How's that working out for you? medyascope.tv/2026/07/20/i...

Wrote about the latest Hanania puff piece

I don't know @anjalikdayal.bsky.social but this is I think for you

This has actually been studied! www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Uncharitable of me to ask, but who's writing the checks?

news on the street (i.e. politico) is that trump's Free Speech Phonies™ are promoting a UN resolution. democratic governments must fight back, & here was my suggestion with @knightcolumbia.org recently 1/2

Doris Lessing! Now that's a writer

CHP, the founding party of the Turkish Republic is over. This is a truly historic moment for Turkish politics. Özgür Özel, stripped of the CHP chairmanship in May by a court ruling that reinstated Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, announced that he's leaving the party for good and+ www.bbc.com/turkce/artic...

The class action payout many are receiving now is small justice, but I think it’s worth considering what this reveals about the mortality of higher ed. The 08 financial crisis and the abandonment of loan aid for UG was a major blow to the humanities and social sciences, but problems predate this.

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

Sometimes I imagine the administration spinning a big wheel like on The Price Is Right each morning, waiting to see what provision of the Constitution they should violate today

I suppose it's inevitable that the big-name DC response to the destruction of foreign aid would include an institution that was pretty OK with the destruction of foreign aid: www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/new-com...

This is a useful term: The Great Delegalization

It’s not a “crackdown” — that implies stronger enforcement of existing policy. It’s The Great Delegalization. It’s ongoing and it’s beginning to cause acute pain and Congress could fix it.

UT Austin doubles down on denial of tenure to leading borderlands tech scholar: “In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, ‘Tenure is privilege, not a right.’” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I think if you're a post-Trump right-wing convert to the Democratic Party you should maybe be a bit more modest in your assertions about the appropriate dimensions of the coalition

No one should be able to buy an illegal high-speed device on the internet and have it shipped to New York. We agree with these nine state senators: Attorney General Letitia James should issue a consumer alert — just like California's AG did a few months ago with success.

Color me EXTREMELY skeptical

Handmaid's Tale romcom cool

"Russia can still take things from me. It can take away the freedom to travel, work and spend time with people I love. It can make my world smaller." Powerful read from @olgaborisovauk.bsky.social on life as an exiled (and wanted) anti-Kremlin dissident.

jfc

🪧 The University of Toronto (St. George) is hiring in American Politics, with a focus on democracy in the United States. Please spread the word! I'm on the committee and am more than happy to answer questions. Full ad & details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Scoop: U.S. intelligence reports offer a pessimistic view of new rounds of U.S. military strikes against Iran: They are unlikely to have a significant impact on Iran or soften its negotiating position, current and former officials tell Warren Strobel and me

Green New Deal just dropped

He finally reversed Joe Biden's favorite line www.cnbc.com/2012/04/26/b...

We took a flawed but ultimately OK-enough hiring system, "improved" it with AI, and now it's utterly broken for everyone involved.

This isn't exactly a pet peeve, but there's a line of scholarship that's all about how people experience freedom under varying forms of hybrid authoritarianism, and I do wonder how relevant that will look in a decade as the hybrids continue to discard the facade

Hey it's the logical conclusion of our era of political trends

perfect day to walk through brooklyn’s prospect park, locals say it “kicks ass” and that manhattan’s legendary central park actually “sucks ass” in comparison and is a “mickey mouse park”

The thing that the right has nailed about influencers is you *use them* just like they are using you

Where are Alisher Sakhatov and Abdulla Orusov? One year ago they were disappeared in Türkiye. Their families are still searching for answers about their whereabouts and fate. New from @hrw.org ⤵️

Further evidence no one in charge in DC was thinking past Step One

Iran's Araghchi reveals Turkey's role in thwarting Kurdish offensive The account offers Tehran's first public confirmation of reports that Ankara intervened to stop armed Iranian Kurdish groups from entering the conflict. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

he's baaaaack 🎩 www.ft.com/content/1cb9...

Most recent polling suggests 27% of Americans have an active account Of that 27%, 47% report daily betting So, 12.6% of Americans bet on sports daily… if we trust Sienna’s polling (they are generally pretty good) sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/m...

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

I think David is right here, and it reminds us to distinguish a) emotional impact of a model solving abstract problems better than I do from b) job-market impact. On (b) I am firmly a normal-technology guy. Human decisions and human relationships are needed to get things done. +

Now is the time for the Middle Corridor

The only exciting thing here is Channing Tatum is back

Yet another example of system convergence between the US and China: The US Department of Homeland Security has issued rules dramatically limiting visa stays for foreign correspondents in the U.S. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

The track is called "(Corn) Syrup"

Seas fire remains undefeated

Whoa

apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...

Interstellar is hours of build-up only to find out the secret of passing through space time is love

Internet discourse around Nolan is so funny it’s got people asking if he’s conservative or traditionalist or not whereas each movie is just him going “AAAAHHHHH I LOVE MY WIFE SO MUCH THE WORLD WOULD END WITHOUT HER I CANNOT IMAGINE A WORSE FATE THAN TO BE WIFELESS AAAAHHHH”

They call him Justin Sleeper cuz he puts the arena to sleep

Tom Cruise better make his exit at a sprint