Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

When you glued on every accessory on the sprue and realize you have to paint them now.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

I have a theory about the general impatience and lack of tolerance people have not only for children, but for any and all habits of others they find annoying. I think it stems from the cultural shift away from public spaces to being home all the time.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 2w ago

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

Every time somebody talks about the "Sea Peoples" and the Bronze Age Collapse, I picture a bunch of parrotheads storming the Mediterranean.

It's a real tell how none of the people complaining "Black actors in Ancient Greece isn't authentic" object to the casting of white northern Europeans.

So, is LEGO basically making Warhammer now?

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Bob Mann@robertmannbooks.com · 4mo ago

Gutter racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

I just read that brownies were invented in Chicago. I have to assume they first called them "deep dish cookies."

If you fill a room with 1,000 people who each earn one dollar a year and one person who earns a million dollars, the median income of that room is $500,000 and everyone in the third and fourth quintile is earning one dollar a year. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Personally, I think people who are between the third and fourth quintile of income-earners in California should probably pay some income tax.

a 2028 campaign ad where the average american voter is represented as the guy from memento but all the tattoos are like “every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east“ or “trump was president during covid”

People aren't wrong to compare the Trump era to the Nazis, but what worries me is how much it's like the Soviets: Pretending everything is working right and going great when it's all really falling apart, and marginalizing anyone who dares speaks the truth. When is our Chernobyl coming?

Make all sports betting like the OTB.

BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL@edsbs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sports gambling should be legal but you should have to go to an actual building to do it and it should be so off-putting and sad you’ll never want to do it again

I feel like a lot of Americans haven't noticed yet, but Florida is just a full-on fascist state at this point.

Peter Montgomery@petemontdc.com · 5mo ago

More freedoming from Florida's fashy Republicans www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

I have to admit that I was not feeling much hope for Sonny Burton, so this is an amazing relief. We at @uscedp.bsky.social are still new as a public-facing organization, and seeing thousands and thousands of people join this effort was more than we hoped for. Thank you. www.waff.com/2026/03/10/g...

Gov. Ivey commutes Charles “Sonny” Burton’s death sentence

For just the second time, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has used her powers to order the commutation of a prisoner’s death sentence.

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” -Dwight Eisenhower 1953

Kristi Noem's career lasted about as long as Cricket did.

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

For the record I think the notion that people should not yell at the President during the SOTU is antiquated and we should do away with it. Watch how Parliaments worldwide behave during question time.

As much as I honor the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, it's a HUGE problem that we don't see the same rage and awareness when Border Patrol murders a non-white, non-citizen. Whatever you think of undocumented immigration, it is not punishable by death. This is murder, plain and simple.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 5mo ago

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

I'm trying to imagine what portion of the American population is NOT a second-, third-, or fourth-generation immigrant. I guarantee we've never had a President who met that standard.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Black History: Forty Years After Supreme Court Upheld ​“Death Qualification” of Juries, Data Consistently Shows Disproportionate Racial Exclusion #deathpenalty #racialjustice deathpenaltyinfo.org/black-histor...

Black History: Forty Years After Supreme Court Upheld “Death Qualification” of Juries, Data Consistently Shows Disproportionate Racial Exclusion | Death Penalty Information Center

The Constitution man­dates that juries be drawn from a ​“fair cross-sec­tion” of the com­mu­ni­ty. Yet pub­lic opin­ion polls show that a sub­stan­tial...

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There are a LOT of reasons why that "I think of horses" ai boosterism thing is bad. In part because it's entirely ignorant of history, horses, human's relationship with them, etc. And also it's entirely ignorant of the history of coaching, the electric engine, the combustion engine, and oil.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Investigative Post@ipostnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Breaking: A blind Burmese refugee named Nurul Shah Alam has been missing since Thurs. after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a Tim Hortons, leaving him to find his own way home. His family & lawyers weren't notified. They're seeking help to find him. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/24/b...

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 5mo ago

www.newsobserver.com/article31480...

Two feet of snow on the ground and I have to dig a path to the back corner of the yard so this princess can poop.

We keep getting film adaptations of The Iliad. When will we get a Hollywood blockbuster adaptation of The Táin, Ireland's great epic where warrior queen Medb invades Ulster to steal a really great bull?

that’s right

David Noll@david.noll.org · 6mo ago

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.