yeah, I recently had multiple people in China ask me why they never seem to meet Trump supporters, and I pointed out that the Trump supporters tend to be too afraid to travel abroad (outside of a few select places in Western Europe and full-service Caribbean resorts).

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

being a russian asset pedo nepo baby is at least a reason for him getting the dni spot, a trumpworld requirement, if not exactly a qualification

on a recent visit to Hiroshima, I got fascinated by Alice Garden, a weirdly eccentric post-modernist public plaza, with a big modernist sculpture in it (by Suzuki Takashi), that's somehow survived more than 30 years in the center of town greg.org/archive/2026...

Alex Plechash, MN GOP chair, said it clearly. His base believes that they are the victims. What he didn’t say is : Their heroes are killers - especially targeting Black people - and those murders are framed as heroic acts in the fight to maintain authoritarian, racist, patriarchal control.

New article out: Antarctic science operations must account for climate change and extreme environmental events @bas.ac.uk www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03629-2

It’s early, but still safe to say that this is one of the most important articles about constitutional law that will be published this year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being the most, full stop. yalelawjournal.org/feature/the-...

And this obvious fraud is going to poison all our pension funds and make the fraudster a trillionaire.

The ever-extraordinary Roni Horn

The Minnesota Republican Party holding a moment of silence for the man who brutally murdered George Floyd might be one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever read. Evil.

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Mimsy is a textbook asset in that he is vain, amoral, and more than anything else, a dumb failson.

The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

The scheme was started by a white woman who was recently sentenced. They never blame her.

This is just cowardice. If a nation is going to have the balls to judge someone like they are God they should have the balls to carry out and take responsibility for the prisoners themselves. For profit prison system is cowardice period.

One of the reasons winning the Senate is so important (and why hitching our wagon to Nazi Tattoo Sext Guy is a dumb idea!) is shutting down Trump's ability to appoint kooky right wing judges and incompetent cabinet members is really important when he goes full Ozymandias

Really interesting detail here, since a surprising detail about the McMillan Commission is that they fell in love with Rome, even if they rejected its urbanity in the end.

Something I never noticed: you can index the skew of the National Mall between the Grant Memorial (on axis) and the fountain in Olmsted’s perimeter wall for the Capitol (square to the midline of the facade)

💥SCOOP: Rumors intensifying that Viktor Orbán's MAGA allies want to throw him a lifeline: a top UN job, with diplomatic immunity attached, to shield him from prosecution back home in Hungary. 🔗More in @vsquare.bsky.social's latest Goulash newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-orba...

Trump wants all his convictions dismissed and those who did prosecute him to face criminal charges to “restore trust in the legal system”

Kavanaugh Detentions are the new Kavanaugh Stops

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"Trump seems far more interested in padding his own and his cronies’ pockets than in boosting the fate of humanity. And so, he has given Vought free rein to destroy key engines of progress—including universities, research institutes and professional associations." www.ms.now/opinion/russ...

💯 @feminist 2 June 2026

This honestly confirms all my priors about both Kurt and Courtney

A truly delightful social media interaction. Iykyk.

For such a great writer, Nabokov's critical judgement was often weirdly WRONG, but it's still fun to hear him crapping on stuff he dislikes:

This is a new development and relevant to everyone in Dallas

When the Trump administration chooses to dismantle the system to monitor ocean currents, part of an ongoing attack on science and knowledge more generally by the federal government, I sure wish experts would not say this reflects a lack of understanding. It’s informed bad intent, not ignorance.

Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

We could take the same dollars, develop publicly-owned models based on consensually-gathered data, made of entirely open-source and open-weights code, and enable a thousand independent, responsible innovators to spring up instead. WTF is Bernie doing?

Ngofeen Mputubwele, the show runner for the documentary podcast Fela Kuti, posted a video about winning a Peabody award and having -$65 in his bank acct. People asked how they could support him, so he commented with his Venmo and Cashapp. Total sent his way: $15,000 www.instagram.com/reel/DY6tcnX...

Imagine how angry Americans would be if the media had adequately explained to them that Obama had secured a deal that was preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and Trump blew it the fuck up.

the regime is destroying basic research to do economic sabotage fortunately iconic blue state governor has a different means for the same goal “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Exporting Trump’s most hateful ideas.

CORONATE ME OR YOU’LL BE SORRY

* offer not valid at NYU Langone

if anyone would like to ask him about the hiring of 580 police officers instead of funding libraries or asking what he will do to hold NYU Langone responsible for stopping healthcare to children, now is your chance.

I'm grateful to Mamdani for refusing to walk with murderous Jew-haters. (Read this article in the Jewish Forward to learn more about the three Israeli pols who brought hate for both Palestinians and Jews to the parade.)

I’m not complaining that he had to walk it back, but I am genuinely curious as to why the $1.8B slush fund fraud was the one that made those folks collectively go “too far!”. That’s just one of 1,384 flagrantly illegal things the administration has pulled.

Meanwhile, I'm just, they take a day off to celebrate Jefferson-fucking-Davis?? Does Oklahoma have a Tim McVeigh Day?

Wow www.instagram.com/p/DZDnqVkKyY...

You just voted two weeks ago to ban any mention of LGBTQ people from federally funded schools and to forcibly out trans kids. Don't you dare come here and say happy pride.

Three hundred and forty-six pages of pure rage.

BREAKING NEWS: Jed Clampet has dropped out of the #Freedom250 concert.

if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k

“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...