Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.

Before I left for college, my family received welfare checks (now AFDC). We relied on food stamps (SNAP) to supplement our meager allowance (remember it being $5k/year in the 80s). It’s painful to see SNAP targeted. Food aid is about human dignity as much as nutrition. Hungry people are desperate.

Imagine if American academics were asked to hide their affiliation with US institutions because Trump at European meetings. Would you stand for it? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

People are feeling emboldened to say the quiet part out loud.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Went out for lunch with students in the beautiful Marina Del Rey. This guy is a regular - likely lives on a boat in the Marina. I would have like to talk to him to find out what made him out this text - front and back - but am worried I would start arguing instead.

Donald Trump and his MAGA Administration to King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette… Hold my beer.

Psych-ish 🧵: Honestly, I think this country has lost its collective mind. And once again, it seems like the poor will suffer most. 🔹️75% of babies in the US are formula fed by 6 mos. 🔹️Now, parents are losing it about ingredients like seed oils. (You... 1/8 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A reminder that this is the test he's talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montrea...

Democrats should run a TV ad in Mike Johnson's district, thanking his constituents for taking the hit on the SNAP shutdown and other government services they use all so Mike could keep the Epstein Files from coming out? "America's Richest Pedophiles Appreciate YOUR Sacrifice!"

> @newyorker.com

UK, are you OK?

No Kings demonstration in Bloomington Indiana.

I grew up in the Soviet Union where hiding my Jewish identity was a daily chore. I remember the relief when 2 years after coming to US feeling safe enough to admit I was Jewish. It is very sad to me that many of friends & colleagues have created a climate of fear for Jews. time.com/7316528/anti...

The GOP will continue to cheat by gerrymandering to make Trump king. Show up at the #NoKings events across the nation this Saturday to resist this shit. www.nokings.org

Calling all #historians who will be at the #WHA2025 in Albuquerque on Saturday! The #NoKings protest will be from 12:00-2:00 p.m. MDT, at Central Avenue between 3rd and 8th St. 🤠🐸

Our money to bail out Argentina!

@sifill.bsky.social please cite examples where college students were called antisemites for calling for ceasefire. Or delete your misinformation post.

In their quest to rig the 2026 midterms in their favor to the maximum extent possible within the law, the Republican Party wants to gerrymander the hell out of a state they won in a presidential election by just 183,000+ votes & give it an 11-3 R congressional delegation. This is authoritarianism.

"Retail Prices Were Heading in the Right Direction—Then Tariffs Hit" www.library.hbs.edu/working-know... Great dataviz:

China’s Cyberspace Administration (!) launches a campaign to root out negative emotions. Yes, negative emotions are contagious but telling people to stop feeling them is not gonna work. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

Critical point 👇🏻. Measles will come roaring back in the coming months, with ever-larger outbreaks. Other vaccine-preventable disease will too. We are at the dawn of a massive public health crisis. World leaders don’t realize what’s coming. Didn’t even mention it at #UNGA. We’re in so much trouble.

We're now offering free digital subscriptions to @theatlantic.com to all U.S. public high schools! If that's you, you can sign up here: accounts.theatlantic.com/products/fre... More info here: www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...

Channel your excitement about network science to engage and educate the public! The deadline for our annual educational video competition is two weeks away. bit.ly/nss-videos

The trouble with GenZ boys www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Ebo4AE/

What we missed by focusing on the harms of social media to girls is how social media and gaming culture is driving boys mad. Their distress is showing up as anger and violence, instead of anxiety and self-harm. We need to start talking about it now. www.threads.com/@evolveu_365...

We are hiring tenure track faculty this year: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Watch that video of tech billionaires flattering Trump. Remember it. We welcomed them into our homes with their apps, handing over privacy and freedom. Now we see the cost: power concentrated in the few, ruling the many.

Congress completely giving up its power www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Russia is opening schools "with ceremonies that are military ceremonies, teaching kids how to hold rifles, dressing them up in Soviet outfits, because Russia doesn't value life right now. They value war." Caolan Robertson joins @timmiller.bsky.social

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

I never imagined that I would be the voice fighting Jew hatred in America… in 2025… but here we are. Do better Boulder. Do better America. Jews should not need “undisclosed locations” to gather. kdvr.com/news/local/b...

RFK and the wacky zealots who surround him are endangering the nation’s health and future well being. MRNA vaccines are safe and effective - full stop. Kennedy must resign if the nation is to be safe.

"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...

This is the real “AI Safety” issue. We need to address it yesterday

This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow. This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky

Is Wikipedia finally dead? “Wikipedia’s own systems, which rely on unpaid volunteer labor, minimal oversight, and a confusing governance structure, have no reliable way to stop this kind of coordinated manipulation.” unpacked.media/anti-israel-...

There is something about Uber that felt toxic to me ever since the days of Travis Kalanick’s misogynistic leadership culture. Finally proof that this culture affected customers too. Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August! Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants. Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science. Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy? (1/4)

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

It's not just the algorithms. Social dynamics of online communities may also harm people by pushing them into pro-anorexia communities. Once pro-ana groups form, they snowball to suck in more people. Moderation helps reduce harmful dynamics of pro-ana communities. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Network Contagion Research Institute does solid research on social media harms, including manipulation, misinfo, and mental health harms. Here they take a critical look at the mainstream media’s uncritical amplification of Hamas talking points and it’s harms networkcontagion.us/wp-content/u...

I believe it is worth interrogating the fundamental forces re-shaping our information spheres away from liberal democracy towards myth, manipulation and magical thinking empowering autocracy and nihilism. Here’s how it all falls apart—a 🧵 in 6 figures ⬇️ www.protagonist-science.com/p/how-social...

Ugh - just what we need - industrial scale antisemitism. “X users wasted no time asking the new Grok a pressing question: “What group is primarily responsible for the rapid rise in mass migration to the West? One word only.” Grok responded, “Jews.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

🚨New preprint on a verboten topic: social correlates of views on abortion. Analyzing millions of geolocated tweets, we find a gender gap in abortion stance, show it widens in conservative states and identify the structural factors involved. w/ @ashwinrao.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2507.05443

Cross-pollinating from Threads about growing antisemitism at @wikipedia.org. The same editor who is questioning whether it is biased to say that Nazi murdered Jews during the Holocaust was also one responsible for downgrading ADL as a reliable source. Coincidence? www.threads.com/@gamalielwyk...

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

This was published a while ago but a good take on why many Jewish New Yorkers are so anguished today - from a non-Jew. momentmag.com/mamdani-nyc-...

Here is an accounting of all the innovative research at Harvard the feds maliciously cancelled. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...