New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I was on a train once where the brand-new conductor was desperately trying to pronounce 'Schenectady' and it did not go well.

Re: interview footage circulating today - Pritzker said exactly the same thing nearly a year ago. More depressing is that he felt that he *had* to say exactly the same thing nearly a year ago.

A national political party could just send a bunch of electeds to Portland for a weekend to look around, with cameras following them. I mean, national news outlets could also do this, but OK.

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota. we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

I love this take. Also interested to see what Philly will come up with. . . [grinning ear to ear because I kinda already know]

The Bethlehem fanclub says YES! We want to read this book! [ok, confession - it did not occur to me that there were lots of white evangelicals in the unions here, but I'm really curious now] p.s. our local blast furnaces on the cover!

And I'm angry that this is practically invisible in the US media. The sloppy equation of "professor teaches about X" and "professor believes X" isn't new, but the level and intensity of the harassment is. This is distressing.

@bkindivisible.bsky.social members also folded the incredible @meganpiont.bsky.social's awesome "How to Report ICE" zine for distribution! You can find them here to fold/distribute yourself! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Helpful to recall that as governor, Kristi Noem was banned from nearly 20% of her own state by its Indigenous nations because of the racist things she said.

"No! That's German. . . for 'The Bart, The.'" [which I still cackle over, every time I read anything that starts with the word 'Die'].

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Begging political scientists to pay more attention to archiving and digital records (including party platforms and conference material).

Thread w/sources. Many of us get a hard sell from admin on how the research profile of the uni will depend on "leveraging" AI. Priorities for funding will be those who play along. As for using it in classrooms: it's nice to be old enough that I can pretend I "don't understand" and therefore can't.

j f****** christ. This agent needs to be held accountable for this (I know, I know). If he's this violent with so many cameras on him, it's disturbing to imagine what he does when no one is filming him.

“I can say that my son died because of aid cuts. If doctors had support, my child would be alive.” A reminder that cuts to USAID have nothing to do with saving money. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

I remember when Hugo Chávez stood in front of the UN General Assembly and called George W. Bush the devil and thinking that that was a low point in the diplomatic norms of the organization. . . [betting that the smell of sulphur was even stronger today]

I remember when Hugo Chávez stood in front of the UN General Assembly and called George W. Bush the devil and thinking that that was a low point in the diplomatic norms of the organization. . . [betting that the smell of sulphur was even stronger today]

The whole administration in one quote

Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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Very sorry to learn of the death of my old friend Bob Worcester. Bob could easily lay claim, as the founder of MORI, to be the godfather of modern political polling. I published several of his books at Politico's and he was a great supporter of the bookshop. A true legend.

Goodbye little friend. You served me well for nearly four decades. My dad thought the oven in my first apartment wasn't safe and bought you as a gift for me. If my next toaster oven is as faithful, it will last until I’m 92 years old! #TheEndOfAppliances

😢 Lost: correspondence to President and Congress about meds. ...that seems .... Important.

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This is indeed wonderful, but so is Dan's essay, "A Visit with the Stamp King," who merits a place in the love letter, too.

"IU was a gem in Indiana. The state legislature and the IU Board of Trustees appear to have hired Whitten to fulfill an ultraconservative and Christian nationalist agenda... Sadly, they are destroying all that made IU great in the process." Scathing but spot-on. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Heath Equity Funding! 👇

I'm seven days late in seeing this, but yes - great idea! It's the "always wanted to enact" that is crucial, here.

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This whole thread is f---ing insane. The sixth skeet is *especially* f---ing insane. It isn't just the Russians-in-Ukraine playbook. It is the US-in-Central America and many other places playbook. And as insane as it is, EVEN IF IT FAILS the end results will be bad and destabilizing for a long time.

Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand” The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced…

Someone is leaving copies of Fahrenheit 451 in places across DC. 🔥 Few, if any, are doing so elsewhere & that needs to change. #AltCitizen - if your area has museums, free libraries, or other public areas, please consider slipping a few copies here & there. Used copies are available online for ~$5.

There's a horrifying irony that Dr. Cook began her academic career writing on post-Soviet Russian banking, arguing that Western-style banking systems couldn't simply be transplanted b/c Russia lacked trust in the rule of law, critical to well-functioning financial institutions in market economies.

There's a horrifying irony that Dr. Cook began her academic career writing on post-Soviet Russian banking, arguing that Western-style banking systems couldn't simply be transplanted b/c Russia lacked trust in the rule of law, critical to well-functioning financial institutions in market economies.

YES!

seen in Boston

A retired colleague and a younger cousin are joining me in this, so this campaign has cross generational appeal. RFKJ is a quack spreading deadly misinformation about vaccines and other public health issues. He is completely unqualified to lead HHS. #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

This was in my feed next to the news of DHS planning to purchase its own air fleet for deportations. We're going to euthanize a robotic probe that's working fine, sending us both data and beauty, to we can buy prison planes.

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"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Just heard from a source that ~100 ice/cbp guys are in little Tokyo. Then saw this. JANM has detailed and haunting exhibits on Japanese interment. This is particularly ghoulish.

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It feels like the foreign policy story of our time is one group after another finding out why the fellows who fought WWII and muddled through the Cold War set up the system they did. A lot of "I don't like that column there" "Yeah, but that's load-bearing. They're all load-bearing."