“ We are at such a dangerous and delicate moment in American history. The onus is on all of us to reject the fantasy of civility in favor of repair. This country is broken, but that need not be permanent.” Thank you, @roxanegay.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ira Madison III recently experienced an apartment fire and now has to do the work of rebuilding his life. If can toss him a few dollars, there is a GoFundMe gofund.me/b33e69b96

Are you a psychologist, social worker, or in training to become one? If so, please participate in this UMB doctoral student’s confidential online dissertation study about clinician best practices for assessing and treating clients: umassboston.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... /1

The president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said Monday that suggestions that Tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism are “irresponsible when considering the harmful and confusing message they send to pregnant patients.” https://to.pbs.org/46oVMck

Delete TikTok, and tell everyone you know to do the same. It’s going to be a surveillance and propaganda tool for the Trump regime.

its genuinely insane that president of the united states does not know the difference between insane asylums the kind of facility and political asylum the legal concept, just like how he fundamentally does not understand how is flagship policy (tariffs) work in the slightest

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

Sending supportive and caring wishes to all the faculty out there trying to create contexts that nourish growth and critical thinking for students during this impossible time. #academicsky

Tikvah Fund is the Jewish version of the Heritage Foundation — a right-wing think tank with an overt goal of moving global Jewry to the right politically. Every shitbag Jewish attorney arguing to upend your constitutional rights, as well as the ones behind Israel's judicial coup, is a Tikvah fellow.

The quota incentivizes arresting the *opposite* of what Trump promised. Tracking & arresting a drug gang takes time and it's dangerous. Raiding a large workplace or sitting outside courtrooms is easy and safe, so ICE does that. And there are no consequences for improper arrests, so grab everyone.

the Nazis attacked higher education as an enemy of the state, first Jewish and "leftist" professors were banned and then the curriculum restructured to only say what the Party wanted. German education was once envy of the world and it was destroyed In 5 years, college attendance in Germany fell 53%

“The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech...PEN America stands with journalists who have been targeted and calls on media organizations to resist political pressure." pen.org/press-releas...

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

The Times quotes the fascist Rufo so much he may as well be on staff but Kevin is "too liberal." This is a journalistic "objectivity."

Five simple practice to increase compassionate awareness so you can act with intention and flexibility. A new @psychologytoday.com piece by @joshbartok.bsky.social and me. #therapistsky #psychology www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

The real emergency is that Trump is destroying economic growth with tariffs at about the same rate that he’s chasing foreign-born workers out of the country. The reason unemployment isn’t getting bigger is that the economy is getting smaller. trib.al/k3dMYSy

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

iPhone pic of a baby cardinal who just visited the tree next to our deck. 🧡🪶

The Washington Post has fired @karenattiah.bsky.social — the last Black woman on their opinions staff — for quoting Charlie Kirk’s racist words in the aftermath of his shooting (in a series of skeets decrying gun violence and political violence). Support her by signing up for her class.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I really worked to find this bird today and @joshbartok.bsky.social fit the perfect pic of it! 🪶

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

I’m told the DNC is on lockdown again, and all staff have been told to work from home. This is a direct result of the entire conservative media apparatus deciding to attack Democrats and blame them for a shooting they don’t know anything about. For shame.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

And of course Butler is Jewish, which just demonstrates how their agenda doesn’t care about the concerns of Jews. It’s about silencing critics.

From Paul Krugman “Whoever did this, there’s just no rational way you can blame this on “the left.” Also, whatever motivated this murder, it’s simply a fact that over the past decade right-wing extremists have killed many more people than left-wing extremists:” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.

Grateful for every post on here that informs, critiques, entertains, and maintains a grounding in truth, justice, and equity. In case folks are feeling overwhelmed and activated, this @psychologytoday.com piece might be helpful. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

I have befriended a family of burrowing owls (don't worry, I don't feed them or touch them or anything) and this will likely never happen again, so I will be eternally grateful.