Zander Furnas
@alexanderfurnas.com
Research Assistant Professor | Politics & Computational Social Science | Northwestern University, Center for Science of Science and Innovation | Dad & Wife Guy | Not Ok | Sorry for the Swears | #goblue
alan fucking dershowitz??
I couldn't believe this could possibly be real but apparently it is. The new head of CBS News believes that most Americans are pedophiles and rabid gun nuts.
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
alan fucking dershowitz??
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this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
this is what ten years of obsession with "wokeness" in the media was trying to get to btw bsky.app/profile/mari...
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‘“It is a fundamental principle of evidence-based medicine that one should respect patients’ values and preferences,” Guyatt said. “People seeking gender-affirming care are entitled to that respect.”’
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
‘“It is a fundamental principle of evidence-based medicine that one should respect patients’ values and preferences,” Guyatt said. “People seeking gender-affirming care are entitled to that respect.”’
You’ve got to assume they really cleaned it up prior to letting her in too
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
You’ve got to assume they really cleaned it up prior to letting her in too
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1) what rise of socialism?
2) billionaires have been warning of a rise of socialism consistently for 100 years, so if it ever happened I guess they were prescient
2) billionaires have been warning of a rise of socialism consistently for 100 years, so if it ever happened I guess they were prescient
Bari Weiss’s The Free Press (now part of corporate media) is pushing this Ad on Musk’s X. It portrays Peter Thiel as some sort of savant.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
This is the same guy, you know, who has been giving lectures about the AntiChrist.
The “Free” Press is more like The Billionaire Press.
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
1) what rise of socialism?
2) billionaires have been warning of a rise of socialism consistently for 100 years, so if it ever happened I guess they were prescient
2) billionaires have been warning of a rise of socialism consistently for 100 years, so if it ever happened I guess they were prescient
We pay federal taxes and are entitled to access to federal emergency funds, just like every other state.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
We pay federal taxes and are entitled to access to federal emergency funds, just like every other state.
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Me, reading this: SNORT!
My very off-line wife: What’s so funny?
Me: … … … nope.
Her: You can tell me!
Me: … … … yeah: nope.
There’s no need to curse her with this knowledge. Sparing the blessedly oblivious is how we atone for being terminally on-line.
My very off-line wife: What’s so funny?
Me: … … … nope.
Her: You can tell me!
Me: … … … yeah: nope.
There’s no need to curse her with this knowledge. Sparing the blessedly oblivious is how we atone for being terminally on-line.
My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Me, reading this: SNORT!
My very off-line wife: What’s so funny?
Me: … … … nope.
Her: You can tell me!
Me: … … … yeah: nope.
There’s no need to curse her with this knowledge. Sparing the blessedly oblivious is how we atone for being terminally on-line.
My very off-line wife: What’s so funny?
Me: … … … nope.
Her: You can tell me!
Me: … … … yeah: nope.
There’s no need to curse her with this knowledge. Sparing the blessedly oblivious is how we atone for being terminally on-line.
lord will somebody let jamelle write a star wars please
if you let me write a star wars movie it would be an adaptation of the rogue squadron/wraith squadron books. post-jedi, early new republic. captains wedge antilles and tycho celchu must assemble a team of pilot/commandos to take out a gathering of high-ranking officers among the imperial remnant
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
lord will somebody let jamelle write a star wars please
JB Pritzker listens to @blankcheck.bsky.social
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
JB Pritzker listens to @blankcheck.bsky.social
There is relatively little waste, fraud, and abuse in the civil service in federal bureaucracy. Now there is a lot of corruption among political appointees. I’d start there
DOGE is one of the greatest failures of the Trump administration. The next Democratic administration should pick up that issue and actually work to cut government waste, fraud, and abuse. I’d suggest starting by taking a look at Elon Musk’s government contracts.
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There is relatively little waste, fraud, and abuse in the civil service in federal bureaucracy. Now there is a lot of corruption among political appointees. I’d start there
You don’t have to call it the department of war
BREAKING: Department of War launches investigation into unnamed 'allegations of misconduct' against Sen. Mark Kelly after he tells service members to refuse unlawful orders | Screenshot: X/@DeptofWar
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
You don’t have to call it the department of war
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It turns out even enablers don’t like having to serve a Mad King.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It turns out even enablers don’t like having to serve a Mad King.
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NEW: After Donald Trump was elected again, I started talking to trans, leftist, and anarchist gun enthusiasts and YouTubers. I wanted to know how they felt about community defense when it feels like rights, particularly for trans folks, are being stripped away: www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
www.wired.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
NEW: After Donald Trump was elected again, I started talking to trans, leftist, and anarchist gun enthusiasts and YouTubers. I wanted to know how they felt about community defense when it feels like rights, particularly for trans folks, are being stripped away: www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
it also killed millions of poor people around the world
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
it also killed millions of poor people around the world
doctors why are you like this
required to show up 15 minutes early, appointment is about to be 20 minutes late at best, we love this shit folks
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
doctors why are you like this
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
Bad news for young people and the economy.
Good news for the prospects of mass youth protest movements
Good news for the prospects of mass youth protest movements
GOLDMAN has some tough words about the young college-grad unemployment rate rising to 8.5%. 👀
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bad news for young people and the economy.
Good news for the prospects of mass youth protest movements
Good news for the prospects of mass youth protest movements
is the internet broken
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
is the internet broken
I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.
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"....numerous high-engagement, MAGA-branded accounts that present themselves as those of patriotic Americans appear to instead be based overseas in Eastern Europe, Thailand, Nigeria and Bangladesh." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
X's new location transparency feature unleashes questions about origins of MAGA accounts
The function, which shows that a slew of MAGA-branded accounts are apparently based outside the U.S., also stirred speculative outrage over where the Department of Homeland Security account was create...
www.nbcnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"....numerous high-engagement, MAGA-branded accounts that present themselves as those of patriotic Americans appear to instead be based overseas in Eastern Europe, Thailand, Nigeria and Bangladesh." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
It got me
I've seen this image enough now that I feel like I should point out it's fake.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It got me
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Also, this seems ... completely NON-ironic, right?
Wouldn't a bench that tends to favor the DA in crim cases also favor the defense in civil cases, esp those involving complex scientific evidence?
In both cases, the judges are supporting the more powerful over the less.
Wouldn't a bench that tends to favor the DA in crim cases also favor the defense in civil cases, esp those involving complex scientific evidence?
In both cases, the judges are supporting the more powerful over the less.
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Also, this seems ... completely NON-ironic, right?
Wouldn't a bench that tends to favor the DA in crim cases also favor the defense in civil cases, esp those involving complex scientific evidence?
In both cases, the judges are supporting the more powerful over the less.
Wouldn't a bench that tends to favor the DA in crim cases also favor the defense in civil cases, esp those involving complex scientific evidence?
In both cases, the judges are supporting the more powerful over the less.
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From the NRC's 2006 report on the dismal state of forensic evidence.
It's been ~20 years, and AFAICT, law schools have generally take ~0 step to adapt to ANY way to the increasingly big role ANY sort of data-based analysis plays in the legal system.
Just whistling past the stats graveyard.
It's been ~20 years, and AFAICT, law schools have generally take ~0 step to adapt to ANY way to the increasingly big role ANY sort of data-based analysis plays in the legal system.
Just whistling past the stats graveyard.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
From the NRC's 2006 report on the dismal state of forensic evidence.
It's been ~20 years, and AFAICT, law schools have generally take ~0 step to adapt to ANY way to the increasingly big role ANY sort of data-based analysis plays in the legal system.
Just whistling past the stats graveyard.
It's been ~20 years, and AFAICT, law schools have generally take ~0 step to adapt to ANY way to the increasingly big role ANY sort of data-based analysis plays in the legal system.
Just whistling past the stats graveyard.