To fight the far right, we need to learn the right lessons. Do not make them look stronger than they are, but also don’t write them off because one of them loses an election. My new op-Ed in the Guardian makes a couple of points 🧵

transitioning to become happier: no speedrunning skincancer: yes

Still standing despite all of the madness.

Going to start slipping Stalin's great "Lenin founded our state and we've fucked it up" quote at everything when I'm mad about politics when google adds a gemini button to sheets when the cat throws up on the sofa

get sick and die probably

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Those found guilty at Nuremberg 2 should be imprisoned in Lady Liberty's crown

i know several people who consistently argue that the issue of misinformation is overblown. But this paper reveals the devastating harm to society in terms of health, mortality and economic costs linked to widespread misinformation:

Ending my propaganda course with a quick activity to design counter-propaganda policies.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Have relocated the aircraft carrier* to safety and mined† the straits^ * the cat food † with borax-laced cotton ball ^ the giant hole gap between wall and floor that the ants pour out of

I read basically everything I write aloud to myself as if I were presenting it to someone as an argument or statement. it is not the best method but it does make my writing very consistently Mine because I will edit endlessly if the mouthfeel of a sentence is wrong.

this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

I prefer the content of these conversations to be impregonable

i think governments should stop tweeting and go back to official press releases/joint statements

this really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept

Jared Harris on a mission to play every 1980s Soviet man

Me, every time I accidentally open a law review article

IIUC, more than you might think, but most of them are “influence operations” by our domestic, right-wing elites. Those same elites engage in overseas influence operations. Mercer dark money has been linked to European far-right groups; Koch money has funded far-right networks in Latin America.

finally hit the big leagues

everyone's talking about Jesus Trump completely missing the motorized patriot statue of liberty

What a glorious day! ♥️🤍💚

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

Insane that people would protest this.

How it started vs. how it’s going

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."

🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

bulletin of the atomic scientists:

NEW: Trump aides gutted offices that aimed to counter anti-American disinformation by foreign powers. Now the US finds itself embattled in an info war with Iran, Russia and China. The State Dept. tells diplomats to use X and work with Pentagon psyops teams. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

"and neither should any of our past presidents" we're doing time travel folks

Excuse me but some of us are fools all year round.

the only tradition worth returning to

I wrote about why this report is not business as usual in the current political moment open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

It’s like if Charlie Brown got a million dollars every time Lucy pulled the football.

bro i would play the absolute FUCK out of Accountants of the Hanseatic League

my bluesky reading face

never thought I'd be nostalgic for H. W. Bush but somehow I am even though I didn't live through his presidency.

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

pleasantly surprised we just haven't gone straight to nukes already

studies show that you should have a plan when attacking the place that controls the flow of economy juice.

Russian propaganda set to fill the void as BBC's international broadcaster faces funding crisis Read more: trib.al/JQIJwkE

This is a brilliant midterms play. As someone with a PhD in Political Science, one thing studies show again and again is that before making up their minds, voters go to congress.gov and search bill histories to see which party introduced legislation affecting the prices of common consumer goods.