The 31 Minutos El Tiny performance has more than 5 Million YouTube views in less than 72 hours. Only a handful of Tiny Desks can make that claim. Pretty insane.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Pranab Bardhan on politics and populism... "When I first Came to the US two Political Issues Unexpectedly Disturbed Me" pranabbardhan.substack.com/p/when-i-fir...

Hey, @governorferguson.bsky.social, a show of solidarity with CA and IL but vowing the same?

The number of international students arriving in the US in Augugst fell 19% this year compared with last year, the largest decline on record outside the pandemic www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ushered in a new era of authoritarianism, and in key ways more autocratic than her predecessor Magufuli. She has crossed autocratic thresholds that haven’t been breached since Tanzania’s transition to multipartyism in 1992.

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL GrantWatson

This point seems so obviously true based on the Bad Bunny rhetoric from Kristi Noem etc. You "look" Latino, you speak Spanish? For the Trump administration, you're a second-class citizen.

Biden top assistant last year spoke at my university: "Susie Wiles is a true professional," she said. I'm sorry, but anyone who stands next to Donald Trump while he rants is exactly the opposite of a professional.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Oh, for sure. Miller has pretty clearly spent 20 years of his life giving speeches in the mirror where he dissolves the Reichstag and calls for the opposition to be rounded up and shot, he's in the driver's seat right now, and he thinks he can go full Goebbels. Good odds it backfires horrifically

Stephen Miller is screaming on X that his feeling of their being an insurrection in Oregon is more important than the obvious truth, asserted by judge, that there's nothing of the sort. He can keep trying to force reality to bend to his moods (& SCOTUS will help) but at some point people will balk.

Yes. Miller can’t do this. Yes. He will be stopped. Yes. This isn’t a reason for all of us to give up hope. But it’s an absolute 7 alarm fire that we are at a point where this can be said by COS and not a single GOP, elite or media person will point out how batshit it is. Maybe Luttig and Cato.

HH is good with traditional leaders . Here he is with Paramount Chief Charles of the English tribe. This has been widely viewed on Zed-X witj amusement & surprise, largely bc Africans & Europeans alike do not view the European monarchies as tribal. Phrasing it this way has been a wake up call

❄️ A glacier-free Sierra Nevada is unprecedented New evidence shows that glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada disappearance would be the first in recorded geological time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

I turned my thread on Ai from earlier this eevning into a blogpost. jwmason.org/slackwire/ac...

Even the grandchildren are using public property to run little grifts

(and he had left her, Peter Walsh remembered, without a word in the drawing-room that night when Clarissa had asked him to come boating)

Intentionally murdering civilians is a war crime. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

I am just so fucking proud of her.

What remains of the ancient Iberian oppidum, and later Roman town, of Basti. The Muslims moved the settlement to nearby Baza. In the necropolis they found the 5th century BC Dama de Baza, one of the most important archaeological finds from the Iberian period.

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

When I think of an opening line, I always think, "In the cool of the early morning, just before sunrise, the bow of the Southern Cross headed towards the eastern horizon, on which a tiny dark blue outline was faintly visible."

Trump posts a racist AI smear of Schumer and Jeffries, and Speaker Mike Johnson shrugs. Madeleine Dean called it out for what it was, bigoted and disgraceful. Johnson’s refusal to lead shows cowardice dressed up as “style.”

Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly grinned as Rep. Madeleine Dean warned him people would lose health care in the GOP’s shutdown scheme. Cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA subsidies aren’t collateral damage—they’re the point.

If there is any Republican in DC more disingenuous and dishonest than Mike Johnson, I don’t know who that would be. He easily slithers from whataboutism to feigned ignorance without skipping a beat. And he knows that Dean is right (the subconscious nodding in agreement, the ‘too’). Feckless.

Madeline Dean is my hero. More of this from Dem reps and senators please! Ask the hard questions and don’t let them off easy! Her cornering Johnson was *chefs kiss*

I so admire Dean for engaging in this earnest intervention, and doing it in a way that ensured it would be caught on video. America needs to see this sort of exchange as it happens. We *also* must understand that there is exactly zero chance Mike Johnson will do anything to push back against Trump.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Hospitals are oddly democratic spaces where people interact across cultural/class/racial lines. Vance says that his audience knows that people in ERs are "illegal aliens," which is impossible, but they can tell that people are minorities who he wants his supporters to blame for delays & costs.

Distressing and depressing... A Distressing Conversation on Russia open.substack.com/pub/pranabba...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines And the Exodus of Women from Farming" by Philipp Ager, Marc Goñi, and Kjell G. Salvanes. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

The advise and consent process actually worked www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

#NumbersDay #EconSky

Today’s seminar: Our super PhD student (on the market this year 😉) @a-calder.bsky.social presenting her work uncovering the effects of the US civil war on the timing and geographical spread of the social and political movement for women suffrage.

(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. Arlington Street and Piccadilly seemed to chafe the very air in the Park and lift its leaves hotly, brilliantly, on waves of that divine vitality

#jazzsky | Giants of the Saxophone is a compilation made by writer and critic Leonard Feather | The album brings together recordings by John Coltrane, Gene Ammons, Eric Dolphy, Benny Carter, Yusef Lateef, Cannonball Adderley, Wayne Shorter, Frank Strozier, Eddie Harris, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and so.

Remarkable opinion from Judge Young, who very consciously tied his legacy to this ruling against the regime. This type of moral clarity is in short supply, including among opposition leaders.

seveneves (2015) arxiv.org/abs/2509.12351

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

the party of the everyman

Yoweri Museveni is officially seeking to extend his 39-year rule in Uganda’s next presidential election. Here’s a look at the struggle for the country’s future taking place behind Uganda’s electoral exercises:

Nice: "El pasado choca frontalmente contra el presente, se renuevan conexiones, se hace un gran ejercicio melancólico de aprendizaje de quien fuiste y cómo te ha llevado hasta el ahora."

omduart.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e... De la violencia no se puede escapar. De la verdadera violencia no se puede huir. Venid a conocer el relato de Bolaño El Ojo Silva conmigo. Un relato sobre los reencuentros, el exilio y la violencia...

Watching Peter Rabbit cartoon, Sherigu library, Ghana