It's fascinating how the dismantling of a genuine mass media and the recreation of premodern purely person-to-person information networks via social media has transformed Americans back into medieval villagers in the span of about a decade.

Horrifying. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/u...

Missouri Man Executed After Long Fight for Exoneration

Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of a 1998 murder in suburban St. Louis, maintained he was innocent. But the courts and the governor were not persuaded.

it wasn't just right-wing media outlets that were pushing the CRIME WAVE narrative. it was everywhere, framed as a "top concern of voters" or whatever

I still vote for Van Jones’ reaction after first address to Congress as the absolute 100/100 on this scale

i wrote about this for my column on tuesday but i think we ought to think of policies restricting gender affirming care as explicitly aimed at expelling a disfavored population from the state in question www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/b...

For L.G.B.T.Q. People, Moving to Friendlier States Comes With a Cost

Laws targeting gender-affirming care have uprooted thousands. But places that are more supportive can also be more expensive.

This is CNN report about an Israeli detention center is an actual fucking nightmare. Amputations, rotting wounds. Open torture and dehumanization www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/m...

A stunning statement from the American Association of University Professors, Barnard and Columbia Chapters. “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to fight to reclaim our university.” drive.google.com/file/d/1rciM...

reading this jennifer burns profile of milton friedman and the entire section on the civil rights act is infuriating. friedman comes across as smug, blinkered and willfully ignorant of the actual state of the jim crowd south, to say nothing of its history. here, he is speaking out against the act

I've said and written for going on 10 years now that the two things at the heart of campus and broader speech discourse are disdain for trans people and belief in the validity of race-IQ discourse. The former is out in the open now; we'll probably be seeing more of the latter now too.

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This is the subtext to the great resegregation, an unyielding belief in the fiction of race that renders the minimal presence of non white people in the upper echelons of American society an injustice that must be rectified www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal

Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

Really seems like defending Trump is, in fact, not the last thing he wants to do