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It's this kind of thing that gives me hope that we live in a simulation designed by a massive joker and all the other crap that's going on is just a part of that too

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Interesting to see that US safety standards focus on what happens to people inside the car on collision, whereas in the UK there’s a much greater focus on pedestrian safety and that of people in the cars you collide with.

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I'm honored to be the guest lecturer at this year's Cologne Summer School in Philosophy, where I'll be delivering five lectures (plus a public lecture) on my current work in applied epistemology. (1/2) cssip.uni-koeln.de

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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Genuinely never thought I'd see the day when Mitch McConnell was described by other Republicans as a "RINO". Mitch McConnell as "Republican in Name Only". Because he--what?--opposed like 1% of Trump's agenda and appointments?

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Starmer confirming the UK is willing to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. An immense moment. Hard to overstate how important this is or how impressive it is that he's done it.

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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I think of the panoply of soi-disant conservatives, libertarians, and independent thinkers, the chattering-class warriors who lectured us for years about “virtue” or “honor” or “liberty” or “freedom” and who now at best quietly assent and at worst gleefully endorse this repulsive tinpot tyrant.

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[speaking to Senate committee] I choose to use the remainder of my time to add this mp4 of MBV's live rendition of You Made Me Realise to the congressional record youtu.be/HNlvioY0Y-0?...

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The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico

submitted 9 days ago • 323 comments

This is a good idea. A daily Democratic press conference with a consistent, skilled spokesperson who covers two things: 1. What DOGE and the Trump administration did to the American people today 2. What Democrats are doing in response

submitted 9 days ago • 98 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 1088 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1088 comments

The "woke grant" database is predictably idiotic, includes papers about diversity in beetles, cis-regulatory gene pathways, and brain trauma. US gov characterises the included grants as advancing "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda". www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about...

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also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly

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Dropping the Adams case is so obviously corrupt and unethical that a former Scalia clerk resigned on principle. This is not a partisan issue; it's a question of whether DOJ will be weaponized by this administration on behalf of its allies and against its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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I am begging the Democratic Party to create a media spectacle. Myself & dozens of other political communication experts will coach you for free.

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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

In conversations with smart scholars of political communication, there's a sense that there's far more that Dem lawmakers can do to highlight the threat to US democracy in this moment. If, as Axios reports, D lawmakers ARE annoyed at activist groups... they're missing the point and should read this:

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This is so depressing. The UK has a very restrictive (and at times cruelly arbitrary) immigration system. For years the Tories have been entirely inaccurately accusing Labour of presiding over "open borders" when they were in government; now Labour is accusing the Tories of the same. Utter fiction.

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There's so much going on, but important not to lose sight of the possibility that the NC Supreme Court could overturn an election in an act of partisan lawlessness almost as brazen as what Trump attempted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

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When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

submitted 12 days ago • 71 comments

I feel like 'all-inclusive' actually never comes up in a DEI context and only ever refers to like package vacations

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JD Vance spends all weekend shredding the Constitution like its toilet paper in service to Dear Leader only to get shit upon by Dear Leader on Monday.

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Trump does well on vague approval but that support plummets as soon as voters are asked about details. Do you approve of how Trump is handling Gaza?” has 54% approval but “Do you approve of the specific plan Trump has advanced for handling Gaza” has 13% approval.

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 15 days ago • 291 comments

Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION

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If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.

submitted 15 days ago • 244 comments

don’t get overwhelmed! pick 2-3 things and focus your energy there. for example, I am: - crying in my morning coffee - making a list of people I would like to catapult out to sea - staring out the window

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

Been fantasizing a lot about moving back to the UK in the last couple of months...this throws a cold bucket of ice on that!

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Is @nytpitchbot.bsky.social actually writing copy for the actual New York Times?

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Elon Musk has barged into DOL, which also oversees the Bureau of Labor Statistics—that's a huge deal. He could manipulate quarterly job numbers and much more. We are talking about MARKET MOVING INFORMATION! Do employers want Musk to have access to any of their confidential data?

submitted 17 days ago • 243 comments

I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

submitted 17 days ago • 586 comments

We are trusting a guy who approves of this insanity — the claim that all elections are rigged and fake, that USAID props up the entire mainstream media and Democratic Party — with the keys to the government. We are in deep deep trouble.

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Willing to allow Trump to ignore Congress, impound funds, and eliminate agencies - all of which is wildly illegal - to save their fire for the really serious battles.

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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 18 days ago • 1425 comments

A decade or so of arguing about Free Speech In The Academy and this is what we get out of it.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

acting head of public diplomacy at the State Department under the supposedly normal Marco Rubio. fired for going to a white nationalist conference in Trump's first term, but apparently now that's no longer disqualifying

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If you’ve ever complained about free speech on college campuses but aren’t upset about this, you’re not serious. Can’t even do mainstream economics while avoiding this list.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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