John Jackson

"No shirt, no shoes, no miserable old fucks, no service."

I'm sure he still has his quote boy.

Trump simultaneously insists that his name isn’t in the Epstein files, but if his name is in the files, bad actors must’ve somehow “doctored” them, then failed to release the damaging info during the actual campaign when it would’ve made sense for them to do so. That wacky Democratic “scum” just left the “doctored” files as a weird “gag gift” for his administration to find. Does your head hurt yet?

When you are in the GOP, nothing has to make sense. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epst...

As a white male who did not get hired for nearly 100 TT jobs I applied for (including one at Cornell) with the obvious lie that "We had hundreds of applicants..." I obviously deserve 100s of more dollars than Dr. "Creationist" Wright.

Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s s...

An adaptation that is new to me! My favorite part is when Alice says, "Oh wow! Oh wow!" which is the most 1971 thing ever. www.openculture.com/2025/07/curi...

The risk of biological race - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Biological race realism (hereafter BRR) is the view that humans form biologically distinct groups. In recent years, Quayshawn Spencer has offered one of the most elaborate versions of that view, but h...

A strong argument against "biological race realism." Open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How Critics of Racial Hereditarian Research (Mis)Categorize Empirical Studies: Commentary on Bird et al. (2024) Federico R. Leo ́n Graduate School, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola According to Bird et al. (2024), racial hereditarian research (RHR) is scientific racism that should be curbed by the American Psychological Association. They presented an RHR bibliography in which I found eight works of Federico R. Leo ́n addressing cognitive performance. The eight studies were animated by a socioecological rather than RHR perspective and two of them explicitly contradicted the racial/hereditarian position. I conclude that Bird et al.’s design of the RHR bibliographic classification was erroneous and counterproductive to their own aims and should be modified. I also suggest alternative ways to strengthen anti-RHR positions.

The Moralistic Fallacy in a Selective Critique of Admixture Regression: Commentary on Bird et al. (2024) Gregory Connor1 and John G. R. Fuerst2 1 Dublin, Ireland 2 Department of Biotechnology, University of Maryland Bird et al. (2024) propose an effective ban on admixture regression research that uses cognitive test scores as the dependent variable. Their core argument is moral and political, but they also offer a scientific critique of the methodology. Many highly regarded admixture regression studies examining a wide range of medical and psychological traits fall within their scientific critique, despite a lack of moral or political salience. Rejecting the scientific legitimacy of admixture regression analysis if the dependent variable is politically sensitive but accepting it if the dependent variable is politically painless may entail the moralistic fallacy.

Applying Rigorous Standards Is Not a Ban or Censorship: A Reply to Leo ́n (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025) Kevin A. Bird1, John P. Jackson Jr.2, and Andrew S. Winston3 1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis 2 James Madison College, Michigan State University 3 Department of Psychology, University of Guelph In their commentaries on Bird et al. (2024), Leo ́n (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025) misrepresent our position as supporting censorship or bans on racial hereditarian research. We explicitly rejected censorship and bans, and we warned against labeling researchers as “racists.” Instead, we argued for the application of stringent scientific standards from relevant disciplines. Connor and Fuerst’s argument for using admixture regression to find a genetic basis for racial differences in test scores is rejected. Their focus on this specific method fails to address the scientific and ethical issues of racial hereditarian research that we raised in Bird et al. (2024).

Two critical comments on our American Psychologist paper "Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics." (doi.org/10.1037/amp0...) were published recently along with our reply. 1/

Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist Tom Lehrer died last weekend, more than four decades after rumors of his death had first gone into circulation. He didn't bother to contradict them, publicly claiming that he figured they would 'cut d...

All the songs you need. www.openculture.com/2025/07/tom-...

Static TV Noise Screen You might remember the static TV noise with vibrating random black and white dots from old analog TVs. This screen will bring this effect back on your computer.

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” pranx.com/static-tv-no...

Statewide libraries petition calls for Whitmer, legislature to reject censorship • Michigan Advance A petition announced Monday would help push back against censorship in Michigan libraries and calls for increased legislative support to statewide catalogs. The Michigan Library Association is behind ...

A petition announced Monday would help push back against censorship in Michigan libraries and calls for increased legislative support to statewide catalogs.

Story by @bensolis1.bsky.social

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Eats baby crocodiles too.

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This is the monster Trump is threatening to pardon. digbysblog.net/2025/07/25/t...

Cover of World Finest comic book from 1971 featuring Superman and Wonder Woman. The dialog reads, "How can the killing of a student in 1971 lead to the death of everyone on Earth 200 years later!?"

MAGA is concerned about woke Superman. Or, as they said in 1971, "Should have been done long ago..."

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

Good news. SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED share.google/J9w8jXMsV5Jl...

YouTube video by LegalEagle Trump Sued Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Files (And It's Crap)

Anybody who has 20 minutes would probably enjoy this evisceration of Trump's bullshit lawsuit against the WSJ. youtu.be/Fg7yTKX5xxo?...

Is ChatGPT making us stupid? Maybe the tool matters less than the user.

I do not need AI to make myself stupid. I can do that by myself. theconversation.com/is-chatgpt-m...

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for July 2025.

A thread.

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With a built in shock collar in case we say something bad about free enterprise!

A photo of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai.

Why does the cover have a sketch of the Burj Khalifa tower?

Hoarder class.

I use my grandma's 12" Griswold cast-iron skillet. I don't know how old the pan is but since she died in 1965, it is at least that old.

Humble Book Bundle: The Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Library Presented by MuggleNet Become spellbound with Potterverse ebooks designed to explore the Wizarding World—get the Unofficial Harry Potter Reference Bundle today!

A delightful way to read some fanfic whilst sticking it to the richest transphobe on the planet. www.humblebundle.com/books/unoffi...

MCF Summer School: Building a People- and Planet-Centered Future To meet the challenges and opportunities of this moment, MCF launched Summer School in collaboration with visionary organizers, activist scholars, and experts to provide live events and political educ...

@haymarketbooks.org is hosting some important workshops to fight the authoritarians. caseygrants.hubspotpagebuilder.com/summer-schoo...

How do you deal with a reactionary, far-right U.S. Supreme Court majority in this moment of the Trump administration’s repeated lawlessness if you are a federal district judge who believes in the rule of law? You take the Supreme Court’s rulings at face value — no more and no less than what the justices themselves are actually willing to say — and move forward, carefully. Federal district judges, by and large, have shown they are up to the task of this moment — regardless of the president who appointed them. (It’s as we go up the line — to appeals courts and then the Supreme Court — that the rulings start to look more and more politicized.)

Turns out that a version of work-to-rule can be useful for lower courts to try to do the right thing. www.lawdork.com/p/illston-ma...

Potential Mortality Impact of the Reconciliation Bill Colleagues from Penn LDI & Yale School of Public Health compiled research detailing the potential mortality impacts of the GOP’s Budget Reconciliation Bill

51,000 preventable deaths from the Big "Beautiful" Bill. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Revisit One of the Most Polarizing Albums in Rock History: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Which Came Out 50 Years Ago Fifty years ago this month, Lou Reed nearly destroyed his own career with one double album. Metal Machine Music sold 100,000 copies during the three weeks of summer 1975 between its release and its re...

I like weird music as much as the next weirdo. I'll admit, however I've never listened to this notorious gem until now. Do I want to be cooler-than-thou and claim it is brilliant? Or, do I...um..not want to do that? Decisions, decisions.... www.openculture.com/2025/07/revi...

YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies NEW HIT SONG - Releasing the Files (Trump's Epstein Files Saga)

AI put to good use at last. youtu.be/ELJhKli-dmk?...

Stephen Hsu and Ronald Unz and Holocaust Denial Holocaust denial can get promoted by not discussing Holocaust denial.

Our former VP of Research here at Michigan State is one of the "geniuses" behind this idea. To say he lacks judgment is the most charitable thing you can say about him. altrightorigins.com/2020/06/11/t...

YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic Burn On (2002 Remaster)

Cleveland
City of Lights
City of Magic
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