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This is unbelievable. It's absolutely about silencing dissent & it does create a climate of fear. It doesn't just suppress dissent externally by intimidating students; it also serves to reshape the intellectual ecosystem of American academia. We need diverse voices.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Quick action alert! (From another source): The Heritage Foundation is trying to launder data in support of DOGE by surveying only their supporters and using blatantly leading questions. Takes less than 5 minutes and they don't verify your email. Go nuts. secured.heritage.org/the-doge-sur...

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

Your opinion matters. The poll of public opinion isn't nothing. Remember this next time you feel disempowered. Taking action in alignment with that truth can be revolutionary. Here are some numbers, just FYI. A bit interesting. Noted: All white men, duh www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-how-...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Rash decisions often have big consequences that can't be easily reversed I don't expect Donald to understand this when he has been largely consequence free his whole life Brain drains lead to the middle class emigrating... negative feedback loops etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is illegal. Where is the consequence? Gmail lacks end to end encryption.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats Susan Crawford!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect! No notes 🫶

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

When everything is partisan, good or bad, right or wrong, with me or against me, then everything is a fight and battle. We lose all nuance. All grey, which is the majority of reality. We lose our humanity and become completely ideological in the dumbest way! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you Sen. Booker! 👏👏👏

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I remember where I was when I first saw a cybertruck. I thought it was homemade & a joke car. I pointed and started laughing in public with my friends. I even took a picture of it. Had no idea it was a real car. Lmao Then, I think my laughing embarrassed my friends. Now they would cheer me on.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Yes! Obviously! We saw this a mile away. With Trump, who treats politics as performance art, and stoking division is the strategy. With Elon, it’s tech libertarianism mixed with provocation, often under the guise of “free speech” or “innovation,” but with clear cultural implications.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

False equivalencies are the name of the game for stupid people, I mean MAGA. Was that mean? No, but make no mistake. False equivalence is one of the core rhetorical strategies used to muddy the waters and deflect accountability Americans are not stupid. We know what you are doing. Eyes wide open

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's because I'm a scientist, but I think of almost everything in terms of trade-offs, proportions, and probabilities. A government bogged down by bureaucracy and checks and balances is less efficient. But I'm ok with some inefficiency to protect democracy. What is the trade-off?

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

What angers me the most is Americans' obsession with efficiency! Not everything needs to be efficient. Dictatorships are very efficient. But most Americans don't want that. A system of checks and balances is more inefficient sure. But balanced. Can we stop putting efficiency on a pedestal!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

And intelligence is scarce...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's policies are going to disproportionately affect red states, and they’ll feel the pinch, but is the cognitive dissonance, amplified by social media propaganda, so strong that they’ll continue deflecting blame away from the far right? That is my question and my continual fear.

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submitted 45 days ago • 364 comments

Ah yes, the American Dream: Become so rich you don’t have to pay taxes AND you get to bankroll the collapse of democracy. Iconic. Paradoxically, we should want people in power who don't want to be in power (e.g. George Washington), they are less likely to take advantage of it.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments