The global decline in test scores since ~2012 is highly correlated with smartphone penetration www.generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-...
Atticus Carnell
@atticuscarnell.bsky.social
PhD candidate in political theory @ Princeton, working on communicative respect, democracy, and social theory of media into music, dancing, climbing, and backpacking atticuscarnell.com
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
nytimes.com
Pay attention to this. The purpose of these investigations is not just to manufacture evidence to support Trump’s 2020 “voter fraud” accusations, but also to set the stage for another round of efforts to suppress votes and delegitimize election results in 2026 (which the GOP is likely to lose).
Doug Bock Clark@dougbockclark.bsky.social · 8mo ago1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
🧵 1/4 Here's the first frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting in MN today x.com/adamscochran.... It shows that the victim was filming with his camera before being tackled and roughed up by police.
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Witnesses are being taken to Whipple. From a lawyer friend: “They’re trying to keep local PD and BCA from getting statements and confiscating any phones with video.”
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
wsj.com
trump fires* lisa cook *claims to have fired any news outlet saying otherwise is manufacturing consent 😇
ICE doesn't have legal authority to impose new rules on congressional visits, so it can't be that they did so. this framing doesn't even try to be *agnostic* about the legal issues here. it just treats it as if ICE can unilaterally decide to do this. can't say I'm surprised, though.
Michael Gold@migold.bsky.social · last yr.ICE's new guidelines would let officials deny or terminate a congressional visit if they "deem it appropriate." They also specify that Congress can't make unannounced visits to field offices, even as detained immigrants are sometimes held in them for days. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...
Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool. - A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang. - A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.
“If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”
"Institutions, inside & outside higher ed, might want to think carefully about their stance of self-protective silence in the face of a government that covets the unchecked power of authoritarianism. Anything could be the next Columbia in the ongoing quest to scare us all straight."
Hank Reichman@hankreichman.bsky.social · 2y ago". . . it is not, in any real sense, about Columbia. Neither is it about antisemitism or free speech. It is not even at its root about education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
This was earlier today. Just now, DOJ has ordered the prosecution of Adams to be dropped
Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social · 2y agoAdams bars staff from criticizing Trump and warns them not to interfere with ICE operations at meeting this morning, per @katiehonan.bsky.social
No one elected Elon Musk. As Donald Trump allows Musk to access people’s personal information and shut down government funding, Republicans in Washington will also own the consequences. We must do everything in our power to push back and protect people from harm.
i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct
See if you’re not a healthcare company and you do this they call it “kidnapping”
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoAcadia Healthcare, one of the largest chains of psychiatric hospitals in the U.S., is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a New York Times investigation found. It has detained patients even when it was not medically necessary.
Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).
HIV ‘vaccine’ could be made for just $40 a year for every patient
Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say
theguardian.com