Some people are different. Oleksandr Usyk, World heavyweight champion: In 2020, Usyk became a postgraduate student in the Psychology Department of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, receiving his master's degree....

Good job, voters.

Opinion | As a conservative, I’m beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys? - The Washington Post “I served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations and would like to believe conservatism wasn’t always thus, but I’m beginning to wonder….

1/ New chair of CDC vaccine panel fired from pediatric practice, wife says thehill.com/policy/healt... “The greatest irony is my husband has been a vaccine advocate throughout his career" I don't think she understands what irony means.

It feels as though the Supreme Court is trying to compensate for Trump's fading cognitive capacities by propping him up with increasingly more executive power. Ça va mal finir.

Ioannidis was a leading skeptic of the impact of covid-19. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... The paper claims vaccines averted 2.5 million deaths. Last sentence of abstract: "Most benefits in lives and life-years saved was secured for a portion of older persons, a minority of the global population."

I'm not entirely sure what Leonard Cohen meant. But I hope he was right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-R...

It’s striking how comfortable Trump is, not just being xenophobic and racist, but making up nonsense, devoid of facts, on camera and in a room full of supposedly knowledgeable people. His experience of no pushback reinforces his confidence in the ability to bullshit through any circumstance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u... "America’s professional diplomats feel demoralized and ignored, with fully 98 percent saying in a new survey that workplace morale has fallen since the Trump administration took over in January." If accurate, that's crazy. What surveys ever find this much agreement?

Trump yanked thousands of National Guard from their lives, made them wonder around safe areas of Democratic cities with guns & fatigues in hope that a terrified civilian would harm them and he could use that as an excuse to send more National Guard to cause more terror create a cycle of violence.

Not an economist but it sounds like nvidia’s profit margin is more than 50%. Is that how competitive free markets are supposed to work? Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 65% to $31.9 Billion. Is It Enough for Wall St.? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...

Like I said a few days ago, I believe somebody's going to jail on this indictment but I don't believe it's going to be James Comey.

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

Is there an Ig Nobel for peace?

“I’m a law-abiding citizen who never thought I’d be of such interest that the U.S. government would use my tax dollars & yours to try to send me to prison…[after being] manhandled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent trying to remove my phone from my hand.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Italy, 1951. France 2025.

I’m not sure it helps an incontinent 79-year-old man with dementia to be posting videos of himself shitting everywhere.

A good take on no kings day 2. Apparently, not a single incident with police in NYC, among the hundreds of thousands out marching. It was as peaceful and joyous a march as I’ve seen. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Genuinely least self-aware motherfucker in Washington.

First they come for the academics. <gestures widely> Witness the carnage. Then they come for justice and lawmakers. Trump wanted James Comey prosecuted. Now he is indicted. Trump wanted Letitia James prosecuted. Now she is indicted. Trump wanted John Bolton prosecuted. Now he is indicted.

They didn’t have No Kings Day www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

“Polish pro-democracy forces won only when they agreed to leave aside their bitter divisions over abortion until after they had succeeded.” Solidarity politics wins. Purity politics loses.

Every single university needs to firmly stand united on this. This has always been the plan. Divide and make examples of specific universities, then attack every single center of higher education in the country. Fascists always come for the academics first. Then the judges. Then...

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

Good post with a good argument about universities and the "compact", basically the same argument that applies to law firms If this is how the leadership responds to extortion threats that go against their values, why would you trust them to protect your interests? www.instagram.com/reel/DPwXVbR...

No kings day, Oct 18.

Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b... 1/

I don’t know about “only”, but yes it is a good source among a dwindling pool of good sources.

Minor Sunday gripe: Why do some scientific journals truncate author lists? For example TiCS and TiNS list “first author, et al” for any paper with 3 (!) or more authors. It can’t be about space: they do this both for PDF and online layout. Who does this serve? Curious if there’s a good reason.

On behalf of a friend raising funds to support counseling services that aim to improve mental health for the survivors of Gaza war. getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism Textbook stuff

If your core "enemy" is "anti-fascists" what does that make you?

AMAZING!! 🎉👏👁️🧠🤓

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Morningside Heights-Manhattanville” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I wanted to share my reasons why I think it is of paramount importance to attend a No King’s protest on October 18, and to make the case to everyone you know to do the same. a thread... www.nokings.org

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Erich is not a sensationalist. And yet this is pretty dark. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Just another Monday morning... State Terror, American Style open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... 1/3

newrepublic.com/article/2013... Sanity in the senate (or at least, in a senator)

Trump’s dementia reminds US why it was so important to ensure that Biden did not run & win the 2024 election. My greatest regret in life is that we did not cover Biden’s age more. By @jaketapper.bsky.social

Are you an alum of one of the 9 schools targeted by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

🇺🇸 These dedicated public servants risked their careers to deliver an urgent message. 🚨 While the 1st amendment grants them the right to speak on matters of public concern, their protection is not guaranteed under an administration hostile to free speech. Please take the time to listen and boost 🔥

Our next profile is here! Dr. Christine Constantinople studies the neural mechanisms of decision-making. Follow the link below to learn more! 🧠 www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro