Are you glad you voted to confirm this guy, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov ?

It's understandable for a young and inexperienced multimillionaire turned journalist like Tucker Carlson to accidentally spend ten years tirelessly championing a known abuser and serial liar. Honest mistake, right?

Will edgelord memeposting will help us grapple with the climate crisis?

Every newspaper should run a headline "President of the USA cannot understand basic math"

As someone who teaches the history of religious freedom jurisprudence in the US, this thread feels like a description of a government that has had a psychotic break from reality.

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

War is ecocide

Rick and Morty would seem to suggest that the only way to resolve this paradox is to address it head on

War is ecocide

Kurzweil is when engineers get high and think that’s the humanities

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...

I would get a YouTube account just to subscribe to this.

Need to read. I’m working on something related to the “resource curse” and will benefit from thinking with this.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice … mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Interesting (and probably a 1A violation) repurposing of the Faith-Based Offices.

When these got started, a major emphasis was building external partnerships. Now they've turned inward towards proselytizing.

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

It frustrates me that "colleges" are framed as responsible entities, and that nothing is said here to dissuade people from thinking that faculty have anything to do with the cost of higher education.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

It frustrates me that this Yale report, and this NYT reporting about it, imply that elite private institutions are representative of higher education in the US.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

Inhumane.

Mob bosses warn capo that other gangs moving in on their turf

Mob bosses warn capo that other gangs moving in on their turf

Consider donating to this important historical effort:

www.bailey-center.org

ERC-Funded CATCH Project 2026: Fully Funded PhD, Postdoctoral & Research Assistant Positions in Environmental Humanities and Political Ecology - Opportunities for Youth The CATCH Project – “The Catholic Church and the Environment”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), is now inviting applications from outstanding

The Catholic Church and the Environment project has openings for 5 prospective PhD students at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

opportunitiesforyouth.org/2026/04/13/e...

Screenshot of a US dept of energy social media post picturing a sparkling lump of coal under the bizarre heading “she is the moment”

Some friends and I made guesses last year about which cabinet members would get ousted first. We mostly picked based on portfolios likely to draw blame. Would have been easier and more realistic to just say “he’ll fire the women.”

Quietly, at first, steadily getting louder, the crowd chants: “Leo, Leo, Leo, LEO, LEO!”

I am teaching a course on Religious Freedom this semester and I absolutely cannot keep up with the sheer volume of establishment clause violations.

Why did they avoid “even the appearance of profiting from their office”?

The "trump as pope" image is gross and rude and anti-Catholic, but it isn't heretical or idolatrous, which the more recent one very much is...

Day of Action 2026 — Coalition For Action In Higher Ed

📆 ❗Join us on April 16 & 17 for our third annual #DayofActionforHigherEd

This is a call for free higher ed in every sense:
- Make public schools tuition free
- Erase all student debt
- Ensure schools remain bastions of free thought for a better world

www.dayofactionforhighered.org/day-of-actio...

Our latest from @kylebazgo.bsky.social: a look at 8 of the most insane fascist and antisemitic accounts JD Vance follows on X. No idea why mainstream outlets don’t think it’s notable he follows people who joke about Holocaust denial and an account that says Hitler was “the lesser evil.”