Medicare for All is NOT the same as today’s Medicare. M4A is comprehensive coverage - incl. free choice of providers, plus dental, vision, hearing, mental health, long-term care, rehab, transportation, and hospice services. Learn more at pnhp.org. We need #MedicareForAll pnhp.org/system/asset...

I’m trying to get this idea through to students this year: the assignment isn’t the product - it’s the process. I’m not having them write because I want leisure reading (I have novels for that) but because I want their synthesis and reading their writing is the best way to get it!

On this darkest solstice day of the year, my heart has dimmed, waking up to learn of the loss of dear colleague and mentor, Yannick Mellier. Yannick will be known to most as the lead of the amazing Euclid Space Telescope which will revolutionise our understanding of the Dark Universe 🧵🔭

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is a polite “fuck you” in medievalist.

Happy eighth night of Chanukkah, and happy Solstice. Sending light out into the darkness ✨

Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it. Now it is their turn to show courage.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

When Google search launched, people didn’t need to be berated into it. There was no “you better figure out some way to use this.” People just tried it, quickly saw it directed them to information they sought and helped them navigate the internet, and kept going back to use it more. Just sayin’.

Yes, the TSA's "pat downs" have been unconstitutional for over 20 years. But, sure, if we're going to finally notice...

As a Detroiter I’m so happy someone is finally going to rid us of Toledo That’s what they get for making all those crappy Jeeps

I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social + Mandy Patinkin + Latkes = 😍

What did I miss?

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

It's not perfect, but I present the challahdog menorah, complete with nine hot dogs. 🙂

Happy Solstice 2025 Watch live: Winter Solstice sunrise from ancient tomb at Newgrange #newgrangesolstice #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Group determined last night that the best way to experience the NYBG holiday train show is to pretend you are a kaiju menacing a little woodland city and its trains

Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)

I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.

Agreed! 👏👏👏👏👏

"The spinach dip is mine now."

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.

Happy solstice! 🌍❄️ Today (Dec 21) at 16:03 (CET or UTC+1) winter officially begins. Shortest day of the year, but your noon shadow will be the longest. From now on, days slowly start getting longer again. Animation by NAAP labs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 🧪⚛️🔭#astronomy

We need a Generative AI Code of Conduct at the University level because it's becoming increasingly clear that my colleagues (other professors and ESPECIALLY admin) are using AI way more than my students are.

youtube.com/watch?v=LE14... my band the other week with Mark Mercier at Hoops n Hops. Sad to know that Hoops is closing up shop as a music spot. So many good shows there.

Here’s a fun one! Without reading the description, how old do you think this house is? show your work etc www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

This is a really amazing opportunity for astronomy students! 🔭☄️ It's always also very oversubscribed, so make sure to apply to a few things if you want to do a summer research internship

The term "heritage American" being bandied about is irritating b/c of its imprecision. Is it based on length of time in the US of your ancestors, being from England, whiteness, legal citizenship, or some other unspoken category? Because the migration trends in the colonial period & early republic 1/

More of this kind of rich person, please.

i’ll admit, living in sf i don’t think about power outages a lot—let alone plan for them—but here are just a few things giving me big pause tonight: 1. robot cars adding to problems and/or creating new ones in already tenuous situations see these many examples: bsky.app/profile/anic...

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

There was a nice atmospheric inversion layer when my flight took off early in the morning from Paris. Here you see dense fog on the ground that doesn't even reach the top of the wind turbines. The ripples are gravity waves created by the wind turbine towers as the wind blows. 🧪 🌬️

Purple 💜

It’s cute you think the disco is the only place I panic

He has always been self-serving. This is a man who allegedly refused to wash his own plate when he worked at Vox because his salary was higher than that of the sanitation employees. I need people to recognize that he's a POS.

TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!

Our Articles of impeachment against RFK jr. are sitting in the House of Representatives RIGHT NOW. With only two co-sponsors…CALL YOUR REPS. RAISE HELL. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr @standupforscience.bsky.social

So… my kid has a bunch of college apps due between now and Jan 5, and he still has school Monday & Tuesday… but his school said if he didn’t get his apps in by Dec 20 & they’re due before Jan 5… if he needs transcripts or anything from the school they won’t do it. Which, I UNDERSTAND that school

our emotional & practical survival over the next year is going to depend on us developing the emotional depth to say "hahaha fuck yeah, shit has gotten so bad that even [terrible person] is trying to save themselves" without being like "so they're not terrible anymore, maybe?"

real talk why did the three magi visit baby jesus? is there a christian-zoroastrian alliance?

I mean, if we're talking about the red meat in the era of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, sure. A diseased product sold by hucksters that wreaks havoc and even causes death, forcing the federal government to step in with harsh regulations? Yeah, man, that works.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

I realize this is a long shot, but does anyone know if educators can still borrow the NASA lunar petrographic sets? I have lesson plans for my spring classes that use them, but I know a lot of staff and programs were cut. If they still can be borrowed, the web contacts are not correct anymore.

21. And before team Yglesias responds by saying "yeah, but it's bad politics to run on climate and energy"... I'd point out that I've won 4 elections in a very purple district running on climate and energy. Pro-tip: leadership is possible! You don't have to be stupid to win!

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

and in framing themselves as the only True Knowers, the data boys fail to understand how they form part of the complicated, contingent outcomes they’re claiming to observe objectively. “We can only respond to poll numbers, not shape action,” is itself a theory of the world that evidence doesn’t back

Day 20 #artAdventCalendar my newest #womenInSTEM #histsci 🧪🐡 #linocut: trailblazing Canadian aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill (1905 – 1980), born in Vancouver, became the first woman aeronautical engineer & professional aircraft designer in North America, & likely the world. 🧵

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up