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The Trump administration has directed defense agencies to turn over a list of their probationary employees by the end of Tuesday, with the expectation that many could be laid off as soon as this week.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

"The death of expertise is really about the rise of two social ills: narcissism and resentment." -- @radiofreetom.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 11 days ago • 264 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 11 days ago • 2109 comments

Worth a read. The purpose of the Citizenship Clause was precisely to prevent spun up theories based on hypothesized social contract, virtue, allegiance, community membership, etc., from being used to deny citizenship. The 14th Amendment means what it says.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

I just need to figure out how to get a critical mass of Kenyans here then I’m out. Hakuna mtu anaweza nichekesha Kama mkenya.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Do citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic? In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w/ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social we answer this question using a double-list experiment across 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 doi.org/10.1017/S000... Spoiler: Yes. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Just as a yardstick for "how extremist is Trump's executive order on South Africa," here are white Afrikaners distancing themselves from it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Gift link. You should read this. It is wrong on so, SO many different levels. It violates basic principles of research ethics in so many different ways. Leaving devices IN PEOPLE'S BODIES. Stopping treatments halfway through, with no one to contact if they get sick. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Eggpocalyptic

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

On the one hand, tariffs are going to raise the prices of lots of goods and services. But on the other hand, Federal government workers no longer can put pronouns in their email signatures. So we’re like…

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This has been one of the most shocking parts to me. We spent months interviewing people in federal agencies regarding cross agency data sharing (not even external) and the rigidity of the statutes, rules, and understanding, were incredible. Ensuring privacy was paramount.

submitted 26 days ago • 21 comments

Today, the three military-led Sahel neighbors, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, have formally withdrawn from the West African regional bloc #ECOWAS, which they accuse of being influenced by France in sanctioning them for the coups. The three breakaway states have formed Alliance of Sahel States.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Good interview with @jamellebouie.net about Trump’s McKinley obsession, allowing him to expand on his recent column. Another key factor, I think, is that he was the last president before the usual dating of the Progressive Era, a period demonized in The 1776 Project. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

"A video describing the exploits of the [Tuskegee Airmen], who flew combat sorties during World War II, has been removed from the instructional curriculum for new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the hub of Air Force basic training." -- www.expressnews.com/news/article...

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

They're trying to put me out of business

submitted 34 days ago • 401 comments

My god I wish I were like 10% dumber what the world must be like.

submitted 36 days ago • 302 comments

Elon Musk wants to be Nick Cannon but doesn’t have the rizz…

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Left at the mercy of jihadists’: Niger’s junta fails to curb surge in violence Islamic State affiliate expands control since 2023 coup, killing hundreds of civilians and enslaving women, as media ban allows regime to cover up attacks www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

I was able to live within my walking distance to a job and buddy when I tell you it’s a grand life, it’s a grand life.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

No you see they’d be illegal expats

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

Every confirmation hearing for SECDEF should start with the question, “What does the acronym TPFDD stand for? Use it in a sentence.” If they can’t, end it right there.

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

There is no maternity leave for members of Congress. And members aren't allowed to cast votes remotely while recovering from childbirth or caring for young kids. Yet, 47% American men believe the US has gone so far to promote women's equality that we're hurting men. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

submitted 46 days ago • 37 comments

Incarcerated. Teenagers.

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

Want some hopeful Indigenous climate news? Muscogee elders are preserving a peach in Oklahoma with deep cultural significance. My latest from Grist.

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

New evidence has emerged from The Insider that Russia did indeed offer bounties to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan. A reminder that Trump downplayed and protected Russia in 2020 when the NYT broke the story

submitted 50 days ago • 144 comments

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today. If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening. One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

submitted 51 days ago • 328 comments

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

submitted 52 days ago • 21 comments

Man on TV talking about the New Orleans event, announcing that he hates to say this but we’re going to have to be situationally aware everywhere we go. Women: …

submitted 57 days ago • 22 comments

Africa is now experiencing more conflicts than at any point since at least 1946, according to data collected by Uppsala University in Sweden and analyzed by Norway’s Peace Research Institute Oslo. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

The latest Sub-Saharan Security Review is out now, it examines: 🇲🇿| Unrest Will Persist into 2025 🇳🇬| ISWAP Showcases New Capabilities 🇨🇩| Rebels Pose Fresh Concerns in DRC 🇸🇴| Counterterrorism in Somalia Enters a Pivotal Moment 🇲🇱| JNIM and FAMa Contest Fiercely open.substack.com/pub/theafric...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

bad case of being lawyer-brained, I’m afraid. The clear meaning of the 22nd is to put a 2 term limit on the presidency, in accordance with the norm established by Washington. This alternative reading is lawless and if it happens, we might as well say the Constitution is no longer in effect.

submitted 61 days ago • 230 comments

i think this is pretty much right. not a shock that the political economy of apartheid south africa produced a bunch of reactionaries who hope to replicate that political economy for the 21st century www.ft.com/content/cfbf...

submitted 60 days ago • 92 comments

Actual conversation about an actual statue to be placed on the actual campus of Ohio State of actual civil rights champion Ella Baker: The Dean:But what will people across the state think?🤔 Me:You mean the people who believed Haitians were eating dogs and cats?😒 Him:😧 Me:😑

submitted 61 days ago • 9 comments

“IF THE BIDEN-TO-HARRIS HANDOFF had been a mistake, the VoteCast table would show it. You’d see a net loss for the Democratic ticket among people who made their voting decision after he stepped out and she stepped in. Instead, what you see is a big net gain.” www.thebulwark.com/p/biden-worl...

submitted 59 days ago • 152 comments

Texas passed a law banning books with any mention of sexual content. Then the Bible got banned. The author of the bill now claims to have a kingly power to grant exemptions — granting just one, for the Bible. This is not how legislation works. But it is how fascism does.

submitted 60 days ago • 14 comments

Africans want partnerships that foster economic growth, trade, & development; not tired lectures & programs that entrench aid dependence & underdevelopment. Trump’s foreign policy could have positive spillovers in Africa, says @kopalo.bsky.social www.africanistperspective.com/p/what-sorts...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment