this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

Still horrifying that former RI rep Patrick Kennedy is a founder of bs SAM. If he had used cannabis instead of pharmaceuticals for his issues he would get it. 🙄 tried to get him to read the 1938 submission of the AMA re cannabis rescheduling about ALL the benefits of cannabis, but prob never read.

I love this. Bookmarked for teaching. Too bad about the dead ends, i.e.: Anti-Cannabis ⬆️funded by SAM Action ⬆️which is funded by …? princelobel.com/dark-money-f...

I am done playing the gender critical, "sex matters" game. I've written extensively on the history and value of expanded sex/gender/sexuality measurement. The phrase "don't conflate sex and gender" has been misused and contorted. And I am tired.

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It's ginned up bullshit and Democrats and liberals are falling for it instead of saying "Fuck you stop being weird about trans girls in sports you sprouted potatoes." Nobody fucking cared until a few years ago when Roe fell and conservaties needed another wedge issue.

I have to admit I don't really understand the "does X country have a right to exist" framing. I don't really think any country has an inherent right to exist. Certainly not even mine. Countries exist because people and armies say they do.

Hadn't seen this before. Nicely done. isaiprofitable.com

The right takes academia seriously, and is pouring money into neutering it. Would be good to see left wing politicians taking academia equally seriously, and taking action to support it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

The fact that MSG is creating dossiers on activists who say things they don’t like shows exactly why private companies should not be allowed to use dangerous surveillance technologies like facial recognition.

My Juneteenth interview with Alice Jackson-Jolley at @Forbes on the magnitude of, origins of, and policies to eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States: www.forbes.com/sites/ali-ja...

Got Cabo Verde fever? Try these excellent restaurants in Pawtucket: 1) Cantinho www.facebook.com/cantinhorest... 2) 10 Rocks 10rockstapasbar.com 3) Rosa's Kitchen www.rosaskitchen757.com And while you are visiting, check out the Cape Verdean Museum capeverdeanmuseum.org 🇨🇻

Pop quiz (again): where am I?

It’s #Juneteeth! Find a way to support Black people today. And one way to do that? Buy (or request from library) Black Author’s Books that speak to this moment (thread 🧵) Like, The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them)

For generations, Black Americans have lived with the consequences of a society that treats appearance as a proxy for character. Sometimes the target was a zoot suit. Sometimes it was a hoodie. Sometimes it was dreadlocks, braids, cornrows, or natural hair. www.linkedin.com/pulse/fashio...

by request i'm going to share a quick thread of collections where people have pulled together articles / resources / arguments about ai harms and how to resist them this is by alphabetical order in my bookmarks, it's not comprehensive, feel free to add to the list of lists

Tartan Army!

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

question: could we replace fifa with fans?

Remixes in the replies are excellent!

(Trigger warning: any sociologists among us may wish to avert their eyes to avoid spontaneous combustion resulting from exposure to the worst theory of social action I have seen in decades) For the rest of you, beware if you are “unhappy” or “looking for justice” you may be on the road to terrorism

Oh, then by all means, we need to remain governable.

I would like a tech that, instead of surveilling what's going on inside of me, monitors all of the external factors (pollution, bad health care, depressed wages) that are destroying my health.

The American research university has been in serial crisis for 60 years. AI is now upending the whole applecart — but rightly seen, this is an opportunity as much as it is a threat. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

@alwaystheself.bsky.social @jeffsharlet.bsky.social (& more): you may be a candidate for this sticker! 📩 I have a handful, happy to mail out by request. (🛒 or see the alt text for link to buy.)

Reed this thread! (Misspelling as pronunciation guide, like Led Zeppelin.)

Kohen Wiley.

Good point! These folks are all amateurs, and I say that affectionately as a fellow amateur. Anyway (in case someone’s curious), somewhere about 30K +/- is the ballpark.

In other - lighter, local - news: I'm on the board of the Seekonk (MA) Land Trust, and we have a job opening. 👉🏻 Please share with anyone who might be interested. 🍃(It's very in person, so RI & MA especially.) www.seekonklandtrust.org/news

Alongside many other transphobic billionaires and politicians, at least three people covered in my article about anti-trans Epstein associates are listed in what appears to be an attendee list of Peter Thiel private society conference attendees: Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Steven Pinker

I am no connoisseur of the Epstein list, but I saw three names that are in the middle of that cabal venn diagram.

Gift link. @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social for Mayor! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

"Either way, the concentration of wealth at the very top is much higher now than it ever was during the Gilded Age. And these are numbers from last year, before the SpaceX IPO. The robber barons were pikers compared with today’s oligarchs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/meet-the-n...

but! but! how do you sell the students a piece of paper that doesn’t have explicit metric of their economic value that they can try to exchange for a job??

getting rid of grades entirely would be much more effective at curbing surreptitious use of genAI than any amount of surveillance, would do vastly less harm to the pedagogical relationship at the heart of education, and wouldn't be another massive economic windfall for the creepiest people you know

Gift link, bc @tressiemcphd.bsky.social does not miss. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...

A long-overdue name change recognizes PMOS as a complex metabolic and endocrine disorder—but meaningful progress will require far greater investment in women’s health research.

When I got to the word “ideology,” I hoped @victorerikray.bsky.social would come in. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

As seen in the @nytimes.com: Our movement to build a #ProvidenceForAll! 💙 🦋 nyti.ms/4oma5XQ

They way you know MAHA is full of shit is bcz not one of their ‘solutions’ is fixing a single thing systemically. Ie ‘food is cornerstone of health’ means ‘eat the right foods’ not ‘environmental justice, racial justice, making access easier’ etc. As RFK says, that’s just woke DEI nonsense.

🏆 @mmlarthur.bsky.social wins, and thanks for playing, @betsy-cazden.bsky.social & @gaylegifford.bsky.social. 🍷 Eno (my friend’s the new owner) has lovely rooftop events.

If you’ve been following the “rigged election” rumors from the CA primary and thinking, gosh, haven’t we seen this all before? Well, you’re right! Sounds like you’d be competitive in a friendly and frenetic game of “Rigged Election” Bingo! uwcip.substack.com/p/rigged-ele...

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

Pop quiz: where am I?

I thought the racist eugenics was just … its own thing. I forgot my own advice to students: “follow the money.” (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social I appreciate the reminder!)

In the 1980s two economists (Tomas Philipson and Richard Posner) wrote a book advising the Reagan/Bush administrations to defer any action on AIDS for this very reason. They argued legalizing gay marriage would actually save more lives without public spending by cutting down on "promiscuity"

Reminder: Early COVID-era deaths reduced Social Security liabilities by $156 billion. I keep telling people, Republicans noted those savings and have sought to cull the old and "weak" ever since.