My hope is that someday, hundreds of years from now, the cautionary tale taken from the fall of the American empire is that you shouldn’t put the stupidest people on earth in charge.

He has chosen…poorly

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Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

5/7. But one of our problems or syndromes is our provincialism: we just can’t see the possibility that other counties matter inside our political system.
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Even worse than the excessive cost of the center’s inaugural event and its politically curated guest list was the announcement to those who appeared that the event fell under the “Chatham House Rule,” which disallows attribution of specific statements to a speaker. Intellectual exchange requires accountability, and it is both cowardly and hypocritical for speakers at a state-funded and brazenly partisan gathering to keep the public from knowing who said what. But the center for conservatives afraid of having their ideas held up to rigorous scrutiny is a less catchy name

And, it is cowardly and hypocritical to claim you support intellectual freedom while attempting to shield speakers from scrunity because they lack the courage of their convictions.

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

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This stephen miller tweet aged like stephen miller.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

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We should never forget this was a war of choice, over military objections, with a clear outcome (closing of Strait) forecast decades in advance and warned of in the moment, at great human cost, initiated by one man (pushed by another), who wanted to play the tough guy with a military now depleted.

It's @professormusgrave.bsky.social o'clock again, alas

This is what happens when a person is never punished

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

EMERGENCY RELEASE from Gen. Eaton.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Under international law, "genocide" is such a fraught term because it requires showing 'dolus specialis,' or proof that perpetrators specifically aimed to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Trump or someone on Trump's team intentionally crafted this to meet that standard.

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Bild Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster? Wahl 2016

Spiegel »Die Republikaner haben ein Naziproblem« US-Präsident Trump verwandelt Rassismus, Sexismus, Korruption und Demokratieverachtung in Tugenden, sagt der Journalist Tom Nichols. Die Republikaner hält er für politisch und moralisch ausgehöhlt. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller 04.04.2026, 09.39 Uhr

New York Times: How Trump-Kennedy alliance is pushing thr boundaries of public health

New York Times: Legally creative, democratically dangerous: Trump's plan to twist the news Feb. 24, 2026

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

a man with a mustache is clapping his hands in front of a group of people with the word magic written on the screen . Alt: a man with a mustache is throwing glitter in front of a group of people with the word magic written on the screen .

Had Claude existed, I would never have thought to prompt it to find this connection, and it likely wouldn't have been able to, as the two sources were in separate fields, used different terminology, and were never cited together. It was just a combo of serendipity and a brain full of reading ✨

I randomly opened Roccas and Brewer (2005) on identity complexity. Sitting next to my computer was Matt Levendusky's The Partisan Sort. I looked up from the article to the book, and it clicked. Neither had ever cited the other, but they were talking about the same thing, using different language...

True story: the idea for my dissertation, which became Uncivil Agreement (my first book), came to me as I was staring at my first dissertation proposal (on a different topic) that I hated. To distract myself, I opened a folder on my computer where I had stored articles I wanted to read later....

Also true of research in general, where serendipity is often the source of discovery

This entire administration is uninformed people laughing at experts, rejecting their advice, and then discovering why the experts said what they said.

It's worth asking every once in a while what would be different if an adversary of America were running the country right now

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 26, 2026: Mr. Trump is correct that Sharpies are cheaper, but he overstated the cost of past presidential writing instruments. (Whether Sharpies are better is in the eye of the penholder.) A.T. Cross, which is based in Rhode Island, said it had manufactured the penspreferred by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of whom used the Townsend model. The pen, described by Cross as possessing a “bold profile, intricate detailing and superior writing performance,” now retails for about $200. (The classic black version costs about $265.) President Joseph R. Biden Jr. preferredCross’s Century II model, which the company says brings “modern flair to a time-honored design.” That model is slightly less expensive, ranging from $99 to $270 a pen. Luxury pen enthusiasts, it should be noted, often describe Cross pens as relatively affordable alternatives to other famous pens made by Montblanc and Nakaya, which can retail for over $1,000.

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk

NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?