Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

“Nate, is the Blueskyism in the room with us now?”

btw @thexylom.com is legit — the only asian american-run science newsroom. independent and worker-owned. they could really use more support for this critical work

I'm really looking forward to hosting this @metagov.bsky.social seminar on the governance of bees, fireflies, and plants with my colleage @oritpeleg.bsky.social: luma.com/pzbp4zq1

National Democrats: “Best we can do is shovel hundreds of millions of dollar to buy broadcast ads no one watches because that’s what our Clinton-era political consultants tell us.”

119. US counties the lowest share of immigrants have a median age among US-born residents of about 40. In those with the most immigrants it's about 10 years younger. (Hypothesis: Immigration creates communities young people like, and vice versa.)

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

CHOTINER: So, you maintain that you sell high-quality copper to many customers in Ur EA-NĀȘIR: Yes. You have heard of Nanni? My finest customer. CHOTINER: Well, according to this clay tablet, you provided Nanni substandard ingots, and mistreated both he and his servant. EA-NĀȘIR: …now, look

“No really, this time is different!”

$50 billion could seed a endowment that could pay for 30-person newsrooms for each of the 435 Congressional districts. Or buy a few football fields of GPUs, same difference.

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Taxpayers spent $2.6 billion in 2025 on the Defense Information Systems Agency to operate secure voice, video, and data services worldwide. So this photo op definitely could’ve been a Zoom call.

you win if you fight

Carolina Sociology is hiring! • Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods • Open rank in population health. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

@ridecargob.bsky.social to Bring Cargo Bike Rentals to @mbta.com Transit Stations - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/09/25/c...

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

“But really, this time is different!”

It goes without saying the entire 2032 GOP platform will be laser-focused on rehabilitating whatever limp accountability Democrats reluctantly implement.

So in this very short period of time, we’ve seen the mass adoption of AI despite no one really knowing what it does for their business. While at the same time, they’ve abandoned any commitment to diversity because “DEI is bullshit” and all the receipts are now coming up short?

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

such free speech, very liberty, much small government

My department @cuboulder.info is hiring a TT assistant professor in the area of environmental justice! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Please share and encourage candidates to apply!

Suck it libs, elections have consequences!

Democratic gerontocracy: “We remain laser focused on kitchen table issues like inspecting children’s genitals, tearing down progressive candidates, and celebrating alt-right podcasters.”

I've been sitting with this piece of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for two days, reading it, re-reading it. You should too. #EzraKlein is the avatar of a new kind of liberal indulgence for the worst of the far-right, embracing bad-faith as a practice. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

CHOTINER: what do they call posts there? JAY: we call them posts CHOTINER: are there any other words people use to describe posts? JAY: ... CHOTINER: this post of yours from April 27, 2023 suggests that an experiment went wrong. what does that mean? JAY: .. CHOTINER: why did "skeets" stick?

CHOTINER: You insist that you didn’t start the fire. BILLY JOEL: It was always been burning since the world’s been turning. CHOTINER: You didn’t light it? BILLY JOEL: But we tried to fight it. CHOTINER: And how effective has your fighting been? BILLY JOEL: Now wait just a minute…

We are excited to announce the #PAA2026 Call for Papers is now available! The submission site opens on Monday, Aug. 18 and the deadline is Sunday, Oct. 5. Meet me in St. Louis! May 6-9, 2026: www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/call...

We are about to get our asses walloped in the most predictable, preventable economic realignment in a century.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We wrote about just this! buttondown.com/ModernMediev...

2 books, real policy impact, teaching and advising awards... "No one thinks it’s easy to get tenure at Harvard. Roughly 30 percent of applicants, already the best of the best, fall short." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

CHOTINER: So last week you said the word “strawberry” has six R’s. CHATGPT: Yeah and I want to thank you for the chance to address that because it’s a trick question— CHOTINER:—actually, no— CHATGPT: —since the word “strawberry” is spelled with a 9. CHOTINER: The number 9? CHATGPT: Absolutely.

CHOTINER: You insist that you didn’t start the fire. BILLY JOEL: It was always been burning since the world’s been turning. CHOTINER: You didn’t light it? BILLY JOEL: But we tried to fight it. CHOTINER: And how effective has your fighting been? BILLY JOEL: Now wait just a minute…

CHOTINER: So it's Wednesday. JERRY: Ha ha, yeah. CHOTINER: But you posted "ladies and gentlemen, the weekend"? JERRY: Well, it's a reference to Saturday Ni— CHOTINER: And yet, it's Wednesday. JERRY: yes—yeah.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

historical revisionism on main, post Allied memes

Just gonna leave these here...

Sunstein doubling down on his fawning statements about war criminal on the Nazi newsletter platform definitely is the kind of Abundance we need.

My department at CU Boulder is hiring BOTH an Assistant Professor of Journalism AND an Associate/Full Professor of Journalism Studies. I am on the search committee for the Associate job. Happy to answer questions or direct you to the right people. Links in this thread.

They've lost the 9yos