I’m extra mad at elite universities for every time they have caved to the fascists because ostensibly they had access to the foremost experts on fascism in the entire world and obviously didn’t consult with them on how to prepare

Paging Portlandia…

Public/private collaboration the way God intended

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

Emily Oster's specialty is supergluing her Ivy economist credentials onto whatever opinion she has to give it the appearance of science and logic. Her risk perception is about what's good for Emily Oster, not the world at large.

Solve the middle-seat conundrum by putting a cat in all middle seats, @mta.info

The thing is there was a plan called Project 2025 and it was public and all the CEOs and University Presidents and medical associations,etc etc had time to prepare their institutions and instead they did nothing and folded

This is why I will never forgive Bernie Sanders. He could have been a mensch and made statements like this and God only knows what kind of racist, misogynistic “leftist” madness we would have been spared.

Republicans have waged a decades-long war on universities because they loathe the social mobility they generate for POC and women and the inconvenient knowledge they produce. Idgaf if some administrators ran bad HR training or if there are some toxic humanities professors, sorry!

While you don't need any specialist equipment to do your pelvic floor exercises, some people find an app helpful for reminders. The NHS Squeezy app sets reminders, gives you a timer, and helps you track your pelvic floor symptoms: squeezyapp.com

I’ll never forget that the Dem party was so cowardly about genocide they gave a raging antisemite like Thomas Massie the moral high ground. Maybe next time Lander can sponsor the bill.

There’s always a Simpson’s quote

The cyclospora parasite warning:

Wow it’s like science denial is bad for the planet and stifles innovation

All of this is batshit and bad but just sit and reflect for a minute on the DC bureau chief’s decision and rationale for it, I mean wtaf

Adults are kids with more socially accepted coping mechanisms, not necessarily better. A tantrum provides more useful information than quietly holding a grudge.

And as I told Edsall, there’s a fallacy at the heart his proposed policy and message for Democrats: the conviction that people’s views of Democrats are determined by what Democrats say, as opposed to by what others say — and spend billions to amplify — about them.

I have said it mockingly in the past but never again: NYCPS has been using the same enrollment management database since like 1984 and that’s actually pretty impressive. Bring back infrastructure that lasts 40 years.

Reconstruction 2.0 better give the Ma Bell treatment to all the tech companies and break them into pieces

lol imagine creating an anonymous account for the sole purpose of defending an entrance exam.

The concept of what a "senator" is has changed quite a bit in the 21st century. Sometimes a senator doesn't have to be a man who is alive. A senator can be 10 dads. Just 10 dads, with no kids. Or let's say you're dead and have a sister. That's a senator.

I honestly don’t know how I’m supposed to explain this to the people to need to understand it without sounding like I’m having some kind of mental break

You know who didn’t want to abolish ICE? Graham Platner

To the extent a strong military does keep America safer, this weakens America’s military and makes us less safe

My hot take is that demanding our public servants make honest evaluations of the harms their dead colleagues caused is a great way to celebrate this moment.

Remember that time when Donald Trump shared Lindsey Graham’s personal phone number to the press and Lindsey Graham got down on the floor and rolled onto his back and asked Trump to rub his belly?

‘guy who died while we were waiting to hear if another guy died’ is a fitting and worthy epitaph

Happy Lindsey Graham is Dead Day to all who celebrate. 🎉

In order to win elections Dems need to do more of this and point to it and say this is the kind of commitment I will bring to my office. It isn’t about a specific policy it is about having a theory of change and applying it to your public service.

Without weighing in on the merits of Oslo etc, this was a real thing that many of us remember - it was wildly popular and I’m sorry we were all so complacent with our optimism

A specific kind of person brought into existence without any regard for women other than as incubators

The SHSAT produces racist outcomes and it doesn’t really matter why. The decades spent trying to figure out why or how to fix it are decades of Black New Yorkers being shut out of access to a Stuyvesant education; there’s no excuse to keeping it. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov

There’s a very clear lesson and everyone playing confused about what it might be or whether there is one is one of the people you can unfollow, not out of malice but just because they probably aren’t going to help you navigate this historical moment with clarity

We’re trying hard to figure out which “camp” is to blame but it all has to do with the racism and misogyny that continues to animate too many white male liberals *and* leftists

I know it seems like huevos but when you have the courage of your convictions and the knowledge to support those convictions it becomes very easy to parry the bullshit rather than get bogged down in it

similar to "oh how do you *want* them to cover Trump huh?" and you can point to like "the way they covered Biden after the debate" or "the way they covered Claudine Gay for some reason" as templates of them clearly knowing how to do the thing and just refusing to do it.

there are so many diverse reasons why anyone from a secular background would learn yiddish right now but it's worth listening to the fact that over and over again, younger jews talk about how yiddish culture offers them a space for being jewish divorced from supporting the state of israel

RETVRN but it's just shooting a firehose of federal funding for a new WPA

I'm not here to defend Israel. I think the newfound place it has at the center of our politics is strange and unhelpful. I think it's not good that a candidate can say they oppose Israel, and suddenly lots of people will defend them from heinous allegations. That feels bad and dangerous.

look it's not really bad until price sensitivity is added to the dsm

dsm updated to include diagnosing based on your credit score; epic buys experian and now you can see your credit report when you log into MyChart

What I'd like to hear from those who defended Platner at any point is not an apology, but an exact description of how their politics and their journalism will change, moving forward

B I N G O

If there is any justice The New York Times will launch a crusade against Yale undergrad admissions that rivals their coverage of Claudine Gay’s thesis

Character matters

You see liberal commentators saying, “Oh well, there’s only a small audience for this kind of stuff in the UK.” They said that about Brexit, they said it about the flag shit, and any number of conspiracies. Meanwhile, the ratchet moves ever rightwards.

In the 1930s, W.E.B. Du Bois's proposed this definition of sociology: "the science which measures the element of the incalculable chance in the action of living beings."

Decades after helping establish U.S. Sociology, W.E.B. Du Bois lamented, “The social sciences... are trying as completely as possible in practically every institution of learning to turn away from the real fundamental and vital questions and lose themselves in mathematics and statistics.”

the breadcrumbs ran directly from 2 decades of questionable behavior to this moment... and NOBODY ... not a single resourced person said "let's do a proper background check" before standing in front of this train

at least among white people this is true and Maine is 90% white so there's no legion of libbed-out lower-income nonwhite SEIU ladies to salvage the working class vote