“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
28.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 387 🔁 304 💬 18 📌 64
“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
28.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 387 🔁 304 💬 18 📌 64The embedded quote from Summers reads like a threat
27.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0there's a meta tag from 2014 on that site, so not even the Ancient Internet
27.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the people yearn for the Old Internet
27.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
“At present the Detroit three are on course to become niche manufacturers on the global stage,” he wrote. “Simple extrapolation . . . says the domestic American industry is entirely gone before 2050.”
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Interesting strategy here: what we know from study of authoritarian regimes is that members of the secret police respond to the material incentives. If you make credible commitments to weakening those incentives (abolish ICE, blocking other career pathways) it could discourage recruitment.
26.02.2026 18:13 — 👍 332 🔁 89 💬 7 📌 1
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch
Her in the library
DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees
Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"
26.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 5641 🔁 2115 💬 43 📌 110
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Brazil “sentenced the Brazão brothers to 76 years each in prison for plotting to assassinate Franco because they feared she and her allies in the Socialism and Liberty Party would be an impediment to their illegal scheme that involved taking public lands to develop private real estate projects.”
26.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
can’t decide which is funnier:
”Today it is snowballs. Tomorrow it could be rocks, bottles, or worse” - from the police union
Or “the behavior depicted is disgraceful, and it is criminal” - from the police commissioner
An entire profession just overrun by the whiniest babies imaginable
the more videos you watch of this ”attack” the funnier the reporting is
25.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."
If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...
shame is back on the menu boys
25.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 4146 🔁 575 💬 109 📌 13good. now more
25.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"And what could be more business-friendly than handing over billions of dollars of money from hard working Indianans as well as hundreds of acres of real estate to billionaire football team owners? I can almost feel the free market oozing over me."
25.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My great friend Shawn Gude has been working on a new biography of Eugene Debs for years now and I'm so excited to share it is now available for pre-order!!! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
25.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 3
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.
This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Wrote a piece about many looking at the Epstein case all wrong: He's not the thing that connects a network of rich and powerful men; he's the lens that shows us how they were already connected.
newrepublic.com/article/2068...
Not lost on me that a piece ostensibly about rising antisemitism in the Democratic Party focuses almost entirely on Zohran Mamdani, Uncommitted, AOC and Mejia and not, like, the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
24.02.2026 20:38 — 👍 2282 🔁 501 💬 22 📌 9thank you for this tip! i needed some new work music today... the tiny desk was excellent
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Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.
If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.
Grad students, postdocs, and junior faculty: it’s the 7th annual American Political Economy Summer Academy May 31-June 1. Free travel and lodging (“it’s free real estate”)
www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/events/summe...
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
21.02.2026 03:45 — 👍 10484 🔁 2822 💬 222 📌 151This guy gets it.
23.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 23563 🔁 5741 💬 452 📌 803world-historical levels of wholesomeness
23.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 1021 🔁 110 💬 12 📌 1Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.
23.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 115 🔁 70 💬 1 📌 2I feel like there’s a cycle where the thing is invented and everyone’s like “eat shit there’s nothing you can do about it” and once that proves not to be the case we get a “why won’t you get on board, everyone has to” and then it’s “actually this whole thing is a flop.”
23.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 389 🔁 105 💬 8 📌 2
“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”
“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”
