The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

And let's not forget: if food production isn't sanitary it likely also isn't safe for human beings doing the labor. I know I sound like an old hippie but agribusinesses are bad, this is why there was a whole movement to buy local/small. But it's regulation we've barely ever had that is most needed.

An alternative frame is that taco bell - a corporation we have no reason to trust - did a better job monitoring the food system than the CDC, which stopped monitoring cyclospora altogether and Taylor Farms, the agribusiness we have likely all at some point consumed food from.

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

They wrote down that their plan is to eliminate *legal* immigration from China and India. They wrote down that university and PhD programs are a big problem, because they create large numbers of legal non-white immigrants. Guess which two countries send the most international PhD students? 🇮🇳🇨🇳♥️🕊️

I remember Musk yelling about "the takers." Guess he would know.

Professor Kreis has been all over this from the beginning. He has deconstructed Wurman’s nonsense from the beginning. Thanks for good work.

People like Riley Gaines and Chris Rufo understand swaying public opinion leads to policy. Liberals for my money are too fucking earnest and are terrified of media manipulation. It’s a big reason we lose so much.

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Madison Brouillette says her father David, an ICE officer who abused her & her mom, called her & admitted to killing Johan Sebastián Guerrero. Her mom, Ashley Brouillette details the abuse including when he threw boiling water on her while holding her child. This is who ICE hires! ABUSERS

My man looks like the sommelier at a restaurant that only serves Mountain Dew

behold, this glorious nest of insults contains an easter egg

i wish for everyone a mayor who truly loves their city

Luttig: As a candidate for attorney general of the United States of America, Blanche is an embarrassment to America itself. If the Republican Senate confirms this man, based on his record, to be the next attorney general, it will mark the end of the rule of law in America.

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Too many American kids are exposed to soccer as a kind of work, but at its most glorious, it is about play in a community. What an ode to a life in the city.

"And they give food, in spite of love for it, to the needy, the orphan, and the captive, [Saying], 'We feed you only for the countenance of Allah; no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks.'" Quran 76:8-9

"I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." Matthew 25:36+

The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.

Reminder: When fires ravaged southern California, Canada sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes.

While we’re on the topic of declassifying intelligence assessments…. Trump’s IC still hasn’t released the unclassified version of the IC assessment of the 2024 election- something released within months of the 2020 and 2022 federal elections. Why won’t he? What’s the hold up?

That moment when you drive by the Kennedy Center and are reminded yet again that in response to a court order Trump removed his name from the building but then obscured the building entrance so no one could see that he’d lost. 🙄

You mean Trump threatened to raise the taxes we pay on the goods we import from Canada. He is threatening Americans with a tax increase.

If this were someone else speaking, I might take a minute to puzzle through this sentence, but since it’s Ezra Klein, I think I can safely dismiss it as claptrap.

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

Also we just had a decision come out this year where 4 of those justices straight up ignored the explicit text of the constitution to advocate for abolishing a foundational right. The republic has never been at greater risk of dissolving than right now and it’s because of the Supreme Court.

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Yes, exactly my thought If you had an adequate system of government and economics, you wouldn't need to conscript people to do good works -- the system would reward it

Derek Chauvin was a field training officer for Minneapolis PD. More training won't help unaccountable right-wing thugs be decent. If you want a phenomenal dive into a microcosm of this problem, you would do well to read @awinston.bsky.social's book "The Riders Come Out At Night", about Oakland PD.

fuck em up Todd

National service can’t be mainly a military initiative. And it shouldn’t be limited to education & infrastructure projects, though these should absolutely be part of it. It needs to touch on culture and the arts, on the ways we think and remember. That’s why I call for in the Reconstruction Papers.

Absolutely deranged understanding of American government and the current times. The number of Justices isn't even in the Constitution, it's a statute from 1869! It is, in fact, not essential our Republic has a hyper-partisan GOP SCOTUS that makes sure its favored candidates and policies always win.

Begging people to understand that their rose-colored views of the past are tainted by the fact that they were in their 20s.

GOP candidate Brandon Herrera on moms advocating politically: “Just because you let somebody creampie you doesn’t mean I have to give a shit about your political opinions. The fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn’t make you any less wrong about the dumb shit they you say.”

No, Mike Johnson cannot do that The House that Mike Johnson presides over ceases to exist when the new House convenes. There is no Speaker when the new House starts. bsky.app/profile/rech...

This is election interference.

There will be no reason for the next president to keep around the previous president's personal military squad.

Pres Trump’s plan to charge for early access to his pronouncements on his truth social company should be illegal. The information he releases is not his personal property. It belongs to the people. He has no right to sell and profit from it.

"Brouillette has a long history of severe mental illness, a lengthy history of violence against at least two wives as well as his children, stalking, a seemingly endless list of restraining orders". talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...

Epstein survivors called Blanche abrasive, condescending, and evasive. He wouldn't commit to a single investigation, couldn't explain Maxwell's transfer, and told one victim her dead sister's testimony is unusable. He checked a box and called it justice.

This happened in the county where I grew up, and I can think of no better articulation of why I full with rage thinking of the white supremacist garbage that pervades the area to this day.

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At a bare minimum, every single aircraft carrier-sized loophole in the laws, passed by both parties since WWII, creating the imperial presidency by waving hands & invoking "national security" need to go, immediately, as soon as Democrats have control of Congress again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

When ICE agents shoot and kill people, the agency shouldn’t be allowed to run the investigation.

Every and any vote for Todd Blanche is a vote for grown men fucking underage girls with legal impunity. This is a sentence that contains no hyperbole and that is nonetheless shocking and debilitating to write. That's how depraved this administration is.

This is a blatantly unconstitutional threat. The executive branch has zero constitutional power to tell states how to run their elections - zero. Nor does DHS have the constitutional power to threaten state and local officials with jail time if they fail to abide by the executive branch’s demands.

I guess the same as Harris being a Black candidate while facing the son of a Klansman. Who America then voted for.

it's hard to imagine what it's like being a jewish candidate for senate facing an opponent whose son-in-law is a neo-nazi. particularly in 2026.

The fact this “gold” coin won’t have any actual gold is quite the metaphor www.mining.com/trumps-us-go...