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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2h

Low income people receiving subsidies to buy health insurance are a 'boondoggle', Speaker Johnson says; ignoring the fact that the tax credit for employer insurance is ten times larger
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Mike Johnson slams Obamacare funds as a 'boondoggle' as shutdown drags on

Johnson also addressed conservative calls to repeal Obamacare, whose enhanced tax credits form the main dispute between the two parties that led to the funding impasse.

www.nbcnews.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

There is a lot of latent strength in American democracy. Look for it in priests and frogs defying ICE, but also look for it in the bureaucracies that decide what goes on video screens in airports.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2h

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2h

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

Odds they relocate Scion, the Trump hotel brand of 2017 that launched in … Cleveland … Mississippi?

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3h

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 9h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2h

I agree, it’s what Politico does, but do hope you didn’t mean it as a compliment.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

The problem is that, since about 2010, innovation that helps me has come from outside “Tech” while
“Tech” has been built around enshittification. I want 2025 solar and battery trajectories but 2010 internet.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 1d

Lot of people should read this exhaustive list of life improvements from the 90s: gwern.net/improvement

My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

gwern.net

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

Do we have even a few weeks of trusting such clips before we all assume they are AI?

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

That airstrip in the middle of Big Cypress is a cursed place.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

bit.ly

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

“Plan rejected by MIT” is not exactly catnip to ambitious boards/presidents.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3h

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 9h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, though all this executive aggrandizement depends on very fragile legislative and judicial support so don’t bet on the story being the same in 1, 3, 5 years. (That doesn’t mean a good outcome, we could revert to localized autocracy in the Jim Crow model)

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3h

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 9h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

Public health advocates and scholars are often reluctant to accept how much disgust, pride, and other emotions (purity, eugenics, suicide) shape understanding of health.

Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 4h

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3h

I read Chicago papers 25 years ago. Bought and read both today. Sun Times + Tribune were as thick as a bad S-T then. Both today were good on coverage of the local situation. Trib editorials were still John Birch. Net: Trib’s a zombie, with a few good local reporters; S-T was a nice surprise.

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Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 4h

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB:
dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 4h

AI’s ability to “provide an advanced form of template matching” is why it’s death to pedagogical techniques that ask students to do templated work as part of skills development (papers, think pieces, etc). Do we give up, assuming the skills won’t be needed, and if not how do we teach skills now?

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 5h

Machine learning in my field:
-does this wiggle match approximately wiggle from a known earthquake or is it from some other source?
-does this receiver function meet a particular set of "good" receiver functions?

Basically an advanced form of template matching.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 5h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 5h

Machine learning in my field:
-does this wiggle match approximately wiggle from a known earthquake or is it from some other source?
-does this receiver function meet a particular set of "good" receiver functions?

Basically an advanced form of template matching.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

bit.ly

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

“conservative women tend to be gender-conscious political actors who may organize as, and speak for, women, but shun feminism.”

Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 16h

"Is There a Conservative Feminism? An Empirical Account" by Ronnee Schreiber.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 15h

I think we call this grassroots resistance (from the print trib)

“Chicago aldermen have traditionally measured success by potholes filled, block party bounce houses delivered, votes counted. But with President Donald Trump’s deportation blitz in full swing, some are adding once unimaginable duties: getting tear-gassed and handcuffed, organizing legions of volunteers, leading local patrols and standing guard near elementary schools.”

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

Nobel-adjacent prize committee GETS IT RIGHT

Joel Mokyr - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 16h

"Is There a Conservative Feminism? An Empirical Account" by Ronnee Schreiber.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

I like this phrasing

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16h

Superb & eviscerating take on the situation at CBS by John Oliver and @lastweektonight.com. As I’ve noted, the new billionaire owners create a mirrortocracy, pretend it’s a meritocracy & hire a mediocrity to get there. But it is not about innovating & supporting journalism.
youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

“when people say that it is the job of college professors to keep students engaged but that we can also not ban devices, I want to sigh performatively—how, exactly, am I supposed to keep them hooked when *Hollywood* can’t keep them hooked?”

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16h

Superb & eviscerating take on the situation at CBS by John Oliver and @lastweektonight.com. As I’ve noted, the new billionaire owners create a mirrortocracy, pretend it’s a meritocracy & hire a mediocrity to get there. But it is not about innovating & supporting journalism.
youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtu.be

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 16h

That and the breakdown of other civil society organizations from unions to Elks to bar associations that allowed information to flow in different patterns across cleavages (oh dear, after my whole grad school training was about how to critique Putnam and Skocpol)

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 17h

This excellent story raises a lot of questions but I think the key to this guy’s thinking is individual responsibility- focus on food, where there is scope to blame individuals, and talk of purity, to he exclusion of good science and public efforts.

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous

After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...

www.propublica.org

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 20h

"Advocates say that military households are particularly hard hit during shutdowns bc many military spouses work for the fed. govt, & so both breadwinners can be left w/o a paycheck. Military spouses also face high levels of unemployment due to the frequent relocation req'd by the job."

Shutdown Causes Spike in Military Families Using Food Pantries

Trump announced that the government would move funds to pay troops, but many are still worried about the uncertainty.

time.com

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