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Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...
Important PSA for parents of white boys. If you don’t want you sons radicalized do these 5 things.
As we both campaign to be Ohio’s next Governor, Vivek Ramaswamy and I have both made stops in London! I drove my jeep to Madison Co, he flew in his campaign’s private jet to England to watch tennis for 10 days. #bigtenvsbigben
cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Coldplay asks fans to ‘send love’ to Charlie Kirk’s family.
I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.
Because noise has become the signal.
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
The GOP usually LOVES these O’Keefe hidden cameras. Let’s see what they have to say about this one admitting the Epstein coverup.
This is not hyperbole... view this chart. In the past 50 years (from 1974 - 2024), 154 million lives were saved thanks to childhood vaccines. Measles accounted for around 93 million of those lives.
Jail for everyone involved at every level.
For anyone who's interested, the video of the panel I was on a few weeks ago on 20th century race science and anti-racism is available to watch
"Far from being popular, Trump’s distractions are themselves theaters of cruelty and nihilism that alienate more and more people, thus leading to the need for more diversions." Good @davidrlurie.bsky.social look at the MAGA vortex of extremism over at @atrupar.com's place:
Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
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I am very sorry. We never have enough time with our beloved pets.
"When did we become a country where it's okay for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything – especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation – that we treat this as normal?" Gov. JB Pritzker
There are not only bus shortages everywhere, but a shortage of logistical oversight in many places, where kids are not picked up or left in the middle of nowhere or need to ride a bus for hours for school two miles away but without a safe walking route.
For those saying they can walk, where do you see sidewalks in this photo, or any place that looks remotely safe to walk? Maybe let's assume no parent wants to spend hours every day picking/up dropping off their kids if there were a better alternative.
According to FEC records, Gloria Gaynor gave thousands of dollars to MAGA Republicans
You can also support the cause by signing and sharing the students' petition:
Wear black tomorrow (Wednesday) in solidarity with the students!
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
I live in DC, right at the Columbia Heights Metro, where ICE has made a habit of showing up in force to nab moped drivers, vendors, and people just using the metro. When you call what we're going through "a distraction" you're saying you don't value our humanity as much as an imaginary white swing.
LOL. This is not new behavior from this man but it’s very funny that drugs are great but lesbians are a bridge too far.
When barbarians are breaking down our gate, 'gentlemen' or 'ladies' must no longer be our chosen leaders.Yes – be gentle in context.Yes – be nice in context. And never abandon your empathy. But if you can't recognize the dire situation our country is in and bring your inner-warrior, GTFO of the way.
Again, I will surprise you and your brethren here — wouldn’t bother me at all for you to say the same of TikTok and Netflix. If Tiktok was the justification for today’s ecological, financial, political crises push into government, civic institutions, and consumer goods, I would say the same.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
Enjoy the always brilliant @hcrichardson.bsky.social and the savvy @jimacosta.bsky.social It’s well worth the listen. youtu.be/WZg69x9G8po?...
Interestingly we have some empirical evidence and it doesn’t suggest that Democratic politicians are showering voters with off-putting academic language. bsky.app/profile/dcin...
Sure, the dude set that building full of kids on fire but it's just a distraction from the RICO accusations against him, so we don't need to send the fire department. All we need to do is keep the focus on the RICO charges....
Giant YTD drops in Chicago for basically all crimes. Huge 4-reductions in Chicago for all violence. Murders are down FIFTY PERCENT. Property crimes are dropping, tho still higher than before. But MRAPs don’t stop theft. This is all pretext. Yet the WaPo subhed frames it as a “crime” issue.
I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.
They call your Social Security & Medicare 'Entitlements' so you don't call them something silly like 'Earned Benefits.'
The best, most accurate look at the DC occupation is coming from the locals: local news & local residents capturing violent arrests, peaceful protests, safe tourist spots overrun with bored troops. It's a powerful reality check on Trump propaganda. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
You don’t need to send me a story about how it saved you an hour at work or helped you solve a math riddle or even self-diagnose a medical ailment. My thinking will be the same. That is nice and it is still not worth the societal costs.
"everyone will see how criminal and corrupt these people are so we don't have to make that argument ourselves" is one of the most singularly wrong pieces of conventional political wisdom in Dem circles and yet it will not die
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
EARHARDT: Dems were spreading the narrative that we don't need the National Guard in DC bc crime has gone down around 30%, but then we heard those numbers might be inaccurate. Can you clear it up? Are those numbers correct? LEAVITT: These numbers are absolutely correct. We're proud of these efforts
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
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This is pretty good.
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Read this. “Even in darkness, there is incandescence—the flicker flames of everyday people fixed on the side of morality. I want to recognize myself in the mirror when this ends… Make yourself recognizable with me. Together, we can build an America we believe in.” www.thenation.com/article/acti...
emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-n... I know its Substack but I think this is a good start, if long. Patrick Lin knows his stuff.
It was bad enough that establishment Democrats were refusing to endorse the Democratic nominee for NYC Mayor. Today drops the news that Donald Trump has been directly coordinating with Andrew Cuomo to help him win the election, and Cuomo has been taking his calls and advice. 1/2
i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.
and research activities can't stay afloat without a "goverment handout" then too bad. Many people who will be hit the hardest are living in a narrative bubble that has made them oblivious to the consequences of these policies.
yes, good point, but that's not the kind of foresight the GOP has. Ohio State has faced huge cuts that will impact so many across the state but there are those who are positively gleeful about it, arguing if these services
TX House Dems left the state to break quorum & block a vote on redistricting. Republicans have threatened arrests and removal of the absent lawmakers. Great, now do the Congressional Republicans who left DC to do the exact same thing. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Those cities are largely democratic, so it's just fine by the GOP. The ensuing devastation will just strengthen their narrative that these cities are lawless.
the public perception that faculty run things and therefore any capitulation is their fault. I hold out hope but I don't personally find false optimism helpful. It's important to be clear eyed about what is going on in higher ed. if higher ed is to survive in future.
No, I don't have a better plan. I think it's important for faculty to exercise every bit of agency they have regardless of whether it stands a chance to succeed in the short term. My problem with this article is by mistaking that agency for power, the author's triumphalist narrative reinforces
Ohio State is a case in point. I would guess the same dynamics are playing out in Big Ten schools in red states.
This article paints an overly optimistic picture of the power of faculty senates. Compacts are nice but faculty have zero capacity to leverage Big Ten resources when they are at odds with university administration and trustees.
This guy has been a key part of an Ohio GOP that has defunded local police and other first responders for a generation, all to pay for tax cuts at the top Those years of defunding have led to police officer and other layoffs, and staffing shortages, across the state—in small towns & big cities. 1/
HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity. Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
“Israel's forced starvation of Gaza and the weaponization of aid has, after months of warning, reduced Gaza to a state of famine. In addition to the daily stream of war crimes broadcast on social media by IDF soldiers since the war's start...
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…
Epstein victim Maria Farmer: “Ivana was [Ghislaine’s] best friend… She’d drive by schools… get [girls’] phone numbers… Everybody knew what they were doing.” To shut her up, “they gave me one of those cheap bracelets Ivana was selling on QVC.”
You didn't need a video of a cute little baby #elephant chasing a bird. But, here you go #bluesky ... 😊
WHITEBOARD 🚨 🚨 The only reason they can illegally gerrymander Ohio this year is years of lawlessness by a hyper-corrupt statehouse. Don’t ever let it me normalized. WATCH and RT
i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
So much for that “line.”
These are not strays. Beloved pets are heading to L.A. shelters as families face deportation. They need new fosters and forever homes.
Part 1: Beautiful & Heartwarming moments of #Disney characters with their fans of all ages 🥹🥰🫂🫶 #TimelineCleanse #happiness #kindness #joy
@jasmineforus.bsky.social stat on a pulpit for Pastor Jamal Bryant’s podcast & didn’t disappoint, she delivered the sermon! “Don’t let them cherry pick you!” “Agree that you should be free in this country, and recognize that they’re coming for you next!”
The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism
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Pretty good piece on the MAGA crack-up over Epstein. Some highlights: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/o...
The real hierarchy of needs
I grew up in Youngstown, raised in 18 homes and even a tent—so I know what it means when Ohioans say times are tough. I’m running because everyone deserves a shot—no matter where they start.
As Jasmine Crockett says, the math ain't mathin'
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
welcome to Ohio
the kids are alright
This is Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Republicans have turned the United States in a military police state. I could not even imagine what Fox and Republicans would be saying if Biden or Obama sent the US military to terrorize communities in Texas.
Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
“If he can put tanks on the street, Nina, I can put a flight suit on my body. And we’re in a fight.” https://trib.al/maXkRS2
All while penalizing faculty for lower enrollments and admissions
7 years ago today, 8 Republicans (7 Senators & 1 House member) spent the 4th of July in Moscow: • Ron Johnson (WI) • Richard Shelby (AL) • Steve Daines (MT) • John Thune (SD) (current Sen Majority 'Leader') • John Kennedy (LA) • Jerry Moran (KS) • John Hoeven (ND) • Rep. Kay Granger (TX) Traitors.
This is a GREAT idea @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com @repdangoldman.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social START THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK TO SHOW AMERICANS when their Medicaid & soc services will END DUE TO the GOP
For those wanting to know when the cuts to Medicaid begin A 🧵 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬—
Your occasional reminder that the reason the GOP have a majority in the House is Cuomo intentionally fucked up redistricting in New York, so establishment Dems pushing that sex pest can go TRIPLE fuck themselves.
Mass protests against the Trump regime in Columbus Ohio, the crowd continues to grow as people chant: "The people united will never be defeated!" (📹 @colsunderground.bsky.social ) #3E #NoKings #RefuseFascism
Thoughts and prayers to those Americans who are not celebrating this evening
they’re not allowing elected officials to see the concentration camp because it’s a concentration camp
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!
With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.
Didn't realise Trump had pretty much already said this will be their policy h/t @oskcar.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/fetc...
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses. He says so in this video Make Americans Slaves Again