MIT declares it's not bowing down before the convicted felon in chief and his toadies www.universalhub.com/2025/mit-dec...

New study shows COVID vaccines: 💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29% 💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39% 💉Reduced the risk of death by 64% 💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

🤖 Interesting. And highly speculative. The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

🗽 A historian offers a suggestion. "Americans need a revitalized age of Roosevelt to counter the age of Trump." @mbrenes.bsky.social What If the Political Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back? newrepublic.com/article/1975... via @newrepublic.com

🇺🇸 "[Th]e U.S. military budget has nearly doubled this century, increasing 99% since 2000." Helpful report from the @quincy.bsky.social and Brown University Costs of War project. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...

🍺 A new addition to the "relatively young field of alcohol studies," in the words of reviewer Gina Hames: Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Hopped Up: How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

💧An interesting new book, fresh from the latest American Historical Review: Corey Ross. Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World url: academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

🪖 "[A] monument to both good intentions and folly." #EmpireOfLiberty @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Dispatches From Afghanistan Show How the U.S. Lost Its Way — and the War www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/b...

🗽 Great news for news service and metropolis! @carrollbogert.bsky.social THE CITY Appoints Carroll Bogert as CEO of Award-Winning NYC News Nonprofit www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/c...

🗺️ Africa is bigger that it looks on most maps. www.voronoiapp.com/other/How-Ma...

🗽“If I can make it, then just don’t put a ‘do not enter sign’ in front of my path and make me have to not enter because I may have committed the mortal sin of being born female,” Colonel Wilder said." What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Appeals court rules children born here are citizens www.universalhub.com/2025/appeals... #Boston #lawsuits

People will likely still try. We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

📉 Time will tell. The Trump Fantasy Is Unraveling www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

🗳️ NY's governor makes the case: "Mr. Trump has killed jobs and dragged down our economy with tariff tax hikes that make life more expensive for working families. He’s gutted Medicaid and food assistance …" Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

🪖 War is changing. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/w...

📜 The dead hand of the past. Jill Lepore Thinks the U.S. Constitution Might Break America www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

😷 Save money, stay healthy: vaccinate. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Change in DC seated diners per month compared to same month the previous year, Aug 2024 - Sep 2025 (per OpenTable):

RFK Jr. is working to single-handedly dismantle the CDC. He’s ignoring decades of research and science to advance his own anti-vaccine agenda. He’s unqualified for the role, and his positions are deadly. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

🎓 Keep the US strong. p2a.co/08Euvjp

🇧🇷 "I’m hopeful that a multipolar world will give us candidates in the Global South that can end up, paradoxically, being the saviors of liberalism from those who have stood for its ideals in the last couple of centuries." @samuelmoyn.bsky.social www.stimson.org/2025/samuel-...

🇺🇸 "He understands better than most that nothing, not even history, is ever truly settled, not as long as there are people who might contort it." wapo.st/42dPQSg

🇺🇸 "There is nothing “preordained” about American history, Foner insists in several essays." A Foremost Scholar of Slavery Wonders if America Can Ever Atone www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

🧬 Good questions. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

📡 "The more than twelve hundred pages of transcripts of the McCarthy hearings reviewed by CJR have a remarkably contemporary feel, showing just how little the rhetoric surrounding Voice of America has changed." Joseph McCarthy’s War on Voice of America! 🦋 www.cjr.org/analysis/jos...

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law. theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...

🇺🇸 "Liberation Day" set the world on the road to greater freedom from US dominance. Decline and Fall of the American Empire open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

📚 "In the half-century since Milliken, the Supreme Court, as well as the evolving structure of the American economy, has made those kinds of public schools only harder to find. 'The Containment' explains why." [January 2025] How the Dream of School Integration Died www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

🎁 Many countries are returning to hereditary aristocracies. [March 2025] www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

🧑‍🎓 "Free inquiry is one of the cornerstones of American liberty, along with the freedom to criticise the president without fear of retribution." [April 2025] www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Manufacturing employment as share of non-farm employment since Trump came to office

Shitty jobs report yet Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer boasts that "all job growth this year has been in the private sector among native-born Americans." Really sums up so much of what the administration is doing.

RFK Jr. said, “If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away.” Then, he did. RFK Jr. is a liar.

🚨 "The climate of emergency can be used to rationalize virtually any action." Adam Kushner offers a useful analysis. Can Trump Just Do Whatever He Wants by Declaring Emergencies? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...

Hey DOGE, you guys still out there? You won’t BELIEVE this taxpayer waste we’re finding!

💰 Money that could have been much better spent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not only is America better because of global immigration, it’s dependent on immigrants in a way that the nouveau-fascists refuse to understand. www.pbump.net/o/america-20...

🗳️ "Increasingly, college-educated voters are Democrats, noncollege voters Republicans." www.wsj.com/opinion/here...

📱 "One of the more striking findings in the Indian study was that, after a while, the bans became popular with students." The best argument of all. Perhaps a good idea for younger students? www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Florida wants to change its reputation from being where old people go to die to where children go to die apparently.

🌐 Time will tell. www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...

🧬 Kennedy is a self-promoting menace. His resignation can't come soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

🎅 Some gnomic history www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...

🇺🇦 The always excellent @samuelmoyn.bsky.social reviews two new books about Ukraine, and offers his own thoughts. My conclusion: Ukraine should done everything to keep their nuclear weapons — and everyone else will try even harder now to get them. harpers.org/archive/2025...

🪖 A critical assessment of U.S. military spending. Collective Property, Private Control www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

🌐 Demographics is destiny. www.voronoiapp.com/demographics...

I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...