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International Relations Is Not a Morality Play: What To Expect From the War With Iran The Trump administration has no plan and no path to a good outcome.

"The most relevant question is not 'is this government bad?' or 'do they deserve it?' The most relevant question is 'will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?'

It’s hard to see how this will." www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

when I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to be "look for the helpers. you will always find people who are helping" - mr rogers

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report.

It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

The are attempting to gut and destroy the boundary waters and the vote is as early as NEXT WEEK. Please call everyone now!

New Mexico Senate approves bill to ban ICE detention centers The New Mexico Legislature approved the Immigration Safety Act. House bill 9 bars the state from allowing ICE detention centers.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care.

It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back.

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Well said.

DFL Party Statement on Trump and Bondi's Attempt to Extort Our State Voter Rolls "Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are demanding access to Minnesotans’ voter rolls in exchange for relieving us from the federal siege we are under," said DFL Party Chair Richard Carlbom. "Let us be direct: Fuck off."

New publication out in #EcologicalEconomics !

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

You're part of an energy cooperative.
Your community governs its own resources. It feels right.
Then climate breakdown reminds you: the atmosphere doesn't care about municipal borders.

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A Vow We do not fund what we refuse to become. We grieve without surrendering. We organize without escalating. We keep our power aimed where it belongs, at the people who choose these budgets in our name. We, the people, stay human. We, the people, stay disciplined. We, the people, keep the pressure on. Alex Pretti's parents asked the public to share the truth about their son. As reported by NBC News, they described him simply and accurately: a good man. We honor him by refusing to let this become routine. Jennifer Canter - The Unquiet American

You Are Not Helpless: Three Things You Can Do Right Now

Helplessness shrinks when you choose a lane and move one step down it.

Click the link for very doable action items! thejenniwren.substack.com/p/we-the-peo...

Minnesota Republicans Brought This Violence to Our Home For the past few days, I have not been able to stop thinking about, well many things, but the one thing I keep circling back to is this: Minnesota Republicans brought this violence to our home. In M...

I can't stop thinking about this

Minnesota Republicans Brought This Violence to Our Home

On June 14th, Melissa Hortman, was murdered in her home by a man disguised as law enforcement.

Now, men disguised as law enforcement are murdering our neighbors in the street.

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There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

What kinds of cognitions are possible? Are there discrete classes of cognition? Here's our new paper with @brigan.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social @mkhochb.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2601.12837 We explore basal, neural and human-AI spaces.

Dr. King believed our democracy would only make sense when every child was fed, every mind was educated, and every community had dignity and freedom.

That vision is still unfolding. So, on this MLK Day, let us recommit to the work of building the world he dared to imagine.

Minnesota Republicans stand with Trump, ICE after fatal shooting and threat of Insurrection Act Democrats say the GOP will pay a “significant political price” for the aggressive immigration enforcement operation.

Minnesota Republicans Will Deny They Stood With Trump, Ice, In the Future.
We Won't Let Them Forget.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Minnesotans are fighting back against ICE and right-wing media propaganda in the most American ways possible: peaceful protest, Pickle Rick costumes, and tossed lunch meat

I wrote a little bit about this in my book The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom in the chapter about cyber and knowledge commons. People contribute to "pure public goods" (non-rival, non-exclusive) for a variety of reasons: reputation, community, fun, etc. Same with sharing code on GitHub.

How do fleeting experiences become lasting memories?
Initially, your hippocampus and cortex work together, but over time, the cortex assumes control. Check this excellent @cshlpress.bsky.social paper on Memory Consolidation
cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/7/8/...

Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides Migration is central in various societal problems related to socioeconomic development. While much of the existing research has focused on international migration, migration patterns within a single c...

New preprint: “Multiscale patterns of migration flows in Austria: regionalization, administrative barriers, and urban-rural divides”, with @thomrobiglio.bsky.social, Martina Contisciani, @martonkarsai.bsky.social, arxiv.org/abs/2507.11503

What can be predicted when dealing with the real world? What are the limits of prediction? Watch this fantastic talk by @evamirandag.bsky.social on the nature of undecidability. With Turing, fluid turbulence, computation, chaos theory and ... rubber ducks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJ8...

"Questioning is the way of learning,"

Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.

How did human language emerge? A key step was combining sounds into words, shifting from analog to digital to overcome error thresholds. Fascinating paper with deep ties to Shannon’s coding theory. @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

The outside of an activity center in a rainy setting. There is an American Red Cross shelter sign in English and Spanish hanging up in the entry way. Two people sit on the steps of the building.

Our hearts are heavy as we witness the devastating impact of the Texas floods. The loss of life and destruction are truly heartbreaking.

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How do ant colonies perform computations? What kind of dynamical state allows them to do it? It has already been 30 years since my colleague, Octavio Miramontes, and I suggested that they, as liquid neural networks, might exploit critical states. Check: hal.elte.hu/~vicsek/down...

Three images with text "Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about "illegal immigration.""

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Is Indisputably the Co-Author of the Israeli War Against Iran—and His Iran Plot is Easily the Most Significant Betrayal of His MAGA Voters Yet One thing MAGAs agree on is that MAGAism opposes the US becoming involved in any new foreign wars. But the available evidence now confirms—beyond any doubt—that Trump planned the current war in Iran.

(🚨) This is as important a report as PROOF has ever published, here on the brink of a war that quite possibly became inevitable—and by design—many, many years ago.