“Wreckers and saboteurs“

Shibuya, Tokyo, now

Shibuya, Tokyo, now

"So far this year, Mr. Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 senior officers to general and admiral ranks. About half of those are women or members of minority groups." This is an unprecedented effort to whitewash military leadership. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

pete hegseth is engaged in open racial discrimination against black officers. the clear message is that there is no place for black or women leadership in his military

Woke is for winners www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-a...

Today we are spotlighting @jaylyall.bsky.social, Kosuke Imai & @yangyangzhou.bsky.social's work in Afghanistan, looking at whether economic aid interventions affect individual support for combatants during wartime.

So I drank the algae from the Reflecting Pool and now I can hear the color strawberry

I mean, it's enough to make you blush

Great new review of our edited volume, Speaking Science to Power, which looks at how to advise policy-makers ethically. Love that this is being read outside poly sci. Check out the review:

Here's the Iran-US MoU, and it's pretty much a severe strategic defeat and capitulation for the US and a massive strategic and economic victory for Iran. Really an utter humiliation for the US thanks to Trump's naked incompetence. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...

Your periodic reminder that Elon Musk and his DOGE minions are responsible for the ongoing deaths of millions, including children, around the world due to the illegal dismantling of USAID and the collapse of foreign aid. Source: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Your weekend moment of Vermont Zen

"I always wanted to visit the last days of Rome" MONKEY PAW CURLS

Paraguay is playing like they're worried their country will be invaded and their leader deposed if they win

Your weekend moment of Vermont Zen

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Also the world's first trillionaire directly responsible for the deaths of potentially millions around the world due to the illegal destruction of USAID

Also the world's first trillionaire directly responsible for the deaths of potentially millions around the world due to the illegal destruction of USAID

"When brute force doesn't work (again), use more (again)"

"When brute force doesn't work (again), use more (again)"

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

"When brute force doesn't work, use more"

"When brute force doesn't work, use more"

Golden hour Vermont Zen

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

Few people have been as validated over the past half decade or so as @jaylyall.bsky.social

Golden hour Vermont Zen

New paper @pnasnexus.org w/ @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @elsavoytas.bsky.social Can we reduce support for violent extremism? And, if so, which messages work best?

The social science community lost a good soul this week. Rest well, @raulpachecovega.bsky.social

New @pnasnexus.org w/@jaylyall.bsky.social, @elsavoytas.bsky.social Online communitarian appeals increase opposition to violent extremism academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... -Communal harmony message most successful on FB, most robust to counter-messages -Increased intention to oppose extremist orgs

New paper @pnasnexus.org w/ @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @elsavoytas.bsky.social Can we reduce support for violent extremism? And, if so, which messages work best?

Well, if this doesn't cure your imposter syndrome, nothing will

Well, if this doesn't cure your imposter syndrome, nothing will

Very sorry to hear this tragic news. Raul was an irrepressible force for good, and we're much poorer for his passing. Descanse en paz, Raul.

Not even a criticism of Becerra in particular, but in general, the total collapse of ambition in American politics remains one of the bleakest ongoing trends. It's just a competition between gangsterism and pensionary politics. Nobody believes in the future anymore.

Very sorry to hear this tragic news. Raul was an irrepressible force for good, and we're much poorer for his passing. Descanse en paz, Raul.

Excellent article in The Atlantic about what's going on at NSF. Share with people in your circle--too many aren't aware!

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List. The net result: a slate of 22 new one-star admiral nominees that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead. Of special note: The list has no women. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

I see we have created the Machines Killing Humans from the cautionary sci-fi classic "Don't Build Machines to Kill Humans"

I see we have created the Machines Killing Humans from the cautionary sci-fi classic "Don't Build Machines to Kill Humans"

Gas now almost touching $6 a gallon in NH for the good stuff

This is the way. We do not need to accept the right’s bad-faith and blatantly dishonest caricature of higher education. Colleges and universities regularly platform views across the political spectrum, perhaps more than any other American institution.

“The Pentagon’s latest set of Navy promotions, advancing more than 20 Navy captains to one-star admiral, included zero women, reinvigorating a debate about the barriers women face in their climb to the highest rungs of the military.” Not much of a debate. The barrier is obvious under Hegseth.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gaza’s economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"

New paper finds "After the first year of war...82% of each square kilometer of the Gaza Strip had been damaged at least once and that 67.9% of its built-up area has been destroyed." "Our results show that more than 3/4s of Gaza’s economy has been destroyed since the start of the conflict"

Occom Pond, Dartmouth, today