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"Politicians from the opposition party being detained" has become a thing that happens on a regular basis.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

This is very old news but why audio and power in the same receptacle on the iPhone? Also what are we doing with hardwired LED light fixtures? Major technological steps backward.

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1 in 7 Americans relies on SNAP for their food benefits. Not only is it a critical program in promoting food security/health, but it has an outstanding return on investment: for every $1 invested in SNAP, there is $1.54 in economic activity as people go to local grocers. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Thanks Miranda and thanks @scholars.org for the help getting this placed. This is indeed a big, very bad, bill.

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How will the proposed 43% cut to NIH impact the US? This piece nicely counts the ways with dollar figures--and there's a lot of them packed into this short read. Another example of FAFO policymaking. 🛟medsky health policy science communication policysky sociology

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

10,000 steps daily and you live a long and healthy life. 3.5% of the country comes out to protest and the regime falls.

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This is the military carrying out law enforcement, I'm sorry, there's no other way to interpret it.

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers, stepdads and fatherly presences.

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It is hard for the anti-immigrant crowd to accept that we are utterly dependent on immigration and undocumented immigrants in this country, but it doesn’t make it any less true. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Gritty says

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How does this sort of thing not violate the 4th Amendment? You can’t just detain people based on their ethnicity or race. Completely outrageous.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Essential reading (by @jasonstanley.bsky.social) for every American. The media, aided by a handful of reactionary academics and compliant university administrations, has sold the public a huge lie about wokeness on college campuses, enabling the extreme right. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

I have some beefs with corporate America but I don’t think destroying corporations is a good idea. Pure nihilism.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Winning an election 49%-48% is not an invitation to fundamentally reorder society. While lots of people are anxious about immigrants, only the certified cranks endorse Stephen Miller's "great replacement" delusions. This indiscriminate damage alienates supporters. bsky.app/profile/yash...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Walking through a square in Sevilla, Spain and I see a gentleman with a clock hanging around his neck. Me: Yo Flav, what’s up?! Flav: Yooooooooo! A truly great moment in my life.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"mix it up" bsky.app/profile/adri...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

It’s true, as many have suggested, that if they can do this to Sen. Padilla, they can do it to others. I’d only add that they already have been doing this to others. A mass deportation regime, sooner rather than later, becomes contemptuous of civil liberties and basic decency.

submitted 5 days ago • 166 comments

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Where are the libertarians? Where is civil society? Do you want to live in a country where people are deported without due process into foreign gulags? Where US senators are arrested? Where the government ignores court orders and deploys the military on the streets of our cities?

submitted 5 days ago • 71 comments

The Trump regime is purporting to occupy a major American city with military troops while secret agents kidnap people off the street. A US senator was just arrested and the President has entertained questions about arresting the governor. Authoritarianism is on the march; an extremely dangerous time

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

One way to prevent brain drain 😂😔 the MAGA states with pleasant winters and nice beaches are likely to continue to experience population growth but the cold ones are doomed.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Hey @reuters.com,

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I'm not even home to see it, but look what came in the mail to my house today!!

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Our higher ed system is so good that China is willing to trade absolutely vital rare Earth minerals for access to it and yet Trump and the GOP are trying to destroy it 🙃 www.reuters.com/world/china/...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 7 days ago • 163 comments

Trump thinks he’s only hurting Harvard with his attacks on international students, but state schools like Penn State and West Virginia University depend on full tuition dollars from foreign students to subsidize Americans. www.post-gazette.com/news/educati...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Thank god for Rolling Stone. Putting the NYT and others to shame for calling it what it is consistently.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

At least with the Reichstag Fire there was an actual fire.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 7 days ago • 1033 comments

Here is Rufo, The NY Times favorite higher ed “reformer,” recommending an American Gestapo.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Is it bad when the public can't tell our government security officers from criminals? It seems bad

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

🚨Alerting #cannabis and state policy researchers: Our cannabis policy bundle measures for all 50 US states from 1994 to 2023 are now open access and available for your research: rdcu.be/eqjWZ Dataverse link: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Where do I put on my CV that the NRA Institute for Legislative Action called our JAMA Pediatrics paper “political propaganda masquerading as scientific research?” I’m thinking Honors and Awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Not that reality matters but Florida gets more from the federal government than it's residents give, California residents give more than they get.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting study. Firm managers that have more experience with AI are more concerned about it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 11 days ago • 121 comments

A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments