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Historian of science and religion in a previous life. Author @Palgrave (2020). Views mine. He/Him. Orange belt in Karate (2002). I'm big in Japan.
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It was obvious that this was a politicide to kill off the idea of a Palestinian state before it was even widely accepted as a genocide.

So much fucking tear gas. DHS going nuts right now. This is happening in your sanctuary city “Los Angeles”

You don’t stop this shit by firing on the people, you stop it by having LAPD arrest ICE for kidnapping. This is a fucking disgrace by every government party involved.

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

“His history of advocacy on health issues is full of misinterpreting data, cherry-picking out-of-context snippets, moving the goalposts when his assertions are refuted, or simply ignoring research that contradicts his preconceived notions” 👏 @BruceMirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy 48hills.org/2025/06/the-...

Wherever you create a society with an entrenched military class that holds the monopoly on violence, you shall see it grow beyond the control of its original masters after each and every use.

Don’t have to redline if the AI just does the racism for you.

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

Musk’s aborted pick for NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is on the latest episode of the All-In podcast talking about all the “bureaucracy” at the agency he would’ve gotten rid of like the review boards.

Contrary to claims made by its proponents, the mass deportations' components of the Big Beautiful Bill will not improve its CBO score. Indeed, it will make it much worse. Accounting for lost net revenue from immigrants adds nearly $1 trillion in additional cost.

Remember that Republicans are not against government spending; they are against government spending only on the selected programs they hate, and just fine with bloated spending on those programs they like.

The same way a lot of people didn't realize how big the QAnon problem was until those fuckers literally stormed the capital, I fear we're a year or two away from a shocking discovery of just how many "seemingly normal" people have lost their minds "talking" with ChatGPT.

Today's newsletter is about NYT's upcoming anti-trans podcast www.readtpa.com/p/the-new-yo...

The concluding paragraphs here are a work of art

And it's @drewmagary.bsky.social from the top rope: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

🚨BREAKING: Alabama is again appealing its long-running redistricting battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, two years after the high court already affirmed a district court decision that struck down the state’s original congressional map for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Definitely sounds like a guy Dems should embrace www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Just a note that the Texas National Guard, deployed to the US-Mexico border for Operation Lone Star, experienced a wave of suicides. www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...

A matter of time.

Disgusting. DC: (202) 225-5271 District: (217) 703-6100 District: (217) 640-6210

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

these people keep forgetting that part of the reason LEOs are typically uniformed is because if you see some masked goon in street clothes ziptying your neighbor and shoving them in a van, you are within your rights to intervene

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

The one thing that Trump seems to have internalized from his first term was "stop counting the COVID cases, it makes me look bad". So no more data for you!

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

I have heard from a few folks that they are especially nervous about celebrating Pride this year. This crime is beyond terrifying because of the youth of the assailants. People are still going out, though, because refusing to be intimidated is the point. www.inquirer.com/crime/acid-a...

Identifying agents of the state isn't doxing. It's a minimal requirement.

In El Salvador's Bukele, Trump has found a partner not just in crime, but in using emergency powers to declare that it's not a crime when the state does it. Both leaders benefit from suspending the rule of law to do crimes in the name of security. cippolicy.substack.com/p/el-salvado...

Evergreen article: theweek.com/articles/737... These are not bumbling statesmen who are failing they are enemies who are succeeding.

I learned so much talking to ProPublica for this story. It's a telling window into how Trump/DOGE are using AI to shrink the government and the consequences. And even though this use is particularly ham-handed, it's a good example of the limitations of the technology more generally.🧵 @propublica.org

When I first heard they were closing Dupont Circle for World Pride, I thought they meant closing off traffic so people could celebrate and take over the park for a huge happy party. It sounded great! Instead, it's a militarized anti-gay occupation of our neighborhood. F all these people.

8:34am Eastern. Elon Musk is still a Nazi.

75 days apart

Akua reindorf an "impartial" commissioner of the EHRC. One who buys merch from anti trans groups. And accepts money to talk to anti trans staff groups... whatthetrans.com/anti-trans-e...

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

Yeah I dunno you guys. As someone who has spent more than five seconds observing Donald Trump, I don't think there's any détente coming after publicly undermining him and (accurately) calling him a pedophile.

Today in D.C., thousands of veterans are rallying against President Trump’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and his slashing of staff throughout the government. “I didn’t think I’d be doing this at my age, but I can’t stand by,” said Reed Radcliffe, 68, who spent two decades in the Navy.

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is no higher position on the US federal civil service pay scale than a GS-15. Anything above that is an appointed position that has to be approved by the senate.

There has never been an instance where Singal demonstrated he's done basic research. This includes a 2019 Atlantic article about a guy 'inventing' a new academic discipline called 'erisology'. And by 'inventing' he meant 'I think academics should study argumentation'.