There are no two sides to a confession. There is only the confession — and the choice of whether to take it seriously. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/ther...

If you're active on X, you'll be bombarded with what Elon Musk thinks 24/7 in hundreds of different ways, whether you want it or not.

"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.

Fewer scientists, more political appointees: Governance in the Trump era ourpublicservice.org/publications...

jay bhattacharya, who has for years incited hatred and violence against CDC workers, got himself a 24/7 personal security detail last year on the taxpayer’s dime.

Really sad to see @health.nationalacademies.org whitewashing Jay Bhattacharya with the help of Emily Oster, who loves to pontificate on subjects she knows little about. What a clusterfuck.

Too many people ignored the real influence of the red-pilled internet on the real world culture and politics, particularly institutions that could have done literally anything to counter the rising tide, and now we are all paying the price.

I use the phrase "dominant culture of the Internet" deliberately here because there are other ways of existing on the Internet but if you exist on a large social media platform and partake in posting on it to any degree the odds that you engage in "4chan like behavior" to some degree is very high.

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once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

At this point I don't wonder how much insider trading is going on. I wonder how much policy is being made with the purpose of insider trading on it.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

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The NBC News story about Corey Lewandowski is very important. The GEO Group-related claims are astounding, and later reporting in the story suggests that those allegations were not some one-time thing. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Whether half this administration can be put in prison is simply a matter of will

Wow. If I'm not mistaken, this marks the longest-range use of ballistic missiles in warfare to date. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I strongly encourage all of you to watch @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in this episode and hear him lay out more clearly than I've heard anyone explain just how dangerous a time we are in for science and medicine through the lens of what I would still consider recent history with HIV/AIDS and ACT UP.

Register to join a webinar panel discussing the current administration’s mass deportation campaign which led to a surge in the number of people being held in ICE detention centers. childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t...

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.

“Americans are facing a bizarre epidemic of gullibility and cynicism"—one “that is drawing people into a world of conspiracism and falsehoods," Adam Serwer argues.

we will care about this one day. i believe that, bless the people like this journalist keeping the record for when we do

From the ruling: “This argument [by the Government] can only be countenanced if one completely abandons the idea of objective fact…” That really is the issue at the heart of many of the legal cases against the Administration. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

“She had been released on the streets of Pittsburgh — roughly an hour from her home, in a city unfamiliar to her — by ICE agents five days earlier.” People need to go to prison for this.

"Right now, [Cambridge is] one of the few institutions where we still have the political oxygen to do this work. ... the fact that we are being threatened means that our work matters. ... So, we convene to continue our work." ccodactivity.substack.com/p/discussing...

I think the reason so many people—including, but not limited to many American Jews—find the growing antisemitism on the broadly defined left so unsettling is not because it's worse than what's on the right (it's decently less) but because it means there's no coalition where it's broadly unwelcome.

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All this is to say that it’s CRITICAL, even as we strive to achieve “better cars,” that we make EVERY smart move necessary at the same time (or even BEFORE/proactively), to ensure that we are achieving FEWER cars, LESS driving, more inviting transportation alternatives, & better communities/cities!

Hey remember how I was talking about the collision course of the propaganda to policy pipeline and "school choice" advocates? This was always about the destruction of institutions. Those who could have responded and chose not to demonstrated a fundamental lack of foresight.

so…this is interesting.

I'm not sure it's a "hidden reason"? They've been going after porn for, let's see, most of the 20th century and it's always been to appeal to conservative women (with the added bonuses of enforcing gender roles, demonizing bodily autonomy).

Despite her removal, Trump’s cruel mass deportation campaign rages on. The Congress must hold her and her successor accountable.

It’s an organized crime syndicate run by Fredo Corleone.

Pill-shaming is ableism. It derives from poor science literacy and pseudoscientific health ideology in the anti-psychiatry movement and alternative medicine industry. There's no shame in accepting medication. No one deserves to experience stigma.

I will never forgive the people who continued to insist, despite decades of examples to the contrary, that “Twitter isn’t real life” and that online rhetoric was not was not reality or worth addressing at the highest levels of our institutions.

Empty seats tell the story of Trump's cruelty in Massachusetts. A Framingham kindergarten teacher watched seven of her students disappear this year, their families torn apart by ICE. We're fighting back - in court and everywhere else.

Florida is doing what it set out to do, make life unlivable for trans people. www.advocate.com/news/educati...

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

The fact that we frame alternatives adopted from other countries as radical says more about our political imagination than the policy itself. I'm not suggesting a pivot is easy: it's NOT. So many entrenched interests; so many lives jeopardized.

Fixing the "job-lock" created by employment-related benefits is is probably the greatest lever we could use not just to improve society overall, but also increase individual well-being by creating opportunities to open creativity and further drive innovation.

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While people understandably are upset about the fracturing of jobs and the breakdown of associated benefits, we should be asking different questions to imagine a better system like: why should benefits be linked to occupational status at all?

Nearly eight years ago, when I began reporting on the "working homeless," it was treated as an edge case, a tragedy at the margins. That fiction has collapsed. Housing insecurity is now an ever-widening sinkhole, swallowing not only the poor and working class but entire swaths of the middle class.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2072...

This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.

The phrase “every conservative influencer in the business” tells you everything you need to know. The entire modern conservative movement descends from snake oil salesmen and prosperity gospel revival tent preachers. It’s nothing more than a con, and that’s all it will ever be.

I’m all for taxing people appropriately and raising taxes. People need to also understand how capitalism works and why wealth inequality has reached this point and how net worth is calculated. We should do better, and sometimes we aim in the right direction and miss widely.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead… “All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social