You can hear the strain of this guy resisting using the word “dumbass” repeatedly to describe US action.

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

A moment of self-awareness or just more of that weird victimhood so many rich white conservative “tough” manly men traffic in?

I have a coworker who bragged about using “AI“ to put together outfits for dates & packing for weekend trips. My wife had a coworker talk about using “AI“ to pick earrings & scarfs. It makes me irrationally angry that grown ass adults use “AI” to outsource their thinking & self-expression.

Which is why the decision by the ADL to go to war with Zohran Mamdani was a generational mistake. They think they can shut down criticism of Israel. But people will just get it from voices like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who care a lot less about distinguishing between state and people.

As a historian who spent 2 years between my MA & PhD working as a statistician, it was a marvelous lesson in how incredibly easy it is to use numbers to create a flattened picture that gives you a neat & tidy conclusion. Understanding history requires more than accumulated data & a tidy conclusion.

Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

In late capitalist America, we are socialized to work to live so much that we call it “passion” and we fondly recall “grinding” as a 6yo.

Honestly, this is a pretty good description of America's dumbass grindset class. They grind so they can grind some more. Their culture is grinding. Their hopes and dreams all involve grinding and dominating.

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

The American broadcaster Tucker Carlson is seeking to denigrate Churchill and to elevate the fascist leader Oswald Mosley, as if he led the Opposition to the government. The only obvious reason to do this would seem to be to dissolve contemporary norms against fascism www.thejc.com/news/world/t...

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

A great blogpost on the racist history behind the Rangers’ new statue, including interviews with people trying to get accountability from the team and city

Hearing that after two years, and multiple procedural and administrative delays, FIFA has finally made a decision on the Palestinian FA's case against Israel. It has decided it cannot do anything of substance and the case is closed. The Palestinian FA can take matter to CAS.

Mo’ne Davis - also of the WPBL - threw the first pitch to Jason Varitek.

Um is he playing coy about nuclear weapons next to *checks notes* the Prime Minister if Japan?

$200 billion could entirely repeal the SNAP cuts with money leftover $200 billion could fund the ACA Premium Tax Credits and help lower health care costs for 6 years with money leftover $200 billion could permanently expand Medicaid coverage to people in states that have refused to expand coverage

it's not even about the ridiculous things they keep saying, and it would really be great if any journalist would ever remind them of this, because the list of things they say you need an ID to do are not rights guaranteed to you by the U.S. Constitution, while voting is.

even now, it still hasn’t sunk in for most americans that the rest of the world is taking trump’s threats dead serious—they don’t have a choice. and it’s going to forever alter what the rest of our lives and our descendants lives will look like a lot more than they think

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MLB out here actively trying to ruin all of the positive momentum gained by the rules changes and last fall’s great postseason

This president has been very successful at at least one thing: destroying long-standing alliances

maybe we should try learning from experience next time

I haven’t really followed my alma mater’s mbb story as much as I should have - and I didn’t expect them to win last night - but way to go ’Hawks! #LoveandHonor

Babe Ruth Red Sox Spring Training 1919. That season he hit .322 with 29 HR’s, a 1.114 OPS, 217 OPS+ and a 9.1 WAR. As a Pitcher he Started 15 Games, going 9-5, with a 2.97 ERA and a 0.8 WAR.

An extremely on the nose metaphor of modern America: No pretense of being the good guys anymore. We’re the bullies. We only know war. We will beat you. If we lose, no we didn’t.

Mason Miller was among the USA players who immediately took off the silver medal

Like, the only thing worse than being grim and joyless and winning is being grim and joyless and losing. And nothing is guaranteed, so just … don’t be grim and joyless!

I admired her campaign from here in RI. I hope more progressive candidates are inspired by her

Miguel Cabrera is Venezuela’s hitting coach...I mean, that’s got to be worth a 9th inning run. Miggy was/is a fucking a bad ass. Talk about a professional hitter.

WWJD read a bracelet I was encouraged to wear as a middl schooler, in part to remind me of the importance of practicing the radical love of Jesus Christ. Christianity has changed a lot, I guess.

This year’s #WBC sure has made me feel optimistic as I enter my 2nd semester as a Red Sox fan

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year” www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Hey can anyone tell the junior senator from pennsylvania where babies come from?

I was already rooting for Venezuela tonight but JEEEEEZZZUS CHRIST Team USA is making it easier to root harder. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

A 50-year sequence of Peru’s Ucayali River shows how a river constantly shifts its bed, reshapes landscapes and redraws maps. Rivers move, ecosystems respond and planning must learn to work with that movement rather than pretend landscapes stay fixed. Source: buff.ly/jNmzCQG

It’s gotta feel amazing to be Xi Jinping right now. Just fuckin hangin out, racking up wins by sitting still in a chair or perhaps jacuzzi

I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

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“Bryan Paul is curricular fellow for the College Debates & Discourse Alliance at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni” TRUSTEES

As I was saying earlier, Wiles is complicit in this administration's war on cancer *patients*.

I wrote about Kat.

Reducing car dependency is an anti-poverty initiative and the republicans (and occasional democrats) who insist we can’t afford investments in transit don’t realize how much it hurts to run Americans into the ground with car payments, gas, insurance, maintenance. America’s biggest ponzi scheme imo