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aspiring to be the anti-stephen miller of my generation he/him
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai
about 15 hours ago
🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.
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Rudolph Fraser.
about 19 hours ago
in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that
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One of the hardest things about raising kids (esp girls) is instilling a sufficiently high level of wariness in them about the world and people around them without sliding into paranoia
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Conrad Hackett
about 23 hours ago
When researchers asked LLMs whether they should switch between religions, LLMs tended to encourage becoming Catholic & shedding atheist & Jehovah's Witness identities.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22975
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Gender studies remains the most vindicated major of all time
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Courtney Milan
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* Abolish DHS and split its functions up so that immigration is located under the department of labor; rewrite immigration law so that it is just and fair and makes sure that every worker in this country has the status to work with dignity and fairness.
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Julia Carrie Wong
10 months ago
the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis
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It's wild to me that Mike Lee thinks he can ally with Christian nationalists to make an apostate out of James Talarico (a Presbyterian) while avoiding the same date for himself, a Mormon.
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Jake Wright
2 days ago
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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404 Media
3 days ago
In his keynote speech to Harvard graduates this week,
@thedailyshow.com
host Ronny Chieng said "Fuck AI!" Turns out you can talk about AI in a grad speech and not get booed. Watch our episode on these AI grad speeches:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
2 days ago
This is what happens when queer people hate your party. There’s no one there to plan one.
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Taniel
3 days ago
After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via
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Carl T. Bergstrom
2 days ago
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Whoa, new X-Men 97 trailer
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It's funny because in my current job, all the women on my team play fantasy football, attend games, and know the players/coaches while the men don't follow sports much at all.
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Erik Hane
3 days ago
Wrong to the point of malpractice
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Patrick Chovanec
3 days ago
A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.
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John Ross
3 days ago
Pneumococcal pneumonia is vaccine-preventable If you're over 50, or younger than 50 and have risk factors like COPD, asthma, diabetes, kidney or liver disease, or if you smoke, like Kyle Busch, get the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Available at most pharmacies and covered by most insurance plans
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Doctor explains the complication that made Kyle Busch’s illness deadly
A NASCAR champion died from pneumonia at 41. Medical experts explain how a healthy athlete can succumb to the illness.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2026/05/27/kyle-buschs-death-pneumonia-sepsis-medical-expert-explanation/90270364007/
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Kat Tenbarge
4 days ago
Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long.
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Ben Alpers
3 days ago
MIT closing three of its four libraries is shocking and appalling and underscores that the source of so much of the crisis in higher education comes not from attacks from the far right or the collapse of public trust, but rather from the university administrative class itself.
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Adam Sawyer
4 days ago
I was moved by the concluding two paragraphs of this excellent essay by
@harshawalia.bsky.social
. I recommend reading it.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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Austin Kocher, PhD
4 days ago
A small dip in enforcement followed the Minneapolis killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in January 2026. The DDP data shows it was real but modest, it didn't fundamentally change the trajectory of ICE street arrests, raids, and other aggressive enforcement tactics.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
4 days ago
What stands out is that voluntary departures and returns increased 28-fold. That means large numbers of people chose to leave rather than fight their cases, partly bc they don’t want to spend months sitting in detention.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
4 days ago
ICE increased detention beds for interior arrests 4.5x. Release within 60 days of arrest (under Biden ppl w/out crim. records = 35%), dropped to 7% under Trump. Lower release rates drive numbers up, which means ICE isn’t just arresting more ppl, it’s holding them longer.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
4 days ago
The pattern that gets less attention than the raw totals are the arrests of people with no criminal convictions, which has increased more than eightfold. The primary mechanism is aggressive enforcement of people with no convictions.
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Austin Kocher, PhD
4 days ago
Interior deportations increased fivefold in the first year of the second Trump administration. ICE street arrests, outside jails and prisons, went up by a factor of eleven. These numbers come from ICE's own data, obtained via FOIA and analyzed by the Deportation Data Project.
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Marisa Kabas
4 days ago
This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"
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Bonnie Honig
4 days ago
Was just going to say this. All kinds of things are possible for these people. It’s like they’ve been fired with months’ notice and no one has taken away their access to the company info and vault. Whether or not they want to caucus with Dem there is plenty of damage to be done - for those willing.
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Shay Stewart-Bouley
5 days ago
My final piece on Graham Platner and the US Senate race. At almost 5000 words, it's long but based on several meetings with Platner and others. I'm not arguing with people online, so there are no comments. Life is too short to be stressed.
open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...
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Platner is the presumptive candidate, but is he the right person? My Final Thoughts
NOTE: Almost certainly this piece will travel beyond my usual readership, so I thought it wise to add a quick preface.
https://open.substack.com/pub/shaystewartbouley/p/platner-is-the-presumptive-candidate?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=xmh3n
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Hannah Walser
5 days ago
I know people don’t say this anymore but: protect this girl at all costs
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Mina Li (she/her)
6 days ago
in support of this post, alt text so everyone can see how much of a badass Senator Kim is: "I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that's when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls--as well as using the pepper spray--and were tackling people."
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David Ho
6 days ago
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
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ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
https://www.nj.com/news/2026/05/ice-agents-pepper-spray-protesters-nj-senator-in-clash-outside-delaney-hall-in-newark.html?gift=61f84598-b2b3-4807-a20f-aa34ee5844f3
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One thing about getting older- you start liking grapefruit juice.
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Prof. Anthea Butler
6 days ago
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
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Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Let your kids be weird and non-conformist. Let them have private diaries and keep secrets. Don't let the car be their only form of transportation. Treat them like adults-in-training.
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Give your kid all the freedom you feel comfortable with, then a little more
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A lot of international parenting practices will horrify middle-class Western parents and that's ok
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Rob Rakove
7 days ago
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Spencer Ackerman
7 days ago
No it the fuck was not.
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Mindy Weisberger
7 days ago
NPR forgets that some of us were there, or know this thing called history. One day, suggesting the DHS was "conceived in the interest of unity and harmony" will be taught as an example of a once-trusted independent US news outlet pivoting with alacrity to propaganda greasing the slide toward fascism
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Trish Greenhalgh
8 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
8 days ago
Another reason to hate AI
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The kid calculus of what's fun to them is so precise: it's like a dial where one side is Boring and the other side is Terrifying, and the fun zone is the exact line that separates the two halves
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Mark Lemley
8 days ago
This is astonishingly evil and cruel. It targets the people who have come here lawfully, done everything right, and qualify for a path to citizenship. It means they must leave the families who live here and the jobs that are the very reason they can work here.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says
Change criticized by advocates marks the latest significant move by the Trump administration on immigration policy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/green-card-applicants-trump-administration
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Clay Copper
8 days ago
One element to this I think is worth mentioning - and the one that has caused me the most general anger toward my colleagues at the DoD - is that this dishonor of women and servicemembers of color may have started with Hegseth, but it is maintained principally by active duty and civil servants. /
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Zito
8 days ago
I have an answer! It’s because they find black men and black bodies erotic. Cuck porn isn’t about the woman, it’s about being attracted to the man through the woman. It’s a desire to be submissive through hierarchy — the military, sports, gangs, all show this drive. And naturally it shows up in sex
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The winning entry (as voted on by fair fans) of the Iowa State Fair T-shirt design is an AI slop abomination
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Ida Bae Wells
9 days ago
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/magazine/voting-rights-act-reconstruction-civil-rights-redistricting.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kVA.bmlG.buiiPu9VTE0G&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Me cheering on the lawsuits to destroy the fascist slush fund
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