Whenever asked what my motivation is for reviewing Shapiro etc I usually paraphrase Hitchens: There is something really cute, almost adorable, about a bunch of very rich, very vain men thinking the biggest problem in society is they aren't quite rich and revered enough

Here’s the truth. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Remarkable conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani about what it means to be a mayor and how cities can lead in the struggle for economic and social and racial justice. Full video here:

Alex Jones’s world is collapsing all around him right now. He’s doing all the same media-bating lashouts he always does and since the media always covers him wrong (with few exceptions), you’re bound to see a lot of Alex Jones stuff show up soon. Here’s some context. 1/24

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What are the responsibilities of those who have to those who do not have?

I just really hope future generations will understand that this is the only life they get. I really hope they see others as fully equal. I hope that they can come together and protect each other this planet and all other life forms.

One way to worsen the horror of mass shootings is to follow it with mental health misinformation, stigma, and to blame it on everything except guns.

Here’s a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2024, on unequal exchange, ecosocialism, and post-capitalist transformation. As always, free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

In 1776, approximately 20% of the people who lived in the 13 colonies were enslaved. As his White House gears up for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Trump wonders why we spend so much time talking about how bad slavery was.

In her new BBC series Human, Ella Al-Shamahi tells the extraordinary story of the human species, Homo sapiens.

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

McMaster researcher Lauren Colenso-Semple weighs in on the science behind this fitness trend. #McMasterExperts

There is a lot of online chatter about the harms of fasted-state training for women. But are there actually meaningful sex differences in how women respond to fasting? Check out the article by Dr Lauren Colenso-Semple @drlaurencs1 over at MASS Research Review. www.massmember.com/a...

Lauren M. Colenso-Semple of @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social et al. observed that menstrual cycle phase does not influence muscle protein synthesis or whole-body myofibrillar proteolysis in response to resistance exercise 🏃 🔎 📜 Read the #Research here: buff.ly/zcqUJhA

If only RFK Jr had stopped at “I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me.”

The US Department of Health and Human Services is arguing with a cable news channel to say that french fries aren’t unhealthy

If you’re wondering what the deal is with beef tallow & seed oils, the summary is that seed oils are not less healthy than other oils & are probably healthier than most, especially saturated animal fats like beef tallow. Regardless of oil, fried & salted potatoes do not have good nutritional value.

AOC's former Chief of Staff @saikatforcongress.bsky.social explains why voters see the Democratic Party's leadership as feckless and untrustworthy.

This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway. Yeah, no.

🚨A HUGE issue (which I tackle in my latest book, The Certainty Illusion). Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s... by @carlzimmer.com “If these trends are not stopped, science is going to be destroyed..." Let's fight for science. 💪

@sethcotlar.bsky.social, a real historian, takes on Prager U's "history" of the country. As I've heard it said on the internet, read it all. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/pragerus-t...

Trump: I solved 6 wars, I am averaging a war per month. Including wars that lasted 500 years.

Maybe gonna do a “Trump Corruption Tier List” here’s what I have so far. Trying to focus on things that are pretty cut and dried “using the power of the presidency for personal enrichment.” What am I missing?

🚨"The world cannot afford another crisis in which lives are lost not for lack of vaccines, but for lack of truth."🚨 Misinformation mongers have created a distrust disaster. A crisis of credibility: the global cost of US vaccine misinformation www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Found someone who is willing to stand up for Vinay Prasad

@drandrealove.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social

PS: I do not know about you but I want my healthcare provider to make recommendations for my healthcare needs based on the highest level of scientifically backed evidence, not baseless conspiracy theories. Expertise still matters and undermining it causes real harm.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

I recently went on Academic Edgelords, a leftist podcast, to discuss my new book, Why It's OK to be a Moderate. Much to my delight, all three hosts indicated that they enjoyed the book, and we had a fantastic discussion! If you're curious, check it out: www.academicedgelords.com/2025/07/08/e...

Save your money. And your livers.

The problem isn't just that Mel Robbins and Jay Shetty are liars: it's that they've perfected the technique of turning the para-social relationships their audiences have with them into endless free labor. I'm almost in awe of how they've managed to pull it off. youtu.be/-VFa7AVis7E

"We allowed the fundamental checks and balances of our political system to decay. Congress atrophied and government became a struggle between an overweening presidency and an overweening Court." www.liberalcurrents.com/reforging-am...

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

To me the most telling example of what makes Bernie singular was at the rally I went to a few weeks ago. People were changing his name "Bernie, Bernie!" He turned around and said "No not Bernie. You." Got the biggest cheer of the evening

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Elon Musk, Amy Gleason, and DOGE employees from access to Social Security Administration systems containing personally identifiable information, orders them also to delete any previously obtained non-anonymized SSA information.

I do have a law degree. Definitely BAD

BASED

#TheReformers Bernie is 83 years old He and AOC traveling to CO, NV, and AZ holding massive town halls For EVERYONE This is how you do it Let the people speak Raise your voices I am a Democrat, but it's time for Senator Schumer to go #MomSky Bravo @aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

This is an excellent piece. It clearly lays out what's going on behind the "society is leaving men behind" discourse. These claims of "men aren't allowed to be men anymore" are really just "men aren't granted immediate social status based on our gender anymore." See the difference?

Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Another interesting video from @wisecrackofficial.bsky.social about how America's sudden and self-inflicted decline has taken on aspects that typified the declining Soviet Union. I hadn't considered "hypernormalization" as a term for our experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONE9...

A lot of *popular* so-called "tech criticism" is just controlled opposition. That’s one big lesson I’ve learned in the past two years. I don’t write about tech. I write about power and politics. And it's weird how the biggest "tech critics" missed the story—and STILL don’t seem to see it. 🫠

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

A Texas senator supporting electric cars is a great example of how Republican principles are negotiable outside of the 5 pillars of bigotry. • men > women • white people > other races • straight people > LGBTQ • Christians > other religions • rich people > poor people

Compared to many other countries where autocrats have been able to establish authoritarian rule in the recent past, America has - on paper! - relatively strong institutions and democratic traditions. But if the opposition party simply won't act to defend the constitution, none of that matters.