Yup. @cwarzel.bsky.social and @mikecaulfieldf1.bsky.social refer to this as "the justification machine." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

"A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour." @wgntv.com wgntv.com/news/operati...

In other news: chocolate rations are up to 20 grams. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

“Mr. Trump has halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime.”

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this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

i can’t believe all it took for tesla stock to recover a bit was to do a paid photo op with the president of the united states, have the government designate vandalism on teslas as terrorism, gift multiple politicians and police stations teslas for photo ops, and get corrupt government contracts

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

Fantastic tool from U Michigan that shows federal support (via DoE) for schools by congressional district. poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ... Alaska: - 16.7% of total educ budget - 77M in support for low-income schools - 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids - 35M in support for disabled kids

Is there an emptier signifier than "conservative"?

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Talk about #butteremails

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

"If I have a credit card with a $30,000 limit and I have a $2,000 balance and I cancel the credit card, I'm not saving $28,000." 🤦🏽‍♂️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Statement of American Society of International Law President Mélida Hodgson Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

Kids these days don't know that a highly experienced woman lost an election over questions on whether her emails were secure enough.

ya know, this seems like something that might have surfaced in a thorough background check… had DOGE staffers undergone them

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

I would like to formally welcome all of my Americanist #polisky friends to the field of comparative politics as they begin to realize that they are actually single case specialists.

Join the Moynihan Center at CCNY for a timely discussion on the perils and promise of America's constitutional framework as the nation enters a period of significant political transition following the 2024 election. The event is in-person only, so do RSVP soon. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crisis...

"Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials." www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Back by popular demand: 4 years of amateur night.

RFK Jr even getting a hearing for this job is failed state shit

The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the Washington Post after her cartoon depicting Jeff Bezos and other billionaires genuflecting toward Trump was killed. Her piece here: https://bit.ly/3Pk1g07

Happy New Year, Motown!

Happy New Year! May you win all the claw games you deserve in 2025. 🥂🎉🏆

I know what y'all are thinking, but obv Strive4Gr8ness23 was already taken

A sermon

When unelected hundred billionaires put their thumbs on the scales of our democracy, it's helpful to remember (read: nearly impossible to conceive) how enormous their thumbs actually are. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: I was in an Ikea

Fun prank: a YouTube white noise track of ten hours of "Rainfall In a Forest," but, at the seven-hour point, you can hear two people walk past planning a murder

I’m hiring a (well paid) Ph.D. intern to work with me and the Viva UX research lead on a qualitative research project about employee connection, organizational culture, and Copilot adoption. Based in Cambridge MA. Deadline January 31. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

The replies to this thread make me think Bluesky is actually what critica say it is. 😬🙈

me: no again really no i want nothing to eat or drink mom: then how about i slice you an apple

NYSPSA is proud to share its Call for Papers for its 2025 Annual Conference to be held April 11 & 12 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. nyspsa.org/79th-annual-...

Great opportunity. And you get to work with @justdoeat.bsky.social!

The Moynihan Center at The City College of New York is excited to announce our 2025–2026 senior fellowship opportunities! We are now accepting applications for the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship and the Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellowship. 👇🏽 1/ moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/news-events/...

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You sneak into my office and see a ship in a bottle. Looking closer, you see tiny crewmembers screaming for help. I'm suddenly behind you.

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines? Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/8 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social