On peut comprendre la recherche de notoriété et d'écoute auprès des décideurs, et du grand public, par une partie des scientifiques à l'aune du concept "capital d'expertise" que j'ai développé dan mon livre By the Power Vested in Me. 1/ www.michaelstambolis.com/by-the-power...

If you trust Robert P. George to tell you Bhattachary is “a person of absolutely impeccable integrity," then you are a dupe (or an ideological ally of his). George is a notorious ultra-conservative Catholic operative (and, yes, professor) behind much anti-abortion and anti-LGBT organizing.

French President walking to the UN but unable to get there because of Trump's motorcade seems like an apt metaphor for America's role now on the world stage

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

Un travail extrêmement impressionnant d'une équipe de l'IPP sur la taxation des très hauts revenus. Il y a plein de choses à en tirer, mais cela (re)confirme que les ménages extrêmement fortunés contournent l'imposition individuelle sur le revenu en se servant des sociétés qu'ils contrôlent.

Unless they're been raptured.

Not to brag, but my boyfriend in college did not eat fruits or vegetables. With two exceptions: canned peaches and fried jalapeño poppers.

Cette affaire me fascine depuis le début. Merci à @mediapart.fr pour ses investigations qui permettent de comprendre le fond et de suivre le procès en cours.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

NEW: Another state seeks to join the abortion pill lawsuit that won't die. Louisiana asks Judge Kacsmaryk for permission to join case against FDA alongside Texas and Florida. Repped by fleet of Alliance Defending Freedom lawyers; ADF filed original 2022 suit storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In the US, we tell women that they have to be Supermoms. That their kids are in constant danger, and it's their job to be on watch for threats and then swoop in to save the day. That role can feel empowering for moms*. But it also leaves them vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

🚨 Parution imminente du livre Green-Backlash 🚨 Pour lequel j'ai eu la chance d'écrire le chapitre "Scientisme" avec Isabelle Stengers Mais surtout des articles de @cassouman40.bsky.social, @sfoucart.bsky.social @valmasdel.bsky.social, Fressoz, Jarrige, Azam.... Bonne lecture !!

Confronté à une enquête de Mediapart, le cabinet du premier ministre reconnaît finalement que Sébastien Lecornu n’est pas diplômé d’un master de droit public. Selon plusieurs documents, lui ou ses équipes indiquaient pourtant l’inverse depuis 2016. Par @davidperrotin.bsky.social

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

It now appears the Trump administration is going to require government scientists to allow political apparatchiks to review and vet scientific papers before publication to ensure ideological purity. This is gross abuse of the scientific process. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

To all the comedians who stood for free speech in the face of wokeness

In honor of the freedom of speech and before Indiana Jones is deemed seditious, I'm re-watching The Last Crusade. "Nazis. I hate these guys."

I made some caponata for the first time. For now, the Trump administration has not banned this Sicilian delicacy.

"An American university launches an investigation into an archaeology professor suspected of being an “antifa” activist." 😂

This is very good, and worth remembering "The longer an online dispute goes on, the probability of it turning into a hateful shitshow approaches one. It doesn't matter what the argument is."

Ça va vite, très vite...

L’Association des journalistes LGBTQIA+ (AJL) est particulièrement inquiète des récents traitements concernant les transidentités par l’Agence France-Presse (AFP) et les médias ayant repris ses dépêches

Bonjour, Nous sommes le 19 septembre et cela fait 24 heures que @gdeleur.bsky.social a été suspendu par @bsky.app sans pour l'instant de réaction de @support.bsky.team

*nodding and pointing upward sagely*

If i tried to do what Charlie Kirk did but from the left and in evangelical churches, they would kick me out before i could even set up my "trans people are nice and cool, change my mind" booth.

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

"The right to protest on campus has diminished dramatically over the last two years...The reason is not a censorious left but the “free speech” alliance of liberals and conservatives, united against the left, that has unleashed the violent and repressive crackdown of the past few years."

« À chaque fois, je voyais la gravité dans les yeux de mes interlocuteurs et ils me posaient la même question : comment fera-t-on ? C’est là tout le problème, j’ai été frappée par le décalage entre cette grande inquiétude et l’absence de cap politique pour y répondre. »

Source :

J'ai ri, mais j'ai ri! 😂😂🤣 Merci Marion Cotillard pour fabuleux moment très très gênant pour Léa Salamé. Anne-Sophie Lapix be like 💅🍿

Loi Baptiste = ⚠️ "L’État, n’aura pas besoin d’assumer la suppression des formations qui n’atteignent pas les indicateurs de performance. Un pouvoir hostile aux sciences sociales pourra supprimer des formations en sciences sociales," explique @juliengossa.cpesr.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Pas une semaine, parfois pas un jour, sans qu'une voix ne s'élève pour dire que la jeunesse est trop éduquée (comprenez "la jeunesse pauvre"). Cela a même été mis explicitement dans le programme de EnMarche/Renaissance.

Dans le cadre d’une étude qu’il conduit sur les attaques aux libertés académiques, Pierre-Nicolas Baudot a dénombré plus de 70 livres consacrés à la "menace wokiste", publiés entre 2020 et 2023. "Si tous ne se vendent pas très bien, ils disposent d’une couverture médiatique très importante."

Here we go

i was told by the supreme court that this was a hysterical hypothetical

At the beginning of the pandemic, a guy tried to crash a hijacked train into a boat because he thought all of the Pizzagate babies were in there. One of dozens of things from that year that went basically uncovered outside of my beat.

Le SNJ tient à apporter son SOUTIEN à Thomas Lemahieu, grand reporter à L’Humanité, ciblé personnellement par le milliardaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin, qui a mis sa fortune au service de l'extrême-droite. Notre confrère et militant SNJ a largement contribué à révéler son projet snj.fr/menaces-cont...

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

I think we should take them at their word. "We're going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks" "We're going after NGOs" "Terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF & the Ford Foundation" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Je suis sûr que personne ne verra l’éléphant dans la pièce : Charlie Kirk, l’évangélique fascisant, pouvait aller parler dans les universités devant des étudiant.e.s queers et wokes ; mais les étudiant.e.s queers et wokes ne sont pas invités à venir parler dans les megachurches évangéliques 🤷‍♂️

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.