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Some people have asked what I mean when I talk about the need for anti-corruption reforms. Here are some ideas.

It's impossible for many college students to attend without debt, and we told them they had to go to college. Our system demanded they take on debt. The Trump administration wants to punish people for going to college, but that's not a new impulse; it's how the system worked before, too.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

"You can spend about $40 per employee per year of increased ventilation costs and that will give you $7,000 of gained employee productivity per person, almost a 200 to 1 gain."

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

this raises an important point: do states or localities have laws against seeking to be on the ballot for a third term for president? if not they should consider passing them, or other clear, firm measures to enforce the 22nd amendment.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

If you are interested in what is happening in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant these days ‪@maustermuhle.bsky.social‬ ‬ at @51st.news has written the best article I've seen.

I think someone at this DC McDonald's is making a statement with flags. I'm wondering if management didn't notice or if management made the call.

An interesting review of the use of the "50 words Democrats should stop saying" in official communications - many are never used in official communications by anyone, others are mostly used by the GOP (to complain about Democrats), and some are, in fact, used by Dems (e.g., "housing insecurity.")

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

To say that only data accuracy matters, and therefore statistical agencies cannot be independent of the administration, is to redefine accuracy as alignment with the administration.

If completely preventing disease, as we used to do with measles, is less profitable than letting people die from disease because treatment is more profitable than prevention, are corporations legally obligated to deliver value to shareholders by supporting policies that kill people?

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

You must coöperate with your inner élitist if you want to make it big in The New Yorker

So student debt relief was overturned after a universal injunction, based on the purported hypothetical revenue losses of *one* (nonprofit) student loan servicer www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/o...

you’ll never lose betting against the ability of a pro-war pundit to remember past yesterday

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

My team at @factcheck.afp.com has been debunking nonstop disinformation circulating this week around the protests in Los Angeles. A thread:

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

In 1990 Trump was interviewed by Playboy. This is what he said about Tiananmen Square. He was rooting for the tanks. And now this weekend he gets his very own tank parade. Nice job America!

The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.

David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.

👀 🚨 Trump’s big brutal bill will “kill more than 51,000 Americans annually.” @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/politics/202...

This is “healthcare” in the United States. A pharmacy benefit manager randomly decided they just weren’t going to cover this man’s inhaler anymore, so he couldn’t afford it. He died of an asthma attack. Devastating. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Wow, yes. An amazing glimpse of the LLM Lie Machine at work. Anyone whose students are bring tempted by LLMs, sharing this could be very helpful showing how it lies, and how it fails.

I've never seen it so well put before.

Can only be described as regime propaganda

This depressing new NBER working paper finds that while the returns to a college education are still clearly positive for everyone, the benefits for students from lower-income families have declined over time due to fewer resources going to regional institutions.

Women have gotten more college degrees than men since 1981. Most American workers have been working their entire career in this educational environment. And yet, men are still: 90% of CEOs of major corporations, 72% of Congress, 54% of large nonprofit CEOs, 100% of POTUSes elected since then.

Shoutout to Iberville Parish having a BALL lmaoooooooooooo

Great job everyone

guess we'll be taking a trip to canada this fall to get boosted

"Free speech" discourse from the right has always been intended as targeted suppression of speech and disappearance of minoritized people. Anyone else who lent it credibility supported racist and transphobic outcomes. Maybe they didn't "mean to," but that was their impact.

It seems like we could be in triple digits of "things that would have led to impeachment and removal if Biden did them" (especially counting Trump's first term, when he was of course impeached twice) but this alone is impeachment/25th Amendment material.