Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

Hell yes! One day, this mess will be cleaned up. The repercussions will be felt for a long time, but things that can be fixed will be fixed.

I'm puzzled by the coexistence of movements to ban smartphones in classrooms and to also rebuild the infrastructure of education around these AI systems. The motivations behind them feel to me in tension with one another.

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

The term "basket of deplorables" has a Wikipedia article about it.

If this situation (see also NIH + NASA) isn’t being treated as a five-alarm fire by our public science policy agencies and societies, right now, I guess I’d like to know why.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

It's so upsetting to me that I have friends who think trump is somehow responsible for artemis ii, hence pro-science and pro-space

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Seeing church-going Christians call Joe Biden a fake but glorying in trump makes it so clear how much personal politics means more to them than faith.

1/2 This is crucially important point. 1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term 2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

A striking feature of Trump and his team is: they somehow imagine a world in which they are the only actors, only ones with power, and whether it's Tehran or Minneapolis are surprised when it turns out others do. There are many kinds of power and many nations with power.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Absolutely disgusting. They don't actually believe in anything. Just power.

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days). And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of? Small red stars. PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!! Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.

Remember when Carter caught hell for suggesting during an energy crisis that people turn their heat down and put on a sweater? But somehow this is ok now.

Federal spending is up from last year and the year before. Taxes are going up this year for everyone except the top 5%. The only reduction that has occurred has been in benefits and services delivered to >95% of Americans.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Nothing like a little spite to lighten the spirit

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

where is justice for Nurul Amin Shah Alam? when will those charged with holding the guilty accountable demand that justice?

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

A lot of people seem to believe that the Democratic party is conservative for good reasons, like that it's what voters want. We need to drop this completely inane misconception if we hope to escape fascism skepchick.org/2026/02/why-...

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

I live in alabama. I'm also a teacher, so I understand metrics, how flawed they can be, and what red flags to look for. If a metric says Canada is poorer than Alabama, I'm not sure there's enough red fabric in the world to make that flag.

It costs $130 + a $35 facility fee to obtain a passport and an extra $30 for a passport card. In California, fees for certified copies of vital records are between $18 and $31 each. How is the SAVE Act not a poll tax?

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

lmao

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

this is the compromise position

more money for training will not fix this

literally Trump is not the President. his TV calls the shots

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

But this was okay…

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

imagine dying to death and being asked to solve math puzzles for your last words. for one man, this was no mere hypothetical

"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.

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I am in the market for a PhD student this year. Please don’t use LLM to write your statement of research. Yes it is obvious. I want to know who you are, not how you prompt.

*whispers* *hey, most of the world, you know we should boycott the Olympics and the World Cup, right*