I’ve been a pbs member on and off over the years, just re-upped with my local station after a few years off. I had to scroll down the menu of t-shirts to find the pass option for my member gift, but it’s there! My discretionary giving has definitely veered toward journalism lately.
i just did this for $10/month. worth every penny.
Did you know that for $5/month, you can get PBS Passport, a service that unlocks the vastness of the @pbs.org libraries?
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
Feed your mind while you help PBS stay on the air.
July 19, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I’ve been a pbs member on and off over the years, just re-upped with my local station after a few years off. I had to scroll down the menu of t-shirts to find the pass option for my member gift, but it’s there! My discretionary giving has definitely veered toward journalism lately.
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
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This came to mind after I saw this video. I admit: I wouldn't have known this band was AI-generated unless someone told me. Very scary time for musicians.
IG danmanganmusic
IG danmanganmusic
July 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This came to mind after I saw this video. I admit: I wouldn't have known this band was AI-generated unless someone told me. Very scary time for musicians.
IG danmanganmusic
IG danmanganmusic
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June 7, 2025
What I have been quietly working on for a year:
What I have been quietly working on for a year:
June 7, 2025
In April, John Phelan, the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
June 7, 2025
What I have been quietly working on for a year:
What I have been quietly working on for a year:
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As an indication of the upside-down we are now living in, a Ukrainian friend who lives in Kyiv under the daily threat of aerial bombardment reached out to me today:
“Are you doing OK? I’ve been following the news about American universities and it sounds bad.” 🙃
“Are you doing OK? I’ve been following the news about American universities and it sounds bad.” 🙃
June 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As an indication of the upside-down we are now living in, a Ukrainian friend who lives in Kyiv under the daily threat of aerial bombardment reached out to me today:
“Are you doing OK? I’ve been following the news about American universities and it sounds bad.” 🙃
“Are you doing OK? I’ve been following the news about American universities and it sounds bad.” 🙃
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This is absolutely terrible news.
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
Moderna withdraws application for COVID-flu combination vaccine
Moderna said on Wednesday it has withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and COVID combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.reuters.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is absolutely terrible news.
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately.
h/t @merz.bsky.social
Based on my observations, gen NeoX has arrived. Authenticity rules.
May 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Based on my observations, gen NeoX has arrived. Authenticity rules.
Reposted by Jess Graber
Reposted by Jess Graber
We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We are living in one of the few times in human history where you can buy a loaf of bread and if it says it’s made with wheat flour and salt and yeast and water and nothing else, it’s probably made from just those ingredients, and some people want to END this.
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A very worthwhile Fahrenthold story on what Trump’s cuts are doing to food banks and the communities that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...
After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp (Gift Article)
In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A very worthwhile Fahrenthold story on what Trump’s cuts are doing to food banks and the communities that depend on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...
Reposted by Jess Graber
Reposted by Jess Graber
A plantation museum focused on the truths of slavery had two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’
Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery
Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A plantation museum focused on the truths of slavery had two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’
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“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help.
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."
-Pope Francis
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Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
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NEW: I confirmed w/ CBP that the email @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social receive telling her to self-deport is real, not a scam. It's also is very weird and likely causing fear and chaos. I spoke w/ Micheroni—a US citizen and immigration attorney—about her experience. www.wired.com/story/homela...
Homeland Security Email Tells a US Citizen to 'Immediately' Self-Deport
An email sent by the Department of Homeland Security instructs people in the US on a temporary legal status to leave the country. But who the email actually applies to—and who actually received it—is ...
www.wired.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
NEW: I confirmed w/ CBP that the email @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social receive telling her to self-deport is real, not a scam. It's also is very weird and likely causing fear and chaos. I spoke w/ Micheroni—a US citizen and immigration attorney—about her experience. www.wired.com/story/homela...
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Great article on how the world checked Trump- thru the bond market…. deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes
deanblundell.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great article on how the world checked Trump- thru the bond market…. deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...
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I know this is a long shot, but if you or someone you know are attending the protest in Sackets Harbor today, please get in touch. marisakabas.04 on Signal.
The Mayor of Sackets Harbor has declared a state of emergency for the town in anticipation of protests set to start at 2pm today. He’s sending multiple police forces to “maintain peace” as locals rally in support of the family abducted by ICE.
Sackets Harbor declares state of emergency ahead of protests
SACKETS HARBOR, N.Y. (WWTI) – The Village of Sackets Harbor has declared a state of emergency ahead of the weekend. According to the Watertown Daily Times, Mayor Alex Morgia declared it in an…
www.localsyr.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I know this is a long shot, but if you or someone you know are attending the protest in Sackets Harbor today, please get in touch. marisakabas.04 on Signal.
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A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY
The family has been transferred out of New York state.
www.syracuse.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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Here it is. The Supreme Court kneecaping the use of the Judiciary to hold the Trump administration accountable and slow down unconstitutional impoundment. The obvious implication here is that in a direct impoundment case they will follow through on strong form unitary executive theory and back it.
NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled.
Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Here it is. The Supreme Court kneecaping the use of the Judiciary to hold the Trump administration accountable and slow down unconstitutional impoundment. The obvious implication here is that in a direct impoundment case they will follow through on strong form unitary executive theory and back it.
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I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
jessica.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.
She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.
This is what bans do.