Matt Tontonoz

The headline encourages one to think that liking Chick-fil-A is in fact his main qualification

This civil war will be different, because this time we will win.

by Pete Hegseth, Steve Miller, and JD Vance

BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.

America is under threat but it isn’t dead yet.

Opinion | ‘If You Don’t Want This Consequence, Don’t Vote for Republicans’

‘If You Don’t Want This Consequence, Don’t Vote for Republicans’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

As the advancing army advances against its own citizens, criminologists wonder: are the feds kidnapping and killing in a smart way?

Found this super interesting and helpful! I esp appreciated the way you looked in detail at how the regulatory infrastructure actually works to reproduce these categories

Oops!… I did it again 😉

My new article: "Oops!… you are doing it again: pharmacogenomics and the biologisation of ethnoracial categories on drug labels" is out! #philsci

Link to pdf (OA):
freidok.uni-freiburg.de/files/271749...

And a little teaser:

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

Does One Size Fit All? | Los Angeles Review of Books In the 10th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Jay S. Kaufman shows how the science of human body size is suffused with cultural assumptions.

Fantastic new essay "Does one size fit all?" in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by Jay S. Kaufman lareviewofbooks.org/article/does...

Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item

someday a historian will begin their history of the Trump era with the Trump Tower escalator descent and finish it with the stalled UN escalator ascent and they will be so pleased with that neat little bookended narrative encapsulation and anyway release the Epstein files

This is what I want to see. Courage! Principle!!

RFK Jr, who is causing unprecedented damage, is deeply unpopular with the public.

Democrats absolutely need to demand his firing as a basic minimum for supporting any effort to fund the government.

In a remarkable act of defiance and solidarity, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" played the clip from the monologue that led to the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" by ABC.

It aired on CBS stations and affiliates across the country.

[Video: CBS]

The rapidity with which the GOP went from “the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers” to “the President should decide who hosts late night shows” should probably shape how future historians write about the pre-Trump GOP.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

It is both funny and chilling that AG Sulzberger put this list out on the NYT corporate website* instead of in the—oh I don’t know, maybe—the New York Times Politics or Opinion section?!?!!!

*nytco.com, which usually lists promotions and hosts NYT financial reports

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

Communicators for Christ: How Homeschool Debate Leagues Shaped the Rising Stars of the Christian Right David Eastman is one of the rising young stars of the Christian Right. Controversial, blunt, and shameless, Eastman has—like his idol, former President Donald Trump—mastered the art of provoking stron...

I wrote about evangelical homeschoolers and debate here:

Sure would be nice to have a media industry that wasn’t three billionaires in a trench coat

Tucker Carlson doing better than Chuck Schumer on this one if anyone still wants to sell me on the current Democratic Party

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist, When and Where Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm Music Room (218) Goldring Student Centre 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Maybe gun violence is a major problem in America?

Oh well.

Lets just blame transgender people for everything.

Thanks for your insights! I had been wondering for a while whether there might be a story to tell about how McCarthyism led to one of the greatest scientific scoops of all time. But alas.

Might be a good moment for prominent authors to write a letter about the "intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty."

Maybe publish it in, hmm, Harper's?

harpers.org/a-letter-on-...