they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you @raskin.house.gov? I swear to god democrats are so unbelievably stupid but also clearly corrupt too bc democrats are actually trying to ensure Americans never get better built much much cheaper Chinese cars. They’re fine w/unaffordable shitty American cars.

There is absolutely no reason for prediction markets to exist. None.

Some of the identified individuals the US killed in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific showed "no indication of involvement with drug trafficking." And even if they were traffickers, they'd be low level. Killing them would make virtually no impact on the cartels or drug trafficking into the US.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

This is a paranoid fantasy that the media encourages but it’s actually not true. The US produces a very educated populace. It’s just that the sheer scale of our R&D requires drawing on the finest talents of a far larger population base via immigration.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Detroit needs competition + the US desperately needs more affordable EVs. Letting Chinese companies build factories and sell cars here will enormously benefit US consumers. If Big Auto cannot survive, then that's how it goes. And politicians arguing to shortchange US consumers should be voted out.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Is this energy dominance?

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

One reason consumers may be on the cranky side is not just high gas prices, but the fact that we are truly living in a gilded age--the labor share of GDP reached an all-time low in Q1, stronger productivity is not being shared b/w labor & capital, yet another contrast to the late 90s boom

Ice went out on the Tanana River at Nenana Monday evening, extending one of Alaska's very best climate relate time series to 110 years. Although break-up was later than normal by 21st century standards, this would have been a bit early for the ice to go out prior to 1960. #akwx #Climate #Spring2026

The politics of datacenters are straightforward: they suck. Data centers produce a brief modest bump in construction work followed by a trivial number of low-pay jobs, strains on local power and water, and outrageous noise pollution. Any Dem on the wrong side of this is asking to lose.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

The Supreme Court blatantly exceeds its constitutional authority and undermines its legitimacy when it acts like a super legislature rewriting laws it doesn’t like.

People have moved away from 'data centers can help local economies' to whatever this is. Polling shows nearly 70% of Americans don't want it. So far, it's nothing but a drain on local resources. So, proponents have to reach for imagined future benefits from un-related things to sell it.

If the Voting Rights Act is rightly seen by many of us as the real beginning of American democracy, then it is fitting that a Court hell-bent on undoing democratic rule, including granting the president king-like powers, would seek to dismantle it.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

What The Guardian Got right. www.therebooting.com/p/the-guardi... The key: "A voluntary contribution model that has attracted 700,000 supporters, 500,000 of them recurring. Reader revenue has grown 35% a year for the past two years." And now they have a bigger audience than the Washington Post.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

One point about "vibecession" is that simple CPI numbers and the like do not cover what we all know: the American economy is filled with scams, bullshit, and engines of inequality. 99.99% of the population has good reason to be pissed off, and yet the other 0.01% is somehow the most hostile.

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift. Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

American higher education is still the envy of the world, but we have given the Chinese government a big opening for them to keep or bring back more of their top talent. This would take decades (barring major unrest in China) to reverse. Gift link.

I'm not sure if this is controversial, but I declare electric vehicles as the most inevitable clean technology - more so even than techs with higher current adoption, such as wind or solar. As my mentor used to say: "it's all over but the shouting", though most people don't realize it.

I seriously think academia would benefit more from picking up the phone and talking to someone rather than trying to say the same thing in an email. My own experience is that things move much faster with less misunderstanding over the phone than an email.

In a few years, we will come to see these gambling corporations akin to Purdue Pharma when they pretended not to know about the lethal consequences of their drugs. And Congress will be responsible for every instance of financial ruin or suicides that result from their inaction or worse, complicity.

Increasing wealth inequality creates a worse quality of life for most Americans. Companies start to cater only to the small number of wealthy customers - auto manufacturers, airlines, hotels - while the experiences gets much worse for everyone else. This isn't sustainable.

Today, Israeli forces fired teargas at Palestinian schoolchildren who staged a sit-in in the occupied West Bank after settlers blocked access to their school. It’s the first day of class since the start of the Iran war. This is life for Palestinian children. The world does nothing.

This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.

Probably so, and it's not like we've made progress on "you're being cheated out of the benefits of your labor" in the past 50 years. From 1979Q4 to 2025Q4, productivity is up 92.4% but hourly pay is only up 33.6%, a gap that just keeps growing.

Spain PM Pedro Sánchez: “What we’ve witnessed in Gaza is a human catastrophe that has already been etched into the conscience of our history— We cannot allow that same pattern of massive destruction, of innocent civilian victims, & of disregard for international law to be repeated on Lebanese soil”

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

What Israel is doing in Lebanon is obscene. What they’re doing on every front is obscene. A country that will fall apart if they stop being in perpetual war.

Brutal.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

Corruption & elite capture was always going to be the US' undoing; this admin simply supercharged it. Trump is only a symptom; dangers of propaganda as media, accelerating wealth inequality, unchecked techno-fascism pose far bigger challenges. And political opposition seem completely unprepared.

Any Dem 28 nominee that does not pledge to fully prosecute every single admin member for war crimes and corruption should not deserve a single vote in the Primary. And incompetent seat warmers - including Jeffries and Schumer - must be forced to resign or retire.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability