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"This is one of those books my mind keeps coming back to. [...] As Mechanics and Luddites, we could prepare students to not simply be cogs, but machine breakers as well as builders." Really lovely review of my book in the context of education technology www.civicsoftechnology.org/mechanic-and...

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🚨 Extreme misogyny is being normalized both online and offline. Watch tech & online culture reporter @taylorlorenz.bsky.social's chat with CCDH’s @imranahmed.bsky.social about the dangers of the manosphere ⤵️ counterhate.com/blog/incels-...

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New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again "The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."

Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.

One last thought: This is the kind of attack that conservatives have been making against liberals forever (think limousine liberal), and conservatives make it because they think that caring about anyone else is stupid. It doesn't work when you're also trying to make the argument that you care more.

I wrote for @foreignpolicy.com about what Trump chickening out might mean - and if it could be his Obama -Syria moment foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/t...

This could still mean a range of things but it would be useful for Trump to make it clearer soon because there’s only one way Russia will be spinning it

One of the all-time great comics

Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding

Lewis: When we organized into the union at the Omni Hotel, we saw an opportunity to protect our passion and continue practicing our craft—while no longer tolerating low wages, poor treatment, lack of healthcare, or being treated with anything less than respect and dignity.

Proposed peace deal would lock in Russia's gains in Ukraine, handing Putin a huge win, reports stated.

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

This makes me think Reform, in Kent at least, may have some interest in actually governing if they're willing to acknowledge reality.

Liverpool did have a hotline to the centre of government under the Coalition when Heseltine persuaded Cameron to let him write a report on the city. Unfortunately internal politics got in the way www.livpost.co.uk/the-charisma...

Good piece by @guardianheather.bsky.social; crazy to have 2 fiscal forecasts if you only want one Budget. But hard to argue that significant tax rises won't be necessary in October.

Starmer’s disability benefit concessions are not enough, says rebel Labour whip

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

"As temperatures in Marseille approach 40C, authorities have ordered public swimming pools to be made free of charge ...With peaks of 39C expected in Naples and Palermo, Sicily has ordered a ban on outdoor work in the hottest hours of the day" www.theguardian.com/environment/... Bravo

Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.

This is a consistently excellent newsletter, always full of insights substack.com/@nixonsimon/...

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

I wish he'd fought this -- this is Waterloo for academic freedom www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

"Outdoor tennis was devised in the late 1860s by a Welsh army major called - you’ll just have to trust me that this is a real name - Walter Clopton Wingfield, who wanted to find an alternative use for under-used croquet lawns." This week's @thenewworldmag.bsky.social column concerns Wimbledon

After a long and storied history, the BSOD is being replaced. WIRED takes a trip down memory lane to wave goodbye to the iconic screen we all love to hate. www.wired.com/story/so-lon...

The case marks the Supreme Court’s first major ruling of Trump’s second term—though more are likely to follow.

Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver has pleaded not guilty to federal charges stemming from a chaotic scene last month outside a Newark detention facility

Just an example - Ally McGovern, rightly, did the headline policy speech here. But there are several DWP speakers on the detailed panel discussions, as there should be. Would be insane to ban this sort of thing. ersa.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Watch Rep. McBride’s full conversation with Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta on our YouTube channel: win.dnc.org/McBrideConvo

Rep. Sarah McBride: “Every single time they say the word trans, every single time they say the word immigrant, look what they’re doing with their grubby hands. I guarantee you that they’re picking the pocket of American workers.”

What the left can learn from MAGA blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

I guess Trump has redefined the meaning of the word obliterated.

Greens gain ex-Labour councillors in London, as they target left-wing voters and local politicians disillusioned with Keir Starmer’s government. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-hea...

The proportion of Conservative supporters in favour of a more proportional electoral system has doubled since 2023 to 52%. And 60% of the country overall now support it. @timbale.bsky.social reads the entrails of the latest BSA release. www.independent.co.uk/voices/propo...

Robert Jenrick has declared that he is an "Anglofuturist" today. It is not a phrase that many people will have seen in mainstream politics and the media. What does it mean? It may have two distinct and overlapping meanings to those who are championing it, such as the Anglosphere Institute

Senator Mitch McConnell: “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.” (Punchbowl News)

Wow. Numbers signing the amendment opposing the governments welfare reforms growing - up to 119 now. Thank you to all the Labour MPs who have had the courage to step up and do the right thing 👏

Matthew Goodwin is becoming the parody of a 1970s pub bore racist, but it was effective then to a degree at building support so that can't be ignored.

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

🚨 Yes, this is real: Trump’s VA just gave doctors the power to refuse care to Democrats and unmarried veterans. You read that right — a political loyalty test at the hospital door. Veterans who served this country can now be turned away for not being married or not voting GOP.

Incredible how Cuomo is absolutely DWARFING everyone else in money and spend and yet it’s still close enough that they’re pulling these stops out. They’re scared.

Trump is bombing Iran. So why does it feel like Biden is the one who started the war?

I don't believe Trump or Netanyahu when they say Iran was close to getting a nuclear weapon. Bibi has been saying that since the mid-90s. I also remember the non-existent WMDs in Iraq. I'm no fan of the religious extremists in Iran, but Americans and Israelis will die because of these two dumbfucks.

the administration don’t think the budget bill or the iran bombing will be popular. they don’t really have a plan for becoming popular again. it might not be possible. this is just them doing the things they wanted to do, while they can

Hey remember when the one of the most prominent Democrats in Minnesota and her husband were assassinated

Mamdani's position here is excellent, and it's notable that he's become a major voice in lib-left FP just because the national power vacuum is so hard and the media demands statements of Muslims