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I told OPM what I did last week

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

I had the honor of speaking with the razor sharp Julia Wong about Enemy Feminisms, & she really gets it. Writers are not always so lucky to receive such care in journalism. Thank you Julia for putting so much thought into this offering which frames EF rightly as an antifascist strategy intervention

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This could be one way that the Trump administration attacks abortion access, which in red states is now largely conducted by sending pills through the mail.

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It’s the same carnivalesque, destructive anti-government energy and ideology that drove the Tea Party, only this time its face isn’t Joe and Jane white tax payer, it’s a white nationalist gazillionaire. No need for even the pretense of astroturfing.

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Nearly five years ago, amidst earlier efforts to undermine the post office, I wrote for Artforum about art and the US postal service. Never thought the topic would be relevant again, but sadly it is: www.artforum.com/columns/mich...

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Time to feed the steroidal Mr. Wheezey

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Gessen is indispensable right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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The last of my VDay chocolate rocks 🙁

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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

Happy Day before Valentine’s Day!

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Senate Republicans vote for measles 52-48: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Lucille Clifton

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I just got served an ad for a chatGPT-guided tour of civil rights movement landmarks on a video screen while pumping gas at an Exxon station. There is truly no place like America

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lol these tech blowhards who are defending putting twenty something Elon suckups in charge of the entire federal government which is way more complex than any private company. Okay, bro, then why aren’t you hiring your best and brightest 24 year olds to run your large public companies?

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

Luna sees you doomscrolling and suggests you pause for a moment and pet her. And then go punch some nazis. #proofofcat #catsky #catsofbluesky

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

amazing to see the party that foamed at the mouth over "unelected bureaucrats" now sleepily shrugging at a billionaire edgelord and his 24-year-old stooges hijacking the federal government

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Wild how the category of “women” must both be ruthlessly defended by the right but also stripped from all direct research, support, or institutional funding.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

If you are in line to doomscroll, STAY IN LINE!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 19 days ago • 505 comments

you dont see this very often here but houston is out tonight

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

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Reminder: protests are SUPPOSED to be disruptive. Otherwise they are just rallies or parades. Nobody's life or livelihood truly depends on a single stretch of freeway being open. Shout out again to @derringerpax.bsky.social for this art inspired by a @bettybarcode.bsky.social quote.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

"It's scary and surreal to live in a nation where you are your identity papers, but your identity papers are not you."

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Ok everything's going to shit, but I just screenprinted plankton in blacklight ink a la fluorescence microscopy and I'm super into it! Tried a phase contrast image too- it sorta worked. If you have any fluorescent images you'd like me to do feel free to reach out. #sciart #copepod #diatom

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

the thing is that this was both a power grab and an unmitigated fuck up by deeply incompetent people. we're witnessing the Keystone Koup from within, and this is simultaneously deeply dangerous, deeply stupid, and deeply vulnerable to fighting back

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.

submitted 25 days ago • 108 comments

"I'm gonna have to check back on whether we shut down 11% of the federal budget and health insurance for poor families" is next level incompetence www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/f...

submitted 25 days ago • 95 comments

Guy Venables guyscartoons.com

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

submitted 29 days ago • 65 comments

And this must read lists actual pathways to do it.

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A lot of people shocked that there's not consensus over the salute must not know that this is what racism usually feels like

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments