Jim Zeigler

Or, Trump Regime Again Violates the Law and Causes Irreversible Damage

Every major US 'paper is all in to become Trump's Pravda

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking

How 'bout no more listening to Sam Altman. Here's Gary Marcus vindicated:

The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

And when will this "viewpoint diversity" concern finally be taken up in convos about the CIA, NSA, FBI, US Armed Services, state and local police, etc.? Why does FOX News broadcast 24/7 in the lobbies, cafes, barbershops, and gyms of every U.S. military base? Must soldiers be indoctrinated by FOX?

And where did this happen? (Excerpt from the article.)

How to save the American university As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact

Another piece bemoaning a lack of "viewpoint diversity" among college faculty. Do the authors acknowledge that disciplines have their own politics that don't map onto partisan elections and make the "too many Dems" criticism a lazy category mistake? Nope.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

When the AI bubble pops it will destroy your 401k *and* the obscenely wealthy people responsible for it will get a huge bailout with your money.

They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent.

Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

A stirring rebuke -- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is absolutely the case. Brown just agreed to Trump Regime review of course evaluations.

Lit studies friends and associates on Blue Sky, this really fine special issue intro by Merve Emre & Justin Sider could use a boost

Prompted by your question, I found this useful: bsky.app/profile/did:...

But the feed's organizer, Molly Shah, also posts about Bluesky admin deleting pro-Palestine accounts.

Patience on PBS

As an educator in Oklahoma, I'm very gratified that our Sec of Ed Ryan Walters is finally getting the national attention he has sought so shamelessly & cynically. Now let's hope it hurts rather than helps his run for Governor

Instead, a DOGE AI is being prepped to wipe out 50% of federal regulations

Irrational Man Thomas Chatterton Williams’s confused argument for a post-racial society – Tobi Haslett

Every TCW nitwit take is an occasion to re-read Tobi Haslett's brilliant take-down: www.bookforum.com/print/2603/t...

John Cusack came to BlueSky with this same complaint a couple weeks ago. Then dozens of confused people replied with links to the consistent attention to Gaza here.

Imposing AI LLMs on curricula & Learning Management Systems (eg Canvas) should be added to this list of the creeping authoritarian ruin of public education. Is AFT fighting against Open AI & the like?

What the hell is a rescission? I’ll explain.

Protecting the Clintons

Agreed, even if it ruins Bill Clinton too (or is that a bonus?)

Do you think the conservative justices had a “what if we just stopped pretending” conversation or did they all just lock eyes across the room at some point and know it was go time

If they ever read the lists to find that Trump was a frequent perpetrator, will they then decide (like SCOTUS) that Trump's doing it means it wasn't a crime?

THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza

So MIT's endowment effectively loses its non-profit status but churches keep theirs & can now sermonize about who deserves their congregants' votes

List of feeds in BlueSky that are about the genocide by Israel in Gaza

I value following you & don't want to be blocked for seeming pedantic. But just "Gaza" in a feeds search turns up a lot of advocacy & aid for Palestinians in Gaza.

Dem Senators posing w/ Bibi instead of shackling him to the ICC is a problem. I don't think BlueSky is.

Surprised by your complaint, I entered "Gaza genocide" in the Bluesky search menu and turned up countless posts & news reports that share your politics on the catastrophe. Seems to me that Bluesky people, in general, call out the genocide in Gaza committed by Israel, an apartheid state: no debate.

No doubt George Mason U should be investigated ... for letting the Koch Bros dictate curricula (& not DEI initiatives) www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/u...

Love this movie