An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Video evidence that shows Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche-who was not at Delaney Hall at the time-ordered the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka for trespassing despite the fact Mayor Ras Baraka was not trespassing. Then ICE agents escalated a peaceful situation into absolute chaos

There are a lot of conservative academics. There are just many fewer academics who are part of a movement whose bedrock is that academics are the enemy of the people and must be destroyed. Khmer Rouge from the far right doesn't have a lot of university support, I'm afraid.

This is a problem.

Meeting up with your big-time PhD advisor at a conference several years later…

When an advertisement for a teaching position says the salary is "commensurate with experience" it should mean they will pay me a million dollars a year because I have experienced a lot of shit. #academicsky

We welcome Dr. Mita Dasog from Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 3rd.

New Jersey PBS has to shut down after Trump's attacks on what little public funded media still exists

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

J.D. Vance enthusiastically promoted the book, which uses genocidal language to stoke hatred toward liberals and progressives. While blaming "the left" for violence, the far-right has been publishing blueprints for dehumanization and civil war. www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...

Jack Posobiec literally wrote a book that portrayed Democrats as demonic "unhumans" in need of elimination. He is a merchant of hate, and the fact that Charlie Kirk considered him a friend speaks volumes. CNN lapping up his crocodile tears = laundering fascism.

Thought-provoking piece on the collapse of reading in the wake of the smartphone revolution and the disaster a post-literate society portends for creativity, science, and democracy "The screen revolution represents the greatest theft of knowledge from ordinary people in history"

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

Be sure to stay for the part where the head of the Virginia state Republican party calls the closure of multiple rural health clinics "a win for rural communities”... www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals. Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team. So proud.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Hi Canadian friends! Want to help prevent what’s happening to science south of our border from happening here?? Hope the answer is YES… Assuming it is, it took me about 2 mins to fill out and send this pre written letter #ArmchairActivism #AcademicSky 🇨🇦 🧪

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

In honor of Jimmy Kimmel get suspended in part for saying "And by ‘statistical fact’, [Vance] means ‘complete bullshit’,” in response to Vance's false claim that most political violence is from the left, here's the DOJ report showing the opposite, that the DOJ conveniently just memory-holed:

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

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Barefoot in the Park Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Candidate The Sting All the President’s Men Sneakers He was so good in so many of my favorite movies. And no one, no one, was ever handsomer. RIP to a legend.

And they kept saying it was about freedom of choice.

This is a stunningly pathological lawsuit even by Trumpian standards. It reads as if he was holding a gun to the head of the child of the lawyer drafting it.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Great reporting; astounding corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

What is there to be literate about even? You just type words into a box. The literacy bit is about knowing if you're being fed absolute nonsense by the chatbot, which requires subject level expertise. So the LLM is an extra layer of effort. It's all so stupid and wasteful.

Post now updated with a note at the top, and with a slightly changed headline, because apparently almost every media outlet also may have gotten the story wrong.

The comment by the employment lawyer in the story is simply wrong as a matter of labour law. The U of T profs are in an association that has a MOA similar to a collective agreement that has an “academic freedom” protection and a grievance procedure. U of T cannot terminate a prof “for any reason”.

Romania becomes second Nato country to detect Russian drones in airspace

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

JFC. No, a university can't just fire a tenured professor "for any reason". "Your employer can terminate you for any reason, so long as that reason is not discriminatory or not a reprisal for you pursuing your employment law rights" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...