It says a lot about where we are that one can read the entire @nytimes.com story on the firing of the Attorney General of the United States without a *single* reference to that officer's duty to uphold the Constitution—which might just sometimes make it just a little hard to do the boss's bidding:

The targeted defunding of science on diversity, equity, & inclusion means that we'll all know less about the world outside our window. @alanyhyu.bsky.social reports on what that looks like at the science nonprofit, Project Implicit (@projectimplicit.bsky.social) whyy.org/articles/soc...

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

Today in billionaires buying the media outlets that cover them: www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/o...

John Calhoun said the U.S. was a "white man's government." John Bingham, one of the authors of the 14th Amendment, said that this was a "horrid blasphemy." The birthright citizenship case is ultimately about which America we are going to be. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.

After spending the last year dismantling every program, office, and tool the US had to identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo, suddenly the administration has discovered the need to…identify and counter foreign propaganda and disinfo… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...

My personal favorite part of the interview is when Caldwell glosses his opposition to the Civil Rights Act by claiming he’s worried about “freedom of assembly.” He doesn’t mention that he means the segregationist freedom to ensure Black folks are barred from public life. So cowardly.

A good interview with Jennifer Schuessler of the Times. It would be even better if it discussed how much Trump's "vision of American history" and his 1776 Commission were reactions to the 1619 Project and the events of summer 2020.

Preach, @governorwalz.mn.gov!

Updated link: www.rsn.org/001/what-a-s...

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Wow …

Scientists are fighting for the future of biomedical research in America right now. So please don’t tell me how sitting down with the architects of the destruction of a decades-old legacy of research in the United States is a good idea.

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

Paapa Essiedu has revealed he’s faced racist death threats after being cast as Professor Severus Snape in HBO‘s upcoming Harry Potty television series.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

A university’s “content neutral” signage policies are irrelevant to the fact that the historical and current actions of universities privilege some identities and experiences over others. None of those actions are content neutral.

Not really a surprise, but the V-Dem annual report for 2026 makes it official: US no longer a liberal democracy and heading for dictatorship: www.theguardian.com/... 1/2

I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no. people.com/new-dime-coi...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

A+

A contrived “people” without a geography to justify it wants a homeland <—- that’s as dangerous as it gets.

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

First the jokes about illegally killing people on boats allegedly carrying drugs, now a comedy routine about torpedoing an unarmed ship in an undeclared war

We are a secular democracy. If you don't like the freedom of religion, you are welcome to move somewhere else. In America, you can be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or anything else. It's written into our Constitution. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Get lost with this garbage.

Reminder that right now Tarrio is supposed to be serving a 22 year prison sentence for his role in the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol but Trump pardoned him.

Multicultural white supremacy has fully arrived.

What a ridiculous chart. If AI can replace 3/4 of the education profession, that's not just a recession for white collar workers. That's just a massive hollowing out of the public good (education and schooling) that most people have the most contact with.

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

It is still happening. No country is stepping in. Cuba has helped so many movements and people around the world and they are being abandoned to die

Yep. “Knowing who to be mad at is praxis” is Mariame Kaba’s quote and it is wisdom for these times. (1/2)

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

New paper alert🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Two takeaways. First, 2- to 4-year-olds can use a process called second-order correlation (SOC) learning -- e.g., A & B go together and B & C go together, then A and C go together -- in a category context to make causal inferences.

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence. And then he bragged about it on X later.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran. And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program? This is incompetence. Plain and simple.

I actually gasped.

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Thank you @propublica.org.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

*looks at camera Black womanly*

STOP. LISTEN. Seriously. Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. Maybe this has to be dismantled from the bottom up. This rank corruption. There needs to be a serious IMPEACH NOEM demand. These hearings have made any other choice complicity.

Want to learn more about how state level policies related to immigration shape attitudes about identity, belonging, and policy? I’ve got the book for you! w @yuenhuo.bsky.social, Jiménez, and Dovidio, from @russellsagefdn.bsky.social www.russellsage.org/publications...