Honestly better-tasting decaf is better for everyone, even the hardcore addicts among us. How many academics do you know who've been told to stop drinking so much coffee bc you shouldn't be having heart palpitations at 36?

Just one of the stupidest things that has happened in my lifetime

At first, Paris appeared to the writer Brianna Holt to be a city where race didn’t matter. But things weren’t all they seemed. www.thepersistent.com/paris-racism...

“These political parties, they’re like shipwrecks: metal structures, they’re dead. Street protests, youth politics come into them like shoaling fish, to turn them into living reefs.”

“… because that would require me to think and act like a human.”

At ~3mo my daughter dropped off her growth curve. So I went to the grocery store and had a breakdown in the formula aisle about which to pick. Which made me less of a failure. And then I had to ask someone to unlock the case and escort me to the checkout. It’s already so hard. Nobody needs this.

Also worth noting here are the replies to this of people who've had a similar belief trajectory, I find them quite heartening

The Psalters exhibition at the Morgan Library surpassed my already high expectations. This case was among my favorite: two manuscripts of the psalms made 600 years apart, on the left with Old English (the little words in between the main text) from c.750 & on the right in Middle English from c.1400.

A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

this shit is just beyond parody, man

fuckkkkkkkkk

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Heartbreaking: The Worst Newspaper You Know Just Made a Great Point

Headline du jour www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Beyond the obvious*, an important and insidious aspect is how it's marketed to women. Pregnancy and motherhood can be hard. The uncertainty. The expectations. This marketing directly exploits this to suggest that eugenics is the right choice. To give you control and prove you are a good mother.

“Lore delivery systems” is a great phrase

Trump's Cueller pardon is an reaffirmation of his support for all corruption, and especially foreign bribery. This is great news for alleged foreign influence agents Robert Menendez (Egypt, Qatar), Pras Michel (Malaysia, China), and maybe Miles Guo (China?).

So Tom Stoppard saved my life.

So weird to be on the same side as Bill Kristol, George Will and David Frum.

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

they're literally just LARPing as the federal government i hate them all so much

Well, that would be something. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

Tunnels under the North Sea link the Faroe islands. (Thanks @jonnelledge.bsky.social for mentioning this) edition.cnn.com/travel/faroe...

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, served in a CIA-backed Afghan force unit, known as the “Zero Units.” His unit mate said Lakanwal sought help from a CIA program designed to aid unit veterans. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Huh. Turned out to be a nuanced, well-researched piece. Also, why haven't folk been making more use of this? - "Bloomberg New Energy Finance calculates that e-bikes are already cutting worldwide demand for oil by a million barrels per day, or four times as much as all the world’s electric cars."

Pope calls for two-state solution, Israel and Palestine www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

I guess it’s clear why the lawmakers needed to make that video

President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.

Would it kill somebody to say “Nancy is not stupid.” It pains me to see the WH press corps just accept the abuse. Sends the wrong image to Americans and the world IMHO.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in. This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Maybe don’t name a thing for a sword that breaks, I dunno

Native to the Americas, the Portuguese brought a “turkey” to India; in Ottoman Turkish, they were called “chicken from the land of India.” An Englishman later described them as fowl from “Turkey,” and that’s where the English name appears to come from…

Guillotines

1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The end of the government shutdown brought good news for federal employees: The bill reverses layoffs made during the shutdown, and those who were furloughed or worked without pay should have started receiving backpay this week. unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

The aliens among us: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...