How do you call a Lakatosian research program that has even given up on generating post hoc excuses?

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

"Raymond Frogner, the NCTR's head of archives, said the NCTR has received just 96 IAP files from the 38,000 survivors who took part."

Most people don't even know that their records are at risk.

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

MAGA has fantasized about criminalizing the SPLC for a decade—regardless of the org’s many flaws, the MAGA DOJ is corrupt and weaponized.

Me:

open.substack.com/pub/michaele...

And by that same token, education in the US as it stands today is also by no means a guarantee of being politically astute. I've seen PhDs and folks with all kinds of graduate degrees fall for easily debunked propaganda because it was in the New York Times.

Link?

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Secretary of State Rubio Urged to Reject Threatening HIV Assistance to Zambia in Critical Minerals Negotiations | Trade Justice Education Fund Washington, D.C. — More than ninety public health, environmental, development and faith organizations today urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly reject threatening to withhold HIV assistan...

One month ago, we joined nearly 100 orgs to urge Sec. Rubio to reject this shameful negotiating tactic.

This is not the way to go about it. Full stop.

tradejusticeedfund.org/secretary-of...

Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’

Maybe we'll keep some InfoWars content up.

Vile white supremacist trash.

Replimune's drug for advanced skin cancer fails to win FDA nod again The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on ​Friday declined to approve Replimune's drug for advanced skin cancer, citing insufficient ‌data from studies, sending its shares down 58% in extended trading.

New Age of American productivism

Are there any links to the Sussex Uni court case? I can't find updates since februari

Four takeaways from this;

1. Looks like Sussex Uni won its case against OfS
2. The “government” will undo legal judgments it doesn’t like but not those it likes; e.g. the SC misjudgement
3. Philippson is a deeply troubled fanatic
4. Transphobic speakers have come & gone at unis & been ignored.

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.

And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕

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.

Here’s the director of the NIH explicitly espousing populism over expertise as the means of determining priorities for federally science funding by leaning into the stupidest possible examples: ivermectin as cancer therapy .

Again, the polite way to describe this awful Yale report is to call it "a shoddy publication based on a total lack of rigorous social scientific analysis & data." Other, less charitable & less polite descriptions, of course, are also readily available.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Sooooo eugenics to fix AI? Sounds like beginning of a mediocre dystopian sci-fi movie....

Oh, they want viewpoint diversity? I'm excited to see which Marxist economists the business school hires, then

2) Are there groups of students other than “conservatives” who also don’t feel “welcomed or respected” in some campus communities? Why are conservative students perspectives singled out, but not other students from whom this issue may feel equally or more significant?

oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter

I want to come back to this crucial point from @nickfleisher.bsky.social, with data. If you're going to write a report about "declining trust" in universities, then you better benchmark that to other institutions, & you cannot identify causes of that decline w/o accounting for the broader trend.

David Reich really continuing his streak of very bad science communication.

altered tweet Mike Primavera @primawesome My dean told me dumbasses keep embarrassing his department so I asked how many dumbasses he has and he said he just hires for viewpoint diversity and gets dumbasses afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just doing quotas for dumbasses and then his daughter started crying.

Book Cover image of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are funding an app to attack journalists.

Getting smeared by "Objection AI" will become a badge of honor for reporters.

I'm glad to see them deepening their relationship just in time for my book, which exposes that very subject.

"The Nerd Reich" drops 8/18/26.

Will Harvard will seek “viewpoint diversity” in the Business School and some of the most popular undergraduate majors in Arts and Sciences, including Applied Math, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Statistics, and the various Engineering and Biology programs?

wait what? billionaire jets doing ICE deportation charters???

For all the whining fascists do about being marginalized in state-funded institutions like universities, the alternative ecosystem of thinktanks, conferences and other entities is incredibly well-funded and state-backed and attracts a steady stream of opportunistic grifters as much as true believers

Substack Remains a Nazi Bar, But At Least This Newsletter Post Makes It Easier to Inform You This newsletter post is the author's attempt at reclaiming her time further after the umpteenth negative experience with folx who claim to share values, community, etc., as she continues to reckon with the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied Support Services, while reflecting on her grave reality as a disabled trauma survivor. Given how her ex's financial abuse of at least $183,364 over 6.5 years has further disabled her and limited her ability to afford to exist, she reinforces the necessity of this lifelong work of unpacking internalized ableism, which includes honouring her access needs.

"The fact that Bari Weiss' Free Press newspaper was hosted on Substack, who the late Palestinian poet, Dr. Refaat Al-Areer, deemed responsible for the future death of himself and his loved ones, was always enough of a reason for me to stay the fuck away from Substack!"

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