Beautiful satire

Oh so now copyright matters.

researchers discovered that a coin, when flipped, overwhelmingly yielded a useful “heads” or “tails” result and almost never landed on edge. this indicates that the coin has situational awareness, intelligently refining its outcomes to those with the greatest contextual value

French President Emmanuel Macron had a not-so-coded message for Trump: the war in Iran requires a "serious" approach, that doesn't change every day. Speaking in South Korea, Macron says “this is not a show. We are talking about war and peace and the lives of men and women". 1/2

Overnight Pakistan raised the price of petrol by 43% and high speed diesel by 55%. The country's petrol minister says the government has “limited resources and there is currently no end in sight to the war”.

People say that anyone could end up joining a cult, but honestly I don't believe it of myself really. This kinda thing just seems utterly psychologically alien to me, I simply wouldn't be willing to do this for any Dear Leader.

View from Artemis II today. Crescent Earth. A view humans haven't captured since 1972.

On why Bondi should have been fired, including “the Justice Department has cut back on the prosecution of white-collar crime, including through a complete cessation of enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” But Trump fired her for not successfully prosecuting his political enemies. 🔥

Bondi will take this civil suit with her - along with other pending or soon-to-be-outed errors, lack of judgment, unethical or criminal actions from the last year or so.

'Given his status as an enslaver – Jefferson owned more than 610 people in his lifetime – those he held in bondage may have been the last people Jefferon saw before he died.'

On why Bondi should have been fired, including “the Justice Department has cut back on the prosecution of white-collar crime, including through a complete cessation of enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” But Trump fired her for not successfully prosecuting his political enemies. 🔥

@universalhub.com BearSwimmer is back. With its kids. www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Connecting Trump’s executive order against voting by mail to the supreme court’s recent decision that postal officers who choose not to deliver mail cannot be held responsible. Yikes.

Connecting Trump’s executive order against voting by mail to the supreme court’s recent decision that postal officers who choose not to deliver mail cannot be held responsible. Yikes.

What Bernick, Kreis, Gowder, Shugarman, Ramsay, Whittington et al did was - make sure the revisionist accounts remain seen as fringe and unserious; - uphold the norms of scholarly discourse by exposing people whom it’s now hard not to consider as hacks. That’s quite a lot.

You’ve got to be able to hold a few different thoughts in your head simultaneously! À la @dorfonlaw.bsky.social (1) this had to play out this way (2) Trump will lose this time (3) they’re shifting the Overton window (4) we’re bolstering the same institution that’s going to be our undoing.

Polls show that public support for Supreme Court term limits is quite high, has bipartisan support, and is relatively stable. bit.ly/4s9k6YO

From today’s NYT: "I was never swayed by NATO," Mr. Trump said. "I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that, too, by the way." I wonder how he knows what Putin thinks, and exactly why thats top of mind?

It is past time to do a power mapping of which consultants are advising which universities, and which Super Efficiency Optimizing Plans they're laying out as their Burger King menu of options

If you liked my recent podcast on Amicus w/ Dahlia Lithwick, here's a video with historians about Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship also on Spotify + Apple podcasts. Birthright citizenship is a very narrow part of US immigration, in this I went much broader as my book does.

"In the Southern Ocean, whalers slaughtered more than 2 million whales during the 20th century, pushing a number of species to the brink." #SixthExtinction #Seaspiracy #overfishing #ecocide #SeaOfSlaughter #Anthropocene #envhist #MarineLifeConservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trumps kids are being pulled into all sorts of schemes on the assumption that the government will provide favorable treatment, which could be loans or regulatory treatment. Jr is also an advisor for both Kalshi and Polymarket which are barely being regulated open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

It’s a vicious cycle of the government giving them money and then them lobbying to support politicians who will give them more.

This is intolerable environmentamerica.org/newmexico/ce...

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Could someone help me with this English word, please? #PalaeographyChallenge

future generations aren't going to believe this circus really was scheduled for April Fool's Day

It’s a vicious cycle of the government giving them money and then them lobbying to support politicians who will give them more.

Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The data we are getting out of ICE now conclusively destroys their "worst of the worst" narrative. Since the Los Angeles raids began in June last year, there has been a massive expansion of ICE arrests against people with no criminal record, while arrests of others remained flat.

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

Turning so much farmland into data centers is such a short sighted approach. We can’t eat that kind of chips—

Turning so much farmland into data centers is such a short sighted approach. We can’t eat that kind of chips—

Farmland is disappearing as data center developers and tech investors buy up huge swaths of agricultural land. Some farmers are fighting to protect our food system, while others are naming their price. Who should decide the future of our farms? platingprogress.substack.com/p/americas-f...

For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target. www.wired.com/story/opposi...

Come and run the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences! We're an absolute gem, would be great to have someone at the helm who celebrates & champions that, and could even use it as a springboard to champion humanities & social sciences nationally.

The amount of people that utter their surprise at the amount of people queuing to enter the British Library is a pretty good indication of how important an institution it is and what a scandal it is that the powers-that-be have done/did so little to support it over the past few years.

Palantir’s UK boss criticises ‘ideological’ groups as ministers move to scrap NHS contract

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

After our fabulous week long residential workshop in Bath last week, it's proving to be a busy time for the wills project team. We'll be circulating our latest newsletter next week if you want to get up to speed on our progress to date: #EarlyModern 🗃️

This is starting to make the Suez crisis look like an exercise of strategic genius.

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

The story of Ona Judge and the ongoing battle over interpreting history at the Declaration’s quarter-century mark highlight the often-invisible links between public humanities and peer-reviewed academic scholarship. www.huntington.org/verso/undoin...

Okay, @uncpress.bsky.social is running a American History Sale - 30% off with code 01UNCP30 so let's do a five book mini-thread 🧵