Seems rational enough.

FWIW, I never had a problem with Joe Wilson heckling Obama, precisely because I want it to be understood that heckling Republican POTI, let alone Trump, is firmly within First Amendment boundaries.

A conclusion I've been coming to for some time. Again, and again, French Anti-Wokisme is the Gold Standard for said elite backlash, although the German version, wrapped in the country's memory culture and Staatsräson, is more complex - and just as deserving of study.

The brain drain from science in the US isn't to other countries, but from science to non-science (e.g., I know scientists driving for Uber). The one exception is that students and postdocs are choosing other countries over the US because of the lack of funding, the danger, and the uncertainty.

The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.

Sin City.

Elle ment. C'est l'exact inverse. Elle sait qu'elle ment. Le journal qui relaie ça sait qu'elle ment. Ceux qui bourrent le crâne de tout le monde dans ce pays construisent un ennemi imaginaire pour mieux ignorer le fascisme qu'ils ont sous le nez.

Les mêmes ont voté au second tour pour des gens comme toi pour empêcher l’ED de gagner mais il semblerait que l’appétit de pouvoir entame fortement l’intégrité et l’intelligence des gens.

Cue in some idiot in Germany saying it trivializes the Nazi Holocaust to refer to ICE as SS units, or their facilities as Concentration Camps in 3, 2, 1....

Un universitaire québécois me faisait remarquer il y plus de tente ans que l’influence de l’anglais affectait la structure même des phrases dans le français QC: ce vieil ami entendait certains dire “la fille que je sors avec", par exemple.

Here's the thing: TikTok was so much more than just fun; it also told marginalized people "I see you and I want you to feel seen!" Like that nonbinary African-American friend who told me TikTok's algorithms were peerless at detecting their preferences and modelling feeds accordingly.

Rien à ajouter.

I'll freely admit it took me way too long to appreciate the contribution he made to progressive politics in the States. He was so far ahead of his time on so many issues.

Botanist Marie Clark Taylor was born 115 years ago today. After serving as an army nurse during World War 2, she was the head of the botany department at Howard University for three decades, pursuing photomorphogenic research. #WomenInSTEM #PlantSky #Botany #BioSky 🧪🌱

In 1971, June Bacon-Bercey became the first Black woman and the first woman overall to serve as a television #meteorologist, defying systemic racial and gender discrimination #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #blackwomeninstem #blackstem #womeninstem www.fox6now.com/news/legacy-...

Ein wichtiger Aspekt ist meines Erachtens noch gar nicht genannt worden: Offenbar fürchten die ÖRR die Aufkündigung des Rundfunkstaatsvertrags durch eine rechtsgerichtete Landesregierung.

As the US intensifies the blockade on Cuba to include food, it is important to understand the link to Gaza. Israel's forced starvation of Gaza served to destroy the norms & laws around collective punishment and normalize the punishment of civilians. The US is now replicating this in Cuba.

Chemical engineer Paula Hammond creates super-thin nanoparticles (1,000X smaller than the width of a human hair) by stacking layers of materials--layers that can be programmed to deliver cancer drugs, improve energy storage in batteries & more. Dean, School of Engineering at MIT #WomenInSTEM #BHM

If I might by immodest, here is a link to the curriculum on apartheid and the anti-apartheid movement that I co-wrote. So much of what Elon Musk says is explained by exploring South African history.

Worth considering.

Straight to jail.

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen

It's astonishing that this needs pointing out.

This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water

Agree

Mich würde interessieren: haben diese sog. Antideutsche wirklich Einfluß? Oder sind sie deshalb die Rede wert, weil sie ungewollt auf die bizarre Natur der dt. Erinnerungskultur aufmerksam machen?

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Indeed. Did anyone spot Jeb, George W, and Laura?

Sad outcome in an important case. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Actually, I'm not so sure this is a minor point. Because-I-Can uncouth masculinity is a key selling point for these people and their supporters.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Here are some alternatives to sub-stack that non-Nazis can switch to! Hopefully none of them have any fascist connections.

A low bar to clear, but yes.

I heard the booing clearly, FWIW.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Serves them right.

So many. Just so many powerful men. It’s mind-blowing.

Don’t know if this was meant in jest, but a broadcasting entity specifically aimed at the U.S. may well be needed before too long.

International travel to the US has plunged in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, as the president has overseen a dramatic expansion of immigration enforcement, mounting scrutiny at the border and global tariffs. ft.trib.al/qS5dOcd

👇🏾

So often the story told of China's industrial success is one of state directed overthrow of the west. There's a completely different one of entrepreneurs trying to find their spaces in crowded but growing markets. This latter story is largely being ignored. www.ft.com/content/15e2...

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

An episode of Galaxy Quest, of course.

Me, I'd go for the concrete at Giants/MetLife Stadium. At least I'd have some enjoyable company.

Ironically, the first major political victim of the Epstein files will not be Donald Trump or Ehud Barak, but... Keir Starmer... who never met Epstein. The question now is not whether Starmer will be replaced as Prime Minister, but when. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Right?

Lot of speculation here.

My ancestors were a part of some of the first free Black colonies to settle in Washington, D.C., in the 1800s. This city is a part of me. And, what I've witnessed over the last year has been devastating.

Indeed.

That's pretty much their whole political strategy, isnt it?