I live in deep red US and grew up around a lot of these people, and can confirm: they're fash. Even though many of them don't know it and would deny it.

Someone in The Regime has grasped that letting infectious disease run wild isn’t a political winner, so they’re putting a muzzle on RFK Jr. They’ve destroyed trust in public health, humiliated and fired some of the best experts in the U.S., and now they’ve realized that they do need it, actually.

Really not looking forward to the headline: "Trump knew the arguments against nuking Tehran. He still gave the order."

Normal People: We should rely on people with expertise to help us understand complicated concepts in their field. "Founder" view: I'm smarter than the experts about everything– including what I'm not even aware I don't know. ("There were no books.")

Dems should pledge to sign and ratify the ICC treaty that Clinton signed but W (smartly for his ppl) refused to push thru. Make it clear we will arrest these ppl… and ship them someplace no future vice-signaling GOP Pres’s pardon power can reach.

“Faculty members have discrete areas of expertise, and those rarely include higher education as an enterprise.” name me one institution that has for real shared governance, and then you can tell me all the enterprise-level shit faculty don’t know.

Note there is nothing in this piece about the benefit to students. "Success" is defined in this piece as capacity to further the program of commercial capture of education & revenue-generation through distance-learning. An example here and then a laughable follow-up in my next post.

Habermas outlived modernity—respect

I wonder what the intersection is between "intelligent design" weirdos and anti-vaccine freaks. They both seem to rely on similar rhetorical framing that there's a conspiracy in scholarship and media to shut down their bold truthlike assertions.

"Presidents should have a durable conversation with faculty about the future, recognizing that faculty are not the problem, and that in most successful efforts, faculty help lead the way." Neat! But what almost always happens is: managers break shit and leave, while fac and staff do triage. 2/x

Revere him, or be irked by him, or both: in my area of study you have to contend with his work. I found it rewarding to do so.

Worth adding here that the FBI waited *years* to declare open war on the Black Panther Party, assassinating & incarcerating its leaders en masse. The thing that tipped the balance wasn't the guns, but the free breakfasts, groceries, & clinics that represented a genuine threat to state power.

The most honest summation of the entire right-wing agenda: Lawyer: "What books would you have read that would have informed your opinion on what grants to cancel based on DEI or not." DOGE-ling: "There were no books."

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

yeah i bet those videos will cause reputational damage being as how they’re videos of a stupid fuck talking idiot bullshit

"I don't know everyone. I only know the name of my contact, who I think is one of the top lieutenants. Would that name be enough? OK. He goes by the handle 'Sokonides'..."

We saw in occupy, too, that a lot of people just do not understand that people can make their own decisions to take an action without any orders. they think there have to be leaders somewhere pulling the strings.

Idk man, could be that a bunch of 19-year-olds who were too young to cut their teeth on the eruptions in 2020 got organized in 2024-25, and then were battered mercilessly by police officers with batons and guns. They got expelled, suspended, sent to detention camps. That does something to someone

We literally just want to go to the doctor.

Universities employed this man in a position with authority over students. And they are still employing others just like him.

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

I still can't fathom how these antivax freakazoids got in power. It's so embarrassing. Not to mention dangerous and stupid.

"Kennedy’s advisors have been looking for ways to remove mRNA COVID-19 vaccines entirely from federal recommendations." arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

One of the things I think people should grapple with is the easy description of “Peak Woke” as haughty moralism, only to then describe the “race science” of the right as a secret thrill. Feels like the “woke” people knew about the race science, but even in these mea culpas, it can’t be said.

Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.

This is how Trump's short-staffing of VA mental health is hurting *vets*: -They keep losing therapists -Their calls for therapy get ignored -Their therapy is cut in half www.propublica.org/article/vete... By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @tophersanders.bsky.social @joelanderson.bsky.social and me

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

Every war is just killing people and wrecking everything until the diplomats on both sides work out the terms of stopping. And the U.S. doesn't have any professional, expert, diplomats anymore. Because of these very stupid people. goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...

Of course the Trump admin is abandoning consumer safety oversight programs right and left. Student loans are such a snarled and exploitative mess that affect so many people, this is going to be a nightmare.

If you want to begin to grasp the depth and reach of carceral reality in the US – including the growth of immigrant detention - you need to be following (and hopefully donating to) @prisonpolicy.org. Here's the latest mass incarceraton overview in 2026. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

For it.

Hegseth hosts his own pastor at Pentagon Christian prayer meetings. His pastor has said this at one of those meetings: ⬇️

Today in the Liberal Media or whatever:

"Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said."

Jared Isaacman is an climate-denier Musk-fanboy space billionaire who is overseeing the rapid demolition and privatization of NASA's earth science mission. He tells @voosen.me that he wants to fire NASA's scientists and leave NASA as a money funnel for privately owned earth-monitoring satellites.

Not ‘a litre of oil’ to pass Strait of Hormuz, expect $200 price tag: Iran https://aje.news/hqznwa

It goes without saying that 3.11 changed my life. (insignificant when weighed against the tragedy) I can't believe it has been 15 years. Amongst the sorrow I would like to remember all of the incredible people that I have me along the way, whether just once or lifelong friendships.

I'm going to get myself killed in Louisiana, but: taxes on gasoline are good, and instead of cutting them we probably need to raise them by a lot.

So the Republicans' punishment for getting us into this idiotic war is they get a tax cut, their favorite thing ever?

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

These guys all think Leeroy Jenkins had the right idea.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

who the fuck is trustin this dude to do anything but steal a comically large block of cheese from orphaned mice kids?

This was easily foreseeable. A professional, non-servile, diplomatic corps might have pointed it out under other circumstances. But we are governed by really stupid amateurs, so here we are.

Beginning to suspect that "regime change" will happen here before it does in Iran.

“They’re using facial recognition, every advanced tool that they have to try and identify protesters and squash what we’re doing.” The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on protestors.

Fin Garden was hit. That’s all we know, atm. No word on the extent of the damage, yet. 😔 wanaen.com/airstrike-da...

Judge: you intentionally drafted this with AI and you intentionally filed it with the court without checking it. How is this accidental? Why weren't you candid with the court?

Check out this thread from a hearing about whether a DOJ lawyer should be sanctioned for submitting a brief that included AI-fabricated case law and quotations. This is not the kind of thing you want a judge to be saying to you.

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣