Brutal.

Iran didn’t just hit 2 fighter jets, they got 2 rescue helicopters that aren’t getting any attention Crew is safe- but reporting on the conflict isn’t reflecting the actual damage being inflicted on our soldiers - Credit to NBC & NTX local WFAA ABC 8 too for bringing some awareness

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

I have a paper on SSRN about how the imperial/Chadha/King-like presidency is killing US science, and we would love any comments!

An example of the perils of presidential control over science agencies. This Budget Request is dictated by the White House, Vought, and the P2025 OMB, not NSF. We have an imperial presidency, the dream of John Roberts and Charles Koch since the 80s. And it is incompatible with successful science.

Trying out a new slogan given the NYT embarrassing headline error.

Hey can we get some of these competent professional soldiers to maybe come back and fix this mess?

Four U.S. aircraft reported either shot down or damaged over Iran today: 1 F15, 1 A10, 2 Blackhawks Trump, two days ago: “They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force.”

I went to a CVS today and they lock up the soda now

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

hell is not hot enough for any of them

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Great stuff from @espiers.bsky.social:

In Jan 2025, he said Elon Musk was going the balance the budget with DOGE finding fraud. On 2/2/25 he said tariffs would balance the budget. On 6/2 he said OBBB would balance the budget. On 6/12 he said Trump Cards would balance the budget. Now he says Vance will do it.

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

Unless the US Government is backstopping the Time Value of Money portion of, you know, not having a ship while a new one gets built, and other liabilities associated with employee loss or externalities, this is functionally useless

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

Here’s the latest Wall Street play. Step 1: Promote a new shadowy financial product. Step 2: Lobby the Trump Admin to roll back safeguards and shove private credit into Americans’ 401(k)s. Step 3: When it goes south, get out fast while leaving families holding the bag.

I don’t think he’s well.

Just a reminder as to where his half-assed idea came from.

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How U.S. Sanctions Are Causing Hunger in Cuba ->WorldBeyondWar | More on "US sanctions causing Cuba hunger" at BigEarthData.ai | #hunger

This is an incredible resource if you're following the ongoing immigration habeas disaster

Boooooo

You know who you don’t hear much about these days? Steve Witkoff.

"A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees."

It's Hormuz, not Hormooz! U is not to sound like "oo" , but a short "o" Hor-moz Getting annoyed to hear Hor Mooz

The German academic system has its share of problems, but this remains the model for history seminars. I assign two articles a week and we talk about them. It's so old fashioned it has become avant garde.

Any discussion of the Iran War is disrespectful to the Epstein victims, who have lost their champion in Pam Bondi. by Karoline Leavitt

It’s just grift on top of grift built on grift.

Says @a_rutschman in #HLC2026 by @nusl.bsky.social : looking at three vaccines - RSV, Flu, Chikungunya. Often FDA looks like it's following the rules, but going the other way.

Old: Stansell's City of Women and Hunter's To 'Joy My Freedom--the first women's history books I was ever assigned in college before I was a women's historian. New: Motyl's Embodied Histories! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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A win! A federal judge today denied the Justice Department’s request to reconsider his ruling last month blocking the government’s subpoenas of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as part of a criminal investigation into cost overruns at the Fed’s headquarters renovation.

Judge James Boasberg said the government had offered neither new evidence nor identified any material error in his original ruling, which found the subpoenas were issued to pressure Powell to cut interest rates or resign rather than to pursue a legitimate criminal investigation.

Trump is calling for a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of this spending will go to private contractors, many of whom routinely price-gouge the government. Reminder that Don Jr. and Eric Trump are big investors in drone companies looking to obtain defense contracts. See the problem?

As someone shot down behind enemy lines, my heart goes out to the crew members and their loved ones who are waiting for answers. It's a relief one servicemember has been found and rescued, and I'm grateful for those risking their lives to look for the one who remains missing.

A judge ruled Tuesday that the EEOC can move forward with a contact-info request that Jewish community members at the U. of Pennsylvania had called a dangerous "list of Jews." This administration has a history of contact-info requests many find creepy. https://chroni.cl/3QiPNkX

Ah, turns out The Nebraska Examiner had reported this story months ago, accurately framing it not just about the national/presidential implications but all sorts of major state priorities conservatives could pass: nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/11/19/s...

Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1

"She's kind of a legend."

Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's succinct but thorough tour of the escalating intra-MAGA warfare. As he points out, the key point of contention here often seems to be... Jews.

Seems that JD Vance is promoting his college roommate, Daniel P Driscoll, now secretary of the army, to replace Hegseth—so Hegseth is preparing a preemptive strike. What a nest of vipers this place is. And that in the midst of a war. These are the most unserious people ever to sit atop the Pentagon

Welcome back Elizabeth I

Trying to make a nuanced argument about how only liberal states do counterinsurgency because illiberal states do not need to resolve the basic contradiction between violent domination and legitimacy derived from the people and Peter Hegseth is just saying this shit straight up like it's... good?

It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

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