Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites: The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports. An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…

You should take note when analysts are sephiroth posting and the Pope is telling you to call your representatives.

what a damning indictment of this country that americans sent him twice to the white house & rather than act to remove him have instead looked on as he set fire to the constitution persecuted his enemies preyed on the weak menaced allies invaded sovereign countries committed atrocities & toyed w/ww3

Wow this is insane. The BBC posted a story yesterday with a supposed quote from an Iranian citizen saying he is okay with the US dropping an atomic bomb on Iran. After pushback, without public acknowledgment, they just changed the quote in the story to something completely different.

The man who coined the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin, defined it as a greater atrocity than mass murder explicitly because it involves the intentional killing of a civilization.

💔 Heartbroken for what our colleague endured. Thinking of his family, friends, and colleagues today.

Attacks on Iranian universities continue with latest report of an Israeli-US attack on world-renowned Sharif University of Technology, often referred to as Iran's MIT.

People don’t seem to be nearly freaked out enough about US-Israeli bombing Bushehr nuclear reactor and what it could do to the entire Gulf region. This is worth freaking out about.

It is quite objectively a news story that the most prestigious media outlet in the world is deleting the president’s statements to conceal his insanity in a war crime threat, and other news outlets can report that story very easily in a way that could both inform their audience and peel off readers

We'll hear a lot about the bravery and heroism of the US military soldiers who rescued the F-15E pilot, and nothing about the Iranian people that pilot killed in his missions or the many Iranians who were killed to bring him out of Iran.

"Dial back the rhetoric"? Punk ass shit like this is worthless, Democrats. You should be calling for Trump's removal from office for being fucking insane and never let up saying that.

WHY ISN'T YOUR PARTY DOING THIS ON BLAST THOUGH?????? STOP BEING A FUCKING COMMENTATOR. YOU HAVE POWER. USE IT.

Iran says 30 universities hit in US-Israeli strikes - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-says-30-universities-hit-us-israeli-strikes

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Make that two helicopters. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/l...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons. In other words, for stating facts.

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind. "In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history." x.com/SamDalrymple...

NPR reports that 2 US E-3 Sentry aircraft were damaged in Iran's attack on Saudi airbase, after initial reports that only one was hit. These are essential surveillance and communications airplane of which US has only 6 in the ME, each of which costing more than half a $billion.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Cousin in Tehran is able to send me messages on WhatsApp, though there’s a significant delay/lag. It’s almost 4:00 AM and he says he was woken up by the sound of a very large explosion. Please continue to pray for him and his family.

As western society proceeds in their propaganda of making a Israel out to be the good actor and victim of aggression, images like these tell a drastically different story. May these children live long lives and heal from these torturous years.

Public deserves to see for itself how police do their job. Big TV outlets didn't get this on camera. They used 3rd party video. While this clip may be from activist, I was nearby and can confirm indy/freelance cameras FAR outnumbered MSM. Democracy depends on a free press - which LAPD chased away.

The interview is framed as if Beshear wants Democrats to stop talking like poll-obsessed robots but all of his answers are carefully worded, focus-grouped platitudes. bsky.app/profile/asel...

Here's a gift link to a very cool story. Whenever Dr. Goldin would like like to help me with salary negotiations, I'm all ears! Gift link www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Cesar Chavez was erased in one day because he’s dead and brown but live predators are allowed to roam around free. This is so enraging. All predators need to be named. All need to be accountable for the harm they cause.

Just finished talking to students about why the humanities are even more important in this age of AI. Efficiency isn't always the most important goal. Reading carefully and knowing how to think critically is valuable on its own--even if that takes longer.

Cuba provided weapons and support to African liberation, for exame in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. In Angola, 300,000 Cubans fought against apartheid S Africa. Battle of Cuito Cuanavale weakened apartheid S Africa, accelerating independence of Namibia and contributing to collapse of apartheid.

new writing from @tisjune.bsky.social @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social and myself on AI, nuclear weapons, worker power, and the "biggest, baddest, fastest computer in the world" being built by UMich and los alamos national labs www.aaup.org/ai-war-issue...

Did you see that Realtor.com @rdcnews.bsky.social used analysis of #PSIDdata to show that “Homeownership Accelerates Generational Wealth?” Read the 2026 Generational Wealth and Housing report by Hannah Jones and Danielle Hale: www.realtor.com/research/202...

Nashville, Tennessee, a shocking ICE blockade that resulted in shattered glass and suspected gunfire.

I’ve long wanted to write about this. Paradigm changes are hard and messy, and science is social. Interested in y’all’s thoughts. www.moralunderstandingnewsletter.com/p/when-jon-h...

Oh to be a kid again…. This is going to be my new vocal stim

" Do we want to bomb and fight our way to securing the Straits of Hormuz, or do we want to open up thousands of energy straits that flow directly to us from the sun and the wind—no bombing of children required—and create tens of thousands of jobs in the process? " newrepublic.com/article/2079...

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? 🤷🏾‍♂️

He dropped the bar of bars when he pointed out that his children having guns pointed at them isn’t supposed to matter in these proceedings because they don’t see him as a human being.

Scenes from the end of the world. Phoenix is projected to hit 107°F on Friday. It would be the earliest in the year that the temperature hit 107°F, beating the previous record by.... 44 days

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

A Palestinian woman who was the last person still in immigration detention after the Trump administration's 2025 crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists has been released.

"After Trump took office with a promise to 'drill, baby, drill,' a widespread 'climate hushing' fell across the country." During 2025, "major broadcast networks in the U.S. cut their climate coverage 35 percent compared to the year before." #USA #Media #Climate #FossilFuels