Alan Richardson

Turns out Dan Quayle and Dubya had two of the sharpest minds in the GOP of the past 50 years

This is fine

The trouble with 2 Carnapians in a relationship is that a Carnapian has as their love language the semantic metalanguage of their partner’s language. So getting together means an infinite ascent up the meta linguistic hierarchy.

Congratulations to McGill—most Canadian universities did this right across campus decades ago but we still welcome more siblings in the struggle.

All because people think the day is longer if the sun rises at 8:30 am and sets at 5 pm than if the sun rises at 7:30 am and sets at 4 pm.

Scientists Decry Political Interference in Courtroom Science – Science Politics Leading scientists speak out after climate science was dropped from the federal judiciary's key scientific reference guide.

28 scientists say political pressure to remove a chapter on climate science in a manual for judges is a troubling turn for other disciplines, too. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

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The threat was two weeks away, threatening to disrupt infrastructure week!

Had to preempt Israel’s preemptive strike

I have a friend/colleague who has loved ones in Tehran and yet there he was today delivering the lecture beofre mine. I asked him how he is doing and he shook his head and said that he has lost all contact with family and friends. I didn't know whether to cry or rage.

In December it will be pitch black when your elementary school kids are heading to school.

It's all movie lines. I've said this elsewhere: Hegseth has a classic case of cinematic epistemology; his understanding of the world is grounded in the way it works in movies. He thinks exclusively in terms of decisive hand gestures & movie tough talk.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

"stop them from making IEDs"

does anyone know what the I in IED stands for

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

In response, Duke tasked Proskauer, a well-heeled national law firm known for its labor and employment practice, to conduct an “athletics unionization risk assessment.” In attempting to mitigate that risk, the firm focused on how ongoing issues in Duke’s athletics department could trigger labor unrest, treating athlete empowerment as a variable to be monitored, managed and, if necessary, contained.

It is so perfectly Duke that the response to the NLRB's invitation for college athletes to unionize was to immediately contract with the country's top union-busting law firm to conduct an “athletics unionization risk assessment.”

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Thank god that Outlook now suggests I respond to email with “Thanks”! Never thought of that!!

Now that sounds like a paper worth reading.

NEW: Department of Defense to limit ties with 13 elite universities, including Tufts - The Tufts Daily Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Department of Defense would end attendance for active-duty military personnel at 13 universities, including Tufts, due to what he called “wo...

Ah yes, the wokeness and indoctrination of a university that built a conservative anti-trans research center that's housed in the president's office & that just created a new admin position to explicitly "reduce the risk of additional unionization efforts."

How it started / How it's going

Weird that this would happen on the heels of societal acceptance of anti-vax messaging or 'vaccine hesitancy'.

Oh, wait, no it's not.

The only refutation of popularism you need

Trump should just get pre authorization to declare war with any nation or portion thereof on Earth. Why fuss with details like what nation the current war is with?

Must be that new world order Carney talked about in Davos. But now with Canada as a middle client state.

But it is an AI solution. To what problem, we don’t know….

Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order

Wait, I thought Stephen Miller was President

A flowchart for academic freedom violations

There is a clue here about why the Epstein files make no difference in the USA.

Best way to get over the yips.