the fact that the president of the united states has no grasp on reality whatsoever is barely a blip on the news radar

When Republicans control all of Congress and the White House, it’s a clown show. They haven’t passed a full-year appropriations bill since FY 2023.

“I’m all for unifying, I’m all for bridging gaps, but not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity. I just can’t.” Thank you for this, Ta-Nehisi Coates. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ta-nehisi-coates.html

“By rushing to overturn injunctions with no regard to who is being harmed, as well as creating seemingly arbitrary technicalities to prevent future injunctions, the message from the supreme court is clear: It doesn’t matter how many laws they broke.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The thematic of the multi-generational, ongoing struggle very much reminds me of the closing of MLK’s famous speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” (excerpted below). Beautifully expressed by Coates here.

Cancel racism again.

Was asked about “viewpoint diversity.” It may sound like pluralism, but it means auditing faculty for ideological balance—confusing scholarship with partisan accounting. Pluralism rests on rigorous debate and critique, not political mandates, and rarely welcomes every opinion under the sun.

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

We love to see it

"Okay. It has your signature on it," Judge Vaala told Halligan, who responded, "Okay. Well."

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

This entire article is horrifying and also 100% true. It gets well beyond TikTok. The subheaders: Experts say U.S. economy being undermined by "shakedown schemes" Many media companies capitulate to Trump pressure www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...

Great piece from @centeronbudget.bsky.social talking about the ways the bicameral Democratic CR alternative works to address Trump spending lawlessness - and highlights the need.

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Congress exempted beauty schools from rules about how much graduates should earn Remiah Ward’s shift at the SmartStyle salon inside Walmart was almost over, and she’d barely made $30 in tips from the haircuts she’d done that day. It wasn’t unusual — a year after her graduation from beauty school,…

The cruel and unusual ends this administration is going to in its quest to make immigrants suffer unfortunately continues to shock me. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A must-read.

a story that gets bogged down in the details. peat fiction

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There’s so much bad news at the moment, but this is amazing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They've lost the 9yos

Equitable research and development funding is key to unleashing HBCUs’ wellspring of innovation to improve America’s health, economic growth, and national security. Learn more from CAP and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund: www.americanprogress.org/article/bols...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of #misinformation theconversation.com/facebook-dat... by @acarson.bsky.social et al. Misinformation’s real-world impact: "linked to poor health outcomes, falling public trust, and significant societal harm."

Millions of Americans with Obamacare could face steep price increases if Congress lets extra funding expire in December.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

HBCUs play an outsize role in diversifying the STEM workforce and creating opportunities for economic mobility for low-income students -- yet they receive disproportionately low shares of federal funding for scientific research. www.americanprogress.org/press/releas...

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I don’t post much abt #Neurodiversity in this space, but the Neurod Initiative @ Wm & Mary I helped found was one of the most impt and meaningful things I’ve been involved w. The need for research on supporting folks on the spectrum, kids to adults, always underfunded has never been more urgent. 1/

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons: -Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular -Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact -Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

Other industries/academia should take note of how Hollywood responded. "5 Hollywood unions...publicly condemned [Disney].... Damon Lindelof...said that if Mr. Kimmel’s program did not return...he couldn’t...'work for [Disney]'.... Michael Eisner...former chief executive of Disney, issued a...rebuke"

hey we won

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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

That may be part of the story, but people need to understand that, while personalistic regimes often create bad policy, they also create winners as well as losers. CEOs are betting that they can be the in the former group, and afraid that speaking out will get them in the latter.

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The Trump administration is ending a decades-long effort to track food security, calling it “politicized,” at a time when many Americans are struggling to get proper nutrition or enough to eat.

The Trump administration and Congress must change course to protect health care coverage and affordability and to ensure that working families are not left to pay more for less care.

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The Trump administration has cut billions of dollars in research grant funding to more than 600 colleges and universities across the country. These harmful actions will hurt students, communities, and the U.S. economy.

Join CAP and local leaders on Tuesday, August 19th for a discussion on how state and local leaders can mitigate the effects of federal cuts to public schools to ensure equal access to a quality education for all students. www.americanprogress.org/events/back-...

Staff cuts at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs are preventing student veterans from receiving their education benefits on time -- in some cases, forcing them to drop out. According to one campus administrator, the process now takes 3 times longer than it used to. hechingerreport.org/complete-nig...

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The "Big Beautiful Bill" touches health, nutrition, education, taxes, and so much else. What's in it, and when does it go into effect? @americanprogress.bsky.social has a new interactive implementation timeline to demystify the changes that are coming: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...