As someone who kind of wrote a book on it, let me share the number one sign someone is lying to you about politics: When they claim that, through some unspecified alchemy, paradise and prosperity can be achieved through suffering exclusively by other people.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

“This meeting served only the secretary’s whiskey-addled daydreams, and not a single active member of our armed forces. Many of the quotes from it will be etched in stone one day, on a monument that will be torn down by a joyous protest mob.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

"I think you’re quite familiar with Hegseth. He’s a real asshole! And an embarrassing one, too!" @drewmagary.bsky.social's column on Hegseth's speech at Quantico: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Trump literally declaring war on Americans. I wonder if there’s a term for that

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

the people who hate title ix design trans-detection schemes that freak out girls so much that they don't want to play!? who could have seen this coming except everyone.

Future historians will understand that the key factor in the slide to authoritarianism was the total collapse of the GOP as a pro-democracy party, & the total failure of its not-actually "moderate" & "pro-democracy" rump minority to ally with Democrats & put an end to fascism. But sure, Murc's Law.

What exactly is the conservative position on two-sample t-tests, chi-square, or multiple regressions? Is MANCOVA the conservative version of MANOVA?

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. This is just a slightly politer version of the lies Robin Vos spreads about UW all the time (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). It's ugly. It's not true. Nor are the grants lies true. Frankly, it's all obscene given the authoritarian assault now on 🇺🇸 higher ed.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

Amy Astley, editor of Architectural Digest Todd Martin, tennis pro

Your regular reminder that, whatever problems they may have, there are exactly <zero> societal institutions that are <more> protective of disagreement & debate & viewpoint diversity than universities.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

(considers this regime’s views on science, bursts out laughing)

Phantasm, or Salem’s Lot

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

It’s good to see the Times noting the admin’s attacks on higher ed as a proximate cause. But state governments have been chronically underfunding their university systems for decades and still see them as attractive targets for budget cuts.

every day i think they can’t get any worse. every day i’m wrong.

"A society can't allow EVERYBODY to have free speech!" is a helluva take.

What that Fischerking fascist is saying is no different from the messaging about race and gender you’d encounter in David Duke’s publication in 1990.

It's been 6-7 years, if not longer, since I've felt I wasn't in survival mode.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea... I’m lighting the @tmbejan.bsky.social signal; U Chicago needs to have its distinguished alumna explain to them what civility does and doesn’t mean, what it can and can’t accomplish.

"I care about social cohesion and social solidarity, which is why I tried to convince white people in Ohio that Haitian immigrants were eating their dogs." Naturally, Douthat does not challenge him at all on these lies.

Saw @underworldlive.bsky.social on Saturday, and @welovepulp.bsky.social and @suedehq.bsky.social released new singles this week. 1995 Matt is ecstatic #HRMusicShare

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

The thing about most professors… they actually want to teach… so if you want to learn they will help you

I get that he is bound by judicial ethics here, but it’s hard to take the civics argument seriously from the author of Trump v. United States. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

"They happen to be white" is the full, complete, and honest answer to this question! He didn't need to say anything else. bsky.app/profile/atru...

All those gifts I received from my students when they handed in their final exam at the end of the semester were purely because they liked me.

“Waingros have infiltrated every part of the world through a combination of relentless self-promotion fueled by unearned self-confidence. They walk into any situation that requires teamwork and community, asking, “How could I make this about me?”

Which federal crime did the President commit with this statement? Was it 26 usc 7217, which prohibits the President or his aides from directing any tax enforcement action? Or was it 26 usc 6103, which prohibits any government official from disclosing an ongoing tax proceeding? Maybe both!

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

Happy National Honesty Day....or is it?!

Why is Cacciato's fate left unclear at the end of "Going After Cacciato?"