it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

It feels really strange to root for a billionaire, but here we are.

lol.

he's bitin the heads off the angels now

One down.

Dogwhistles, Figleaves, and Slogans in the Second Trump Term, by Jennifer Saul #philsky social-epistemology.com/2025/07/14/d...

Planning ahead for summer 2026? Don’t miss the EPIC Summer School in Bertinoro (Italy)! Details and a link to apply here: epistemicinjusticein... #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #MedHum

🚨 Hiring! My lab, the Everyday Ethics Lab at @camhnews.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to conduct empirical bioethics research in mental health, substance use health, and chronic pain. Join us for critical, collaborative, impactful work. Details here: bit.ly/4eRc4if Please share! #Bioethics

A new flavor of conservative content is targeting women online—and it’s going viral. @akilahhughes.com explores the rise of the "tradwife" aesthetic on the latest episode of COURIER's new podcast, How Is This Better:

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

I'm genuinely begging folks to read both @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Torres' "TESCREAL Bundle" and @adambecker.bsky.social's _More Everything Forever_ and connect these billionaires' eugenicist dreams to the GenAI products they're pushing onto every educational institution, K-college.

The myth of the debtor as an individual who made a bad choice obscures the reason that we are in debt. Medical debt doesn’t exist in countries with nationalized health care systems, and student debt is unheard of in parts of the world where public college is free.

Trump understands that federal student loan debt is a tool of social control — a way to structure society based on who gets relief and who doesn't. Sadly, he's using it to keep people indebted when he could use it to liberate people. This is classism. apnews.com/article/stud...

A story about a soulless automaton devoid of any foundational ethical code and also about artificial intelligence www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

THREE Ohioans voted for the Senate budget bill drastically cutting Medicaid even though “More than a quarter of Ohio's population receives health coverage through Medicaid.”

Trump is not only a total bonehead, he’s also ridiculously cruel.

The Senate Republicans just passed one of the most morally odious, stupid pieces of legislation in history. It’s hard to overstate how much people hate this bill. Could it cost the GOP their Senate majority? www.messageboxnews.com/p/will-the-b...

Tax cuts for the extremely wealthy at the expense of the health of the poor and working class. The GOP continues to bend the knee to Trump and raise the middle finger to the rest of us. Shameful.

Just to be clear about the big bill Republicans are passing: it will remove the authority for a President to eliminate federal student debt through executive order. That, sadly, confirms what we already knew — that the authority existed and was clear. This bill is very, very dangerous.

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

“The real story is that manipulative neocons exploited Trump’s jealous hatred of Barack Obama to convince him to rip up the (Iran nuke deal), precisely so we’d arrive at the crossroads we’ve reached today. He’s giving them what they used him for, because he’s exactly the mark they thought he was.”

Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle

Rachel Maddow: “If Trump wasn’t getting the intelligence that Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon from the intelligence community… who is he getting it from? Israel?” The right question. And pretty obviously the right answer.

This is why right now is dumber than thr Iraq runup. There was a year of endless propaganda on top of the war mindset of post-9/11 and Bush at +60% approval. Right now its a historically unpopular president following an unpopular ally into a war nobody wants and he's making zero attempt to sell it

it was absolutely this stupid, and the political press was all the exact same people.

One of the more important health care cuts in the legislation would affect Medicare beneficiaries: some of the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities who are on Medicare.

Can this administration just be explicit that they want queer and trans kids to die, or at least that they genuinely do not care if they do?

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

Sotomayor blows the idea that discrimination against gender dysphoria is not discrimination against transgender status out of the water:

It is impossible not to read this in conjunction with the Supreme Court's heartrbreaking, awful decision in Skrmetti allowing states to deny transgender teens the health care they need.

They're trying to kick us down, but we're gonna give them hell. Nobody is going to take this without a fight.

Not good.

For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The mayor of Tulsa announced plans for a $105 million private charitable trust to provide descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre with housing assistance and scholarships

The crazy is strong tonight

Yep.

Beat it, dweeb.

Thank you, @dansinker.com for this. I’ll be reading it to my twin kids who graduate high school next week. Feels like a commencement speech. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Unhinged.

It's all so farcical. Nobody could seriously believe that there's some plan here which goes step 1: cancel all foreign student visas at Harvard, step 2: ?????, step 3: increase replication rates in biology. The lie is so transparent as to be insulting.

Hahah, dweebs.

Not that it needs to be said, but the "white genocide of South Africans" narrative is conspiratorial horseshit all the way down www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

While giving tax breaks to billionaires.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

i think it is bad that high level public officials do not respect the offices they hold or the public they are supposed to serve