“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

The White House has replaced the federal COVID-19 site with one dedicated to “lab leak” theories and sweeping allegations of cover-ups of the virus

we believe we are special and we simply are not

It's critical to keep naming these losses, not in the spirit of "can you believe what they're doing," but to remember what's being lost. I've taught students from countries that erase the past, and they're stunned to learn of major events in their own countries. That's the fascist goal here.

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

This whole going after green card holders thing is absolutely trying to soften going after naturalized citizens. They want a White America. That means pushing Black & brown people out of all high ranking positions & getting rid of immigrants who make up American diversity.

With the attacks on science and academia by the current administration, if those of us who have tenure don't speak up, it's really hard to continue justifying the tenure system based on academic freedom.

Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY!

That’s where we are now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Masking is punk (visibly deviating from social conventions, aligned with progressive values, makes you look awesome)

Democrats built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship—as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians.

...Leaving too many pale, stale (and, frankly, male) lawmakers in prominent positions.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Really important piece in @thenation.com today from Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi about how universities like Columbia laid the groundwork for the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil and all the other persecutions that are coming www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Anti Defamation League is so right, if there’s one thing that makes me feel safe as a Jew, it’s people with unpopular political opinions getting abducted by the government

"The real crisis is not that public health — which is fundamentally about policies dictating the distribution of
resources required to protect human life — has been politicized. It is that it has not been politicized nearly enough."— @ericreinhart.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

People keep blaming the Wokes for Harris’s loss but it’s not true and it’s preventing a real conversation about how to win next time. I’m not gonna pretend to have a clear answer but you at least need a correct diagnosis of the problem

www.nature.com/articles/d41...