I don’t think people quite understand this is one of the goals.

A cartoon by Joseph Mirachi, from 1974. #NewYorkerCartoons

Living 30 minutes away from a decent Thai restaurant does not grant people magical powers of wisdom and morality. It is insane that American culture still pretends that this is true.

I feel pretty misunderstood by people living in rural areas, and yet mysteriously, this isn’t considered a problem. I’m sick of putting up with this idiotic display of obeisance to chucklefucks simply because they live in rural areas.

Trump’s war on kids with cancer. Infuriating. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Racism isn’t just slurs or insults. It’s systems and decisions that consistently deny marginalized communities access to power, opportunity, stability, and dignity — often while pretending to be “neutral.” That’s what we’re actually talking about. Naming it isn't divisive. Ignoring it is.

she’s so iconic

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy Address on the first Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. March 13, 1962

Søren Kierkegaard’s ability to slip a knife in is unmatched

Apparently, you can get internal bleeding without being struck, just like you can regrow an ear without being shot.

this is the kind of wickedness that is shunned in every culture, religion, history, art, literature, ethical system including the internal moral codes of criminal organizations/mafia

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

We should only fund research that will have huge impact and not fund research that won't. Fortunately, these are easy to distinguish. - Populists anytime they look at government research funding

This is such a telling quote about the Billionaire Mindset, from a story about Stephen Ross being offered $15 billion for the Miami Dolphins. “Yeah I could sell, but what would I even do with the money?” House the homeless motherfucker www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but the Insurrection Act isn’t the same as “martial law.” It authorizes the molitary to engage in civil law enforcement. And not clear that even then, whether they can enforce state criminal laws

One of the most valuable lessons my father taught me was to use my voice to speak up whenever I see wrong doing. Thanks to every researcher who spoke up against this unethical study and for every reporter who amplified. Advocacy matters. @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats after saying there's 'no longer a moral option'

Explanation please @usrepjimmypanetta.bsky.social

"Invasion of a NATO ally" is the point at which blue states need to start a civil war

When we’re facing a fascist threat, the pettier rivalries fall away, or *at least* take a back seat. Will’s a real one for this, and everyone who’s not able to lay aside those petty rivalries are showing just how serious they are about beating back the fascists.

it's WHISTLE-MAXXING TIME

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Congressman Ted Lieu, a former Air Force veteran, issued a stark warning to U.S. military members, that military action against Greenland without explicit congressional authorization would constitute following illegal orders. He reminded service members they swear an oath to the Constitution, not 🤡…

#OTD 14 January 2005, @esa.int's #Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon #Titan; humankind's only landing (to date) in the outer Solar System, the farthest landing from Earth a spacecraft has ever made, and also the first landing on a moon other than our own 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA. He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

This is sickening. UB scientist being held by ICE despite valid visa and no criminal history. Just for making a wrong turn. www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

The Trump administration is demanding "lists of Jews" from the University of Pennsylvania. The AAUP condemns this as “a profoundly invasive & dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more below 👇

It is not actually plausible that a Harris presidency would be carrying out ICE internal operations in anything like the form and scale they are now being done. Incredibly basic, trivially easy to acquire, knowledge of the contemporary lay of the land in US politics makes this clear.

Mr Duclos hits the nail.

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

The Department of Labor has just posted its second Nazi slogan (in the original, "Germany for Germans") in the last two days. No one believes this is a coincidence. They are telling America exactly who they are and what they intend.

Well played

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

Of course.

I asked for a third TA for my gigantic (N = 360 students) Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior course at SDSU, and they just… gave me one immediately. I didn’t have to beg or even follow up… SDSU Department of Psychology remains an incredible place to work.

The LeBron James of divorced women. No one is doing it like her.

Steve Jobs is the Rosetta Stone for the deciphering the Tech Bro Mentality informed he had an eminently treatable form of cancer with excellent odds of a full recovery, he ignored his doctors, treated his cancer with juice cleanses and fasting because He Knew Better, and promptly died

My favorite thing about her philanthropy is that she just writes a check; no complicated grants with detailed reporting requirements, just money.

Cool. California withold your money. Good luck, red states.

Google pushing its AI image manipulation on my phone daily by creating "stylized" versions of my photos, each one uglier, more ridiculous and pointless than the one before. A proposed solution in perpetual search for its problem.

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???

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter