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“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow [Muslim] citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.” --George W. Bush, six days after 9/11

as far as i can tell the official position of the us supreme court is that the only racism to exist in america is racism against white people? and trying to protect minorities from racism is actually racist against white people?

For this holiday weekend, here’s the mother of all #ScholarSunday threads, my epic 275th of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Look on my likes, ye mighty, and despair!"

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

Wondering how history folks are feeling about this. I am not filled w dread and panic. Really, I am not. Really. 🗃️

Or maybe, just hear me out, Americans are paying more attention to the Supreme Court than they used to, and they understand the difference between this Court and earlier ones where justices respected precedent.

But think of all the vitamin D those kids’ll get. Sure they may die of cancer but they won’t have rickets!

The fertility rate going down is good because it means fewer teens are having kids, people are thinking hard about how many kids they can actually afford, and fewer women who don't want kids aren't being forced to have them.

The only people in America who won’t admit that Donald Trump is a delusional old man with a fascist drive are Trump supporters and the mainstream media. Everyone else can see it.

MURDERERS. And those who aid and abet murder.

“Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of the agency—could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

life is short but sewers are long.

"When your war aim is 'status quo ante bellum,' you can skip the bellum"—Clausewitz, probably

I fully agree. We should dig up Richard Nixon's corpse and try him for...all of it. Fuck Ford's pardon! That'd be a start.

bUt nOT wHitE chiLdReN!

He's so bad at...all of this. And he's one of the least incompetent among the Dunning-Kruger Administration.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

This is definitely ONE thing Democracy looks like!

The lack of health insurance kills more Americans than Iran, yet Trump and Hegseth prefer spending 200B on war over care. Prioritizing weapons while ignoring lives is national neglect, not national security. #HealthcareNotWarfare #USDemocracy

I feel seen! I got my first scam book club invite this morning. Nothing like this banger, though!

Congratulations Senator on this massive ratioing

There's a non-zero possibility that AI will both help the world cure cancer and at the same time numb every human's skill set so much that no one can implement it.

… and then what happened? bsky.app/profile/joel...

As someone who works in software and uses AI for various software tasks, I didn’t need to learn how to write a prompt in school. I did need to learn how to think Clearly, how to write well, how to read, how to be skeptical and critical and I needed a larger body of knowledge so I could spot bullshit

Sen Schiff how about some damn regulation of this ponzi-scheme AI industry? How about instead of jamming this crap in our children’s faces before it’s ready, we force tech oligarchs to have some accountability for once.

With Rudy Giuliani in critical condition in the hospital at age 81, despite my differences with him, in the spirit of the common humanity of all people, it is my sincere wish that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss had a pleasant Sunday with their families.

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The depths of their hate is only exceeded by the depths of their depravity.

It's the first #ScholarSunday of May. Enjoy! 🗃️

And every living Republican supports him.

"New Trump admin rules kick needy Americans off SNAP benefits." You're welcome.

I'm a public health law and regulatory scholar but also work lots in policy & these days I'm thinking a lot about @mcopelov.bsky.social's pt that the only way thru is dramatic institutional reform. Obama and Biden opted for policy but it's the institutions that are rotten to the core.

I never knew that Christopher Walken and Winona Ryder got hitched!

Pictured here with @vedaniel.bsky.social, @kellyodonn.bsky.social, and Amanda Mahoney. We had a great time at these Dittrick events on contraception histories last week!

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

The impact of the Voting Rights Act on Black representation in the House. Pretty damn clear. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Can confirm: this is excellent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnj-...

those loser Dems tried to fix the system but were outdone by those savvy Republicans note how this framing completely erases any sense of Republican agency from the equation

Happy Thursday!

Worth reading the replies to this post: some horror stories and some good advice in them. #DigitalPreservation

by the way, we know not only how the democrats lost white non-college-educated men, but exactly when. It was support for civil rights, from 1964 onwards. Democrats have not won a majority of while male voters since before the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.