Tyler Wadzinski

Across the board, this country is completely bereft of political and cultural leadership that isn't being offered by the right and tech billionaires. No alternative direction or vision. We're just running on cruise control towards oblivion.

We are witnessing slow constitutional collapse in the US | Moira Donegan The vestiges of the US’s democracy are crumpling to the ground. We don’t yet know what will be erected in its place

I wrote about Trump’s first hundred days, and the way America’s representative institutions have collapsed—slowly, then all at once. www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.

This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless.
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

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The inequality is the point

a thousand times this. emphasizing Trump’s felonies denigrates so many who have been convicted of crimes and are decent people rather than the hideous amoral monster the president is. they also almost all suffered very cruel punishment for their crimes while he got off scot free because he’s rich

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

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John Hartwig, chemist: ‘The situation for science in the United States is terrible, these are the steps of authoritarian regimes to take power’ The scientist talks to EL PAÍS about the key advances in the production of new pharmaceuticals

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On average 116.5 people die every day in car crashes across the United States. The overwhelming majority do not involve undocumented immigrants. It is a choice to make this a national news story.

Sometimes people will judge you for the choices you make or the opinions you have. Sometimes people will think you're uncool. This may happen for reasons fair or unfair. At the end of the day, you have to be your own person. No one is entitled to universal respect for the things they think or do.

That Kristi Noem video with the detainees is so upsetting and the fact any sizable fraction, let alone a majority, of our society would endorse it is evidence of a deep rot in our entire culture. Like until you answer what fuels the appetite for that kind of thing it will only get worse

Thinking about the only power rankings that matter…

THE POWER OF THE ATOM.

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

these people are literally trying to destroy america’s future

Please take care of yourselves, y'all!

And remember that while it hurts right now to be broken, one day you will heal & become even more beautiful...

Seriously, the human brain is wired to be self-healing. Part of my career is that of a neurobiologist studying brain plasticity & repair.

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

A poster about the national day, 11 Feb

On this celebratory day of women and girls in science, let’s reflect that the US National Science Foundation has put the words “women” and “female” (but not “men” and “male”) on the list of forbidden words that will get your grant slated for the reject bin.

Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

Peter Goldsmith • 1st Professor, University of Illinois at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3h • G Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has ceased. Today I had to let go of a staff of 30. These individuals are not only unique experts in the field of tropical soybean, but also close colleagues and friends who are now unexpectedly out of work. The land grant system now loses 19 crown jewel Innovation Labs, across 17 states, that delivered high and measurable impact on very little investment. U.S. soybean farmers lose one of their best tools to expand their markets and U.S. standards globally. Local economies in emerging markets lose soybean as an incomparable engine growing wealth, prosperity, and economic development. International security is a loser, as local populations now fall back into poverty, unrest, and migration, due to greater food insecurity. U.S. influence loses as Innovation Labs operate on the ground in direct collaboration with hundreds of local businesses, organizations, and governments building strong and lasting friendships. Today we all lose. It is a shame. Innovation Labs like SIL are an investment for good on so many levels. You and 53 others 17 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.

Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes

Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

For more on the new NIH grant rules, see Carl Bergstrom’s thread here:

Parenting In the Age of Trump Like Sarah Connor, the heroine of the Terminator movies, Elie Mystal is trying to figure out how to prepare his children for the dystopian future.

Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children.

...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare.

My latest in @thenation.com

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse The McMansion has survived financial crises and ecological catastrophes to become a monument to this country’s will to self-annihilation.

i see there's mcmansion discourse about, so i'm going to share this, which is my longest elaboration on mcmansion theory prior to the 14,000 word chapter that opens my upcoming book thebaffler.com/outbursts/ba...