"i would rather talk about killing brown people than recognizing trans people." classroom objectivity requires that i no longer BS my students about what this is.

The President of the U.S. The man with the nuclear codes. And people are just going to pretend this is ok. In a functioning society, he would be removed from office within hours by his own party.

There you go @nytimes.com

The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as: “Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Oh so now copyright matters.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

”Working class” means whatever you want. There‘s no research and no need for consistency. Use it however: People without college degrees, jobs that *require* college degrees, veterans of any rank, prominent wealthy surgeons, any candidate you like, any voter you dislike. w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social

Proud to have "Nonbinary Gender Economics" out in JPE Micro. We document the economic experiences and preferences of nonbinary individuals—a population of 1M+ in the US that is often overlooked.

Amidst all the awful stuff going on, being trans and visible is a tremendous act of courage. I honor and am frankly in awe of my trans family and friends — today and every day.

new quinnipiac poll on ai suggests bluesky users are not the ones living in a bubble over this shit. nobody trusts it, nobody’s excited about it (6 percent say they’re “very excited” about it- more believe in mermaids). 21-point majority thinks it does more harm than good poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Technology that represents inevitable human progress—that is “the future whether you like it or not”—does not require $100M rightwing political influence campaigns. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/b...

Just reading this for the first time since Hebrew school long ago. 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

This is not a long-term solution. Democrats have offered 9 separate bills to pay TSA officers, Coast Guard workers, and FEMA workers. Republicans have blocked all of them.. www.foxbusiness.com/politics/elo...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

If there is one thing I’ve learned is that if a project is struggling, adding a bunch of new trainees always helps, especially if they’re being paid and you’re not, and they’re the reason you’re not being paid

Saw this greeting card at a store yesterday and I felt both seen and seriously attacked. Always remember friends, you are worth more than what you produce. You're more than your work!

We need to have a freshman level writing class for PoliSci majors. Waiting at the 400 level is too late, though I'm happy to get the students on the right track prior to grad school or starting their career.

Even Gollum had vestiges of a conscience to wrestle with. Miller has no such encumbrance.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching. It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

One general trait across time is that powerful people have justified systems that maintain and extend their power over others. They have use religion or science for those justifications (see the progressive eugenicists at the start of the 20th century) but the logic is depressingly consistent.

"If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race. That isn’t a game worth saving."

great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social "Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

This is a great idea. I'm a big believer in what @eunjikim.bsky.social argues in her recent book: Political science has A LOT to learn about the vast and highly political world of entertainment media.

Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.

Absolute dystopian insanity. Software that has no capacity whatsoever to make decisions -- that is not "intelligent" in any meaningful sense -- being used to create lists of people to kill.

This makes me absolutely incensed. We should not be spending money on an unnecessary war. Americans have basic needs that aren't being met. Fund health care, not weapons and killing people.

"AI" is marketed as a way to fill gaps in social service delivery, but they're never for tasks LLMs are actually validate/scoped for, and so the harms of not having access to services are going to persist. It's not even a bandaid -- it's more like an excuse that lets people go on not caring.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

5 USC 2301(b) (2) All employees and applicants for employment should receive fair and equitable treatment in all aspects of personnel management without regard to political affiliation ... and with proper regard for their privacy and constitutional rights.

“Protected under law” is a nice way of saying that Trump is illegally deporting people.

The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Up to now The Political Disconnect has existed only digitally; I wasn't sure it made sense to print in an era when so much of what we do is online & over email. But I had 50 copies printed and it is so nice to have real physical printed paper. Online: bit.ly/PoliticalDisc...

This guy gets it. Seriously though, this feels like a moment of transition from the post-911 era into something darker, more Torrian, and more focused on policing American citizens

Heartbreaking and just staggering in scale and impact on people's lives.

🎶 ruining society and the planet around me, all for the love of money 🎶

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

The pope is better on this issue than a lot of university administrators right now. www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

Some elite private colleges & universities are absolutely going to go this route as a distinguishing selling point in the years ahead. But I have very bad news for folks at Columbia 👇 www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...