"When places like Hampshire College die, it’s impossible to rebuild them back... a whole generation of students lose an unique attitude towards the world.. Liberal democracy loses.. citizens with the imagination and creativity to find new ways to justify and legitimate.. individual human dignity."

Heartbreaking news. #HampshsireCollege is closing down. The greatest East Coast university for weird kids includes Liev Schreiber, Lupita Nyong'o, Elliott Smith, Ken Burns, and Mrs. Green among its alumni.

Scientists are finding darker parallels to humans in the lives of the Ngogo chimpanzees. A group of researchers on Thursday reported that the Ugandan chimps are locked in a primate version of civil war. Two factions split about a decade ago and have been engaged in a lethal conflict ever since.

ICONIC

the bare minimum folks, and an potential example. we simply love to see it bsky.app/profile/minc...

Educators and researchers are urging a pivot away from computers and tablets while industry and misguided school leaders push more AI use. Something is going to have to give.

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

A question you have to ask yourself if you’re going to approach politics as a responsible adult is whether your goal is to improve material conditions and achieve changes that reduce human suffering, or whether it is to look really cool in front of your friends online.These are not compatible aims.

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

It's a strange thing, because Americans cannot imagine the reality of being bombed like we do to others. We got bombed, so to speak, by another country, once and it completely changed everything. And yet we nevertheless live through constant daily barrages of gun fire that we metabolize as not war.

Taking away the punchbowl from workers that had bosses exclaiming "no one wants to work anymore!" in 2021/22 was part of the explicit promise that Trump ran on among elites and was laundered to the public by those elites in 2024 as "Trump will make prices low again" (a lie)

Post-pandemic, we (very briefly) had a strong labor market for early-20s workers, for the first time since the 1990s. People, including Gen-Z, said they *hated* this, because this tight labor market raised prices on food delivery, ubers, fast food and other labor intensive, low-skill work.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

This becoming public is a big deal

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

If you want better student outcomes, scrap the chromebooks & upgrade the HVAC.

"I'm standing here in front of you guys because an English professor ... read something that I wrote —it was the first assignment when I was 17 years old, my freshman year— and said 'Hey I think you should go to Hollywood and write screenplays.' Literally said that to me."

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

I’m not sure white people have realized that, yet. But I’m *pretty* sure the doubling down on fossil fuels, dismantling credentialing and forcing AI down our throats means they fully intend for a lot of you to also be surplus labor.

... and just like that, late on a Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Health informed operators of the remaining supervised consumption sites that they will lose funding on June 13, 2026. This means two more sites in Toronto will close: Moss Park CTS and Fred Victor.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

I can't think of a more powerful statement on the dire state of cultural criticism than seeing a publication let Matt go. He's been one of the best for decades

My latest for @thestar.com. Increasing surveillance and extending police powers doesn’t solve homelessness or drug use on transit — it merely opens up the broader public to arbitrary punishment, including the potential for jail time and $10,000 fines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

I feel like I’m yelling at a girlfriend who keeps taking her drug dealing boyfriend back. The private sector is just not that into you!

As usual, it's hard to tell how sincere this stuff is, but yearning for the apocalypse, or actively trying to make it happen, is vile heresy. You duty is to love your neighbor, even if the world ends tomorrow.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

bro google search is cooked

These are war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions. Increasingly I think we should turn the whole Trump cabinet over to the ICC to be tried at The Hague.

We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

they double bombed an elementary school for girls

The man stands for nothing. Just flip flopped. Look at what he said to Shapiro on his podcast and his response to Van Lathan. Still encouraging trend but I pray Dems find someone better. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

“I guess the worst case would be we do this and somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” he said. “Right, that could happen? We don’t want that to happen.” That is not even close to the worst case scenario.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

"The median voter is like Schrödinger’s cat — both liberal and conservative until a question forces them to pick an answer." Exactly why "popularism" will always suffer from an underlying incoherence. What matters is the salience of competing narratives. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

Canada needs the NDP.

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

Shout it out loud

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.