“It's when science implies societal action that people begin to try to reject the science in order to avoid the need for action.”

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Free for a limited period from the new issue of The Review of Politics - Walking a Tightrope - https://cup.org/4rxIhA8 - Xinzhong Yao

In Uganda, about 5 percent of the population has HIV, the tenth highest prevalence rate in the world. American foreign aid programs such as USAID and PEPFAR long provided funding was key to slowing the spread of the virus and saving lives. theintercept.com/2026/02/09/t...

"One doctor interviewed by The Intercept at a large hospital said they have not seen an increase in HIV positivity, but attributed it to the fact that '[those at greatest risk of HIV transmission] (KPs) are in hiding' and the hospital lost all funding to hire people to go where KPs dare to live."

"An erudite and original analysis addressing a research question that is both critical and understudied: How do authoritarian regimes evade democratic progress?" The Resilience of the Old Regime by David Art (@tufts.edu), Coming Soon #History #PoliSky https://cup.org/49Q7wrB

NEW ISSUE from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - American Political Science Review - Volume 120 - Issue 1 - February 2026 - https://cup.org/45Bmj6Q

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social#OpenAccess- Political Disenfranchisement? Perceptions of Political Racial Threat and Support for Felon Disenfranchisement Among White Americans - https://cup.org/4qs0jTz - Joseph A. Coll, Courtney L. Juelich & Scott J. LaCombe #FirstView

posting this again because i’m truly desperate: i became disabled and lost my job because of it. i’m seeking treatment for chronic pain and other agonizing symptoms but in the meantime i can’t afford basic things. anything helps @ ko-fi.com/wwxwashere

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It would be good if @bellingcat.com could verify this story. Really important. @eliothiggins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

1/ @motherjones.com reported extensively on this group, Freedom 250—and the larger effort to whitewash our history and get corporations to fund that destruction—in our cover story that went up last week: www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps" The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"

Teaching again has eaten up a lot of my energy, and so balancing time getting art done hasn't really leveled out yet. In the mean time, Inprnt is having a free shipping sale on orders over 30 USD! That's a really good deal with how expensive shipping has become! www.inprnt.com/gallery/sama...

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"This Week in Democracy – Week 55: Trump's Racism Isn't Distraction. It's Policy" Zeteo's weekly round-up, documenting the growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas. Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points. Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

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Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social#OpenAccess- From Commonality to Unity: The Opportunities and Challenges of Latinxs’ Cross-racial Alliances with Blacks - https://cup.org/4qYQVHV - Álvaro José Corral (University of Texas–Rio Grande) #FirstView

Epstein is like the evil Forrest Gump, somehow present and responsible for every terrible thing of the last twenty years.

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

You might know May Mailman as the woman who took on Harvard on behalf of the Trump administration. But Mailman, a Stephen Miller ally, is also the mastermind of Trump’s most sweeping anti-trans orders— an extraordinary effort to reshape our ideas about who and what men and women are.

"Targeting regional universities and community colleges reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of tenure—as if it were a privilege reserved for a select few rather than an essential working condition for all faculty responsible for teaching and research." @proftwolf.bsky.social @aaup.org

lmao. Also why does AI love that weird pixie nose? It’s a dead giveaway even before listening to something no woman would ever say

I share @willbunch.bsky.social's work on the regular, because it's all good. This latest piece is a haunting barnburner about a planned concentration camp in rural Pennsylvania. The first sentence is: "Evil has never looked this banal." Please read this and share: www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

NBC News's Tom Llamas did an hour-long interview with Trump filled with softballs & filled with Trump lies that he didn't challenge. Worst of all, he did not ask 1 single question to Trump about the Epstein files & the 38,000 references to Trump. Our mainstream media is broken. Subscribe to Zeteo.

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

Guys I know everything is incredibly bad but please stop for a moment and enjoy this photo of my fucking amazing cat. Look at this shape. The box behind him is his thinking box, he sits in it and thinks

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

Don’t worry everyone, I have a plan to personally save journalism. I simply need to make a billion dollars and not be corrupted by my newfound wealth

our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

Not for nothing, but it was a Washington Post article about romance fiction that pushed Jacob Tierney to contact Rachel Reid about making #HeatedRivalry.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

anyways i need democrats to realize that trump is trying to fuck with the midterms ***specifically because he is afraid that he, donald trump, will be impeached and then end up back in court and then die in prison*** and then i need to them to literally never shut up about impeaching his bitch ass