'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

The night sky is ours. All of ours. Our children’s. Their children’s. We should be doing more to preserve the view of the stars for all. We give this up for some ludicrous to churn out wasteful nonsense to feed rich maniacs’ grift, it’s not coming back…

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

It feels like we’re being trolled at this point.

Today I had a meeting about funding I received for a November 2025 (!) presentation. Part of the agreement requires me to present the talk at a university-wide event in March 2026. I was told today I could either censor/change my talk’s title and receive the funding, or withdraw. I withdrew.

It's not hyperbolic. It's not conspiratorial. The presidential-controlled Justice Dept covering up victim testimony of alleged crimes against a child by the US president is the most atrocious scandal in US history. There should be blanket media coverage & bipartisan demands for Trump's resignation.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Akiva is spot-on, of course. But read the whole thread: the antisemitism (NOT antizionism) on display at UCLA here is *horrifying*.

And yet people will portray this stuff as being about antizionism not antisemitism. Yes, this lawsuit is part of a vile agenda that weaponizes opposition to antisemitism as a tool of oppression of disfavored politics. *That doesn't make these incidents not antisemitic*

I keep thinking back to Trump's 2017 speech and how Trump being able to read from a teleprompter for an hour fooled all the political analysts. Meanwhile, a random woman in a focus group proved she knew more than all the pros. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

“The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.” What?!

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people. Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies. She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia: #academia #genAI refusal.blog

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE. If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...

This is too complex of a thought for far too many people to grasp on this site

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

Extending the literature on the political economy of US federalism to the US territories, @marielylopezs.bsky.social unpacks the two asymmetric political logics that have produced Puerto Rico's uniquely ambiguous territorial status.

I will never understand how it wasn't obvious to everyone that crypto has no real function except speculation and crime

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

this is unfortunately true both in the specific and as a parable for the broader chaos around us

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Used Native Organizers Alliance's tool to write to the DHS Tribal Affairs Director asking them to release all Tribal citizens in ICE custody and to stop arresting Native American citizens. #DidThisToday actionnetwork.org/letters/a-me...

Today's book recommendation: the fantastic We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo. amazonfrontlines.org/book/ #FridayReads #BookSky

(norman rockwell guy) i don't think we should replace human tutors with the lying robot that tells children to kill themselves

You know you want the cookies....

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

All my life I have been watching performative liberals and thinking of the Lutheran ladies organizing meals, programs, and charitable events quietly in their communities. These women have been training for this their whole lives.

Call for papers: Conference on ”Frontiers in Representation: Citizen Assemblies, Deliberative Mini-Publics, and Participatory Democracy,” August 14th, Vanderbilt University Apply here by March 1st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Polisky

1. Wasn’t at a protest 2. Was disarmed when they shot him while he was face down 3. New gun rights rule: the second amendment is when conservatives can carry guns everywhere, but if anyone else has a gun we can kill him on sight bsky.app/profile/atru...

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

it feels a lot like today's murder is in response to the mass protests yesterday, as if to tell us we're powerless, that our solidarity won't protect us.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

I'll make it even easier for you to cite it journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

that’s a no.

Wife: AI is Ivermectin. Can't do what it promises to do and awful people sell you on it for other uses and at the end of the day you're still buying Ivermectin.

I just discovered that all the teams have a designated hitter in baseball now???? What is happening to the world?!

I was quite confidently assured by no less a personage than Brett Kavanaugh that US citizens would be released from questioning after only a few minutes. #KavanaughStop