‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

this is amazing. it's a great ad for Mamdani, obviously, but it's also an honest to god ad for unions and the power of labor.

Google's data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa used 1 BILLION gallons of water in 2024 - enough to supply all of Iowa's residential water for five days. Researchers in water law and policy explain how companies rarely tell the public exactly how much water data centers consume:

You can check out the Boston Public Library’s unbelievable Special Collections in person at the newly renovated reading room: www.bpl.org/special-coll... We’re also working to digitize even more of these treasures & make them searchable & accessible from anywhere in the world. @bpl.boston.gov

If you full gerrymandering California to the degree that Texas is gerrymandered, how many additional Dem seats would you get?

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W.t.f??

CORRUPT AS FUCK

‼️ Colleagues: If you're prepping for the Fall term, please let me know how I can help & be in touch if you're teaching immigration, free speech/association, Cold War/McCarthyism, or ideological exclusion/deportation. 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Being transgender is not misconduct. These servicemembers have a reliance argument (contract law) that should succeed in court. Otherwise what’s to prevent any admin from just finding arbitrary reason to dismiss military people right before they retire??

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

@timgalsworthy.bsky.social what's the book on? I have an article that may be of interest!

GOP seem to prize power above everything. They are content to rule without challenge over a country that is discredited, whose vaunted institutions are crumbling, and whose economy will decline rapidly as soon as it is clear that data about it have less credibility than Greek numbers in 2012.

Why would anyone buy US bonds if the statistics on which their value is based is not to be trusted? Destroying the legitimacy of BLS and the Treasury also destroys the legitimacy of the greenback. The dollar is just a piece of paper.

thanks anne—and we're not done. if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides). so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!

We have three days to STOP the rescission packate that will kill PEPFAR. All we need is to delay a vote. If it doesn't pass by 18th of July, the bill is dead. CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW!

Protests have sprung up in response to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's Venice wedding, including a variety of life-size mannequins placed throughout the city. The satirical project is protesting the billionaire's wedding as a symbol of unchecked wealth inequality. wapo.st/3I1z8hU

Insert into the city?

Earlier this evening, the Univision crew grabbed their gear and started running when federal police began shooting pepper balls at us. @lataco.bsky.social

Taking bets on what the Elon executive order will be about: contracts? Citizenship? Just a bitching proclamation?

This checks.

How close to 1 are the odds of 47 being kicked out of X? #polisci

Stephen Miller said recently that American scientific achievement in the mid-20th century owed little to immigrants, given immigration quotas at the time. Someone should tell him that from 1945- 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel in physics were immigrants www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Wtf?

Caring for immigrants ' health is good for citizens, too. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

This is well-meaning but what it proposes may well be counterproductive. Correctionof false narratives may actually strengthen said narratives.

The GOP’s reconciliation bill plans to offset tax cuts for the wealthy with massive cuts to health-care programs that could result in 13M more uninsured individuals. @socio-steve.bsky.social outlines how these "savings" are merely another poor policy decision. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...

President Trump wants to replace the income tax with tariffs. That’s not just bad economics—it’s a plan to defund the government and shift the burden to working families. In our essay collection, @dashching.bsky.social‬ tackles why this matters. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/t...

A '22 report found that ~107M US adults carry some form of medical debt, and ~62M have medical debt that is past due. The medical debt crisis isn’t just bad luck or bad decisions—it’s the result of decades of policy decisions. We can choose to do better. rooseveltinstitute.org/public...

Our new article is out in Frontiers in Sociology! Are Immigrants Allowed to Criticize the Government? Ingroup Identity, Economic Threat, and Majority Group Support for Immigrant Civil Liberties in the US, Switzerland, and Turkey www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

NEW: NJ federal judge Michael Farbiarz, a Biden appointee, is assigned to the Mahmoud Khalil case and immediately orders that Khalil "shall not be removed from the United States, unless and until the Court issues a contrary Order." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wait till I tell it about all the amazing things the DOGE of Venivpce has been doing and their long-term Implications for social equslity,prosperity, cohesion, peace, and environmental protection.

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

Kind of quaint to remember that Trump’s big beef in 2016 was cyber security protocols.

“Citing the Washington Post, Bloomberg News, and Rolling Stone, the Democrats said: ‘Reports indicate that some personnel of SpaceX, Starlink’s parent company, have already begun working at the FAA…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is a special discount for my book, Race, Rights, and Rifles (Univ of Chicago Press). It discusses the origins of American gun culture in the ideologies of the early Republic. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Canada put down an accent rug for lil Marco. 😭

A man at Republican House Rep. Chuck Edwards's town hall in Asheville, North Carolina is fired up about Greenland, Canada, and Ukraine. He's letting it rip on Chuck. Someone buy this guy a beer for me! We need more men like him standing up and asking these questions!

Thank you for stepping up, @governorwalz.mn.gov

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A century ago, there was none of this woke food safety. Listeria and Cronobacter contamination was just a fact of life! Sure, way more people died horribly, but

We’re in an Austin Powers film