to recruit through normal channels, even with the $50k signing bonus

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“I think the only reason why you wouldn’t measure it is…because it basically allows you to pretend like we don’t have this food insecurity problem.” www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

They are running this ad in blue cities in blue states. It’s propaganda intended to create an “internal opposition force”

Fucking covid

Re-upping this. \

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

“Conrad, a librarian of two decades, said the trend is continuing into September, as students are borrowing 39 percent more books than last year.”

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Executive orders cannot supersede federal law or the constitution. Federal law sets visa fees, including for H-1B visas. And the maximum fee is $4,500, according to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-113). Current State Dept. site: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

So painful to watch Mack Hollins in a Pats uniform :(

Thank goodness for Fervex. All of you Frenchies know what I mean #FervexAppreciationPost

Get. Off. Twitter.

What’s a person to do with an Aaron-Rogers-led Steelers vs Patriots game? Is it possible for them to both lose?

Fucking Covid

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.