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Math/CS teaching and research, UMass Amherst. Incoming EiC Notices of AMS. President, Free Journal Network. All posts speak for me only. Interests: chess, politics. CV: http://tinyurl.com/5dd3swmf . Web: markcwilson.site .
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"We are getting lots of calls about Musk and lots of calls thanking me for sticking up for Ukraine..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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How much suffering has been caused by DJT's poorly treated learning disability? His aggression as a child, lack of ability to read policy, etc have damaged many lives. If only someone had helped him, we might have been spared this mess.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_p... I suspect DJT thinks the "bully pulpit" of the presidency is so called because one should act as a bully. His ignorance, as usual, is making our lives worse.

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Mathematicians - get involved: www.ams.org/government/g...

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A group of Chinese navy vessels, including a formidable warship, sailing legally in the Tasman Sea have raised alarm in Australia and New Zealand because they were in unusually southern waters and on an undeclared mission.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Remember: when dealing with politicians you don't agree with, differentiate between criminality, unconstitutionality, sharp practice, badly executed policies, and policies that seem obviously bad for the majority. Don't hyperventilate over everything.

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Steve Bannon renewed his feud with Elon Musk, calling him a “parasitic illegal immigrant” in an interview published online on Tuesday.

submitted 4 days ago • 298 comments

forgot how good this was theonion.com/historians-p...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Time is still in business…

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Can someone with legal background explain what is going on here? If someone without authority comes to "fire" you, why do you not just laugh at and ignore them? Are people being physically thrown out of their offices by Muskites? Why are police not being called? I really don't understand.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

If you voted Republican, and you care about your country, please act rather than rationalize. Unless you cast your ballot so that South African oligarchs could steal your data, money, country, and future, tell your elected officials that you wanted something else. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

It may not have been a winning election strategy to point out Trump's disregard for norms. And much of his lawbreaking was apparently overlooked by many voters. But it is still important to differentiate his policy actions from the way he is doing them (legally) and the style he uses. (1/2)

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Why have Musk et al not been arrested for trespass? Can someone explain the legal situation?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating and disturbing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Bruce MacKinnon, the editorial cartoonist at the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, drew this last November. No newspaper would print it. It now deserves an outing.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 23 days ago • 135 comments

nytimes.com/2025/01/29/s... Plutocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy and of course idiocracy.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A president who ranks in the bottom 5 for crisis management according to historians, and was fired at least partly because of his lack of ability, is again messing up. www.c-span.org/presidentsur...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Free idea for a cartoonist: DJT at his desk in a copy of Truman "the buck stops here" photo, but with a gaudy piggy bank labeled "the bucks go here".

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Victoria Derbyshire : "The Chancellor wants the UK to be the next Silicon Valley. What are the chances?" Hermann Hauser, creator of the ARM semiconductor : "Zero" Britain is a minnow outside the EU @vicderbyshire.bsky.social, BBC Newsnight, 18 April 2023 - Jeremy Hunt was Chancellor at the time

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

In case you missed the meeting: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/s...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr could run a task force on nutrition and physical fitness. The job he is applying for is well beyond his abilities, plus he is a crackpot when it comes to vaccines.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

There is very little about DJT that should be imitated. But Democrats right now should consider "Fight, fight, fight!" as an exception.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Biff Tannen had a pretty small and inept gang of fellow thugs. Trump seems to have a larger one. We are going to need more manure.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments