Trump & mob cannot come close to getting an agreement with Iran that matches the effectiveness of the JCPOA. Billions of dollars spent, American lives lost, US bases torched, oil prices spiked, NOTHING accomplished. Typical #TrumpFail Iran is stronger than ever. Pathetic fail by GOP.

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

"They leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him." If revealing your official tax returns -- something every single president and VP for forty years before Trump did voluntarily -- could possibly "destroy" you, that is the scandal.

1. Frey and Douthat ignore the structural constraints on offering the type of "liberal arts education" they value in public higher education. I see nothing in this about the defunding of public education (at all levels), the conversion of tenure lines into adjunct positions, etc.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

There is also broad opposition to pressuring other institutions, like universities. 63% oppose the government pushing universities to fire professors, with more Republicans opposing than supporting. The poll occurred after a wave of firings of faculty for their comments on Charlie Kirk

Just want to co-sign this. There’s a reason why Mackenzie Scott’s giant, unrestricted donations are so extraordinary…

Hi, tax law professor here. Trump and sons are NOT exempt forever (or anytime) from tax audits. Writing these words on paper signed by Todd Blanche doesn't make it a thing. In fact, I'm absolutely certain they'll all be audited in the future.

Two thoughts on this: (1) "AI in Education" is a field with a 40-year history; it is different (and more successful!) than "GenAI in Education," which does deserve serious scrutiny before implementing, and... (1/2)

this is so good

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Priorities... Yet another example of why both sides are *not* the same.

Here's the thing. I have a feeling that men who get caught using AI will not face the same social/professional consequences as women/ minority writers who get caught doing the same. See: The plagiarism scandals from the past, and the men who still have journalism/commentary jobs despite it.

Very few propositions command such wide assent among political scientists. Legislative term limits empower executive branches and lobbyists at the legislature’s expense.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

The U.S. treats healthcare like a business and not a service and necessity for all. Meanwhile, corporate vultures keep cashing in while millions of people are priced out of care and dignity. We could learn from many countries providing #HealthForAll. #ChangeTheSystem www.forbes.com/sites/meggen...

The "return on investment" with tenured faculty is having accomplished experts who are experienced teachers there to teach the students. It's sort of a basic point about colleges, you'd think the people on a board of trustees would get that.

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

I was born in 1982 and for an hour a day, instead of Social Studies, we would watch Roots from beginning to end. We had to write a paper on it order to even pass the 5th grade. Now they’re BANNING it. This shit is insane.

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

This, about Khan Academy getting in the AI business explains a lot about where we are right now and why products like Khanmigo haven't succeeded. Solving the problem of how not to get left behind is not the same as solving actual problems in education. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/b...

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

"Among the most important legal issues authors need to consider are that 'AI-generated text is not copyrightable, and knowingly failing to disclose AI-generated content in a copyright registration application can constitute fraud on the Copyright Office'"

Elevate, Elevate Utah

This is the way.

Teachers and nurses have strong unions. They are doing this to weaken the unions.

Tapping the sign

"The 3 highest-paid state employees work here! Our football and men's basketball coaches, and our physics professor who writes all the textbooks for every university in the country and also has a massive YouTube channel about science experiments [we pay the coaches $5M a year and professor $70k)."

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.

1/The only U.S. President with a patent—c’mon, U.S. Patentee 6,469 Abraham Lincoln, signed the Merrill Act of 1862, into law. The Merrill Act of 1890 expanded to create historically black colleges (to segregate them…but still), and in 1994, it was expanded to Native American communities.

Democrats need to press the case against Trump's corruption if only to counter the bullshit they're spewing about Democrats' corruption. They have to own this issue.

CASAR: For the $1 billion we're being asked to spend on Trump's ballroom, we could fund 217 million free school lunches and 15,000 more teachers. As secretary of education, which do you think helps our nation more? McMAHON: I think those are incredibly weird comparisons

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

“compared to the past, more students have to undertake paid employment during term time while more accessible tech enables some online catch up” Another bi-product of the systematic defunding of higher education

Holy Hell! This is the FIRE we need to see from Democrats. Take the gloves off! Bravo, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social!! 👏 👏 👏 Share this EVERYWHERE.

Love the whole thread…especially this part.

Maybe I was naive but I genuinely didn't realise we had (or would create) a system where the jobs that are predominantly teaching and research are precarious, fixed term and often part time, while the permanent jobs are mostly admin, fund raising & managing other people doing research and teaching.

Child protective services ripped a 14-year-old from her home to stop her from leaving the state for an abortion. They also threatened her mother with murder charges and the removal of her other child if they crossed state lines for care. So please don't tell me Republicans aren't banning travel.

Don't let anyone tell you these two parties are the same. #VoteOutTheBallroomRepublicans

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

A quarter of all websites built between 2013-2023 are inaccessible. Digital material is built to be impermanent.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Love this though; finally a country that follows the science rather than the hype arstechnica.com/science/2026...

"November is coming up, and so you do have a voting opportunity to win this. The response from Democrats should be to make people as angry as possible...and to say the only way we fix this is with overwhelming voting force." Sarah Longwell on how Dems can win a rigged map fight.

94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

"those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!