Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

Finished out the whole helmet and I all hepped up again about how this is going to turn out

lots of discussion on how this will affect tech jobs, but once again this applies to academia also every professor you know on a visa will now have to leave the US for a green card, sometimes for multiple years. many will give up in the process. universities may not give them back their jobs.

Feels like the human brain was not meant to continuously refresh the news to see if one man will decide to bomb two countries on different continents for entirely made up reasons.

@jalexa1218.bsky.social makes a keen observation about the media preferring to interview Democratic donors and operatives instead of actual Democratic voters.

“We often hear that our nation is broke. It is not. It’s our priorities that are poor. We can ensure every American has quality health care … That every young person who wants to go to college can go without debt. It is our leaders who simply choose not to do so.“

It's the same with UBI. We've had countless studies done, and each one has the same findings. When people don't have to worry about their basic necessities, such as food and shelter, they excel. They find work meaningful to them, take courses, and are generally happier. But, we can't have that!

This new essay revisits my work on the Finnish UBI experiment through a fresh lens. LJ Pearce-Coca brings insights from neurodivergence, to show how unconditional income might not just reduce poverty, but reshape how different minds can flourish within society." open.substack.com/pub/drdavebe...

This is fucking insidious. When we talk about erasure this is the textbook definition.

Post-conviction work is seeing the stark gulf between aspiration and reality. It's also an area I'd really like to see analyzed alongside attorney discipline. I guess I've never understood how ineffective assistance of counsel isn't also an ethical issue. Topped off with neglect and underfunding.

Remember when a whale got into the Bosphorus and it was a national security threat to the whole Roman Empire

Requiring the president and other Art II officials to put their assets in a blind trust was a good idea when I suggested it 7 months ago, but should be a political layup after the last week.

Buy two authoritarian regimes and get your third installed free.

I want to preface this by saying this is a totally fine article and @jbendery.bsky.social is great, etc. However, it does what I've noticed a lot of other articles on the topic do, which worries me: it focuses on the "forced outing" stuff, not the total ban on discussing trans people/issues.

This is a Bluesky peeps appreciation post ahead of a long weekend. People here have donated 100s of thousands of dollars to various causes I've shared here. Others have volunteered to make graphics for organizing campaigns. Others have made crafts to raise funds. People have donated books.

Jasmine Clark will become the first Black woman with a science Ph.D. to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. https://scim.ag/4dDZe6P

This is extremely good.

'Broadview Six' Case Dismissed On Grounds Of The Prosecutors Are Malevolent Idiots www.wonkette.com/p/broadview-... By Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social

They need to be held responsible for adding to the catastrophic problem of plastic and misleading the public

@duckinggreyduck.bsky.social @greyduck.bsky.social

“Because the presumption of vindictiveness remains unrebutted, the indictment must be dismissed,” Judge Waverly Crenshaw wrote.

The through-line uniting GOP culture warriors, billionaire-worshippers, and far-Right anti-democracy putschers is a deep hostility to labor unions.

If you don’t assume mendacity by every federal agent and prosecutor in every case, you’re living in a different reality

Maybe the DNC should send its armored divisions to defeat the Russians in Ukraine

you want people to learn “knife skills?” the thing murderers use???

It's a well-known phenomena in family law that the demographic most opposed to no-fault divorces are geologists.

it’s so fucking dispiriting that Booker et al don’t understand this. a government without buy in from *everyone* doesn’t represent everyone. it’s literally Mitt Romney’s 47% gaffe turned into democratic policy. goddamn desolate out here.

Preach

Much more terrifying when the state government are fully on board with the brownshirts

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

the reason you hear about trans sports is because, after failing to create a culture war about bathrooms, GOP strategists all got together and figured out they could exploit the fact that every single adult spends an insane amount of money on their kid playing sports to attack trans people

Tonight, Justice Connection projected John Adams’ warning over the Trump banner hung on DOJ headquarters. We are “a government of laws, not of men.” Because this administration is turning DOJ into one man’s sword and shield.

Abusive systems depend on moral injury to keep people self absorbed in trying to prove “their not bad” while doing great harm The rejection of DEI was always a test case and people justified it to keep their advantages We can’t fix anything until that is addressed directly

Good morning #NJ #Roxbury is still paused but is being carefully watched. The Strait of #Hormuz is still closed but trump doesn't care. #Kean Jr is still missing and no one knows why. Miller is still terrorizing #immigrant communities but we're getting better at mitigating his evil.

As if people don't remember what football and its (mostly) white fans did to Black athletes just taking a knee during NFL games?! What is the plan to support these athletes if they make this move?

I realize so much of the world is now on fire, but we still need to pay attention to the horrors being committed in our name locally

abolish,

State Rep. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social wins the Democratic primary in the vacant #GA13, @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social projects. Clark is now poised to become the first Black woman PhD scientist to serve in Congress. My interview with her here: 19thnews.org/2026/05/geor...

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

So an interesting question is now that I’m doing better, what’s a good way to reconnect with people I’ve lost contact with, without projecting?

I find myself mentioning difficult periods in my life I’ve generally avoided more often recently, which is almost certainly a good thing.

wh.... this is a punchline to a shaggy dog joke that has been 25 years in the telling

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

"We have found considerable groupthink within the professoriate on matters that are otherwise widely debated. This academic monoculture stifles heterodox viewpoints on disputed questions such as the safety of vaccines, the square root of four, and the earth’s topology."

Side note, anonymization never really works

Were there any “electoral victories” in general elections, or just primaries?

Academics: Please consider joining this academic boycott of @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social until it stops pressing charges against protestors. Swarthmore is my and my child's alma mater.