CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

More essential work from the great @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social; these folks are real bad. Support her an her work, and make sure you catch her when she returns to #HalfTheAnswer w @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I as well.

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Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.

Democrats are hiding their 2024 postmortem, luckily, I was invited by the great @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social to talk about what Democrats have been doing wrong and where they can improve: plus.flux.community/p/democrats-...

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they work!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i remember everyone who said the dems should “admit” the republicans have the more reasonable position on this issue and i will never let it go. you are my enemy. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

a show called Things That Matter and it’s “is god real?” and “are some women too yelly?”

of course pinker is doing this oh my god.

"The idea that neutral rules can’t be employed cynically is honestly baffling. A cursory glance at America’s racial history shows that lots of seemingly neutral rules and evaluation procedures were adopted because they could be used as plausibly deniable tools of racial exclusion."

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For a more realistic take on discrimination in the workplace, might I suggest my once again relevant articles.

"Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

if you were in any way friendly towards epstein after the year 2008, then you are by definition not in the clear. this should not be this difficult

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my toxic trait is whenever i hear “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” i just picture will ferrell barfing and get nauseous

abolish geniuses

Another banger that @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I enjoyed with the great @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social regarding her travels across the US from DC, to Chicago, Portland, Charlotte and New Orleans! Why don’t the fascists like the cold & what’s the purpose of all the terror? Always learning on HTA!

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there is a kind of talky job guy (politician/writer/academic) whose happiness hinges so desperately on the idea that anyone’s reputation can be rehabilitated no matter what the scandal, that they simply will that rehabilitation into existence regardless of merit. the worse the better actually

told another volunteer at the food bank that i was compiling a list of the words of 2025 and she was like “oh wow! why” and i had no answer. because. because it is the thing to do. that’s literally it sorry

it does feel like the right’s reaction to this could be to turbo-charge the “feminized classroom” panic that’s already pretty deafening

oh! @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social told us all about how the originalism trap is designed to just get the conservatives whatever they want and appeal to the thoughts and desires of the founders in whatever way gets them there youtu.be/aHt1JVMWObg?...

but i have been assured by thirty-nine renowned scholars that the main threat to science is wokeness

Worth noting that what Walsh is citing here isn't just the idea of IQ—it's the much more egregious "national IQ" data from Richard Lynn, something several colleagues and I wrote about last year for STAT News

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all those “classical liberal” academics were pleased as punch to sign on to this guy’s free speech “university” and we were all screeching woke harpies if we so much as hinted that we thought that was suspicious. but we could see what he was

The RSF just attacked a kindergarten, killing at least 33 children in Sudan. Meanwhile, the Trump Admin. continues to sell arms to the UAE, who are aiding these atrocities. Imagine if Trump spent as much time trying to stop the killing, as he did getting the UAE to invest in his crypto coin.

just remembering what an emergency it was supposed to be when a stanford committee put out a list of possibly problematic words for people to consider looking at to make sure they were happy with their word choices on the university website

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

Great chat that @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had with @joho.bsky.social about the medical community, homeopathy, RFK JR., the foxes in charge of the chicken coop, the fallout from conspiracists making policy, & why randoms on your timeline are drinking raw milk; Louis Pasteur is displeased.

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hey what harvard scientist thinks he knows more about other fields than he does and also is obsessed with how shitty medieval times were and also loves attention i have a theory

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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers. Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:

yet another year in which i didn’t make a separate profile for the kids

The thing about all the anti-trans sports panic: people argue this stuff while talking about elite level sports, but because there aren't actually a ton of superhuman trans women blowing away the competition, the people actually affected end up being those who play sports for fun/socialization

This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”

I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con." Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

border “crisis”: we must respect the real concerns of average americans crime “spike”: we must respect the real concerns of average americans trans “epidemic”: we must respect the real concerns of average americans palestinian genocide: fuckin rubes, you’ll believe anything, buncha dumbasses

are you telling me there’s a dang sleepy cheeto in the white house

@katz.theracket.news's Gangsters of Capitalism is fantastic, and so are Half the Answer and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social!

Fun interview!

"Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang": @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social with @katz.theracket.news, on our Half the Answer podcast www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.

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🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...