"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

the Nazi and Soviet files are full of stuff like this.

for the right, "gender" means "women"

for the right, "gender" means "women"

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

twitter is a hellhole and I'm not on it anymore, but every once in a while someone sends me a real gem

I don't know about you but I, for one, am greatly relieved that a party of antisemites and Neo-n*zis stationed at all levels of government has made the decision to attack higher education in the name of protecting me and my fellow jews. this will go swimmingly thanks for the support

An administration heading a political party populated with tons of little neo-n*zis suing Harvard for anti-semitism is PEAK 2026 BULLSHIT

A Georgia woman has been charged with murder after going to the emergency room with severe pain she experienced after allegedly taking abortion pills at home.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

This is not fucking okay

f*king fetterman, man

When you're president, they let you do it.

Is Trump threatening to grab Cuba by the p***y? What even is this

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Is Trump threatening to grab Cuba by the p***y? What even is this

Amidst all the attacks in journalism, this excellent book has just come out to help us understand how attacks on the “liberal media” started in the first place. Great work @ajbauer.bsky.social !!

In just six days we’ve gone from “Iranians take over your country” to “we’re open to talking with the new leadership of the regime” to “I want to pick the new leader” to now “unconditional surrender”. A “concept of a plan”, indeed. www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

Maybe I'm kirking out but the unreality of this war is wild. People posting that thousands of Kurds are fighting the regime for the CIA, while the Kurds say it isn't happening. Every video of a missile attack I just have to assume is AI whether it is real or not.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

There was that Epstein text exchange with Bannon where he said "Trump doesn't respect anyone who agrees to his demands" and never has that been more apparent than every newspaper/university/law firm getting their shit double-owned by the guy they bent over for in the first place.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

why do people vote against their best interests? because one side says “THEY are coming for YOU and i will fight them” and the other side says “well you know they have a point and even though i disagree i will work with them on this”

Every day in 2026 is like exponentially worse than the day before

Bonnie, I feel genuine gratitude for the opportunity to chat with Bill at the April 2023 celebration of your "Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics." I'd heard wonderful things about him for years, and he did not disappoint. A terrible loss.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

A mass security force now the size of the planet's 13th largest army lying about seemingly every single cruel act they do is already bad enough. It's worse if half of Congress is calculating they are better off voting to give it even more money, than fearing any sort-of public recourse for doing so.

I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1

This is so sad. I invited Bill to come to UM-Flint to speak and surprisingly, he came. We drove all around Flint and he showed me where his old house used to be (sadly, like so much in Flint, it's now a vacant lot. His path from son of a sit down striker, to BA at UM-Flint, UM-Ann Arbor 1/

I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs. Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.

Relevant to this soft-glam fascist's comments today, there's a bill in Florida to ban prescribing birth control to minors—or even giving teens information about it—without parental consent. It's called HB 173 The attacks on contraception are, and have been, in motion

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee from Burma, was nearly blind and spoke no English. He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home. His family was not notified of his release. Police are investigating. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

The New York Times has joined CNN and NBC in confirming Roger Sollenberger's reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

One thing the Trump admin and the tech oligarchs have in common is that folks at the top don’t really have jobs. They have fiefdoms. They want to turn the spiderman doctrine on its head: with great power comes no responsibility. Responsibility is for faceless underlings.

it's shit like this that makes me want both to curl up into a ball on the floor, and fight harder than ever against the dystopian world being forced on us from all corners

In February 1941, there was a general strike across Holland as Dutch people stood up in protest against a series of Nazi pogroms and arrests of Dutch Jews in Amsterdam. The strike was organised by the banned Communist Party and approximately 300,000 people joined the strike...

Can more news this morning lead with this pls

Tonight's a good night for every new org to confirm that the DOJ covered up accusations of child rape against the man currently speaking.

The amount of work faculty are going to have to put in, the amount of regression, the amount of the worst kind of rigor discourse we're going to lean into, the amount of suspicion we'll have to have for our students... Techbros pushing AI everywhere, I hate you. I really do. Hate.

Scenes from walking to work on a college campus

Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.

This one hits hard.

I think there is a little question at this point that most of the people at the very top of society today are psychopaths. We need to think long and hard about why these are the people we reward with wealth, status and power.

Another horrifying, Kafka-esque scene from Trump's America