People discovering and sharing Ursula Franklin’s 1989 Massey Lectures make me so fucking happy, even more so when they are as lucid and thoughtful as @meredithmeredith.bsky.social .

We can't win. He also thinks our most outstanding social scientists' research is political hackery that needs warning labels. There's no satisfying him. It's all preconceived, evidence-free opinions about stuff, which is why he's so willing to project similar biases onto the entirety of academia.

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

The hypocrisy! He has the gall to say this while the administration he’s part of is planning to DEPORT brave Afghans who risked their lives and their families’ lives to fight beside us against the Taliban TO THE D.R. of CONGO, which is conflict ridden and already has a refugee crisis! For SHAME!

Particularly gross that this event occurred at the USIP which the administration previously commandeered and DOGE’d.

"Gone is the notion that striving will result in a better station in life (for you). Gone is the accumulation of wealth and property (for you). Gone even is very the concept of ownership (for you). Those things exist only for us now. They are our cross to bear."

Remarkably, much of political science doesn’t consider this to be “money in politics”

I keep hearing otherwise normal people say things like “you know, [sex pest/internet nazi] is wrong on a lot but he’s right on [anodyne thing]” and it’s such a clear symptom of brain poisoning and really demonstrates how effective the Twitter guys have been at force-feeding bigotry to everyone

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

From journal editing experience this tracks. In 2022 our journal got ~300 submissions. In 2025? 1300. So far this year? 500 and we're not even out of April yet. The AI trickle is now a stream, yet T&F are *still* seeking new big tech partners to flog papers for AI training rather than *helping us*

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

Qualifying phrases: "at times," alerts us that he also posted non-racist tweets. "sharing views," suggests that he might not have been expressing his own views. "some experts said" Does one need to be an expert to speak on this? "echoed white supremacy." How does one do this?

One of most qualified, euphemistic, convoluted ways possible of describing Elon Musk's consistently racist twitter feed: "at times sharing views that experts said echoed white supremacy."

shoutout to everyone who insisted that weiss was a hyper-competent genius who would work her magic on CBS

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman — the role Congress created to protect the military paper's editorial independence — after she publicly criticized the DOD's overhaul of the publication. w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

this is an astounding way to refer to an adaptation of Neuromancer. incredible headline work if your goal is to send a bunch of thirtysomethings on a rage spiral.

Congress can end this today.

FBI Director Kash Patel was twice arrested in incidents involving alcohol, once for public intoxication and once for public urination after leaving a bar, he admitted in a 2005 letter about disclosures on his Florida Bar application.

so confused by the error in this headline that makes it seem like a master of horror is not a serious literary figure???

At this point you have to conclude Trump's failed Iran War is a memestock on par with Gamestop, with the market basically rising on good and bad news and accepting any news as good news of coming awesomeness and the imminent reopening of the strait.

Just passing all of the world’s banked money around in an endless circle, making sure that none of it can be invested in anything else people actually need

This is the kind of thing Hannah Arendt was talking about when she said people have a responsibility to think.

See you all at the Correspondents’ Dinner!

NEW: Public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group @weareoversight.bsky.social and shared exclusively with @theintercept.com, reveal the immense volume of data plugged into the military contractor’s software.

Quebec man faces terrorism charges tied to 764 extremist network

The kind of math that makes a 1985 set Miami Vice an old period movie also means the $150 million He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’s target audience is like, 50 year olds even though Gen Z and Alpha are keeping theaters alive. Something I try to gently bring up when I have studio meetings.

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

Trump: “If it is true, the 2020 Presidential Election should be permanently wiped from the books and be of no further force or effect!” Losers who lost can’t accept losing, news at 11

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Authentic Iranian political prisoners are being packaged into AI-enhanced collages and unverified execution claims and fed into a propaganda noise machine. The Iranian state is the only beneficiary, writes Mahsa Alimardani.

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

As per usual, the Free Speech- Industrial Complex remains as silent as the grave

the thing you don’t realize about the apocalypse is that you basically have to keep working through it

This is a bit like when Caligula gives an order than horses will be the color purple going forward

“It’s here to stay” is not the way you convince people that you’re a good faith actor open to negotiation and understanding.

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

This is clearly the Post staff who are addicted to Twitter trying to nudge Elon to tone it down. It's been clear for years exactly what his views "about race" are.

Even saying that Musk is posting "about race" is softening what is happening here, which is that the world's wealthiest person is committing himself to spreading overt Nazi propaganda.

Co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: "You just don’t get more white supremacist than the stuff [Elon] Musk is ... pushing" wapo.st/4mRC7d5 @faizsays.bsky.social @jeremybmerrill.com

One out of every five 2024 Trump voters supports impeaching the president, per our new poll out at Strength In Numbers. I was pretty surprised by this level of defection among the president's base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

The entire world is just shrinking concentric circles of faux celebrity, everyone is talking about Trout or Spinch or Blurt like I should care what they think. I don't want to hear about The Turkish Delights or the God Pods or the blokesphere or schlepmaxxing. Just let me die in peace.

I refuse to learn who this is or what this is about.

The take game:

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

As we head to the midterms, election deniers are replaying some of their 2020 greatest hits and the GOP is trying to use these rumors to tilt the playing field in their favor. But now that we know the game, maybe we can prevent ourselves from getting played? katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go...