Kenneth Peterson

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

"Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine."

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved

Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

The Trump Administration is so nakedly & destructively evil that it is slowly reversing the effects of the Constantinian shift on the Catholic Church.

It’s negatively polarizing Christian’s that aren’t Christian nationalists into emulating a more Christlike (anti-Empire, anti-oligarchy) faith

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

FIFA pledges $50M Gaza soccer stadium at Board of Peace meeting FIFA's pledge was part of a showy and often strange display of political theater at the inaugural meeting of President Donald Trump 's Board of Peace.

Tell me FIFA isn't in Trump's pocket. Boycott the World Cup.

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

A global travesty, with the Trump Regime leading the inaction and violation fronts.

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world

The Regime will catalyze unprecedented and unnecessary illness and death due to their destruction of the US scientific enterprise. Young researchers are now leaving for careers in other countries or they are unionizing to oppose the Regime's ongoing slash and burn actions.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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The map for No Kings Day just went live with nearly 600 peaceful protests planned across all 50 states (including our flagship event in the Twin Cities).

Find your local protest or start a new No Kings event if there’s currently nothing planned near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)

A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭

Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍

Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Good read.

The Squalor of the Epstein Class Happy Presidents Day

Super-rich bros, desiring to rule the world.

Concerns over autocracy in the U.S. continue to grow Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there.

'Ya think?

"Hypocrisy isn’t the main issue here. Rather, it’s the loss of reliable federal support for vaccines, and how that loss is already dissuading companies from developing new shots that could someday protect hundreds of millions of people from dangerous, even lethal infections."👇

A social post. Alma Mader In Situ Extra Pale Ale. Perfect for a rainy day.

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Since giving up FB, Insta, What's app, etc., we are definitely more isolated from former friends and acquaintances. But we don't have to suffer the toxicity or data collection of our lives either. Bluesky is the only one we use.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Such treachery. Doesn’t our govt understand pandemic threats? Our vulnerability to zoonotic flu, next SARS-3 coronavirus; arboviruses and tick borne illness from climate change here on the Gulf Coast; bioweapons from our enemies: Russia, DPRK, Iran, what’s going on?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have you seen this petition yet? Save our Kansas City Costco from conversion

Please do not convert our Costco into a business center and leave our nearby neighborhoods in a food desert.

Thank Mr. Snorter-of-blow-from-toilet-seats. Dear Regime, please fire this inept voodoo witch and get a real scientist to head the HHS.

Psychology says the first year of retirement is one of the most psychologically vulnerable periods of your life - here's why You spend decades looking forward to it. You plan financially, maybe obsessively. You count down the years, the months, the days. And then the morning arrives when you don’t have to set an alarm, and ...

In many ways, this is how it has gone.

The Presidency as Protection Racket ‘Nice little state you got there. I sure wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.’

Trump can’t pardon election felon Tina Peters for state crimes, so he’s squeezing Colorado instead—moving Space Command, canceling $100 mn in grants, and vetoing a clean-water pipeline. This type of presidential coercion threatens federalism and rewards election misconduct, this CATO paper argues.

Trump repeals landmark legal policy underpinning key climate rules The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.

Regime Fuckheads implementing more ways to kill large swathes of "useless" citizens.

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So far, this hearing has been Bondi yelling at and berating Democratic lawmakers for asking for justice for Epstein survivors.

Chairman Jordan is allowing it.

Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

‘An absolute travesty': Critics slam affidavit behind Fulton raid for relying on 2020 election lies The affidavit reinforced fears that the FBI’s seizure was not about uncovering new evidence but about resurrecting a false narrative.

The DOJ’s newly unsealed search warrant affidavit for the FBI's probe into the 2020 Fulton County vote has experts reeling — and they say it raises more questions than it answers.

One of those questions: How in the world did a judge approve these largely debunked and conspiratorial allegations?