An important update on what’s happening at Delaney Hall in NJ. This post ⬇️ provides links to orgs who are supporting detainees and their families, if you’re able to make a donation. #NJ #Delaneyhall #democracy

Best line in the Ezra Klein - Helen Lewis interview on masculinism: “Many of my friends are academics. I can see how it slightly deranges people.” Yup, pretty much. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

Animal-derived skincare is trending, from salmon sperm facials to moisturizers made with beef tallow. Promoted as natural alternatives to synthetic products, these ingredients are gaining popularity across social media and high-end spas.

Wait until he hears about Roundup.

New piece! Norah MacKendrick on Make America Healthy Again, its attitude toward science, its defining characteristics, and how it fits within Trump's illiberal second administration. Check it out! @nmackend.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social

This is my first time writing for the Illiberalism Studies Program. Not sure why RFK Jr. looks so pained in this image. Maybe he's unhappy with my representation of the movement? Read up to understand how MAHA is not anti-science but defines a new, illiberal science to implement a MAGA agenda. #MAHA

Office of Personal Management is aiming high in their training of our civil servants by the sounds of things. 😳

V. cool data +: “Key unknowns include emission inventories for rockets and satellites, lack of a systematic observational survey of mesospheric metals, altitude-time ablation profiles, chemical lifetimes, particle size-composition distributions, and transport pathways into the lower stratosphere.”

How to explain this headline? This goes beyond so-called journalistic objectivity. I suspect NYT enjoys a little rage bait. #pretti #newyorktimes @nytpitchbot.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Delta: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Correct. But what’s with the “WHAT IF”?? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Ok, but EPA at least show some pictures of what you mean www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s about time we had a men’s section in the cereal aisle.

Beef tallow is a small part of the report. What is more “interesting” is that RFK promised to end industry influence over dietary guidelines but his scientific panel takes money from cattle + dairy industries. And 🥛 and 🥩 just happen to be at the top of the new inverted pyramid.

Glyphosate is a big problem full stop. It comes down to two things: 1. lack of independent research establishing its safety and 2. the huge volumes of this pesticide applied in agriculture all over the world. #glyphosate #roundup #pesticides www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...

If you VPN into Canada you can watch the 60 Minutes CECOT story here (for now). Global TV appears to have posted the original tape by accident watch.globaltv.com/series/2893d...

This will be an interesting test of MAHA’s power. Will we see, in a month or two, a kind of capitulation to Zeldin, in the interest of keeping MAGA-MAHA aligned? Hard to imagine MAHA winning real reforms at the EPA.

If you want to understand the ideas behind this administration, read this and Field’s new book, Furious Minds. Essential reading for understanding the logic behind the MAGA machine.

I was able to interview Indigenous photographer Cara Romero about her stunning art in her "First American Doll" series. If you need a visual pick-me-up this is it. 19thnews.org/2025/12/firs...

If you read/cite/teach from journals, read this thread. We need librarians more than ever. ⬇️

The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals. What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea

Beginning on Dec. 10, @lkatfield.bsky.social, the author of “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right,” will teach a 6-part class on the conservative intellectual movement and how it has shaped Donald Trump’s presidency as a part of the Lawfare Lecture series.

Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.

“Few books in political theory foreground the author’s biography this much. But it lands.” My LARB review of Furious Minds by Laura Field. A terrific book. @princetonupress.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...

I'm a few chapters into @lkatfield.bsky.social's great new book on MAGA intellectuals and I thought the close of her introductory chapter made a very important point about the dangers of talking about MAGA as it it is an intellectual desert. It's more like a refulgent swamp of shitty, toxic ideas.

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s attempt to cut off food assistance for 42 million people during the ongoing government shutdown. We'll keep fighting to ensure that federal programs serve their lawful purpose: to help, not harm, people and communities.

When doing research for my book, I spoke to mothers who felt ashamed to use SNAP at farmers’ markets, because it’s perceived to be too posh for the poor. But it’s smart budgeting. #SNAP dollars often go further at these markets because of special programs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

As a Canadian in the U.S. this is 💯 accurate.

Calling it “chemophobia” gets it wrong. It sweeps valid concerns under the rug at a time when we have very solid science showing that many of the pesticides and chemicals in our food and consumer products are not safe. This framing plays right into the hands of the chemical industry. #greensky

It's gonna be hard to enforce this at hockey games.

Our new research estimates that 2.8 million people aged 13+ in the U.S. identify as transgender. This includes 724,000 youth (13 to 17) and 2.1 million adults 18+. bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

It can be done.

Was talking to a friend about Chicago. She was there last year for the DNC. I’m headed there soon. 5 minutes after hanging up, my head exploded 🤯 when I realized that circus happened only LAST year. Not a decade ago, which is how it feels in my bones. 💀Dang, fascism moves quickly.

State & local programs make it easier for food pantries to access fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste. Some ingenuity and hard work at play after devastating federal cuts. #food #foodinsecurity #foodbank

UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla: “We cannot sustain the high levels of attrition, burnout, and turnover in our workplaces. This is a fight for justice for poor and working-class people all over New York City.” More: nycclc.org/news/strikin...

Solidarity with striking public defenders in NYC! They’re demanding a more manageable case load and pushing back against salary freezes. ✊ #UAW #NYLAG #publicdefenders

Went home 🇨🇦 recently and got to try new products because of this boycott. Learned that it's okay to buy 🇺🇸 if: 1. It's cheaper and you're low-income (lots of 🇺🇸 stuff is on sale, maybe because they can't sell it). 2. 🇨🇦 doesn't make it. But ya better be sure you NEED it! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes

So, a rising age at first birth & rising shares of people who childless at a given age - & thus low birth rates - aren't a *cause* of all these problems cited by pronatalists. They're a *symptom* that contemporary society is not functioning in a way that lets people achieve their family goals. 9/

Can’t read the news right now, so am going to do this instead (or throw my phone in the river?) ⬇️

This morning, my kids—teenagers—who have grown up under Trump 1.0 and 2.0, were hopeful about political leadership. That’s a first! I don’t take these hopeful moments for granted. #mamdani #NYC

Okay, I guess. If you reject feminism, then, yes, cooking all the family meals from scratch and having lots of babies while your man gets an education and goes out to work can be understood as "liberating." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

Do something good for your mental health today by looking at this post and reading the amazing comments. 💚🧡

I teach this in my food studies classes. SNAP is a powerhouse social program. (Quiz: Guess who lobbies for SNAP? Corporate grocers like WalMart. They reap profits from SNAP spending in their stores and their workforce depends on those benefits because their wages are so low)

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

May I present further evidence of how the Left has radicalized students in dangerous ways. Subversive graffiti in a bathroom at Rutgers University! #liberals #radicalleft #academiclife #empathy

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