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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
Boomers are seriously going to start synching their ChatGPT to their Real Dolls.
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Boomers are seriously going to start synching their ChatGPT to their Real Dolls.
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
Fukuyama has gone full Randy with ChatGPT
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Fukuyama has gone full Randy with ChatGPT
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A Sun-Times investigation found the state's new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.
'There is no accountability.' Lawmakers, advocates call for more oversight of prison health care
www.wbez.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A Sun-Times investigation found the state's new prison health care provider comes with a disturbing track record.
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Scene from Border Patrol in Chicagoland: Agents yelled out the window of a van at a woman walking from her car to the Costco. The woman, of southeast Asian descent, said in a Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol boss clashes with suburban mayor amid renewed Chicago area immigration blitz
The tense standoff between Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss came after federal agents detained a man at a gas station in the northern suburb, one of at least 10 arrest...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Scene from Border Patrol in Chicagoland: Agents yelled out the window of a van at a woman walking from her car to the Costco. The woman, of southeast Asian descent, said in a Midwestern accent, “They just asked me if I’m American. What the fuck?” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
The regime is notorious for reversing in word, but not in deed, when they face backlash.
They will always, always, always try to pull an end run when folks stop paying attention.
You'll notice a lot of the reaction now is confused belief that this is an old story and a fixed issue.
They will always, always, always try to pull an end run when folks stop paying attention.
You'll notice a lot of the reaction now is confused belief that this is an old story and a fixed issue.
When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The regime is notorious for reversing in word, but not in deed, when they face backlash.
They will always, always, always try to pull an end run when folks stop paying attention.
You'll notice a lot of the reaction now is confused belief that this is an old story and a fixed issue.
They will always, always, always try to pull an end run when folks stop paying attention.
You'll notice a lot of the reaction now is confused belief that this is an old story and a fixed issue.
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Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino had a tense standoff with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss after federal agents arrested a man at a gas station Wednesday. Later, agents broke out the window of a pickup truck to detain two men outside of a Home Depot.
Bovino's Border Patrol caravan hits Chicago area for second day, making arrests in Evanston
www.wbez.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino had a tense standoff with Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss after federal agents arrested a man at a gas station Wednesday. Later, agents broke out the window of a pickup truck to detain two men outside of a Home Depot.
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
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As brash Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino suddenly returns to Chicago, check out our deep-dive profile of him that ran in the @chicago.suntimes.com just a couple days ago chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As brash Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino suddenly returns to Chicago, check out our deep-dive profile of him that ran in the @chicago.suntimes.com just a couple days ago chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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A thread on that utterly irresponsible interview. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A thread on that utterly irresponsible interview. bsky.app/profile/seth...
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Oh, you mean TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet who was interviewed by the NYTimes’s Ross Douthat THIS WEEK where he talked about how much he cares about fact-based, non-conspiratorial media and Ross didn’t challenge him at all on that assertion?
Brown University released a statement about a Palestinian student that's being smeared online as the shooting suspect.
Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
Not going to share his post because it includes the student's personal info but one of those spreading this harmful rumor was the spokesperson for Turning Point USA, Andrew Kolvet.
December 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Oh, you mean TPUSA’s Andrew Kolvet who was interviewed by the NYTimes’s Ross Douthat THIS WEEK where he talked about how much he cares about fact-based, non-conspiratorial media and Ross didn’t challenge him at all on that assertion?
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DHS is shockingly incompetent.
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
DHS is shockingly incompetent.
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Archie Bunker, also a reactionary bigot from Queens, would have displayed 1000 times more grace and compassion than his spiritual descendant who currently occupies the White House.
December 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Archie Bunker, also a reactionary bigot from Queens, would have displayed 1000 times more grace and compassion than his spiritual descendant who currently occupies the White House.
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Why is Lukashenka releasing political prisoners now?
This is not a sign of liberalization. It is a calculated move driven by pressure, not reform.
Sanctions are tightening and #Belarus’s room to maneuver is shrinking.
This is not a sign of liberalization. It is a calculated move driven by pressure, not reform.
Sanctions are tightening and #Belarus’s room to maneuver is shrinking.
December 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Why is Lukashenka releasing political prisoners now?
This is not a sign of liberalization. It is a calculated move driven by pressure, not reform.
Sanctions are tightening and #Belarus’s room to maneuver is shrinking.
This is not a sign of liberalization. It is a calculated move driven by pressure, not reform.
Sanctions are tightening and #Belarus’s room to maneuver is shrinking.
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#Belarus One hand releases & deports political prisoners, another jails them for years. Activist Ales Zdaravennau from Rechytsa sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony + huge fine for "treason" & "aiding extremism". Detained at Lithuanian border in March, his brother Vadzim arrested too.
December 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
#Belarus One hand releases & deports political prisoners, another jails them for years. Activist Ales Zdaravennau from Rechytsa sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony + huge fine for "treason" & "aiding extremism". Detained at Lithuanian border in March, his brother Vadzim arrested too.
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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On Friday, the UK sanctioned Rapid Support Forces commander Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, also known as Abu Lulu. Bellingcat previously geolocated him in three videos filmed at the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Sudan.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
Geolocating Darfur Killings of Those Escaping Al Fashir - bellingcat
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted. A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass k...
www.bellingcat.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
On Friday, the UK sanctioned Rapid Support Forces commander Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, also known as Abu Lulu. Bellingcat previously geolocated him in three videos filmed at the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Sudan.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
As much as I want the release of these and other political prisoners in Belarus, I do not believe that is the Trump or Putin regime's goal here.
Repressions continue in Belarus. Trump is building an Axis of Autocracies that protect their own authoritarian goals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...
Repressions continue in Belarus. Trump is building an Axis of Autocracies that protect their own authoritarian goals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...
Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As much as I want the release of these and other political prisoners in Belarus, I do not believe that is the Trump or Putin regime's goal here.
Repressions continue in Belarus. Trump is building an Axis of Autocracies that protect their own authoritarian goals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...
Repressions continue in Belarus. Trump is building an Axis of Autocracies that protect their own authoritarian goals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/w...
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Maria Kalesnikava, hero of Belarus opposition, freed after more than 5 years reut.rs/4iY89ST
Maria Kalesnikava, hero of Belarus opposition, freed after more than 5 years
When Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko used the full force of his security apparatus to smash mass demonstrations in 2020, Maria Kalesnikava became an icon of the protest movement.
reut.rs
December 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Maria Kalesnikava, hero of Belarus opposition, freed after more than 5 years reut.rs/4iY89ST
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@404media.co has done great work on uncovering the details of this app. It raises a lot of constitutional questions.
"Without Gutiérrez’s ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face... “Oh yeah, he’s right. He’s saying the right thing. He does got papers,” Gutiérrez recalled the agents saying."
He was just walking home.
They are doing this everywhere, no matter who you are.
#Pinks
He was just walking home.
They are doing this everywhere, no matter who you are.
#Pinks
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
www.404media.co
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@404media.co has done great work on uncovering the details of this app. It raises a lot of constitutional questions.
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Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
Duke has an amazing repository of the nation's historical gun laws...hundreds of laws which, if today's 2nd Amendment fundamentalists are to be believed, were 100% unconstitutional...and yet, no one seemed to notice that until the last 50 years or so. firearmslaw.duke.edu/repository-o...
Repository of Historical Gun Laws | Duke Center for Firearms Law
firearmslaw.duke.edu
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposting this thread in response to a mass shooting at my Alma mater, a shooting that took place in a building where I used to write papers in the computer lab back in the 80s.
Bovino has justified broad, Gestapo like round-ups of "undesirables," like Operation Midway Blitzkrieg... often specifically on the threat they may pose in DUIs.
Bovino's father went to prison for killing a woman in a DUI.
The article tracks his family's chain migration story from 1909 to present.
Bovino's father went to prison for killing a woman in a DUI.
The article tracks his family's chain migration story from 1909 to present.
U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino is at the center of President Donald Trump's deportation show. Our reporters traveled across the country to trace his roots.
Greg Bovino's the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bovino has justified broad, Gestapo like round-ups of "undesirables," like Operation Midway Blitzkrieg... often specifically on the threat they may pose in DUIs.
Bovino's father went to prison for killing a woman in a DUI.
The article tracks his family's chain migration story from 1909 to present.
Bovino's father went to prison for killing a woman in a DUI.
The article tracks his family's chain migration story from 1909 to present.