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A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of Americans just effectively killed Voting Rights Act, country’s most important civil rights law. This is not democracy

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

A fun thing to do whenever a news organization posts a story depicting forlorn, seemingly isolated ancient ruins is to find them on Google Maps and then zoom out

Statue of limitations has not expired on this tweet.

This insightful thread made me reflect on how I, a Gen Xer, was socialized to think about the political agency of ordinary citizens...and how those historical "lessons" that I'd imbibed, drawn from the history of the 1960s and 70s, just don't ring so true to today's young adults.

I would go further than this and set up voting booths in the prisons, but this is a good start.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I love this essay very much!!!!

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

This is a persistent pattern with MAGA -- whenever some lone attacker lashes out, they pretend it was a hit organized by the Democratic National Committee. Trump routinely talks about how "they" tried to kill him in Butler PA, rather than focusing on the actual shooter.

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

I did an MA in Communications Studies at Tech almost 30 years ago, and I can think of at least three theses produced in my cohort that would not be allowed today. Terrible to know that today’s students have less freedom than I did.

Vaguely recall that some people argued that free speech on campus was the biggest, most important issue ever. Indeed, some people are still arguing that... but only when it comes to one kind of speech (see: reason.com/volokh/2026/... )

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: “A lot of cultural trends, social topics, and historical circumstances have colluded to make trans topics hot.” *Transgender History* Susan Stryker

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

The idea of thanking items was often derided as childish in a way that refusing to let go of items wasn’t and I think that’s interesting too

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Pretty sure Trump has used this line on women he’s sexually harassed.

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

In 1909, William James argued that God had to be real because no-one would want an AI girlfriend, which is bad news for both William James and God

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has a good article today really going after Trump--and it does it with a fairly resolute defense of the Pope, which is not historically the way these things have worked. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/trum...

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets. sanangelolive.com/news/educati...

every 30 seconds on comms

what do you MEAN my flight will be late, i just watched something from THE MOON land on time

If a hostile foreign power's goal was to hollow out US state capacity as much as possible, they couldn't have chosen a better President than Donald Trump.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

We didn't deserve this day.

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

starting to think perhaps fifa and its peace prize board were too hasty

January 28, 1986. I was in eighth grade and we were watching the shuttle launch that was supposed to carry a schoolteacher into space.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I want to live in the alternative-history America where Nixon was tried for his crimes and did a long stint in prison, and the Reagan was impeached and removed for Iran-Contra. Enormous power with no chance of consequences isn’t working out very well.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

Flip this around. "American researcher in China dies after 'hostile questioning' by government authorities" How would the U.S. react?

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

I was in a little dessert cafe in Puno, Peru when this song came on. My Spanish is pretty limited, but I managed to ask the waitress who was singing, and she got the owner, who bought the CD case go show me and started raving about it. youtu.be/lSA3Ki8cN4o?...

"Would wars happen if we weren’t greedy, or power-hungry, or filled with envy and hate? This is why we need Christ, because only He can change our hearts and fill us with true peace and love. Have you opened your life to His transforming power?" ..... Billy Graham 🤷 billygraham.org/answers/some...