This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

bro, there was exactly one fucking thing you weren't supposed to announce on television and you fucked it up.

MAGA's judicial wing, formerly known as SCOTUS, is doing its job. #election #votingrights www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

“.. most months it’s the No. 1 consumer of water in the county.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Thoughtful discussion of LLM use in research and writing -- potential, pitfalls, abuses. 🧪 #metascience #psychscisky #sociology #econsky

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Tax payer to foot bill for Trump's sexual assault suit. (No paywall) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Senate GOP proposes an additional $1 Billion for Trump's ballroom. Good response to voters' concerns 🤣 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act #race #VotingRights #Elections #dei www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Trump says he took 2 cognition tests since Jan 2025. This rate suggests his docs see reasons to monitor decline.

The Republican Majority of the Roberts SCOTUS is essentially operating as the judicial branch of the Republican Party doing what they can to help their party win elections. Their actions at this point speak for themselves.

Some of the US’s closest allies are warning that the international system of security and trade is broken beyond repair — and that it’s up to Europe to fashion a new global order

"Casual traders are bleeding cash while a small number of sophisticated pros—including trading firms with access to vast streams of data—eat their lunch" www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

Internal documents show brutality in ICE detention centers. No paywall. wapo.st/4tdgBRA

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

The history of trying to undo the 14th amendment and the achievements of the civil rights movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Fluoride, RFK Jr, and intelligence... 🧪 #medsky

MAGA redistricting: midterm desperation meets racism... #midterms #VotingRights wapo.st/4utACo9

This. wapo.st/49jZ7M2

MAGA is getting desperate. www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

This. wapo.st/3OBjqhc

Congratulations to ISR and NORC, honored for honest data in the public interest. #academicsky #psychscisky #sociology 🧪 www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today the United States is being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” He also questioned the endgame, warning that entering a conflict without an exit plan risks repeating failures seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

#academicsky #academicfreedom #dei

History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

#metascience #psychscisky

#academicsky #psychscisky 🧪

You cannot claim to be the watchdogs of democracy while sharing champagne and hors d'oeuvres with the very people trying to dismantle it.

I feel so much safer now... Absurdities and personal vandettas with no end in sight. 🙄 #ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

#climate #environment #publicopinion

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Our daily corruption.

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits 🧪 #health #vaccines #medsky www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

It's TACO Tuesday again. Hope you made your trades.

There's nothing that can be done about this--says the only nation where it happens frequently.

MAGA influencers in your stream: Fakes. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

This detail provoked an involuntary eyebrow raise on my part.

The daily corruption.

Another story of grievance and revenge. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

52% of Americans describe Trump as dangerous, 48% think he's suffering from cognitive decline. YouGov/Economist survey, April 10-13. yougov.com/en-us/articl...

This. www.npr.org/2026/04/15/n...

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

The claim "the fact that the incumbent party was successfully defeated in an election shows that there was never anything to worry about and democracy was fine all along" in the Hungarian case— with explicit or implicit analogy to the US— is maddening to begin with, bc it's a well-known fact 1/

When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.