Also this is appalling. Jesus Christ.

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

He’s completely insane and I think that should be duly noted in every article that quotes him.

Who else has always wanted to know what Trump said to Kennedy on their way out of Kavanaugh’s swearing-in that made Kennedy stop short and wag his finger at Trump, only for Trump to be all “let’s continue this off-camera”?

Okay but Josh Allen is literally the One Guy. At Wyoming he could not hit the broad side of a barn. I have no explanation for this. It’s like how Jodie Foster turned out to be a totally fine and normal adult. It’s not the rule.

Maybe not, but useful content for Lisa Cook’s lawyers

the idea that the only us tradition is fascism and all the people who fought it are negligible and don't exist...it really doesn't help anyone but fascists.

I mean, the other American traditions are represented by people like Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Ida B. Wells, and lots of other people who fought for and to some degree won a better US. 1

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

Surprise! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Sounds like someone should be sending AMK the hot dog guy costume for Halloween

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids"

One thing I don’t find very useful is how one day no one was just a mean asshole and instead had a psychological disorder.

I am so goddamned sick of having to think about these people.

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Apparently, the government says he did have a criminal record. He had been convicted of "fictitious information, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing police." He is on life support but they feel the need to keep him restrained to the bed, with his feet were cuffed.

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Some good news! These plug-in systems are all over Europe, whereas rooftop solar in the US is stupidly tied up in red tape, making it costly. All states should adopt this, like Utah did. And entirely nonpartisan—which is a weird thing to have to say about clean energy.

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Good lord, these dudes will never understand that the whole *point* of the "cancel culture" moral panic in which they participated was to create a permission structure for the current crackdown. Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.

But Mr. Political Scientist, do you even know what constitutes evidence in my field let alone an argument? The last discussion I got into henges on how you weigh evidence from sedimentology and tectonics vs marine isotopes. The main disagreement is that robust evidence from both is contradictory.

I'm glad to see House Democrats are pressing to get Rep-Elect Grijalva seated, because the fight over this is just a prelude to what the House Republicans will try in January 2027, when charges of "voter fraud" will lead to "serious questions" that will delay the seating of several new Democrats.

MY and Ek et al have spent the last 15 years trying to define themselves as the Uber experts. Trusted people on all topics, reasonable and educated. And when that didn’t get them the accolades they wanted or eventually hit a ceiling they became resentful of other experts

taken seriously this is an attack on free speech: random grad students' work being insufficiently right wing discredits an entire discipline. in practice i assume this means that anything by a woman or a person of color can be dismissed as overly left wing and therefore low quality

listen i can only talk about the fields i'm more familiar with but low quality science is super right wing from race science to evo psych to anti vax stuff to even kinda low quality aging research silicon valley has remora'd on to. why doesn't that discredit them

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

I've been shocked by how resistant people, even political scientists and activists, are to the idea that just throwing money no-strings-attached to movement builders pays off big time. Everyone thinks they have one weird trick for efficient movement building!

Bingo. He’s a featherweight fascist

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

What they want is Dems to join them in dabbling their fingers in the blood. There are absolutely no circumstances under which anybody loyal to the Constitution should vote to fund a government controlled by Donald Trump. They are covering their own asses by demanding that line not be clearly drawn.

The carcerealists believe "Better 100 innocent men go to prison than one lazy cop mumble an apology 20 years later."

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“There is no state or federal law that prohibits instruction on gender identity in college classes.“ This sentence is essential. They aren’t even bothering to pass laws now. The SB17 law in Texas specifically exempts instruction! They are just making things up and calling it law.

"In 2021, the Government Accountability Office reported that ICE policy did not require officers to update the citizenship field in their data systems after identifying evidence that a person could be a U.S. citizen. "

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The flip side of this is that the administration knows (has been told?) that they'll lose the tariff case at SCOTUS, and secured a maximum delay of that inevitability in order to run the (fake) investigations that need to be tied to a Section 232 tariff order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

Can you teach Bostock at Texas Tech?

Here is an unlocked NYT summary of Ian Roberts's detention, deleted prior post to avoid sharing unconfirmed records referencing his whereabouts before 2022

The backlash to Trump's immigration agenda has impacted broader attitudes about the value of immigration in America apnorc.org/projects/abo...

Remember that article that went around about how children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore? My friend who works in children's books was like "what?" I don't know who the hyperbole helps. Actually, no — I do know who it helps

We are obliged as thinking people to think, talk, work, act, and live as though none of tech's fascist dreams will come true because they won't, and that their thoughtkiller machines will fail because they will. I sincerely believe artists' lives are at stake and are being lost when we don't.

Basically you have the world's richest most powerful people saying "we've invented technology that will eliminate all writers and artists & we're very excited about it." Then you have the press say how excited THEY are about it. Then you have artists/writers saying there's nothing we can do about it