Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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If the US invested in child care and had national policies like paid leave comparable to other industrialized countries, we would generate $775 billion of economic activity a year. The question should not be, “how can we afford to do this?” The question is, “how can we afford not to?” Let’s do this.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

working the door for a Tom Lehrer tribute show tonight and everyone in the audience is a million years old, I love them

Yes. That’s why I say “don’t stop commenting” on SCOTUS decisions and practices. It matters.

Librarian here. I hear this at least once a week, or else the variant "how much is the monthly subscription?" The kids in my county don't have libraries in the schools and I blame that + the fact that everything else that used to be free/paid for once is now a monthly sub

oh that pesky thing called a constitution.

Someone should take this case on and help this TA sue the shit out of this institution. Not sure how far it’ll get in these courts but my god this is so awful.

Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Got a holiday card from a friend I made over 30 yrs ago when I worked for US Dept of Ed. They closed her office & she was paid for 9 mos before retiring. Taxpayer money was used to pay salaries while we did not get to benefit from the expertise of federal workers. It will take decades to rebuild.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

If you know who is sending out the takedown notices at or for CBS tonight, let me know! Signal: crg.32

People often ask why Democrats don’t have something like TurningPoint USA — so before the year ends, let me introduce you to Voters of Tomorrow. We’re on campuses across the country, organizing over 10,000 Gen Z members to engage our generation. 🧵THREAD

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

This one may win

I don’t have a crazy one, but I do have a story of archivist kindness. Those who’ve read my first book will know a lot of my notes say things like “silo 1, travee 234…” - that’s b/c the records I was using weren’t catalogued at the time, so I listed where in the back room the boxes were shelved.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

Read this and then try to tell me with a straight face that schools can "teach students how to use AI ethically."

This is so depressing. I’m so furious that a) these tech cos have offered kids a drug for free; b) the schools have no solution (neither do colleges, from what I can see). open.substack.com/pub/fitzyhis...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

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.

the vice president is a klansman

Great thread

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

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And the thing is, my oral exam was not asking for summaries of these books; rather the questions centered on thinking across these books: historiography, theory, insight into my own research.

The @historians.org chart that is remaking its way around here is also accompanied by a blank chart where you can have different priorities and policies. So the question is: why did they fill in the sample one this way when the article it accompanies is actually much more thoughtful abt the problem?

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

this. i always wonder about academics who use AI for thinking and writing. i always feel like the job’s too hard, in too many ways, if you don’t actually enjoy thinking and writing. call me naive, but what’s the point of scholarship if we’re just going to dilute it with AI slop?

Congressional investigation now.

My dad died from complications due to Alzheimer’s. I remember the first time they gave him this test. It was BECAUSE it was already quite clear something was very wrong, even if we didn’t yet have a diagnosis, and even if he did okay the first time. This isn’t some routine prophylactic exam.

#5 is interesting because, like a good chunk of my primary sources I vehemently disagree with. Dear students, I do not endorse bloodletting, the use of mercury, or Edward H. Clarke’s theory on why women shouldn’t go to college.

It's your birthday, Duane.

His best friend had 14 phone numbers to reach him!

I saw a picture of Epstein lounging by a toddler leg. Sorry I am never going to be ready for this shit. Set them all on fire with gasoline.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Speaker Mike Johnson says his entire worldview comes from the Bible. But he’s about to kick 2 million Texans off their healthcare right before Christmas. If you aren’t loving your neighbor, then keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.

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My mom does this. She’s legally blind, and managing leading her and holding onto luggage and getting through a terminal and not losing things is too much for my dad to manage on his own. This is the only way they can get help, so that’s what they do.

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.