1) DHS already has more money than they can spend, if you want training or body cams tell them to do it with the money they already have 2) But also, it seems faster and more effective to just abolish ice, don't start nothing won't be nothing 3) Impeach everybody

My foster dog was being a menace but it turns out she just wanted to be under a blanket

This is part of why it is particularly important for the kind of men whose respect matters to these guys--white and white passing men, especially large ones, especially very masc-presenting ones--to participate in protests, observation, and resistance. It disrupts what makes it worthwhile for them.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

“‘Trump, J.D. Vance and Pam Bondi are engaged in one of the greatest cover-ups that we have seen when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein,’ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday as she left the Capitol.” fox8.com/news/epstein...

When it gets very cold I get very grumpy and inconsolable and I start demanding of everyone I love, "I want to be soup, where can I go to be soup" Anyway Bini gets it

For a week my foster dog has been taking all day to reluctantly eat her extremely bougie food, the kind that looks like a microwave dinner, and today it bought her aldi cans and she at it in 30 seconds

I love having a tiny foster, she's been busy with this bully stick for like 90 minutes (a full size pittie it would buy you 15 minutes of peace, tops)

This is going exactly how I would have thought, given that they fired everyone whose job it was to think about boring gay stuff like governance and logistics

"If we hadn’t already, we’ve unquestionably joined the league of ordinary nations—a league in which we’re acting as little more than a bully, and in circumstances in which no obvious principle of self-defense, human rights, or even humantarianism writ large justifies our bellicosity." Me on Maduro:

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

Wild to insist that someone else's president is subject to our laws while maintaining our own president is not

Just once I'd like to wake up to people freaking out for good reasons

what the fuck did I just wake up to

Sorry, I went to bed and we just straight kidnapped someone's president?

Me checking my email and seeing several of my Truman interview panelists changing their RSVP for Monday to "no" Anyway if anyone has an interest in environmental justice and science policy, wants to help an incredibly cool young person, and is free for a Zoom Monday 1-2 pm, hmu I guess?

My 2026 prediction is rich people putting out of AI surveillance but framing it as an "old soul" aesthetic choice--vintage watches, dumb phones/leaving your phone at home/turning location off, stationary culture/handwritten journals and letters, buying things in person and for cash

*rubs my nose* okay, let’s try to explain this one more time. Think of your book like a food item, and AI like nuts. « Nuts free » would be you being 100% sure no AI even looked in the direction of your manuscript 🧵

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

A Trump administration change to how the National Institutes of Health awards grants has sharply reduced early-stage investigators’ odds of securing funding, new data from the agency show. Teamed up with @aniloza.bsky.social for this @statnews.com story www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Wrote a bit about this:

If the man whose casual references to pizza were enough to spark a quasi-religious conspiracy movement so unhinged it led to an attempted fascist coup against the US government cannot see that the problem isn't left-wing extremism then can we all just acknowledged that centrism is a faith position?

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

Nah

This is bonkers

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

Are you telling me there are people who truly, with a straight face, dislike Tuba Christmas

This is what he is like with *the press* - people who have some power over him. I just want you to imagine what it is like to be a public employee, with an ounce of integrity, who has to try to present any data that contradicts Trump's statements. And what sort of bubble Trump is in as a result.

Every claim in this paragraph is false, which cannot bode well for the rest of the post.

I think often of the time a bunch of murder victims’ families showed Trump treasured photos of their loved ones and he signed them

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

What treat for me

If scientists have some new computer code that makes their specific work more efficient then great. I don’t give a shit but go for it man. But that’s not what this is all about at all. It’s a supposed culture changing force we’re all being pressured into genuflecting in front of and paying for.

Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

We've got our follow-up on our deep dive into Rumble, this time looking at the coordinated networks of scammers targeting fans of the platform's top creators with impersonation scams. The scale of these efforts is really insane to wrap your head around. openmeasures.io/dan-bongino-...

Finding out that Eric has no love in his heart for tuba Christmas, I'm worried about him

Why did i just spend 20 minutes watching a video celebrating the birthday of windows task master by the guy who wrote task master in his living room

A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Tbh the idea of "preserving an issue for the midterms" makes me sick to my stomach. People will be choosing between healthcare and groceries long before the midterms. Letting that continue because you think you'll win elections if they're still feeling that pain is unconscionable.

This is the way the leadership has it exactly wrong. People don't start blaming you because the shut down is long, when your demands are clear and reasonable. They blame you when you cave without getting the reasonable demand, because then they feel like you asked them to suffer for a hollow stunt.

The Health Affairs piece is a pretty quant heavy effort to provide rigorous evidence that the work of the US Digital Service actually protected enrollment. But what did USDS actually do? @lukef.bsky.social was part of the team that went out and helped states update their Medicaid systems:

If you’re in the first group, there will always be a fancy enough dinner, a prestigious enough club, or an unexpected enough compliment from a cold and cruel colleague, to sway your opinion on basic concepts like who is good or bad, or how we should treat each other, or what to do about creeps

At the end of the day, for all the ongoing cultural changes, academia will always be possible to split into the people who are desperate to move deeper and deeper into the in-group and the people who know they’ll never be able to “earn” it