It's so funny, French YouTubers use her interviews to teach French.

Mission accomplished! Now that's what I call "committing sociology", as Stephen Harper once put it. Congratulations all round!

Oh I'm stealing that coinage for sure

This analysis from @parkermolloy.com helps clarify how, for Bezos, the Post opinion section is now like the Melania doc: a media platform to advance his many interests.

If you haven't had the chance to see The Librarians yet, catch Kim Snyder’s powerful documentary when it premieres February 9 on Independent Lens on PBS. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/

Nope. I didn’t make a mistake posting it.

Been thinking about this yesterday... Opposite of a shout-out to my fellow economists, who have collectively created a discipline so cravenly incapable of engaging with structural issues such as power and racism that I'm positive ALL our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Would seem that these measures of AI-induced productivity have the same problem as measures of productivity generally, which is treating slop-making as equivalent to activities that create real value and ignoring externalities.

My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.

Nithya is the exact candidate we need to fix LA’s incompetence and NIMBYism. She could be a zohran-level candidate who creates a new consensus around progressive urbanism

This is very good. I think folks on this website are going to have to acclimate to the fact that the political asteroid you want (need?) is going to talk some about how Trump *said he'd do all the things* but only made everything worse. That's going to maximize side-switching and electoral juice

Because the higher ups are trying to force them to use their public powers illegally or unethically

Congrats to the fascist anti-"woke." warriors. You've successfully identified the real threat to Western civilization, sociologists.

Interesting signage spotted in LA this weekend

I think unfortunately this point gets lost in many “that’s so offensive!” responses to Trump’s gutter racism. As I stated, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison (which is to say - Black studies) taught us that white racist obsession with (anti)blackness is a reflection of *white* culture—not Black people.

The main point I wanted to get across in this segment is the fact that Trump’s antiblackness has nothing to do with Black people or even the Obamas and everything to do with the depraved and pathetic need that white supremacists (still) have to cleave to a racial identity built on debasing others.

Part II of my interview re: Trump, Epstein, white racism and intersectionality on German TV with DW News.

Yall.. DW News (German international TV) asked me live and direct if Trump’s racist anti-Obama post was part of his effort to distract from the Epstein files! 🫠🫠🫠 Part I of my segment on the president’s pathetic and predictable gutter racism..

Speaking of Toni Morrison.. I just learned, to my utter surprise, that Jodie Foster (who is fantastic in A Private Life) majored in African American studies at Yale and wrote her thesis on Morrison under Skip Gates’ direction..

Af-Am lit major Jodie Foster chose her field because of an interest ‘in literature that is as emotionally important as it is intellectually.’ In fact, she argued, Af-Am literature is perhaps the most American of all literary genres this country has produced..” www.harvardmagazine.com/radcliffe-in...

To be fair, there were a gaggle of libertarians who desperately needed to touch grass, who gathered today for their extraordinarily pathetic "March for Billionaires" (which I still think is a "Birds aren't Real"-style put on). So, I would stay away from wherever those people are... But otherwise...

Our clean-up-the-Nazi-mess operation is going to be EPIC, folks! Doin' our homework. Doin' our homework.

The sheriffs….

Democrats should call Republicans the Epstein Party at every opportunity the way Republicans refer to Democrats as the Democrat Party at every opportunity.

Today I'm offering the complete bibliographical essay from the backmatter of "The First Tycoon" to assist historians working on the 19th-c United States. What I describe could not be done by AI. It's not just reading undigitized pages. It's judgment, interpretation, consultation—all creative acts.

Now that Ossoff has put it together so concisely, any Dem who can't deliver this message this year should simply resign & let someone who can take their place.

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

And I'm flabbergasted at what a disappointment Bass has been. Having followed her since her community activist days, appreciated her record as Speaker of the Assembly & even hoped she'd be Biden's VP pick rather than Harris.... Having had that per-election view of her, I've been deeply disappointed

LOL! This takes the cake. Or at least the icing.

They released 3 million Epstein files. The Israel ties are everywhere. And the media won't cover it. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

We liked this answer better, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social "F**k Donald Trump, and his vile, racist and malignant behaviour. "This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Republican racists absolutely do this frequently. I've seen it firsthand with a neoconfederate who only hired white employees and interns, but never explicitly announced his intentions. Found out years later that he was a Nazi.

He did, however, sell out.

"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones. Growth or retreat: Those are the two options before us. And by growth, I’m not talking only about material gain, but also our spiritual development." Pedro Sánchez, Spanish PM

For years, I've called it "the 'voter fraud' fraud." I call it that for good reason:

“The hecklers were yelling 'Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner'.” #OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1969, Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride as a professional jockey in the USA. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Easily demagogued and propagandized

Because Conway is making another weekend donation push. POASTING well doesn't mean he'll be a good Democrat.

One of the weirdest things I've encountered is people who were… not young when ICE was created being unable to comprehend a different immigration law enforcement structure.

Once in a great while, someone tells Epstein off: "I do not need anyone to judge me and my capacities. And I am tired of your snobbish writing. Enough! I do not [want] you to write me any more."

Is this a prediction DeLauro will lose a primary? I’m not following her race, does she face a serious challenger?

your Christian nationalist regime is weak if you're already threatening megachuch pastors

#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.* Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen. #WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Rightful queen of the social sciences crowned at last!

From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

AIPAC has become so toxic some politicans won't even say "Israel" in their own ads, and what the Epstein files reveal about how Western elites actually operate. Plus: the Biden admin cables that got buried. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/isra... #Palestine #Israel

I dislike much of Cato's agenda, but this is important.

Perspicacity and beauty such as you will find nowhere else. 👇 And Ms. Chapman is still the prophet we've always needed, too.

"Peace through strength"

Boo JD call: