Although I think the Yale report raises some important issues, my main take away was disappointment that a university would provide such a shallow and empirically unsound analysis.

Again, if you want explain why trust in universities has declined in the last decade, & you don't benchmark that decline against contemporaneous declines in trust in <every other societal institution> in 🇺🇸, then you cannot identify variables internal to universities as the main or sole explanations.

I wish every fucking thing in my life didn’t need to be charged

The man is out of step with the party he ostensibly leads

Right?

Causal inference friends: do you need an RCT of this or would you be comfortable with a design with no control group since we essentially know the potential outcome

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

"Unserious leaders are unsafe," Judge Kasubhai wrote. "There is nothing more serious than our leaders’ dedication to the rule of law so that we might maintain the integrity of our constitutional democracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well put. And it's not just physical/public infrastructure, the US is relatively OK for that (sidewalks w/ramps unlike many truly sidewalk-free or stroller-hostile cities).

It's the social infrastructure, hostility to paid leave/care work, assumption that you should just quit work if you had kids.

If Mamdani and Obama singing The Wheels On The Bus with a group of tiny kids doesn't spark some sort of joy in you, I've got nothing for you.

this is just a lie. Ds in senate just voted 40 to 7 to restrict aid to Israel. For the first time basically ever, there is a visible, stark partisan divide on Israel.

Erasing that doesn't help Palestinians. It does help anti-establishment grifters like Cenk Uygur though.

I do, but if I were a rickshaw walks I’d want that pedal assist

Are pedal rickshaws in India electric assisted yet

Two Lessons from Hungary for 2026 and 2028 Unity and accountability.

I think there are two key takeaways for Americans from Peter Magyar’s ouster of Orbán:

1. We must rally overwhelmingly behind the 2028 Dem nominee
2. We have to be ready to send people to prison if we win

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

"Son, I want you to look carefully where we're going. Stay alert. I want you to notice that there's not a single thing in nature that's the color of this relish. A whole museum of natural wonders, and you won't see this color once. That's what makes us human. We created that."

Going to the Field Museum today. Out front my 4 year old demanded to that we share a 10am Chicago dog.

Good boy

Imagine if the press that Hegseth is insulting took this sort of stuff as seriously as they took Ilhan Omar saying AIPAC influences elections by spending money

The inability of Western Soviet experts - and I knew many of them - to see the Soviet system in crisis is one of the biggest modern failures of expertise.
Read Peter Rutland's chapter here, expecially about the incredibly bad Jerry Hough.

www.jstor.org/stable/i4011...

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What are the SEC, the FBI and/or Congress waiting for opening an investigation into suspicion of insider trading?

Any day now SEC, FBI, Congress 🤷‍♂️

They create the political and legal enviroment in which all those other things get done, and when you don't have them doing that well, you get...Orban and Erdogan and Trump

to be clear, I meant Rs are doing the same thing at NSF

oh no of course not

i meant Rs are

Eerily reminiscent of Latour’s despairing about the legacy of postmodernism.

just callin' balls and strikes over on the old wizards in robes cabal

Remember when those of us that said he was going to create concentration camps were called alarmist, and still are?

If the next democratic president doesn’t claw this back I’ll never forgive them

my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does

Pete Hegseth: The @USNavy is correct. More FAKE NEWS from the Pharisee Press. My team confirmed the logistics stats for the Lincoln & Tripoli. Both have 30+ days of Class I supplies (food) on board. NavCent monitors this everyday, for every ship. Our sailors deserve - and receive - the best. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations • • 2h Statement on Claims of Food Shortages aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli: Recent reports alleging food shortages and poor quality aboard our deployed ships are false.

“Pharisee Press”

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

The NIH is very different from the Kennedy Center. But this article feels eerily familiar.

“What I observed there far worse than the public knows.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...