This makes me very angry. They want to be able to raise customers bills instead of taking away from rich shareholders that includes the company's executives. Report shows scandal-plagued Ohio utility made $108 million in errors. It wants customers to pay ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...

This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...

Can you people go off and thirst for each other in less visible ways, *please*?

NEW for @inkstickmedia.com: I spoke with former Human Rights Campaign employees & activists with @genderlib.com @adalahjustice.bsky.social about the 2-year campaign for America's largest LGBT advocacy group to divest from the arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman. inkstickmedia.com/largest-lgbt...

Hey friends, something crazy happened

There's a popular misconception that William F. Buckley forced out the extreme elements (Birchers) to create modern conservatism, but I think what he really did was to repackage their views into something more palatable (and with a veneer of plausible deniability). Now, it's falling apart.

I was curious if they would keep up this silly ban policy and apparently they will 😂

My latest piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social on the Trump shadow presidency, what happens as autocrats grow old and infirm, and what it means for the rest of us.

It is not making me friends, but at this point any time I'm asked about how we navigate our current moment, I'm going to tell them to study the history of (full in the blank) under authoritarianism.

The story isn’t just *if* Trump is in decline. It’s who benefits when he does. Today, @zeblarson.bsky.social breaks down the shadow power structure around the Oval Office

Conversely, the longer we don’t, the more irretrievable functional government becomes. Corruption is infectious; enough of it persisting for long enough and people just shrug and accept it. Carrot, stick.

My latest piece for @damemagazine.bsky.social on the Trump shadow presidency, what happens as autocrats grow old and infirm, and what it means for the rest of us.

"So Now I'm a Zany American Sitcom Character?!" is one of the better ideas I've ever had

i need people to understand that nimby policy wins are largely responsible for both the housing shortage AND forced institutionalization of our neighbors

“Deporting immigrants to make room for “real” Americans is therefore both about a belief that only certain types of people can be American in the first place and a demand that these authentic Americans be provided an array of nostalgic comforts through government largess.”

Objectivity is not and will never be “two sides of an issue are morally neutral and equal,” it is “I will interrogate both sides equally investigating them.” Anyway this is a tidy example with the MSM of how we got to be here and why they can’t get us back out.

Be sure to check out this excellent new article by my dad Norman Ellstrand on the history and science behind the ingredients of the iconic pumpkin pie: www.raincrossgazette.com/deconstructi...

This dynamic lives on, and for whatever reason the person keeps describing me as “neurospicy”

When I saw this for the first time I was laughing so hard no sound was coming out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brp5...

“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

Back doing one of my (now rare) interviews for New Books Network, this time for Martha Biondi's We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. This was a fun one.

This from @zeblarson.bsky.social is gooood. It answers the question: Now that our government has muted our national public health officials, what can we, as citizens, do _now_?!? (cc FYI @cdelawalla.bsky.social) www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...

“Vote blue no matter who”

Back doing one of my (now rare) interviews for New Books Network, this time for Martha Biondi's We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. This was a fun one.

"Rousseau or Locke would be aghast at the idea that individuals have no obligation to work on behalf of the common good. If there is an inalienable right to life, it should follow that I have an obligation to take reasonable steps to minimize disease that could harm or kill my peers."

For the last time: sucking up to misogynistic men will not save you!

A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.

This would be a lot better than the galaxy-brained "we told everybody we'll fight for the subsidies but actually it was just to get Republicans to commit to a vote to kill them so we can punish them next year in the midterms, checkmate" shit I'm seeing from the likes of Helen Stickler.

Kyle Maclachlan could do a really funny impersonation of Dr. Oz, I just know it.

We could all use a decade where we let ourselves just go, but in a fun way and not a sad way.

I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.

If you’re in NY, you absolutely should follow and join the efforts of the @nywfp.bsky.social. They are ACTIVE and ON THE BALL and a big part (along with many other parts) of how Mamdani won.

My newest piece for Liberal Currents, and a paean to public health. It needs to be the tip of the spear against fascism and it’s a natural leader in the fight for a better world. Thanks to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for talking to me as I worked on this.

My newest piece for Liberal Currents, and a paean to public health. It needs to be the tip of the spear against fascism and it’s a natural leader in the fight for a better world. Thanks to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for talking to me as I worked on this.

Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

I do feel like this says what their end goal with this is: lose the subsidies and hope Republicans get punished for it. They got absolutely nothing for this beyond a small electoral boost. God, I feel like I'm going to be sick. Good night.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

My *really ugly* conspiracy theory is that they kept the shutdown going through the election and know full well that ending it now will cause immeasurable harm — maybe juking turnout next year (but that assigns them malicious intelligence as opposed to greedy incompetence)

Any Democrat who was holding out over SNAP but is now going to cave over corporate air travel needs to be primaried. And Schumer needs to lose his job.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.

Rowsdower 2028

This is one of those "adjunctification accelerates" moments: the University of Sydney has been hiring undergraduates to teach labs and workshops.

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

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I am no longer Zeb. I am Action Man.

I love that they can’t find a sinister-looking photo of Mamdani even when they’re trying to slam him