No the best cognitive bias is the first one I heard about, anchoring.

Timeline cleanse 👇

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

They are literally canceling culture

Relevant again

Appropriate for Constiution Day (i.e., today)

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Shreveport, LA, the largest city in Speaker Mike Johnson's district, has a murder rate more than twice Chicago's, and a crime rate considerably higher than both the state and national average. And Johnson isn't calling for the military to invade it. One of many ways we know this isn't about crime.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

“Well I don’t like that study because it doesn't give me the result I want’

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

The the United States Department of Energy does not understand renewable energy or how batteries work.

Seem to recall when the Biden admin was (misleadingly) accused of putting pressure on social media companies to change their editorial policies (most of which were rejected) we were told by a large segment of the population (and a few judges) that it was the worst violation of the 1st Amendment ever

These workers were *building* the plant. And construction had to stop because of the arrests. Which means that ICE is now directly undermining efforts to create domestic manufacturing jobs.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Nothing says “Nobel Peace prize” quite like the changing the name of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War.”

10/10, no notes

All of us.

Agree. Watch the whole thing.

52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.

And I feel fine...

I can

Vaccines save lives, pass it on.

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

A public library put out this video. That makes it all the better! #librariesareawesome

Bingo (this and the couple of posts following it)

“Dearest Agnes: We wander the wilderness by dark. People are playing chess and walking their dogs, and every night I worry I shall not return to you. But I must spare my phone battery now for there are no outlets here. Yours &c,”

This is lovely.

It’s almost as if appointing an anti-vax lunatic with zero qualifications to oversee America’s health was a numbskull idea and everybody with a functioning brain knew it.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

It doesn't have to be this way. It doesn't.

every single teacher you know, from kindergarten to college, has thought deeply about what they'd do to protect their students during a school shooting. it doesn't have to be this way. it will never have to be this way.

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

I always appreciate reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. This piece is clarifying. Gift link:

It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.

Thread 👇

"A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge." Proverbs 29:7

Year 23, with a new title. Here we go!

Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.

He might need to release the Epstein files to distract from the Russia summit

Wow.

I'll be using this.

Honest to god I barely remember what I said to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social in our live conversation about what’s going on in higher ed, but I’m pretty sure I stand by all of it. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

This is amazing. I play trombone, but not like that.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in D.C. to show what a hell hole it is

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Excellent point.

Hard agree.