Zander Furnas
@alexanderfurnas.com
Research Assistant Professor | Politics & Computational Social Science | Northwestern University, Center for Science of Science and Innovation | Dad & Wife Guy | Not Ok | Sorry for the Swears | #goblue
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Solar is like 1000x better. Heat pumps, batteries and wind turbines too. Bioplastics have gone from a lab experiment to commonplace. High kW EV chargers are everywhere. The internet is much faster and available nearly everywhere too (though I guess we can all argue if this is truly "better").
TVs are better computers are better food is better cars are better medicine is better
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 19h agoSo this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
yeah dude of course it will be with the cooperation of the DOJ that’s why Trump wants his personal attorney running it!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
Thank goodness Article I isn't alive to see this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
I’m showing my age here, but when I’m buying weapons grade plutonium that’s more of a “on the computer” purchase. It feels weird buying it on my phone!
This is how Australian people pronounce the word “no”
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 7d agoNauru officially changes name to Naoero
None of those territories committed treason and violently rejected their American citizenship while declaring themselves to be outside the scope of the Constitution. That cannot be said for Griffin Morgan’s home state.
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
SHOOT IT INTO MY VEINS
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5d agoI remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
To paraphrase @opinionhaver.bsky.social: turns out the inefficiencies were load-bearing!
Zander Furnas@alexanderfurnas.com · 5d agogotta be a monopoly like Bell to fund basic research We don't have any more Bell Labs waiting in the wings
yeah this is my main thing i think they should be doing
Ami Fields-Meyer@fieldsmeyer.com · 5d agoLaunch the truth + accountability effort. Announce we’re making lists. Put on notice frontline ICE agents, bureaucrats carrying out illegal/unconst acts, political leadership, DOJ folks spinning up initiatives to shield Trump + allies from tax liability, people facilitating hiss family enrichment.
*everyplace* is trying to build private-sector ties fast there isn't nearly enough private sector appetite to fund science for it to work
Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 5d agoCU Boulder draws 70 percent of its research dollars from government. After federal cuts, the Boulder campus expects more than $60 million less for research — and is trying to build private-sector ties fast. Read what the pivot could mean. https://chroni.cl/4pOqrct
The thing I can't really figure out about Lab Leak Theory is like... so what if it were true? Like is the idea that we could sue China for damages? That's not gonna work. It wouldn't really change anything both to how we responded to Covid and how we act going forward.
