Professor Vibes

Heater, a perfect orange cat with a clipped ear, approaches a soft Sherpa blankie so she can deliver her baked goods.

pov: you’re about to get freshly baked biscuits

i love paying more for less every year. i love feeling like I'll never get ahead no matter how hard i work or frugal i am. i love further concentrating wealth in the hands of our overloads. this is what i was born to do

Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

the thing about the Olympics is that they combine one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and also pure joy.

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Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support - Volume 65 Issue 1

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Resentment and democracy under strain ✊

@mfilsinger.bsky.social & Steffen Wamsler of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social show how #SGRD shapes not only radical political support, but also citizens’ commitment to democracy 🏛️ drawing on survey data 📊 across six European countries

How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.

@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

Prime example of why there is no safe level of exposure to X propaganda, no matter how immune you think you are.

One day you're a highly intelligent, influential political leader. The next you're sharing content from an Infowars conspiracy theorist to your millions of followers.

Get off that site.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

ICE killed a US citizen in Texas. The public was not told a federal agent fired the fatal shot until much later.

In a normal administration, this would be a big deal, but its not even the biggest Labor Department scandal from the DeRemer family. The Secretary is already accused of having an affair with an employee, pushing grants to donors to boost her career, and visits to strip clubs on work trips.

New Mexico reopens investigation into alleged illegal activity at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch New Mexico’s attorney general has reopened an investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch.

My first thought was “Why did you CLOSE it?!” but apparently the federal investigation told them to stop and send over their information back in 2019 because, supposedly, they didn’t want it to interfere with the federal case.

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

'Forecasting the 2026 US Midterm Elections' - https://cup.org/3Wq5B5y

Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026

This is…a lot.

In addition to her husband being investigated, the Labor Secretary herself is also being investigated for “having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate—a member of her security detail—and abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs…”

Why Is Trump Dumping East Wing Rubble in a Public Park?

Really good blog here. It's obviously not the worst thing the administration has done but the extent to which Trump is dedicated getting his personal grease all over every public thing in DC, and making them more expensive, exclusive, and worse, is really infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

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Would be nice if people stopped restating the false claim that Waymos have live humans driving them. That was based on a misleading Futurism headline that was debunked in its own article. There is way too much hype about AI tech but it does no good to misrepresent the state of things the other way.

Every administrator, every board of trustees, every president, chancellor who bent the knee to Trump and his cronies should immediately be stripped of their position and driven from their institutions.

The Washington post Democracy Dies in Darkness Immigration New DHS memo outlines plan to detain refugees for further vetting Resettlement organizations said the updated guidance represents a dramatic shift in how refugees are treated after being legally permitted to enter the United States. 56 minutes ago

LAWidork Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo Hours after DO filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case - including remote electronic docket access. SHIN CHRIS GEIDNER FEB 18, 2026

OMG. I was so focused on the report itself that I just noticed:

THE POST DIDN'T EVEN PUBLISH THE MEMO!!!

Read and subscribe to Law Dork: I had it first, got the story right, and you can actually read the memo. www.lawdork.com/p/exclusive-...

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Audre Lorde diagnosed a kind of man whose "American maleness overcomes or supersedes anything else, so that they relate to me, to the world, to children, to the fence, to a plant, to a tree first of all as an American male. And there I find, by definition, a position of false power, intolerable.”

Drugs, Civil Rights and the Alternative Society: A History of Release Principal Supervisor: Professor Toby Seddon (UCL) Co-Supervisor: Professor Alex Mold (LSHTM) Project Description Background Described as the oldest independent drugs charity in the world, Release w…

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

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A white and black cat. The markings resemble a cow

Female dragonflies do something similar—playing dead/harming themselves by dropping from high heights to avoid males

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it."

Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist?
41% of Republicans have No Opinion.

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it's hard to see someone else live your dream

Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.

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