"The decorations included an archway that read 'Seeking Truth to Save The West,' underneath the words 'Presented by Meta' and the company’s logo." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

And anybody who thinks that any academic field lacks “viewpoint diversity” has clearly never attended any academic conference where scholars are constantly disagreeing with one another on a range of different debates in our respective fields

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

"Democrats need to break from this path and acknowledge that billionaires—especially those in the increasingly antidemocratic tech sector—are never going to side with them over the GOP." From @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2087...

My response to this question is always, "Viewpoint diversity? Okay great, hire more Palestinians, I'm sure they've got a really different viewpoint than your profs with bi-national research foundation grants. For that matter, hire an out-and-out anarchist instead of a liberal democrat."

💯 the report has some great recommendations of things that elite colleges can reform to improve their institutions, but the accurate conclusion isn't "colleges deserve the blame". They're actively and misleadingly being attacked!

HHS just published an update to its Scientific Integrity Policy. Notably, it has removed the concept of political interference, and no longer calls it out as something specifically to be prevented. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul... (deletions in red, insertions in green)

A reminder that Jared Golden is retiring after this term. This isnt about strategic votes for a midterm constituency, this is just an authentic expression of the fact that he is an asshole.

DoorDash's head of public affairs said "no one is claiming it was a real delivery." I found a few people who were claiming that: Reuters, ABC, CBS, the AP, Fox, Newsmax, The Hill, the New York Post, and CSPAN, for starters. www.readtpa.com/p/a-real-del...

This is the same party that pushed abstinence-only sex education (with the understanding that marriage included child marriage, which they routinely defend and which is still legal in large swathes of the country). This is not a bug or an inconsistency, it's a feature.

What’s the point of having an expert…in the classroom if that expert doesn’t get to decide what to say and not to say…? If the board or the university wants to micromanage, censor, tell us what to say and what not to say, the very idea of a university collapses. www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

Submitting an R&R today - I still get mad every time I acknowledge my now terminated NSF misinformation grant. We did so much good research with that relatively small pot of money and would have continued to do even more with a follow-up grant. 🧪

As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

Y'know, here's what bothers me more than anything else. Why is active rebellion against the Pope, complete with aiding and abetting flat-out idolatry and blasphemy, compounded with genocidal violence condemned by the Pope, considered less serious an offense than just plain being gay or trans?

The conversion therapy interest group profiled in this story with @hencarnell.bsky.social is cheering today's SCOTUS ruling. "Clients who have been forced to believe in LGBTQ ideology have faced irreversible harm in some cases," president David Pickup says. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"This was one of the big reasons that we all won....I want to thank Riley. She really has been in the forefront.” - Trump, February 2025

The authors of the HHS report on trans youth health care were chosen by the Manhattan Institute's Leor Sapir. Now, a rule based on the controversial report could wipe out this care at hospitals. Parents are begging the administration not to go through with it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you are familiar with the claim that most transgender youth will "desist', please read, and consider sharing. @catherinesjwall.com, @ghawinriver.bsky.social and I are very proud of this work.

My latest for @sciam.bsky.social is all about the real biology, ecology, and climate science that is used to create the world of Pokémon, and how scientists use it to teach science in the real world. This is just about the most fun I’ve ever had interviewing anyone, and I hope you enjoy! 🧪🌎

New from me @thebulletin.org We have effective interventions against health misinformation, but they don't do us much good when tech companies aren't willing to add protections and the misinformation is coming from those in charge of our health system 1/ thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

I am so happy that this has finally seen the light of day. On the one hand, it seems an obvious answer to an obvious question, but it needed to be done. And I'm never gonna start harping on the bit about the Spice Girls. Ever.

They want to overturn Obergefell and aren’t shy about it. Go on, look up how many gay people are married and ask if you can risk not campaigning on that.

Using rough calculations, LGBTQ+ people of voting age make up a proportion of the population 8-10x larger than that by which Harris lost in 2024 in the popular vote— approximately 2.3 million. Trans people alone account for nearly half of that 2.3M margin. We’re worth the “risk.”

Okay but seeing snapshots of the broken look on his sour leathery face during his concession speech produces a schadenfreude so potent and euphoric that it could be sold by the microgram.

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Without a hint of irony. Also, Matt Gaetz. Mar-a-Lago. Half of Epstein's whole thing. Literally being Florida. Y'know what, here's a compromise. We can fund a federal secret police if they exclusively police Florida statesmen.

"Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion. “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. 'I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.'" www.wired.com/story/govern...

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

How the hell has this man not been excommunicated yet? Seriously, just nail it to his fucking door at this rate

Several important nuggets in here: • Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope • One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%" • His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

This really was it. They legitimately thought that they were smarter, more cunning, and more capable than the Byzantine political machine that's been destroying the world for five decades. They legitimately figured it, in part, because they think anyone that isn't them is stupid.

Victor Ray is not pulling punches here. 🎯 These type of institutions are mushrooming across public institutions in GOP-controlled states. None has an academic need. Few have student interest. They are symbols of political conquest and sites of clientelism.

This is also how dozens of groups with names like the Pinkerton Institute for Economic Morality end up filing amicus briefs at SCOTUS arguing that the CFPB should be executed

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

Omg I'm so happy

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

A wild journey through MAHA: “He asked me if I’d like a complimentary drip of methylene blue, a … dye marketed for improving longevity and memory. I knew it as a last-resort blood-pressure drug that … constricts blood vessels so much that it can cause gangrene.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

There are well established concepts in cognitive psychology that explain why certain conditions worsen when validation from others fuels delusions. But humans tend to create more friction. Ironically they’re less patient, and their empathy has limits where the affectation of empathy in bots do not.

Second this and here's a link. yalelawjournal.org/pdf/Srinivas...

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

At the heart of it, Christian nationalists are fundamentally unable to understand any expression of faith that is not violence, domination, and brutality, as that to them is what Faith *means* and demands. So when someone says something like this, it shorts them. Also, excommunicate Leonard Leo.

a) you should write off the British but not just for this specifically b) it started out as a handful of powerful bigots and media leaders but after a decade of being hammered in the press it's not uncommon to hear random people repeating bigot rhetoric and pretending they give a shit.