Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

but yeah, the whole, "Ds abandoned working people" is in fact a dog whistle that means, "Ds abandoned white people." so. treat those claims accordingly.

the Ds (mostly) refusing to abandon multi-racial politics during the trump backlash is pretty much as principled on race as any US political party has ever been.

hard to tell whether his obvious manic behavior is drug-induced or organic malfunction, but either way, whew

Remember when Stanford asked Peter Thiel to teach a class where he encouraged students to drop out of Stanford and then he helped crash a bank with his group chat and now his company is doing Mein Kampf while scoring government contract after contract

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

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!

Love when someone unlocks Cis+ and starts doing their gender more intentionally and happily instead of either feeling bad about not matching gender norms “enough” or just kinda drifting through life with gender on autopilot.

Add in "disband DHS and disperse its legitimate functions among the other agencies" for me, but this sounds good

bookmarking this

I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

This is what verification looks like once national identity sits above method. Rigorous when it's pointed at adversaries, conveniently absent when it's pointed at us. Symmetric, evidence-led investigation of allied conduct, exactly what Bellingcat does, becomes the thing the worldview can't tolerate

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

I was going to tag you in this thread but then it turned out you'd already responded, lol

I think what's happening here is that they've seen ineffective governance, and also were told the ineffective government was full of "liberals", so they associate "liberalism" with "ineffective governance." It's sort of like how they learned what "socialism" was from right-wing scare pieces

screenshot of a google search result for the ivory-billed woodpecker showing an image of a pileated woodpecker

google come on now

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

hahaha who could have predicted that an obsessively anti-trans news magazine would also publish a friendly article about straight white male sex tourists!!?

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I mean, it's too late. Everyone saw you. Everyone knows what you are. But OK.

1/ Both of you are circling something real, but the framing misses what the data show. Sweden ran the natural experiment for us. No formal lockdown. Schools K-9 open. Restaurants and gyms operating. Health authority expected that voluntary measures plus institutional trust would do most of the work.

hahaha who could have predicted that an obsessively anti-trans news magazine would also publish a friendly article about straight white male sex tourists!!?

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Californians: ballots for the June primary election start getting mailed out to voters in a couple weeks.

Need to register? Moved and need to update your addresss? Not sure? You can check and update your voter registration at vote.ca.gov

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Videos of the property of these white collar criminals being confiscated and arrest videos of the men who victimized the women in the Epstein files would provide ideal social media content for a future Democratic administration...the flip side to the sadistic ICE sizzle reels produced by this one.

History was just made in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Camden Hargrove has been elected to the Menomonie City Council— becoming only the second out Black trans man ever elected to public office in the United States. 🏳️‍⚧️

"all textbooks placed a greater emphasis on accommodating demand rather than managing it"

This feels like a version of Upton Sinclair's idea that "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

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Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana: