National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer "aligned with NSF priorities."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/nati...

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?

"Measurement doesn’t abolish injustice; it rarely even settles arguments. But the act of counting—of trying to see clearly, of committing the government to a shared set of facts—signals an intention to be fair, or at least to be caught trying."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Sharpie-gate? Trump shows apparently altered hurricane map U.S. President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian's projected path on Wednesday that appeared to have been altered with a Sharpie pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in har...

www.reuters.com/article/worl...

www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-p...

A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem

“When we don’t measure things, it makes it much harder to claim that there is a problem and that the government has some kind of responsibility to help alleviate it,” said Sarah Pralle, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

Cowardice is killing us, and nothing good can happen while we remain allergic to unpleasant facts.

1st and foremost, it’s an aversion to reality. An unwillingness to count and measure in broadly agreed upon ways b/c a clear picture of reality might require painful changes or, worse, might reveal that we haven’t got the answers or the know-how to fix what’s broken or deliver what’s been promised.

What’s at the heart of our democratic crisis? What has fucked our politics?

BREAKING: Mike Johnson didn’t see the tweet.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

More Evidence That Drones Are Targeting Civilian Rescuers In Afghanistan The controversial "double tap" drone strike raises concerns about first responders and civilian safety in conflict zones.

I should say "likely war crime."

Obama admin did it also.

www.businessinsider.com/drone-double...

"Double tap" (which Hegseth not only acknowledges, but brags about) = war crime.

Here's a law student writing about it in 2021.

scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

"You're a GREAT PATRIOT and a TRUE FRIEND! I'm excited to see what's next for you, as make your BEAUTIFUL and VERY LEGAL transition into the private sector! Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Narcissism, yes. But also blinkerd by nihilism that makes any behavior on the basis of moral principle either invisible or else cognitively impenetrable.

A Show of Defiance Across the Nation

Check the photos. The blue wave is coming. Don’t relent. #nokings

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

What the ‘No Kings’ Protests Accomplished Massive displays of resistance build unity and enable moral decontamination.

Fuck ‘em.

progressive.org/latest/what-...

What the ‘No Kings’ Protests Accomplished Massive displays of resistance build unity and enable moral decontamination.

Moral decontamination. Let’s go! #NoKings

“By responding en masse to unprincipled, immoral leaders and policies, these demonstrations keep alive the ideals of democratic citizenship, and they revitalize the rights and duties which democracy aims to instill.”

progressive.org/latest/what-...

Reminder: When DJT says the government is falling apart, he’s offering himself as a dictatorial alternative to constitutional democracy.

“I alone can fix it” means exactly that.

ALONE. NO CONSTRAINTS.

Dem strategists:

Here’s my pitch for campaign messaging in 2026-28.

It has to be a referendum on Trump and Co.

Tired of the incompetence.
Tired of costs.
Tired of the lies.
The con job is over.

#uspol #democracy

Dem strategists:

Here’s my pitch for campaign messaging in 2026-28.

It has to be a referendum on Trump and Co.

Tired of the incompetence.
Tired of costs.
Tired of the lies.
The con job is over.

#uspol #democracy

Is he really going to simultaneously "Canadian girlfriend" *and* "Waiting for Godot" a war?

The SAVE America Act is a voter suppression scam. It would take away the rights of working people to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

The Senate must reject this bill.

The Iran war and global energy markets are beyond Trump’s control. Like COVID in term 1, except this crisis is entirely of his own making.

In Minnesota too, bullying and a show of force didn’t work like he wanted, and he couldn’t BS it away.

Great to talk about this with @gregsargent.bsky.social.

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

Ethic of conviction: actor follows his conscience.

Ethic of responsibility: actor weighs forseeable consequences of his decision.

Ethic of deep-seated insecurity: actor swayed by his desperate need to look strong.

Ethic of conviction: actor follows his conscience.

Ethic of responsibility: actor weighs forseeable consequences of his decision.

Ethic of deep-seated insecurity: actor swayed by his desperate need to look strong.

Trump's war on national park signs is even dumber than you think Inside the administration's covert campaign against "negative" placards.

Trump's war on national park signs is even dumber than you think