Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

DID YOU KNOW that Wisconsin has election-day registration? You can go to your polling place, register, and cast a ballot TODAY. It’s a great way to participate in the democratic process, even if you’re really busy or have forgotten to register.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Only about 1 in 5 employees say they think they could engage in calling out wrongdoing without retribution. A scared workforce is bad for accountability. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

The officer declined treatment in the ambulance!

With the war justifications flying around, I often think about the 2010 Time Magazine cover with the article title "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan" and the image of an Afghan woman whose nose had been cut off by the Taliban.

“For every dollar donated by billionaires and their immediate families to a candidate or committee associated with Democrats, five dollars went to Republicans.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

C.I.A. Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/u...

so the goal is regime chiang?

that's a dinosaur! it scares me! @posters-madness.bsky.social

Classify this bird? @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

Has a poli sci journal ever taken such a stance? Is it even possible? #polisci #IRsky 🗺

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧵 of 🧵s. My views on this are clear, longstanding, & tiresome to many I'm sure. But I'll never stop being deeply angry that Larry Summers dominated the entire National Conversation™️ on the economy during Joe Biden's presidency & was lauded for being so epically wrong & repeatedly ignoring the data.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

"We know that this can be done, because it has been done. In his famous Madison Garden speech..FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war...To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that."

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

My article is currently open-access... Click away... We map out the creative ways people nonviolently use phones to protect themselves in war zones... Americans have now adopted some of these approaches too academic.oup.com/ia/article/101/3/1043/8106131

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things. This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.

Private health insurance continues to radicalize me.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

I wonder if we could get USAID back if Clooney offered up his People's Sexiest Man Alive 2006.

Yup. Welcome to the New Trumpian Anarchy. @dandrezner.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

We’re going to need DDR and a future government that knows it will need expert help from transitional justice specialists

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

2025 best games by @npr.org staff. An amazing combination of validating my existing wishlist while flagging amazing things for me that I've never seen! www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

From The Washington Post: The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

I had to repeatedly check that this wasn't The Onion

For the record, having the wrong answer to the right question is worth zero points.

"too much theory without enough experimentation can cause bloating and gassiness in the scientific literature"

The problem here is shitty science. You can find "evidence" for all of the above, just like RFK's study linking Tylenol to autism. But then the argument shifts to things like causal inference, p-hacking, lousy study design, and everyone's bored and goes home. And keeps believing this stuff.

Once again, I am begging Wisconsin journalists to <stop stenographizing Robin Vos’ lies> about DEI in standalone block quotes in articles. Maybe you could even ask him for even <one> example of even <one> DEI program like this on even <one> UW campus? 🤷‍♂️ www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. This is just a slightly politer version of the lies Robin Vos spreads about UW all the time (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). It's ugly. It's not true. Nor are the grants lies true. Frankly, it's all obscene given the authoritarian assault now on 🇺🇸 higher ed.

If you want a totally "unchecked situation" about federal grants, it's that One Mad King can now simply cancel federal contracts funding area and language studies at universities around the country, without cause, while Congress does nothing. But that doesn't sell copy, so here are lies instead.

Rex Douglass is a free agent. Rex is a data bulldozer and champion of science, plus no bs palantir overhead. Get him before he gets got.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals

Hey @lanostry.bsky.social, we made the big time!

gotta keep an eye on those obelisks, you just never know

Also, 30,000 fake papers out of 1 million+ does not indict or threaten science as a whole. This entire "science is in crisis from within" narrative is a right-wing myth.