"We are party to a services agreement with a security company owned by Mr. Musk and organized to provide security services concerning him, .... $4 million for such security services in 2025, and $1 million for such security services from January 1, 2026 through February 28, 2026."!

Someone's bankers have a sense of humor #SpaceXIPO

SpaceX's prospectus is WILD: "We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (“TAM”) in human history" Fascinatingly, very little of the projected market is space-related. 90% of it (26.5T/28.5T) is AI. "Our AI business is in a relatively early stage"

So... I wonder what the founders would think about the fact that our constitutional institutions have deteriorated so far that Congress is now getting lectures about checks and balances from the King of England.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social I would like to debate you on whether the Iran war can be justified under Just War theory in the Catholic intellectual tradition. Please have your people reach out to arrange the particulars. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This discriminatory death penalty law moves Israel further from the Jewish and democratic values on which it was founded – and from the core values of American Jews. 1/3

Trump isn't just contending that a narrower interpretation of the Citizenship Clause is preferable. He is saying there is a class of persons without rights, the aim of every authoritarian throughout history. Further, he argues that he has the unreviewable power to decide who is in that class.

Republican negotiation: Fund ICE or we'll defund food stamps. Dems: Okay you win. Dem negotiation: Reform ICE or we'll defund airport security. Republicans: No. Also, give me your shirt, loser. Dems: OK lets fund airport security. Can I put out a press release saying I am a tough and strong?

Removing sanctions on Iran oil will bring supply to ports, US energy secretary says reut.rs/47Zrpea

Can this be a solution?

"No stupid rules of engagement" -- Pete Hegseth www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u... www.military.com/feature/2026...

Maine is 95% White and 61% Rural (cf Ohio 70% White, much less Rural) bsky.app/profile/shar...

"[L]ight the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon" is one of the more coherent theories of the Iran war that the administration has offered so far.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that how Harvard and the economics profession respond to Larry Summers will determine who makes up the next generation of economists. #econsky #news #harvard

Give us absolute power! Without all these silly norms and constitutions we'll be able to get the important stuff done. Yes, a few heads will get cracked but it's for the greater good of the nation! {Cracks heads; gives up on greater good; constructs massive monument to own vanity}.

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social FYI www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

No one can deny the reality of climate change. Deniers instead push stupid alternative stories about how the cause is anything but fossil fuels. bsky.app/profile/carl...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social So, did you guys know each other in college? Anyway, thank you both for fighting for freedom, justice, and good governance!

Putting aside historical or legal arguments, the "unitary executive" seems to be quite a terrible system from a policy point of view.

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

If YIMBY urbanists are listening, I have a question for you. How do you deal with risk of future negative externalities from vacant housing? It seems like planners believe these are large and that's a big obstacle to relaxing restrictions on new construction.

Trump accuses Harvard of judge-shopping after Harvard files suit in the state where Harvard is located.

BREAKING: Rumeysa OZTURK must be released from detention, a federal judge ruled Friday, describing her incarceration as an egregious First Amendment violation that could chill the speech of millions.

the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

lol jokes aside as a researcher and #phd student, all I'm gonna say is that public scholarship matters more now than ever. And academics who think talking amongst themselves in the ivory tower are decidedly missing the plot. bsky.app/profile/ifls...

In the other place, newly appointed DOJ Chief Economist Julia Pollack throws shade on @hamiltonproject.org, claiming that their graph misleadingly hides spending increase trends under Biden that the administration has fixed.

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

There are only two plausible reasons for Susan Collins *not* to supoena Musk and haul him before her committee to answer questions under oath: --She doesn't actually mind his corrupt pillaging of the govt --She's too scared/complicit/etc to do her job Neither of these reasons are OK! #MEpolitics

@nytimes.com, I don't think Hitler was invited to the Yalta Conference. Was the historical echo you were thinking of perhaps the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.

This is terrifying. She has an H-1B visa.

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

Why skeets and not bleets?

The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.

So, did Trump buy a Tesla this morning? I see a lot of news outlets reporting his promise to do so, I'm legitimately curious whether he went through with it.

Deporting a permanent resident for what would be protected speech if they were a citizen (maybe also for the resident) is dangerous for free speech. Now any permanent resident has to fear what they say. And if you reply about how bad the speech was, you don't understand free speech.

We need to organize--let’s help each other. NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond. I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations. Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!

This is going to be a difficult nut to crack… what’s being suggested is catering to their lowest impulses… that’s what Rogan Peterson and Tate do

A Presidential Executive Order, entirely focused on using the full power of the US government to punish a law firm for engaging in entirely legal actions that the President dislikes