Trump claims he just passed another cognitive test. 🙄

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Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care

Almost no better way to get the Iranian people to stop protesting and/or rally around the country's leadership than to be an American president threatening to come to their aid.

One thing I wrote about here is how technology has made buses *way* more convenient while techno-futurists were obsessed with flying taxis and self-driving cars.

sliwa correctly understanding that mamdani ran a very traditional campaign and thus surpassing the analytical ability of 80% if people who comment on politics for a living

This phony fuck doesn’t even care about American protesters, but Iran? How bout go fuck yourself.

"A multimedia display would occasionally illuminate sculptures behind the screen, bringing them out of darkness to tell the story of how the South constructed a new narrative for itself after the Civil War. Or, as Martin put it, 'How does fiction become accepted truth?'" wapo.st/49k4ha6

Every Democrat needs to take notes. You have to run on immediately undoing all of this shit.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

All American mayors should be forced to wear a big sash saying "Mayor" at all times while on duty just like the UK has mayors wear big gold chains.

We just cancelled all federal funding for foreign language & area studies at America’s universities to “save”…$86,000,000: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is exactly right. The toxicity, the *awfulness* of “authenticity” politics.

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DHS publicly fantasizing about massive state violence should be taken seriously, and warrants labels such as fascist and white supremacist. But don't lose sight of the fact that it's beyond their capabilities. The regime's desire for authoritarian repression is bottomless. Its capacity isn't close.

Yes! Much of urban America comes from “red” (“real”) America!

A Summary of 2025 and Fatherhood in Written Form

I wrote only one major piece this year, an essay for @latimes.com warning that regime change in Iran, democratic or otherwise, is unlikely to alter the national imperative of perserving Iranian sovereignty. It is and always will remain the nationalism (link below in comments).

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Important historical context on the state of labor in American preschools, why we don’t have a national program. The McMartin trials lasted seven long and sordid years, the longest criminal trial in US history, with zero convictions (because it was all bullshit).

That lack of a national childcare program, meanwhile, is why immigrant women now play such a big role in the US childcare industry. Because, without substantial public investment, childcare can't be both affordable and decently compensated. So, that underpaid work falls to those most vulnerable. 8/

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The writing is voiceless, if that makes sense. Among our faculty @pitzercollege.bsky.social the best advice I’ve heard is to emphasize and reward process—scaffolding, drafts, etc.—over polished outcomes. Prize students’ improvement and growth!

Who want, as JD Vance now openly states, to re-white America, and void decades of immigration policies that-since the mid-60s-have made America the vibrant, and yes, diverse, country that it is now, and been key to the US retaining its status as cultural and economic center of the world. 3/

Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

This is an important pre-emptive strike against the Looking-forward-not-back philosophy that will be suggested against any Democrat who might be elected in 2028. I also congratulate Paul for proper use of the word "jagoffs." Well done. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

WTAF?!

Breaking News: Khaleda Zia, who was elected Bangladesh’s first female prime minister in 1991, has died.

I'm late to Pluribus but I've seen 6 now and my gosh. Staggeringly well-made, pleasurable television. I'm slightly bewildered by the people who find it slow; I've been mesmerized. Feels like it says something new about the seductiveness of giving in/up and who's cut out for the misery of resistance.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

It’s very weird—and telling—to treat politics as something unimportant that’s wrong for people to act on, while treating a jazz concert as an issue of public concern so serious it calls for legal action.

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Italians weren't white. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Congress has the authority to prohibit mid-decade redistricting. In fact, several bills have been filed this year to ban states from redrawing maps unless they’re ordered to by a court.

In a profile of Stephen Miller with @swin24.bsky.social, we reported he’s privately laughed off immigrant families’ “sob stories.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Speaking last night on Fox about the spiked CECOT story, Miller laughed about how ‘60 Minutes’ is “trying to tell sob stories."

She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One of my favourite little tidbits in all this is that many people learned this line from the Muppet Christmas Carol because of Gonzo's amazing line-read, but don't know he's literally quoting the original story:

Too little of that happening nowadays