Negatively polarizing yourself into an Iraq war supporter 2 decades after the fact is an interesting one

Ok but the worst thugs are in the cbp

Minneapolis has canceled public schools out of (justified) fear of federal secret police

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I know it’s pedantic but *they are in fact performative* in the sense that they are constitutive speech acts that make something real

I think this is a great point. Statements about unmasking and prosecuting people later aren't just performative. They're both a sales pitches and serve to deter people who might otherwise join these agencies.

I’d love to see the comparable chart for left media orgs. It would be laughable I’m sure

This is not who we are. I became an ICE agent because I truly believed in the value of getting a $50,000 signing bonus to violently assault and terrorize anyone I wanted while never getting in trouble for anything. Being held accountable conflicts strongly with my deeply-held personal beliefs

My initial take on the criminal law governing the ICE shooting in MN: 609.066 of the MN Code controls a self-defense claim for a "peace officer" under state law. I'm not going to consider federal law given the capture of the DOJ by the Trump administration. 1/

Impeach him for fucks sake

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures... For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

Abolish ICE. Really.

The Trump regime’s internal security enforcers murdered an American citizen in broad daylight. The regime is illegally blocking the release of evidence of Trump’s extensive collaboration with Epstein. They’re agitating for war with France and Germany. It’s completely insane anyone supports them.

I’ll say this. I’ve seen cops do 10x worse with their cars to protestors than than mom from MN allegedly did to that ICE officer with hers

The stakes have been raised. The Democrats have got to run on putting these people in prison. They have to. Jobs, food, all the rest, but shooting a mother in the head on a public street? None of this Garland stuff. "The full force of the government will be brought to bear" on this and similar.

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

boy if you think political scientists don’t dress up for conferences let me introduce you to the American Astronomical Society Conference

the allspark is a power stone

Interesting megastudy on the (in)effectiveness of climate messaging: tiny effects on attitudes, no effects on donation www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Persuasiveness varied little across party lines", another win for Persuasion in Parallel @aecoppock.bsky.social

if we can't clearly say that a party whitewashing a coup is anti-democratic and un-American, then we've truly lost the plot

It's a custom LLM, not a commercial LLM. IOW, the PIs wrote a script to code up text in CC papers, ran a fancy regression model, and asked experts - the authors - to assess the output. Authors can say no. PI letter should have explained what a custom LLM is, but outrage + pile-on is WAY over top.

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff. Kushner has no official position in the US government.

dudes will refuse to click on links in email for security reasons but raw-dog terminal install anything from a blog that passes the vibe check

I wrote this on 1/6/21 while watching a mob of white Americans storm the Capitol, worried race would be sidelined in discussions of Jan. 6. “They do not simply come in defense of Donald Trump. They come in defense of white supremacy.” I hate how right I was. fivethirtyeight.com/features/sto....

Too bad it died anyway a little later

Oh look, more plainly illegal gangsterism.

Article I, Section, 9, Clause 7 of the US Constitution is designed to prevent anyone from spending federal dollars not appropriated by Congress Trump's declaration is either 1) a plan to violate the Constitution or 2) a plan for a private slush fund to violate the spirit of the Constitution

It's sort of amazing that all grift/fraud/malfeasance/ethical lapse across every sector of the economy, part of government, academia, etc. has merged into a club for omnigrift where all the grifters know each other and work together.

the sheer inability of Democratic party congressional leadership to Do Politics is on embarassing display

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary. And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??

Give me the American Constitution, birthright citizenship, equal protection of the laws, and simple republican government. Not whatever the heck this is.

I hate it here

From my favorite hot dog spot in the city (the 6 seat micro bar by Gate H14 at O’hare)

the ideology of optimization an underrated candidate for most destructive belief system of the 21st century

if you know what is at the bottom of your chest freezer you are a witch

"I’ll never get over thinking about what would have happened if either Congress had moved to impeach and remove Donald Trump on the night of January 6th or if the Biden administration had moved faster to investigate, prosecute, and arrest Donald Trump thereafter."

"Even when weighed against this stunning record of degeneracy, the pardoning by Trump of his cop-beating foot soldiers represents the lowest moment of this presidency so far, because it was an act not only of naked despotism but also of outlandish hypocrisy." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

On Jan 6, I’m only aware of one in-person counter-demonstration held in DC that day against the Trump rally: a group of interfaith clergy who stood in a circle and prayed. They were harassed by Trump supporters. They’ve gathered every year since, and met again today. They mentioned Herod a lot.

It’s a dataset about papers, no? Is all bibliometrics research off limits unless you get consent from every author in Web of Science?

IANAL, but depending on the details, I don't even think the license matters. If all they did was use an existing LLM to generate "research ideas" based on a legally obtained paper, that's just not affected by copyright at all. Whether you use Acrobat to read it or an LLM makes no difference 1/3

Are these participants at a reunion?

She has absolutely met my expectations

Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies. High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, @gavinyamey.bsky.social @jonshaffer.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

There we go. That there’s a headline.

These headlines came 25 minutes apart

How would this work? We pay the IRS directly