Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦

This has all become so normalised and yet... this is not normal.

Rather than accept responsibility for elevating MAGA/MAHA, Princeton laptop class professors are here to tell you not to worry about it.

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

We are sensing a pattern

"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

Jay B's buddy, top HHS strategy advisor to RFKjr, and co-author of the Great Barrington Cocktail Napkin, Martin Kulldorff, to give the next Orwellian Prize Lecture at NIH (aka the Scientific Freedom Poetry Slam). You could make this sh*t up, but nobody'd believe it. www.nih.gov/about-nih/ni...

What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Also: NO TRAITORS NO PATHOLOGICAL LIARS NO CONVICTED FELONS NO ADJUDICATED RAPISTS NO PEDOPHILES NO RUSSIAN ASSETS NO ORANGE ATROCITIES NO EPSTEIN/MUSK BUDDIES NO PUTIN PUPPETS NO MAKEUP-WEARING MAN-BABIES NO BLOWHARDS WITH ZERO SELF-AWARENESS BRONZED BRAGGARTS and NO ARROGANT A-HOLES

The fact that we are seeing (way) more earnest news coverage about Kelly Clarkson and that damn $15,000 anamatronic bird than RFK Jr’s unethical hep b vaccine experiment on babies in Africa—that will result in ~500 early deaths—is insane to me. Media should be ashamed of themselves.

I like how his gravied brain got him confused with the guy who died in the car with Princess Diana 29 years ago but now he has to retcon that with some fake explanation and the press has to just pretend like this is normal racism and not Alzheimer's racism.

Yes. I am calling for a purity test. Nothing will matter if we nominate someone who won't: • Attempt aggressive institutional reform (SCOTUS, DC statehood, ICE, etc.) • Hold the criminals of this administration accountable • Rebuild and expand the social democratic institutions Trump tore down

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.

This is what a plutocracy looks like. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller

It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.

OpenAI is announcing the irrationality measure of pi is 2 & Catalan's constant is irrational, among many other results. github.com/openai/math/...

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Plenty going on of course but the admin deciding to accept essentially NO refugees except for thousands of white South Africans is among the most batshit racist things the US government has done in a century

It's pretty appropriate that Trump wants to change the initialism for the names of the Great Lakes from "HOMES" to "SHAME".

Vaccines save lives. Researchers modelling a hypothetical global outbreak of flu found that fast-tracking vaccine development could cut deaths from 58.5m to 23.9m. Boosting confidence in vaccines would reduce the death toll by a further 1.9m. 🧪 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

My kids have measles, I can’t afford gas, I can’t get a mortgage , and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now they’re demolishing the Kennedy Center.

An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House

Ah, now writers of romance novels have suddenly become experts in LLM's and the behavior of complex systems.

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

A new risk for mathematicians: a colleague reports that immediately after they posted an abstract of their upcoming talk online, a student elsewhere used AI to derive proofs of the stated results and then posted it on the arxiv. My colleague hadn't posted to arxiv yet. Scummy. Watch out.

There are an awful lot of accounts here that have suddenly become experts on AI despite having zero training in minds, brains, computers, emergent behavior, software systems, and so forth. And they get really mad when you point out they're talking nonsense.

So much winning with RFK Jr. in charge! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...

So you're just saying we're f*cked, then?

Naked graft, selling out the country. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Lots of people saying this is corrupt; I say let the first stone be cast by those among us who have not had a Russian oligarch attend and pay for our destination wedding. 🙏

The real legacy of 9/11 is what we see happening in the US right now. Organizations purportedly formed to combat terrorism are being used by a demented sociopathic president to terrorize the citizens of the US, and turn the nation into a white supremacist dictatorship.

Honestly, I'd say the most disastrous decisions of Obama and Biden were not really holding anyone accountable for crimes committed under the previous administration. Obama wanted to "turn the page" on Iraq and the financial meltdown while Biden never put any urgency behind the January 6th cases

"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The grifts, scams and corruption are endless. I only limited my list of Trump’s most corrupt acts of 2026 to 75 because I ran out of column space. I had well over 100. Here’s another one.

A veteran "60 Minutes" journalist fired in May said unqualified online personalities have taken over CBS News, and that he was pushed out for refusing White House talking points.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. A disgraceful lie that disrespects the memory of every life stolen on September 11th.

In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.