M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

Painfully timely satire. "Every assignment is now an unverifiable collaboration between a stressed undergraduate and a VC-backed robo-parrot. Detecting 'authentic' student thinking is technically possible, but prohibitively expensive." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

One element of this that I think is important, for me personally, is that folks who have “changed sides” or “seen the light” shouldn’t be clamoring for positions of leadership. Someone who is radically changing opinions while still trying to lead reeks of self-serving false belief.

So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a violation of the Constitution’s appropriations clause.

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

With apologies again, dear friends, for the spam.

I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

The lies, duplicity, and complete indifference of fossil fuel industry CEOs and lobbyists to the health and well-being of people and our communities never cease to amaze me. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @psr.org @climate4health.bsky.social @cughnews.bsky.social

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

400 years ago, and this very moment, all at once.

For so many reasons - not least that a lot of poor and working class people see that politicians are mostly well-off and mostly don't have any real connections to repair regular people ... And that is a big part of why a lot of people don't vote.

Thrilled to share that my paper with @judgelord.bsky.social and Justin Grimmer:"How shifting priorities and capacity affect policy work and constituency service: Evidence from a census of legislator requests to U.S. federal agencies" is out at the AJPS!

With apologies for the spam . . .

I wonder if there's, like, a Common Core or Khan Academy module or something similar pushing the "polarization" frame. I've been very surprised by how widespread this outlook is among my freshmen -- I regularly hear "things are so divided" and I wonder why and how that consensus took hold.

* Please repost and share * Call for Papers (due March 1st) Workshop on "Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy," August 14, Vanderbilt University more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... submit papers: forms.gle/k7BH4so2QJxQ...

I am just a small-town political scientist, & it’s a long way to November, but allow me to again note that it doesn’t appear that The Democrats actually need to do any of the things that Ezra Douthglesias or the Deciding To Win folks or the Crypto-Enabling Word-Policing Senators insist they Must Do.

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation. It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout: @peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE people.com/ice-detains-...

This is the political movement that spent decades whining about participation trophies.

An enduring problem for those of us who regularly code politicians' occupational backgrounds.

Because they axolotl questions.

what asshole assigned all this work to my students #evergreen

This is a big exception, because I generally don't like axolotls.

Finishing up a book manuscript with @noamlupu.bsky.social and my 7yo designed this incredible cover. The book isn't about axolotls PER SE but I'm sure we can figure out how to make this work.

Incredible.

"About 243,000 more children under 5 years have died or will die this year than in 2024" due mostly to DOGE's illegal dismantling of USAID

MURDER! Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor & former Pentagon lawyer: “Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, & we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder.” @rgoodlaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court. A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.

OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them: Ford CEO Jim Farley Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa General Motors plant manager John Urbanic National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota Transportation Sec Sean Duffy Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury 1/2

No people are “garbage.” That is the language of fascists. We need to rein this racist lunatic in.

This is so, so easy. You just say: "No one is garbage." "That's not the right thing to say about a person or a group of people." "I don't agree with that statement." When people brazenly refuse to challenge the dehumanization of entire groups, you know something is deeply, deeply wrong.

How far down do I need to scroll to find coverage of the TN-7 election, which would be nonstop, above-the-fold & masthead editorial panic (at the Paper of Record & everywhere else) about Democrats In Disarray & Denying Political Reality if the shoe were on the other foot?

Read the latest #APSR article, Curation Bubbles, exploring how information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information.

Major decision. In D.C., ICE/CBP can no longer arrest immigrants without a warrant unless they find individualized probable cause of a flight risk. "Viewing all immigrants potentially subject to removal as criminals is, as a legal matter, plain wrong." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Mapped every investor mortgage in the US in 2024 (HMDA data). Draw on any market --> get instant stats. Areas that stand out: - Exurbs (north of Dallas) - Vacation areas (Florida 30A) - Low-income urban (Memphis) Interested in this data? Send me a note.

Pure, unmitigated hate.

NU AAUP Condemns Resolution Agreement between the United States of America and Northwestern University, including $75 Million Extortion Payout. academeblog.org/2025/12/01/s... @academemagazine.bsky.social

Starting a purely consultant run college. All degrees will come with an AI concentration. We will break free from academic silos by having centers. Each faculty member will be empowered with an entrepreneurial spirit to teach the largest classes. Students will intern as administrative assistants

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The end of academic freedom, Flowchart Edition.