here in MA people at a cafe were just griping about their first oil deliveries of the year. prices are 74% more expensive than last year.
Ryan Cummings@weakinstrument.bsky.social · 3w ago2/n: Banning diesel exports would *temporarily* provide some price relief for most of the country, but not for New England. Because pipelines don't run that far north, PADD 1A has to import large amounts of diesel, which means it's competing with a (structurally short diesel) Europe for barrels
I don’t like bringing the personal into the posting but if you feel comfortable publicly commenting (nicely, no fed posting) on the “let’s make employers pay 100K for H1-B visas” rule proposed by DHS, I’d appreciate it. My significant other would be effected by this and I love her very much
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"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
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Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito
pass a law that explicitly lists the court’s bad VRA decisions and proclaims them null and no longer valid, makes their dissents valid law, and prescribes penalties to any government official who attempts to implement or enforce said bad law
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is why the Democratic strategy that keeps getting floated of "gerrymander to win enough seats to pass a ban on gerrymandering" is DOA unless we're willing and able to geld the Supreme Court as well.
Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 5mo agoWaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.
a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
Break Up the Supreme Court
The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.
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Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe must break the supreme court
The fact that professors in math, chemistry, and biology are all 80-90% Democrats -- disciplines where the vast majority of research & teaching content is apolitical -- reinforces this point. www.nas.org/wp-content/u... (registration ratios from: www.nas.org/blogs/articl...)
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Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 6mo agoAcademic work can be bad or misconceived or subject to partisan capture, of course, but a field’s misalignment with the political spectrum outside the field isn’t reliable evidence of that.
The Mar 2026 CPI-U sure looks like a blip upward. at least for now (fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAU...) lines shown for some manually chosen breakpoints,
if any of the following were to happen, would it cause congressional republicans to remove trump? which ones, if any? 1. trump does nuclear strike on iran 2. trump does nuclear strike on cuba 3. trump does nuclear strike on denmark or canada
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7mo agoNSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
US not veering into a new, endless war, P̶e̶n̶t̶a̶g̶o̶n̶ my t-shirt says
Reuters@reuters.com · 7mo agoUS not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says reut.rs/4ct4fAd
best comment i've seen so far on how terrible dem leadership is on iran and war www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
another person congressional dems should question at public hearings. especially these private sector fascism enablers - they will look bad and be unable to defend their actions. the goal is to learn and show how bad they are and deter others.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Blackouts, gentrification, Trumpian corruption, Puerto Rican snow-cones, and other stuff you might have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl spectacular. New Racket. theracket.news/p/the-most-a...
The Most American Halftime
Decoding Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl for the haters
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god lataco.com/captive-loti... via www.forever-wars.com/the-war-on-t...
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
www.startribune.com/mn-feds-hara... the complaint includes intense death threats / harassment against an FBI agent's family, which is bad. but the home drive-by harassment sounds identical to ICE/CBP's own intimidation tactics they use against Minneapolis civilians. it's ok when the feds do it?
Abolish state terror, abolish ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
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she was featured as an example of the immigrant american dream, and MN community, and now… representing ICE
@bbtoc.bsky.social · 8mo agooh wow this is pretty sad in light of who she's now working for -- she was interviewed in 2024 -- www.superlawyers.com/articles/min...
there's an interesting implicit assumption about the "don't talk about immigration" moderate Dem strategy, that political opinion change is based on fixed reactions to topics, and thus population opinion shifts based on topic salience (mention frequency in media),
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8mo ago@gelliottmorris.com continues to have been right about immigration as an electoral issue www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
