My favorite Michigan content creator is @aceanbender.com full stop. Moral clarity and deep knowledge.

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Seems like the time for a preliminary injunction would have been before the bulldozers but I’m not a fancy lawyer

congress needs to stop this madman

What higher praise for @seanmcarroll.bsky.social than to be on this list?

Lying to Congress is a crime

DHS keeps the fuck plane. Lewandowski stays on it and he has to fuck. Markwayne's problem now.

If you are in line to post a Kristi Noem getting fired joke - STAY IN LINE.

The IDF account announced the new bombing campaign with a video of fighter jets set to the tune of “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival from 1969. The song was an anti-war anthem in the United States during the Vietnam War.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

When was the last time a cabinet secretary was subpoenaed by a chamber controlled by the president’s party?

You can just research things. New from @jatucker.bsky.social & me at @brookings: Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex will likely accelerate research AND undermine institutional structures we built to support it.

Economists: we award Nobel Prizes for work on efficient institutions and minimizing transaction costs. Also Economists: the review process at the American Economic Review.

Been building boondogles not bombs

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Are AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188) To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.

This is ludicrous. The charge may be the same, but the facts are utterly different. This is the sort of thing you say when you’re looking for an excuse to capitulate without it seeming like capitulation. Nobody familiar with both cases could seriously claim they’re remotely analogous.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

I’m a scholar of American institutions and I cannot spell beauraucracy

my 4 year old has started saying chinga la migre

Oh my god the list in there

Someone once proposed a show where there would be a live insect and contestants would submit sealed bids, and the lowest bid would have to eat the insect on camera. I bet it would have been a hit.

parquet? spreadsheet shapefiles? pdf

voted against him today in the primary, baby

Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: The little gremlin in my brain would not stop screaming about AI until I referenced Fran Fine and linked to "Me and You and Everyone We Know." erincikanek.com/the-rumors-o...

i see a lot more people saying that AI is better than the "average" social scientist, and a lot fewer saying they think AI is better than they are. Which maybe tells us something about how the view their peers...

Universities are reverting to their natural state (producing doctrinaire apparatchiks) after a brief century of pretending to prioritize education

America Second!

Scenes from a personalist regime

all the evidence points to one thing

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

fucking hell

Yes

It’s incredibly frustrating that no corruption, no recklessness, no perversion is enough for the people capable of removing President Trump to remove President Trump.

i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters

Damn

So you see it is not a NEW endless war at all

It’s astonishing to me tbh that people keep trying to make deals him given his complete inability to make credible commitments

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

“We thought this slave state in between Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia would always be peaceful,” says finance guy who makes money by assessing risk.

I don’t know if that world exists but I desperately hope that it does for the future of our republic and of humanity

The Department of War regretfully informs you your husband has died lethalitymaxxing in Operation Epic Furry

Democrats, time to do a popularism

My four year old calls me “round” and his mom “pointy” also not wrong

I wonder if there's a connection between the lack of any stupid rules of engagement and the US/Israeli missile strikes that killed eighty or ninety schoolchildren 36 hours ago.