“We are witness to something rare in human history: Abdication by the leader of the global order. We’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in public view. That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

A YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...

Oh man. Farewell and RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch

I just posted that exact image. Unbelievably powerful This one too

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

Interesting reframing. Cost of aid to #ukraine in cups of coffee per month. (by @topleadEU)

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

The hero who grabbed the gun away is Ahmed el Ahmed

This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.

CDC study finds COVID shot significantly reduced ER visits for children

I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away. Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.

Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

America 2025.

Meanwhile, Trump purposefully drives up consumers’ electricity costs by suppressing clean energy on the grid, forcing grid operators to go to more-expensive fossil fuel units. Money goes straight from ratepayers’ pockets to his big fossil fuel donors. Sweet scam. apnews.com/article/trum...

This is The Great Climate Insurance Collapse coming at us. Republicans look away because it’s what their fossil fuel industry donors demand. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given. The same is true for everyone who swear their oath. Hope that clears things up.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

"I Want You to Understand Chicago" aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

ICE vs the clergy

I am even more incandescently furious about this heinous take by Megyn Kelly stack ranking levels of child sexual abuse. Take note: when a young person under 18 wants to begin transitioning with help of their doctor and parent, she loudly proclaims them children and attacks.

“.. we want you to know that what’s happening here is not normal. .. It is not law enforcement; it is terror. “.. It’s eroding all of our rights and should be a warning to other cities that find themselves enveloped in an ICE storm.” @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

One of humanity's greatest achievements informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew... #bnews

12 Hangry Men

www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b... Did the Reagan ad somehow affect fentanyl smuggling?

Someone please show this to Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jeffries.

Why can’t major news outlets post live video feeds of downtown Portland to let people see for themselves that this is 100% pure BS?

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

Vance on undermining the Federal Reserve: "I don't think we allow  bureaucrats to make decisions about monetary policy and interest rates without any input from the people that were elected to serve the American people...POTUS is much better able to make these determinations."

"haha libs are mad about that Sydney Sweeney ad" <- Distraction "I want the Federal Reserve to obey me and will punish everyone who gets in my way" <- Policy

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"They're in need of you needing to feel like a man" That's a fuckin' lyric. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGH...

"You can do anything you want to do… especially if you’re from Hamilton!" All love between SGA & his city at Hamilton Stadium to wrap up SGA Day!