It's hard to even explain what a disaster this is for the US economy in the short-term — as well as US innovation and industry in decades to come. Immigrants and foreign students at our universities are—as always have been—the wellspring of American invention and innovation.

I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.

If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

This order is a real doozy: “In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end.”

Surely the bus is going to turn around

this is good more cops saying stuff like this please

DOGE likely perpetrated the most serious, far-reaching data breaches in human history, and we will be dealing with the consequences for years. Many DOGErs should have been, and still could be, prosecuted for these crimes.

taking reading, media recs, especially for tech policy!!

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance. I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

The States Rights Party®

This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

CAN I HAVE YOUR LITTLE LEAGUE TROPHY?

I don't think "law" is the word he's looking for.

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

And sure enough, OpenAI just announced it would be introducing ads to ChatGPT. Good thing @mbogen.bsky.social & I wrote about the incentives this would create for AI companies, and how those incentives were likely to shape the user experience. TL;DR: it's not great! #itsthebusinessmodel

Transparent, open bribery.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

…I would appreciate if journalists would begin laughing uproariously followed by probing questioning when Regime officials & supporters say shit like this.

Seems as if this works — if employers start firing people for standing up for their neighbors and fellow humans — than a remedy is publicizing the identity of those employers.

The lesson from the Press Secretary's disassembling here is that more journalists should take their adversarial obligations seriously. The question itself was strictly factual; the characterization he then offered was prompted by Leavitt herself. It's fair, and more importantly good, journalism.

Okay, wait, but someone told Grok to put a bikini on the Bluesky logo... and Bluesky folks... made it their pfp. And then... the bio:

The reason I think it is important to say this is that it helps us focus on the likely risks. It is, to me, very unlikely that a state will simply choose not to hold elections. It is also, to me, very likely that voter intimidation and suppression will increase beyond the current terrible method.

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

And there it is.

The Republican super majority has slowly been pulling funds for years from the university in Arkansas. We already had issues getting professors to want to teach in a red state and this will hurt us even more.

That's right, although these days there is a regrettable exception to it: if you are being kidnapped by the secret police, you should yell your name at someone recording with a cellphone. You can't rely on "they'll take me to jail" anymore, they might disappear you to a foreign gulag.

Would love to know how famously famously protective sports teams and associations feel about ICE using their trademarked logos to celebrate the destruction of communities

It has been one of the saddest experiences of my life watching from the inside as American higher education was dismantled and destroyed. I sincerely doubt that China—or any authoritarian regime—will be able to make up for the loss.

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

I'm begging us to stop playing gotcha on people living in southern states. Every person on this planet, regardless of what side of a river or ocean they were arbitrarily born on, deserves access to education and information.

things could break -- are breaking -- in this country in ways that will bewilder most of us & take decades to fully unpack, much less fix

Everyone who is like “hahah the police will always stand with ICE,” kindly shut up. Your city didn’t go through what our city is going through. Even our observers - not exactly pro-cop people - have noticed distinct hostility between ICE and MPD.

had a really interesting conversation last night with an investor and died-in-the-wool capitalist where the conclusion was something like, most Americans don't realize that functioning capital markets and the rule of law are America's actual superpowers and those things could absolutely end

/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.

There is something genuinely obscene about invoking *the beatitudes,* of all things, as propaganda for thuggery and brutality.

DEFIANCE Act bill: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... This still only applies to "intimate visual depictions," which (1) does not cover bikini pics, without more, and (2) has an error in the sub-section numbering that they should maybe fix while they're at it? www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/...

It's both unnecessary to have the necessary legal rights to stop the commercial exploitation of his identity and unlikely to prevent scammers from trying; I don't think it makes things too much worse for noncommercial/nonconfusing uses (they already get caught up in claims)

The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.

They'll stick to an official line of not explicitly saying it, keep all the face-saving off ramps open, it can be spun as doing what he asked for. But this is an actual for-real military deployment in response to a fear of an American invasion. Soldiers to defend themselves from us, the rogue state.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

In polls, 28% of Americans say they support ICE killing Renee Good. Even if we assume another 5% like it but lied, that's still just 1/3 of Americans. The regime tries to make up for its lack of support with bluster, lying in an effort to get others to give up. No one should help them with that.

Just spitballing here, but I think the founders probably wouldn't have approved of a President putting the entirety of a highly militarized federal government on a war footing against a state because he didn't like how they voted in the last election. But I'm sure John Roberts knows what he's doing.

Hillary Clinton, 2016: This is what Donald Trump is going to do: Kamala Harris, 2024: This is what Donald Trump is going to do: *Donald Trump does what Hillary Clinton & Kamala Harris said he was going to do* US Media: Why didn’t anyone warn us about what Donald Trump was going to do???

It would be a mistake to see Trumpism as authoritarianism imposed on an unwilling nation, as opposed to authoritarianism implemented in a nation with a plurality that is already made up of authoritarian bootlickers who created the context for Trumpism to thrive.

I want my articles to be written by a professional calligrapher on handcrafted paper with gold ink. If my university or funder refuse to pay for this, they are infringing my academic freedom.