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My statement on what's unfolding in Los Angeles.

submitted 11 hours ago • 379 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 10 hours ago • 96 comments

You know when things were pretty quiet and peaceful in L.A.? Before ICE started arresting residents who were bothering no one and going to their jobs. And before DHS and National Guard troops showed up and made the situation worse. Of course Trump and Stephen Miller want the situation to get worse.

submitted 12 hours ago • 121 comments

If it’s 6 June, it must be 193 years to the day since Jeremy Bentham died, stipulating in his will that his body should be preserved at University College London so he could be wheeled in to attend every council meeting. Well... except most of the stories about his remains aren’t true 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Trump planning to make it harder to go to college (unless you're rich) by cutting both Pell Grants and work study programs, all to give massive tax cuts to billionaires. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 16 hours ago • 34 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 15 hours ago • 346 comments

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 15 hours ago • 502 comments

A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u... #science #savescience #stat

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

A reminder that Lankford was one of the key negotiators of the bipartisan immigration measure that looked like it would go a long way toward solving the border issues. Trump pressed Republicans to blow up that bill because he wanted to run on the issue of immigration. And now here we are.

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 comments

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

submitted 1 day ago • 349 comments

Trump's unprecedented corruption is a profound threat to America as we know it. A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o... Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

TIL the term "Granola Nazis" www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 21 hours ago • 60 comments

I’m seeing all these debates here about whether violence can be justified in some circumstances. That’s not helpful. It is beside the point. This is a battle over legitimacy and the field of that battle is public opinion. This is a flagrant abuse of power. It is a crisis entirely of the Presidents..

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Some bright news overnight in Texas! Congratulations to USAF Veteran Gina Ortiz Jones, San Antonio’s next (& first LGBTQ+) Mayor! 🌈🪅 The GOP poured over $1M into her opponent’s campaign, but Gina prevailed with 54.3% of the vote and will be sworn in on 6/18! 👉🏽 www.texastribune.org/2025/06/07/s...

submitted 23 hours ago • 28 comments

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Seems like a good day to remind folks how violence against peaceful protestors can motivate moral shocks and expand a movement

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

2002 me stares in disbelief as I repost this guy, but here we are

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

Imagine that. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

"my brothers you think you're doing the right thing," one demonstrator says to police "you're not.

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

Aggrieved whites pretending they only lost out because of "unfair advantages" to minorities is an old script. The Bakke ruling against racial quotas came after Allan Bakke was rejected by 12 different med schools. He sued the one that had a racial quota, arguing that and that alone kept him out.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

As promised, made this into a shirt. If you want it for next Saturday, I'd recommend express shipping, but I can't guarantee anything there. You are, of course, welcome to save the image and print it out yourself! tomtomorrow.threadless.com/designs/king...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I was on the German teevee machine yesterday to talk Trump and Musk. h/t to @jenmercieca.bsky.social for sending them my way. My part starts around 6:30. #rsa #public_scholarship #teamrhetoric

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Two notes on ICE/Police dynamics: Many in law enforcement loathe ICE because ICE makes it harder to solve violent crime. People don’t talk or report crimes when they fear an ICE ambush. There’s also the status issue: e.g. ICE aren’t real cops. They’re playing tough guys, arresting moms & grandmas.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

With father's day around the corner, I thought it'd be interesting to investigate how the age of fatherhood has changed over the decades and see how it compares to the age of motherhood. In general, men have kids later than women do---but both men and women are increasingly delaying having kids.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 338 comments

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

from ‘quench your own thirst’ by jim koch, creator of samuel adams boston lager

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Did you know that • Undoc immigrants paid nearly $100B in taxes in 2022 • Immigrant-led households paid nearly $525B in taxes in 2021 • Immigrants are more likely to start a business than US-born Americans Our nation is stronger and more prosperous bc of immigrants ✨ #ImmigrantHeritageMonth

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We asked 1,000 Americans what they thought of the Trump presidency so far. Here is what political independents said. I would be pretty worried about this if I were the Republican Party trying to keep my House majority in 2026. Link to more: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-voter...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Here's who Google says has covered @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social's comment about exposing the IDs of ICE agents who abuse their power while masked. Just [email protected] to magnify his comment (Migrant Insider asked the question to which he responded).

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments