Correct, Andy. Paperwork LEGALLY makes you American.
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Correct, Andy. Paperwork LEGALLY makes you American.
I'm sensing skepticism
In Lebanon, Israel seems to be following the same logic it deployed in Gaza: emptying out entire areas through what amounts to ethnic cleansing.
@joelleabirached.bsky.social writes from Beirut as bombs rain down once again:
Reminder that the Pentagon press corps is a bunch of online ideological cronies like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. Now, they won't even allow neutral photographers.
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Six years ago today, WHO declared COVID a global pandemic, the NBA suspended its season, Tom Hanks tested positive, and Trump announced a U.S. travel ban
New: "Trump Eradicates Critical Oversight as he Fires More Inspectors General than All Other U.S. Presidents Combined"
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I think Pete Hegseth just found his new war planner
Beginning to think that right wing defenses of free speech and opposition to cancel culture might not have been completely sincere
Republicans can’t be doing this when they’re walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they don’t want the Mad King to yell at them bsky.app/profile/tito...
You think you are hurting at the pump? Spare a moment to remember those with private planes.
Trump's war with Iran is driving up gas prices. Americans shouldn't be stuck paying the bill for his bad decisions - we need to suspend the federal gas tax and bring relief at the pump NOW. -Mark Kelly Calls to Suspend 18.4C Gas Tax After Prices Rise 35C in a Week
This one takes the cake
After watching this shit show in Iran can we now agree that maybe having academics isn’t a bad thing?
If you find the assault on USAID and accountability infuriating, please join me today at 4.30 EST as I interview the former Inspector General of USAID, Paul Martin today, either in person (in Ann Arbor) or live streaming. Details:
fordschool.umich.edu/event/2026/t...
His one weird trick: Bribing corrupt public officials:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
Looking forward to the era of AI social science: the data is AI-generated, the paper is written by AI, the paper is reviewed by AI, and summarized for students and researchers by AI.
it is incredible how this worldview identifies clearly enumerated Congressional powers - the power to declare war! - are deemed to be actually shared with the President, while a whole host of unspecified powers are granted to the President, and the President alone.
Roberts Courts legacy is to make it harder for ordinary people to engage in the most basic form of participation (voting), for that participation to matter (letting gerrymandering stand), while removing any constraints from billionaire influence on politics
It's simple. Just announce the war is over every morning before the stock market opens. Then right after it closes double down with threats of an even bigger, longer war.
Just do this every day forever. The war and the market siloed off in two alternating realities that never meet.
The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.
Scenes from a personalist regime: heel gap edition
I am always glad to see Black women being centered in our own stories about the workforce and the workplace.
One thing I want to note is that across multiple sectors, the net employment loss Black women have experienced is closer to 216,000 from 2024-2025 according to @epi.org.
Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see
He also recently posted in support of President Trump's ruling that CO2 should not be considered a danger to human health and that CO2 is good for plants.
He concludes that this is a purely political discussion.
rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/ridley-co2...
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New email to Director Bhattacharya about a new Scientific Freedom lecture to be given my Matt Ridley on The Search for the Origin of COVID-19.
Ridley is a British scientist and journalist who published a book in 2022 on the subject.
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For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:
A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.
Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
includes deceased Americans
Health plan disenrollment following MOUD initiation "was associated with a 51% and 56% increase in the hazards of all-cause mortality and overdose mortality"
Relevant finding as states work to operationalize Medicaid work requirement exemptions for enrollees with substance use disorder.
Damn: this is quite the thread from a policymaker with first-hand knowledge of the Trump admin's thinking (and lack thereof) when it comes to Iran.
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.