Laura Clos

A large adult male turkey with long tail feathers unfurled, colors of chestnut brown with black, brown and bronze, quite grand. Closer to the camera is a female turkey with buff, brown and black feathers. She is much smaller. These turkeys are part of a flock that live in our neighborhood in Woburn Massachusetts.

#WorldWildlifeDay

We have a lot of wildlife in our suburban Boston neighborhood and the turkeys are particularly grand to see.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Early prenatal care declines across US, reversing years of progress • Michigan Advance Nearly a quarter of pregnant women aren’t getting prenatal care in the early stages of pregnancy, according to a new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The share of pre...

Early prenatal care declines across US, reversing years of progress michiganadvance.com/2026/03/02/r...

From @stateline.org

Wow

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Chip in! Show your support with a contribution.

This seems like a good time to suggest folks help out Texas Democratic candidates.

secure.actblue.com/donate/tx26h...

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

I wrote up a long analysis of the issue here, for those interested:
reason.com/volokh/2026/...

This DHS memorandum says that the DHS General Counsel's office has adopted a new position that the Fourth Amendment allows entry into the home to make an arrest just based on an administrative warrant.

I would like to see that argument.

documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Donate to Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment, organized by Gene Park Hi, my name is Gene Park. I’m a games critic at The Washington Post, and I’… Gene Park needs your support for Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it.

my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

Ur-Fascism Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

A lot in common: primarily totalitarianism & one leader who must be obeyed. If you look at Umberto Eco's 14 points on Ur-Fascism (NYbooks, reproduced below) who will see plenty of common ground between Hitler's Nazis, the CCP & the current Trump/Musk regime.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

States that give more than they take: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Washington, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, California

These are the only "donor" states, per the Rockefeller Institute of Government(2023). There is a theme.

rockinst.org/issue-areas/...

The Role of State Laws in the Privatization of Police on Campus In this research article, Vanessa Miller examines the state laws that authorize and govern university police at private institutions of higher education and discusses how the rise and expansion of pri...

Thrilled to announce my article with #HarvardEdReview was published last month and is now available online!

Looking forward to discussing with my "Police, Crime, and Education" seminar students in the spring.

www.harvardeducationalreview.org/content/95/3...

#giftarticle

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Since the subsidies were first expanded in 2021, allowing more people to qualify and lowering their payments, millions of Americans have benefited. A record 24 million people enrolled in Obamacare for 2025, with a vast majority receiving some tax credits. Many were self-employed or worked for small businesses that did not offer health insurance.

Rather than using the passive voice ("subsidies were first expanded") in paragraph 3, it would have been helpful to remind readers that Congressional Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan in 2021, which expanded these subsidies, without a single Republican vote.

How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.

Musk let DOGE run roughshod over Social Security at the expense of functionality and consumer services. If he ran his companies this carelessly and stupidly, he wouldn’t be rich. He’d be a bankrupt failure. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4pheQks

31 Atlantic Stories You Might Have Missed An assortment of articles about a journey to Mark Twain’s Paris, what parents of boys should know, obtaining the perfect suit, and more.

In case you’re settling into this winter lamenting not having read everything The Atlantic has published this year, you’re in luck. The Atlantic managing editor @bhumikatharoor.bsky.social created a list of stories you may have missed that are worth your time. See the full list:

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The post office changed their postmark rules, potentially disqualifying votes in upcoming elections.

Postmarks indicate when the USPS processed mail now, not when you dropped it off.

To ensure a same-day postmark, you must visit a post office and ask for a manual stamp.

Are these the files you boxed up from the Biden era probe into Epstein co-conspirators and shipped off to DC after you killed the investigation and fired the prosecutors? You’ve had these since January. I call BS.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

AI Isn’t the Main Problem—It Just Shows Us What That Problem Is Students are chasing points and grades because that’s what the education system prioritizes, but we can guide them to focus on learning.

Rablin shares *4* ways to center learning more prominently in your classroom (without entirely revamping your grading system).

“You can start these changes tomorrow without overburdening yourself.”

edut.to/48RbQow

5/5 #EduSky

Permafrost emissions are on track to overtake India’s human emissions Arctic Amplification, driving temperature increases up to 4x faster than the rest of the world, is melting Permafrost at alarming rates that will soon see it’s emissions eclipse even large countries.

Years back I worked on an active plan to mitigate permafrost emissions by planting trees and bushes to not only capture more CO2, but to help oxidise the methane.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/permafrost...

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.

www.nola.com/news/educati...

In YouGov polling this week, less than half of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump. www.ms.now/opinion/poll...

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

Today marks six months since nearly 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities were fired without cause.

If you do nothing else today, please read and *share* this recent article outlining what this year, mostly without us, has looked like at #NEH.

archived: archive.is/LgVyh

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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.

Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!

[BIG ASS THREAD]

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.