There are millions of people who have that stomach. We just need to get them into public office.

NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

"... a stark reminder of one of the messages of “Sinners”: racism and its history is a horror."

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL “Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Breaking: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

Book release date news! 📖 7/3/26 Information Brokers @uchicagopress.bsky.social explores how Latino children, especially in immigrant families, guide parents through U.S. institutions and politics, shaping civic participation. If this resonates, please repost 🙏 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

“astrology for men” was too generous

New piece: on learning loss after immigration raids. Ignore news conferences and politicians. We will know the current horrors are over when kids come back to school. But getting kids back in school is just the first step. Then the real work begins.

Please please please even if you can't call, recirculate these posts so who can make the call see it

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

French rap and hip-hop are fundamentally reshaping the French language, turning the vernacular into a multi-ethnic, multilingual tool. Influenced heavily by the African diaspora, artists blend French with Arabic, West African dialects, and Creole.

This is really interesting!

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

this argument asks the reader to reframe human intelligence/cognition in machinic terms flipping the default/baseline from which intelligence is measured/understood to machines. basically reducing human cognition to mere neural connection, making erroneous comparisons & inflating llm capabilities 6/

Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

The blockade on Cuba is unconscionable.

Plain and simple, they're domestic terrorists.

“Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice.”

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

This should simply encourage more people to criticize ICE on social media.

Talarico, who is Christian, has warned about the dangers of Christian Nationalism

See, now this is 10000x more important than AOC stumbling over her otherwise fine answer on Taiwan.

Once thronged with congregants; now sadly out of fashion as everyone attends the Church of the Collider instead.

You can’t expect public understanding of science — and things like vaccines — to thrive if you won’t support science communication!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🧪

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

An essential article 👇

This is why a straight Bluesky feed is better than any algorithm. Excited to peep this.

Our man @raulperez.bsky.social is breaking it DOWN with @geedee215.bsky.social on @npr.org Code Switch about Trump, humor as a social constructor of race, and The Souls of White Jokes www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...

This is fascinating! I loved learning more about how Cold War ideology shaped high school English. It's also interesting how divorced high school English is from college English and the literary profession. Definitely going to check out this book when it is published.

Glad to see a piece finally address Edge. Also, not the point, but I remember when I thought “Jewish eugenicist” was an oxymoron.

Solid overview of democratic backsliding with good exs in Hungary, Brazil, Poland, Russia, Italy, & Sri Lanka. These efforts can be countered (e.g., Brazil). India is very instructive here as well, especially in terms of media & narrative capture. 🧵 on this bsky.app/profile/them...

"officers abruptly used physical or chemical force. DHS seemed to apply these tactics with little discretion, whether protests were peaceful or violent, large or small."

This is a hell of a headline:

Very much this, but also broader. All sorts of education - gender/ethnic studies, social sciences, natural sciences, literature, history, philosophy - teach people to think in ways that don’t serve the purposes of the powerful.

Welp.

I'm going to be doing some short classes for the Ad Astra Institute! First up, How to Not Do Eugenics with Speculative Biology! It's a brief primer on the history of race science and eugenics with suggestions on how to avoid fantasy or science fiction racism. adastra-sf.com/courses.htm#...

Getting ICE out of Minneapolis isn’t enough, says U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: “We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.”

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

MPR is full of so many great Minnesotans that I get to be proud of them twice.

Susan Collins has apparently decided to give Republicans the votes needed to pass the SAVE Act. This is a three-alarm emergency. We must act swiftly. Tell every Senator right now we absolutely cannot let this pass:

Excellent job @veenadubal.bsky.social and @aaup.org Don’t let up