So, honest question, what do you do if you see a group of masked, unidentified men restraining someone and forcing them into a vehicle? Seems like we should AT LEAST be calling the police, who should detain the masked men until they can verify their identities and authority.

We tell our students looking for jobs to have their elevator pitch at the ready. But we need to emphasize it needs to be about “why it matters.” That’s how you hook people. Many people frame their pitch abt what they’ve done bc “why it matters” is obvious to them, but it won’t be obvious to others

This is so interesting — the New York tenements have always fascinated me and I love the story about how they influenced building codes. @troytassier.bsky.social has told me about this before. Can’t wait to read this article.

So first of all, this is BAD. Second, is it still a “deportation” if it’s a US citizen?

Nobody wanting to listen to you is not the same as nobody letting you speak.

Good job, #RussellVought, #ElonMusk, #RFKJr and #JayBhattacharya: "Even using the lower value in calculations, the lost health from the NIH cuts translates into more than $8.2 trillion ($100 000 × 82 million years)." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Literally not a single congressional district, not a f-ing one, wants Medicaid cut. Not even close! Yet they did it anyway. Some voters need to wake up and realize that they are not being represented by their representatives!

The GOP knew cutting Medicaid was unpopular. In Nov elections they promised not to cut it. They promised again in Jan. When that $800 billion cut showed up in Feb and Mar, one by one they promised it wasn’t Medicaid. They all vowed to never touch it. And, of course, they lied every time.

This is bleak af.

The thing about Springsteen is that he can do this all day.

Impeach for each impeachable offense, or get out of the way. I’d like to see the people who represent me actively represent me.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 9% of voters support cuts to the home care that Medicaid covers.

This sounds like a cartoon I watched as a kid.

Holy smokes

So many layers of corruption.

CBO analysis estimates 8.6 million people will lose health insurance from the republican budget plan released last night. $715 billion cut from Medicaid and the ACA. It’s a death sentence for some.

If someone says there are Nazis around and you say “hey stop picking on me” you’re kind of telling on yourself.

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump and Noem opened an ICE detention center in Newark without permission and in clear violation of the city's ordinances. And when confronted by Mayor Baraska, they did what authoritarians do. They arrested and disappeared him.

Columbia, home of one of the country’s most prestigious journalism schools, suspends student journalists for doing journalism.

Wow

Can’t wait to hear her position on unprotected sex.

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported

I love how mundane some of this stuff is (and hate it, too). There are reams of Russian disinfo being pumped into all the US-popular LLMs, and it’s going to change the way a lot of people think about the world. “I asked ChatGPT” is going to be the same as “I ran it by Putin.”

Covid was very bad pre-vax, and it’s much more comfortable to forget the details of how serious it was. That’s why we need leaders who treat prevention VERY SERIOUSLY—so the rest of us have a better chance of living without giving it so much thought. I like to be blissfully unaware.

When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

I’m issuing a challenge for anyone visit be Oval Office: Go tap on one of those “gold” decorations and tell us all what it’s really made of.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just describe tariffs as an extra sales tax? That would be at least close to accurate, and much easier to understand.

Imagine you’re at home with your kid, encouraging them to do their best at school so they won’t have to work in the factory with you—the same factory where your parents worked until they died. But you have to ration the pencils, because they only get 5 per year.

This is a great way to describe how dumb it is to use an LLM to write for you. I tell people (especially students) that the version of you who you are before writing a paper can’t finish the paper. The version of you after, can write it. Which do you want to be?

One thing that comes from this is that I am distrustful of pretty much everything that comes to my phone. In a few years I’m going to be paying all my bills in person.

John Yoo once wrote at length in an OLC memo about what size box it was legal to lock a suspected terrorist in (spoiler alert: very small) and for how long, and whether it was okay to put an insect in there with him. So probably it's bad that they've lost him.

All of these America First people don’t actually like the principles that the country was founded upon. It’s ironic, but if they don’t like it…they should just go live somewhere else.

Act 4: “Vladimir, stop!”

There are postcard writing campaigns to encourage people to vote—why not a huge, organized campaign to send cards to every 70+ R voter delivering this info. “You’re not safe and neither are your grandkids” is a pretty strong message.

OK charter school case before SCOTUS is an extension of the voucher movement.Don't forget, vouchers began w/ Milton Friedman arguing freedom to choose segregated schools. "Under such a [voucher] system, there can develop exclusively white schools, exclusively colored schools, & mixed schools."(1955)

The White House is increasingly seeking to deport immigrants who came to the U.S. decades ago and have established a life, career and family in the country. Listen to one family's story on "The Daily."

This statistic blew my mind

Fake ICE agents are preying on vulnerable immigrants while Trump’s crackdown intensifies. In South Carolina, a man kidnapped & harassed Latino men, pretending to be ICE. These unlawful impersonators are easily exploiting & joining the administration's effort to instill fear in migrant communities.

I absolutely LOVE that I can generally assume that if it’s in a store, it’s safe. I don’t really want to think about how we’re going to have to get used to living.

This stuff isn’t just inhumane and bad for the people who it will impact directly when low-income supports are cut. It’s also going to be damaging and dangerous for everyone else. When you give people WIC or childcare support they spend it in their neighborhood. Ripple effects will hurt us all.

This is…not at all a bad idea. Not just for talking to reps, but everyone. If measles gets around because vax rates drop below 95%, your grandkids are more likely to die.

I really hope some brave soul is sharing this stuff on Facebook.

👀 academic authors when I tell them not to use block quotes because readers skip over them.

Remember not being able to get toilet paper?

Again, we can back leaders with conviction, but not *politicians* who are going to do a 180 if the wind blows hard enough.

The story of the American citizen child separated from her deported parents is shocking and appalling—and sadly not entirely uncommon. This happened to actress Diane Guerrero, who came home from school as a 14 year old to learn her entire family was detained and then deported.