They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

as GOP tears itself apart with the MTG-Trump fights, everyone gets that this OBBA bill will be the only legislative "achievement" of the GOP this Congress right? Every faction of the GOP came together for 4500 billion dollars of tax cuts to the rich and corporations & cuts to public spending. Thread

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

NFL laureate in the physics of concussion

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States. www.reuters.com/world/suprem...

I'm a Trump voter on this issue!😂 Let's call the NFL stuff "oliveball" (橄榄球), as we Chinese have always been doing!

I have a new paper coming out in Inquiry called ‘The Perils of Epistemic Idealism': philpapers.org/rec/SHITPO-40. I argue that especially in applied, political work, philosophers have a tendency to assume that political harms are primarily a product of false beliefs and misguided concepts.

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has suspended its student union’s operations, a day after they hid a student message urging accountability for the Tai Po fire. In full: buff.ly/weCw7sD

Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.

So. If you fight CSAM, you can't get an H1-B visa into the US. Nor can your family. Why does the Trump Administration want to protect CSAM creators and users?

The thing is presidentialism is inherently dangerous as well. If massive reform is needed, it should be even more massive than just court packing. A constitutional conventional for unitary parliamentalism?

To expand: The UK's reactionary House of Lords once had a powerful veto that it would use to block liberal legislation from the House of Commons—including a gov't budget in 1909. So the Liberals threatened to pack it—with *500* more members. The Lords backed down & let their veto to be weakened.

Many universities including @umassamherst.bsky.social now claim that federal cuts mean that the institution has to defund scholarship & teaching. My colleague Kevin Young recently published a report showing that in the UMass case, at least, this is completely wrong: drive.proton.me/urls/VS9FJ3D...

Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.

HKers’ defensiveness around culture often gets dismissed as petty and reactionary by people who don’t understand power dynamics in the city — a place that’s never been meaningfully decolonised. With bamboo, it’s also about trying to hold accountable a government they didn’t choose and do not trust.

Resistance to democratic backsliding is in many ways a fight to buy time. Not caving is key in that regard. It allows a very slow legal battle to play out.

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/SQ0LTb0

the definition of a horrifying existing fascism

knew this was gonna happen apnews.com/article/supr...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene. This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed. "When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."

“Elon’s blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s—his precision engineering delivers unmatched finesse."

Textbook stuff

Note: I was the one who hired Jamal and was his editor for a year

Relevant to all the “(re)civilisational” discourses; from yours truly: Reinventing #Confucianism: Authoritarian Traditionalism & Parental Governance

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump Debasement Syndrome

JUST IN: A tidal wave of 30,000 students hit the streets in Charlotte, walking out to confront ICE with sheer numbers and zero hesitation. This is a generation refusing to be controlled.

<<Lepore was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter ... defending Professor John Comaroff, who had been found to have violated the university's sexual and professional conduct policies. The letter defended Comaroff as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen">>🤔

Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

UC San Diego is discovering shocking grade inflation at many Cali high schools, to the point that a large minority of kids with a 4.0 average in math are at 6th grade or below in mathematical ability. In response, they’re resorting to semi-blacklisting schools with especially bad grade inflation.

. @samuelchan.bsky.social & Anna Closas, Grounding the #diasporic turn in political theory: Meta-commitment, #transnationalism, and political obligation:

As always, I'm astonished far less by Trump himself than I am by the tens of millions of Americans, powerful and not, who are essentially pretending this is all normal. It's like the court martial judges saying "well, maybe they DID steal his strawberries" and making Queeg Secretary of The Navy.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

This is such a cool study. A parasitic ant queen tricks worker ants into murdering their own queen, so the parasite can take over the colony.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Higher education “got in trouble” by paying men like this exorbitant salaries to ruin the liberal arts teaching function while sucking up to trustees for perks. As a former subject of a Gee administration, E. Gordon Gee is a synonym for high-profile foolish waste of money.

On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them

Speaking of obvious guilt, good look via @jricole.bsky.social at how Israel censors people and outlets who criticize its brutality. www.juancole.com/2025/11/isra...

I wish journalists could act like they weren’t born yesterday. An uncurated document dump out of an investigation shortly after focused evidence is released is an expression of panic, a desperate wish to distract, and perhaps a hope that someone will find something they haven’t yet.

These men are completely incompetent and have no regard whatsoever for the safety of Americans. We will all pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

Similar to WeChat Public Account, which doesn't allow links to contents outside of the WeChat Public Account sphere. Which was one of the major reasons (apart from other obvious reasons such as censorship etc.) why the Chinese internet discourse has become so stupid in the last decade.

A 2006 state-commissioned report, based on research by Black historians, debunked this narrative, officially recognizing the events as a massacre and coup d’état. The historical understanding has been actively corrected in recent years to reflect the planned political violence that occurred. /end

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The abject failure of Jay Jacobs's New York and Nassau County Democratic Parties to stop solidification of MAGA fascist rule on Long Island despite a blue tsunami everywhere else in the country made it into @atrupar.com's Public Notice today. Good, it's a very important story