When Harvard loses we all win. Congratulations @arditidpopolo.bsky.social #BoolahBoolah

"As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

One simple way to make sense of this wacky week is as a reminder that no man is all-powerful in our country, no matter what he may want you to think. We still have a democracy until we don't. #courageiscontagious

This. I may have moved up professionally but relationship wise I feel stuck

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

I don’t know why people are expressing surprise that no male journalist came to the aid of the female journalist. In my experience men simply do not come to the aid of women in situations like this. They just don’t.

This guy is playing video games sound up at 9am in Munich airport and I have not slept: do I want to start an international incident ?

I thought Germans were supposed to be polite

They certainly could remove him from teaching. The man is a sexual predator whose victims are his students.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Guten morgen

Zara ads are using music I used to go clubbing to a quarter century ago

We're like five generations into modern feminism and women still have to assume that when you ask a colleague for feedback on a project, there's a good chance that he and a sex criminal will snigger about how it's evidence that you want his dick Also they have made up a racist nickname for you

Seems like a logical extrapolation from the current craziness

I love the fact that a kindle means I can read trashy romance novels on the train and for a few hours I can dream a little

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Gross. Speaking from experience she probably wanted to be left alone or be mentored like male students, not hit on. Why are men.

It allows me to indulge my trashy Hello! habit

I have to pack and am uncharacteristically panicked

it is a difficult time to be a CSA/grooming survivor on the net right now so i encourage you to think a little carefully about how you talk about certain topics re: current events. it is beyond disheartening to watch society at large disparage what happens to so many of us with so little justice

Remember when Senate Republicans led by Josh Hawley tried to go after then-Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her confirmation hearing by … claiming (falsely) that she had been "too easy" on child sex offenders when she served as a district court judge?

This is why AI is garbage. This takeaway section was a total waste of time and I could have skimmed the article in the time it took to read these many words that say very little.

My friend Quil has been doing amazing work for decades. Have a listen here: Part 1: A National Guard Veteran Battles PTSD and Incarceration : Up First from NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/09/n...

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

From the rooftops!! So so so true. Also Carl is one of my favorite lawsky folks

Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.

But American pasta sucks and gives me a stomachache

A friend complained that men on dating sites are using ChatGPT to message and are sloppy about deleting prompts. I had two thoughts: 1. What is he going to do when he’s on a real date? 2. This is like the worst remake of Cyrano de Bergerac ever.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Does anyone have a worthy cause to donate floor length gowns tags still on for two and only worn once for the other two? Was thinking high school kids and maybe military spouses.

every night we gather 'round our nightmare rectangles

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

This isn’t very hard, folks.

I feel attacked

Seen around town

This directive will not age well when this period of cruelty comes to a close. "The Trump administration told states on Saturday to 'immediately undo' any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply."

Is this a series? Surely too long even for the New Yorker long essay.

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

Saw my old pair partner on Friday. She was RIFed a few months ago and is really not in a good space. Some life experiences create a bond where you do your best to care for each other for life. We teammates are working to support her. Anyway - check on those you care about.

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

Shot, chaser

I’m really tired of mediocre white men.

She was using the tools available to her to make it more difficult for conservatives on the Court to delay access to food indefinitely. See the unusual amount of detail in the order. The cost of that was a delay of a few days. To muster more popular support by nudging the First Cir to act quickly.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

I don’t use ChatGPT or any LLM. I do study them. But I wouldn’t use them.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion