Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

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When you hear the inevitable critique of Smith’s 100% accurate description, remember that they openly brag about doing most of the things he cites. Prosecute enemies? Hell yeah! Fire prosecutors for working on cases? You bet! But we are not corrupt. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

She sounds as you would expect from an anti-elite insurgency party. "I really like ambassador’s dinners, Ferrero Rocher, that sort of thing." Course you do mate.

Retribution might be a rare promise he delivered on: "Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution... federal employees...prosecutors...universities and media...The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government."

‘Many conservatives now claim that Orbán can’t have been an autocrat, since he ended up losing an election and conceded. But in the kind of system created by Fidesz, defeats for authoritarians can’t be ruled out entirely.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Hungary. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Front page ft www.ft.com/content/95f5...

www.projectcensored.org/violation-ca... @nolanhigdon.bsky.social and Spectre boardmember @grundrza.bsky.social talking to Mickey Huff and @eleanorg.bsky.social at @projectcensored.bsky.social .

When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power" www.chronicle.com/article/near...

@crow.house.gov 🔥👊🔥👊

Does Kid Rock have a Polymarket account?

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Delighted to return to University of Chicago for two theory talks. I'll discuss primary document findings that detail how Theodor Adorno's engagement with early communications researchers helped inspire the "Culture Industry" chapter of Dialectic of Enlightenment. voices.uchicago.edu/massculture/...

Tremendous economy, "the hottest in the world," they're saying, incredible economy, yes, we're buying cartel gold and selling it as our own, they're saying it's the greatest economy of all time.

New: “How the Trumps’ Billion-Dollar Crypto Stake Depends on a Company That Helped Iran Evade Sanctions.” my first report for @publiccitizen.bsky.social 1/

Very interesting study on class consciousness and religion by @profsamperry.bsky.social & @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social "...Christian nationalism...approval of economic inequality among those who benefit from it..higher-income Americans."

Colombian sent from US to Congo says she faces pressure to risk danger back home reut.rs/4sPYot0

Common explanations like average rents, unemployment, immigration, and substance use were not significantly associated with year-on-year changes. Displacement due to property damage and loss from climate disasters such as floods, fires, and storms accelerated the rise.

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

New @raskin.house.gov is launching a new investigation into President Donald Trump’s son-in-law — and Iran ceasefire negotiator — Jared Kushner, citing his “glaring and incurable conflict of interest.” www.ms.now/news/iran-ne...

This is compelling from Klein on the reality of Zionism, but it also ends in a kind of Zio-pessimism in which we are supposed to bear witness to suffering for which nothing can be done. Klein literally concludes "I don't think this is a time to talk about solutions" but to "confront realities."

“This is pathetic.” Bill Kristol reacts to Vice President JD Vance saying that a tit for tat brawl over economic terrorism will become the administration’s priority, over reopening the Strait of Hormutz.

What kind of Orwellian stuff is this? "addresses free speech on college campuses" by banning walkouts? I oppose the heckler's veto but come ON

That's me as a doctor.

Maddow on what keeps despots in power and why they fall apart: "Nobody actually likes a corrupt despot. They all just support him because they think he's going to be in power forever so you need to stay on his right side in order to get anything for yourself."

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Hungarians singing 🎵 We are the champions 🎵 after finally finding out their vote is their power. 🤍 🗳

They look like Orcs 🙄

Delusion vs Inevitability. It's an old story.

So, the difference between us and the mullahs is...🤔

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

👉 "Mr. Orban, you are not a patriot. You are just a useful idiot of Russia and China." Moritz Körner, European Parliament

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Summary (via a friend): They closed the strait again b/c war that isn’t a war that we already won has a ceasefire that isn’t a ceasefire that was just violated, now strait that’s completely open that will also open up naturally is closed but that’s fine we don’t need it also open the f---in strait

You see the darnedest things on the tube.

Just read a very good article at the US Library of Medicine. My research will be vastly improved as a result. If only I could do that for most academic articles, rather than be blocked out by an unaffordable charging system www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Read the full piece in @bjsociology.bsky.social here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Frost: What Blanche said, I think he was fed that by the administration. He's been told to say, hey, listen, we're moving on beyond this…. but we're not going to move on because the law has been broken. The law that was voted on by damn near every member of congress to release the files

Is she going to seek asylum in Russia or somewhere else?

True that 😆

She couldn't keep the Dow at 50,000 😉

Warmongers are also war profiteers? Shocking!!!

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Viktor Orbán created a new state foundation that forced independent media owners to transfer ownership, changed the state media into a propaganda mouthpiece, and hounded the remaining few free media with tax audits, raids, and surveillance. Over 80% of the media in Hungary is now in his hands.

Pete will be the next "coffee boy" 😉