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$446 million of his (sometime) reported net worth of $1 trillion means he’s still only spending 0.0446% of his net worth to try to buy elections. put in more concrete terms: if you had $100, this would be like spending less than 5 cents. now tell me again why i should vote against a wealth tax.

Heckuva a security partner the US has here...

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

How can we ensure access to heritage in the face of conflict? The Sudan Virtual Museum offers virtual access to the Sudan National Museum, displaying the artefacts that were exhibited there before the war #MuseumMonday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Life comes at you fast

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

My newest piece with proud Appalachian organizer Shawna McCown in @convergencemag.com We argue that while data center resistance is winning many of its immediate fights, it can accomplish something bigger: building a multiracial movement of the many. @surj.org j.org @stanfordpress.bsky.social

This fucking site caused so much grief and stress.

this is classic neera in that it’s extremely racist but also substantively incorrect: bin Laden was interviewed repeatedly pre-9/11.

This is the reported $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign students to remain for a couple years in post-graduate employment. The fee would devastate the program, making the US even less desirable as a destination for the world's best and brightest.

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

After a long period of focus on trans people, the Texas GOP now identifies the eradication of all Muslims as a top priority. “Efforts by Republican state leaders to restrict Islamic practice have coincided with a push to expand Christianity’s place in public life.”

Last week I spoke to Omar Compean, the 18-year-old frontman of Houston emo ska band I Hate Myself And I Want To Die. On Sunday, they played their last ever show because Omar's father was arrested by ICE and deported to Mexico. "It basically just all got ripped away from me just in an instant."

It’s extraordinary how anti-immigrant European governments have managed to become “good guys” in U.S. liberal political discourse.

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism

NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.

Thought we could all do with having this ridiculous dog in our timeline :)

Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact.

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

Economist/YouGov poll ask "Should the U.S. arrest Netanyahu if he comes here?" 49% yes 27% no Men: 46% yes 35% no Women: 52% yes 21% no White: 47% yes 21% no Black: 53% yes 13% no 18-29: 58% yes 17% no yougov.com/en-us/articl...

hell yeah willie www.chron.com/culture/musi...

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Got accepted into this year's Virginia Master Naturalists program! Mondays are going to be: teaching grad class+ undergrad (w 70+ students), then being a student in VA naturalist class :)

Historically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.

This is about creating a permission structure for employing state violence against anyone they choose, by making any perceived deviation from their ideal "normal person" a marker of domestic terrorism that must be destroyed lest it destroy the state.

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

Again Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of terrorism and sedition (before pardoned by Trump) as well as gun crimes and an act targeting a black church, plus garden variety fraud, claims he was given entrance to the UK. Tho his buddy likely snuck across Ireland’s open border.

Good overview of the Far Right actors involved in last month’s pogroms in Belfast. Neo-Nazis, a convicted murderer, a Far Right agitator with potential connections to British intelligence etc None of this is a secret. They’re comfortable enough being out in the open in 2026.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.