the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

This sounds fantastic...

“One Battle After Another,” dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (2025)

"Terence “Bud” Crawford was celebrated during a victory parade in his hometown of Omaha, Neb. on Saturday but hours later he found himself being ordered out of his car at gunpoint during a traffic stop." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I have literally never seen anything like this in my life.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

This chart is actually very useful for conveying where the median elite opinion around Trump’s policies were/may be

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

Absolutely. And in the case of our campus, there is also a huge push to replace unionized graduate worker labor with AI so we can continue increasing enrollments without spending more on grad workers and faculty, which is itself driven by the big cuts to federal grants that R1s depend on.

What Does the U.S. Owe American Samoa? newrepublic.com/article/1625... via @newrepublic.com

It’s official! We’re launching the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. After years of building as a small but mighty “program,” Labor Studies has been elevated to departmental status. We’re the first but hopefully not the last of our kind in the UC system.

CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns. As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.

Chronic underestimators, the IEA calls solar #1 by 2033—but they’ve never kept up with reality. 🚀 With 2025 smashing records & storage racing ahead, coal could be dethroned by 2027–28, maybe sooner. The sun isn’t waiting for forecasts by the fossil lobby. ☀️ #Solar #BESS #EnergyTransition #Renewables

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This week,The BS rec’d a letter from MARIO GUEVARA, the only known journalist detained on US soil by ICE. For wks, we’ve worked w/ his family to obtain Mario’s handwritten letter + the 2 drawings of his cell. The letter is also available in Spanish. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #deepseamining

Well how about that. The IRA (2022) authorized deep sea mining in territorial waters.

Upcoming launch event for a C40 Cities special issue that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social & I have edited on climate risk, finance, and adaptation! We’ll speak with some stellar panelists: @pmbigger.bsky.social, @lindashi.bsky.social, @kellyhereid.bsky.social & Kayin Venner. Register here: bit.ly/4m7kCDo

Just gonna drop this here tonight wapo.st/3VKVNT2

Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.

Full article: ‘A wolf in sheep’s clothing’: settler voting rights and the elimination of the Indigenous demos in US Pacific territories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Any suggestions for readings on Norway's equity stake in North sea oil industry, or how that is structured?

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

Can someone about to publish please cite me? Right now I have 666 citations and it is making me nervous.

An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

"The kids who are malnourished, with the best treatment in the world, may survive.. however given that that's not what's going to happen, everybody who has malnutrition in Gaza today will die" Watch 👇

This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”

Spending on AI data centers is now so great that it’s crowding out investment in housing and other critical parts of the real economy, through higher energy costs and by propping up interest rates, argues The Economist economist.com/finance-and-...

I was talking about the 1900s. This is from this week.

Seems like everything I'm working through writing-wise has an analogy from Sinners.

The structural core of U.S. society — settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and heteronormative patriarchy — is being reasserted through state and vigilante violence in order to crush insurgent social and demographic movements that threaten its 400-year-old power. It’s violence all the way down.

At a vigil to honor the journalists in Gaza held today in Atlanta, it took the speakers over 20 minutes to read through the names of over 270 Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel during the War in Gaza, as identified by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

Thinking about doing a PhD? How do you find a PhD supervisor (advisor in US)? Here's how to email a potential PhD supervisor and more. buff.ly/i119Dda @deakinuniversity.bsky.social #PhDlife #academicsky #DeakinRDA @tseenster.bsky.social

ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

The Department of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross is hiring two full-time tenure-track Assistant Professors specializing in American Politics, particularly Congress and/or executive branch politics to begin in August 2026. More info can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/171695

We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

NEW: Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a way that could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social

"What Du stumbled upon was a roughly 2,500-kilometer (1,550-mile) stretch of what her team says is the deepest known ecosystem of organisms that use the chemical compound methane instead of sunlight to survive." Amazing scientific finding from the deepest sea! edition.cnn.com/2025/08/11/s...

I am fundamentally uncomfortable with western multinationals saying that we have to mine the deep sea for cobalt because cobalt mining in the DRC is too environmentally destructive and can't be regulated. Remind me, who built those mining industries and undermined their ability to regulate?

Scoop: The Trump administration on Friday sent letters to wind energy developers indicating a crackdown under bird protection laws is imminent They’re targeting wind projects using the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, with six-figure fines and jail time for violations Via @heatmap.news

this is crazy bc some of you need new clothes