Less about shame than the opportunity that COVID presented. But it might appeal to that philosophical side of you. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

To put it mildly: "His death is a significant blow to the criminal group and could set off both internal power struggles and renewed violence as factions compete for control." & all to appease a flawed kingpin counternarcotics policy

"One of the pervasive new doctrines of Silicon Valley is that we’re in the early stages of a bifurcation event." "The future they seem to envisage is one in which people don’t really do anything at all, except follow the instructions given to them by machines."

Wake me when Michael B. Jordan hosts a town hall.

Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...

Trump's EPA killed the need for all 194 U.S. power plants burning coal to have continuous emissions monitoring for toxic soot pollution. Why? Because EPA said that $2.9 million/year was too much for ALL 194 of these plants to spend—not each, but altogether—for better compliance & transparency. 1/

Looks like we're splitting up Amtrak? www.railpassengers.org/happening-no...

"Emboldened by what Trump is doing, red states are going much further. They are attempting to destroy higher education as we know it." newrepublic.com/article/2068...

🧵 Tempting to read this optimistically as a sign that institutions will check Trump on other issues. Maybe they will! But Congress does not appear to be "worried about its powers 'slipping through its fingers'"--it has handed the presidency its powers, esp. in national security/military matters. 1/

Not been a fabulous Olympics for the Czech Republic... but this stellar moment was courtesy of Czech breed (wolfdog)

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Omg Alysa Liu (USA) won the gold in ladies figure skating what a day for US women on the ice

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I keep refreshing the NYTimes live blog & it's all CAPS and !!! marks so it must be one heck of a game

Team USA v Canada for Olympic gold in women's hockey today. I'm cheering for Team USA & think that team would be a very worthy winner. Incredibly dominate performance from them to date.

Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do. But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side. The answer was always going to be in the supply:

You can't address affordability without being willing to take on corporate power head on. newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Drug reformers measure their interventions against outcomes, something drug warriors don't do. But reformers' claims are often self-serving. Recent declines in drug OD deaths were a magnitude of order greater than what's been shown for demand-side. The answer was always going to be in the supply:

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Tell Congress to reject this anti-voter bill: bit.ly/4tmVIor

American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold in women’s slalom, breaking an eight-year medal drought at the Winter Games.

“Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.”

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Long forgotten: Democrats swept through the midterms of 1990 and showed Bush was beatable (and forced Bush to raise taxes) because Rev. Jesse Jackson systematically organized volunteers all over the country. He contested the South after Dukakis surrendered. Clinton owed him. So do we.

Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Jacob Elordi looks like Iker Casillas. He looks Castilian. I think that's an acceptable Heathcliff choice. More so I think the casting missed an opportunity, rather than "got it wrong," when it comes to casting a dark-skinned Heathcliff.

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations. arxiv.org/abs/2602.058... #AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

There’s a risk that this lawless premeditated killing spree fades into background noise, like the neglected but intensified U.S. bombing campaign in Somalia.

Title is: Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation

Pub day for my book (today) has fallen during a somber, not celebratory, time. I'll try piggyback on future reviews & etc. Meanwhile, if you are a scholar interested in the political history of the US in the recent past... This may be of interest share.google/I5ZDdEKt6zhZ...

some weird-ass shit happening on the Federal Register, with a list of Chinese-military-aiding firms being published and _very_ rapidly withdrawn www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

On why we shouldn't move on too quickly from Trump's effort to imprison six members of Congress for making a video... my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”

Great to see the new House Oversight Democrats’ report on the schemes behind DOGE's creation, the benefits it offered the billionaire class, and the harms it brought to taxpayers, federal workers, and public services. 🧵 oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Documents show the oil industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe. Trump's EPA is still claiming it's fine.

This move is completely out of step with public opinion — only 15% of voters think greenhouse gas emissions are not a threat to public health.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and thirty-seven percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction. A 2025 Siena poll found that forty-eight percent of all men aged 18-49 have an active online sports betting account."

whoa whoa Slovakia 4, Finland 1

With very significant exception of injury to Vonn, it's been an incredible Olympics on the mountain for Team USA.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Slava Ukraini! “I see the faces on this helmet, & I will not betray them,” he said, dismissing the IOC’s suggestion that he wear a black armband instead. He said there are not enough black armbands in all of Cortina to honor everybody who has died since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly four years ago”