Colin Laney

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

"All nine institutions must reject this proposal: it is a thinly veiled attack on academic freedom; it is a test case for whether Trumpists can get away with demanding loyalty oaths; it exceeds the president’s powers to begin with..."
- @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social

Jack Smith faces arrest calls over ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation Documents released by the Senate Judiciary Committee indicate the FBI monitored eight Republican senators.

I’ll go LIVE on Substack at 5p ET to discuss calls to arrest Jack Smith over his subpoena for phone records of Congress members: substack.com/@thefrankfig... www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-f...

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ‘science fiction’ ever since, and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
The way a person gets into this drawer, apparently, is to notice technology.”

Science Fiction (1974)

The War Room

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“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 also features essays by Del Sandeen and Theo Kane; poetry by Jasmine Leng and Susan L. Lin; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Juliet Kahn; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll Tell You A Story as the cover! buff.ly/Lm6JQFJ

Physics Nobel awarded for macro demonstration of quantum effects John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis honored for work demonstrating quantum mechanical tunneling in electrical circuits

Physics Nobel awarded for macro demonstration of quantum effects
John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis honored for work demonstrating quantum mechanical tunneling in electrical circuits

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The Insurrection Act and the War at Home Fear, force, and the line America has crossed.

Chicago isn’t a battlefield. But Trump is making it one.
Now he’s threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, to use the U.S. military against Americans. This isn’t about immigrants or crime. It’s about power. And once fear becomes law, it never stops where it starts.

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

The Ineptness of Douglas MacGregor Bitter Colonel; Russian Shill

MacGregor can claim all he wants. No one should believe a word he says. He’s a bitter old man who spews nonsense because he was deprived of a promotion he felt he deserved.

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Ex-Pentagon Adviser Reveals Who Pushed Tomahawks to Ukraine Ex-Pentagon adviser Douglas Macgregor claims Keith Kellogg initiated the idea of sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning Trump may agree.

MacGregor? The vatnik who has been pushing Russian propaganda for years?? Who is anyone listening to this tool, let alone taking him seriously?

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I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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It's already time for a new SCOTUS term. Or, the summer that wasn't. A look back, a look ahead. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

OK, back to SCOTUS in the morning for Chiles v. Salazar — the conversion therapy ban case highlighted in here: www.lawdork.com/p/its-alread...

Hey Juan, I got your letter. Let us know when you’re ready to come back to D.C. and actually work. I'll be here fighting to protect Arizonans' health care.

Portland accuses federal officers of violating demonstrators’ constitutional rights Portland’s top attorney lambasted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Monday, in a letter accusing the department of turning a blind eye to federal officers’ heavy-handed response to protests.

Portland’s top attorney lambasted the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Monday, in a letter accusing the department of turning a blind eye to federal officers’ heavy-handed response to protests.

Who Is Anika Nilles? Meet Rush's New Virtuosic Drummer When Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announced plans to reform Rush, they stunned fans by saying that German drummer Anika Nilles was joining the group.

Oh my
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80% (!) of the ACA subsidies that are about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024.

Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

To be clear, the Judge scheduled a hearing for Thursday, saying she needed the time for the parties to provide her with more information before she made a decision. This is hardly a win for the Trump administration.

Perfect cartoon.

With The Greatest Of Admiration…

What would you stop being able to afford if your premiums went up by $1,000?

Your insurance? Groceries? Rent?

This will be the reality for countless families soon. THIS is what Democrats are trying to stop.

Trump says he’d invoke the Insurrection Act if “necessary.” He describes Portland using the word “insurrection” twice—on purpose. And no, Portland has not been “on fire for years.” He knows it, you know it, the world knows it.

American soybean farmers are struggling because Trump’s tariffs effectively ended their ability to sell abroad – an existential threat for the entire commodity.

Trump’s policies are an endless disaster that are already bankrupting families – and it’s just going to get worse.

Lunar Impact? Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the Risk to the Moon

Astronomer @allplanets.bsky.social spoke with @asrivkin.bsky.social about Asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth object discovered in late December 2024. Updated calculations indicate a roughly 4% chance that the asteroid could strike the Moon on December 22, 2032. 🧪 🔭

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Dr Albert Sabin

On this day in 1956 Albert Sabin announced an oral polio vaccine, which surpassed Jonas Salk's vaccine in making polio a thing of the past for millions around the world.

Polio afflicted FDR, Mitch McConnell, Robert Redford, and many others.

Let's not let RFK Jr bring it back.

'That's not human': Spooky 911 call really happened in North Carolina The Pender County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina confirmed the authenticity of the call. There was no video footage of the incident.

"That's not human!" A chilling 911 call from North Carolina that's made the rounds online is real. But what exactly did the caller say they saw? Find out here:

The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, announced city property and participating private property will become “ICE-free zones,” as President Donald Trump tries to deploy National Guard troops throughout Illinois.