“I just cannot use my immense powers because you see I have no spine.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Imagine treating Scott Bessent as an expert on economics. Or anything. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Trump’s trade policies may lack logic, but they also reflect a serious paradigm shift

Seismic shift in economic thinking is under way in U.S. in response to the excesses and imbalances wrought by globalization

theglobeandmail.com

Strange how the founding fathers wanted Senators to die in office. Seems like a strange rule. Why not let them resign when they get old?

Maybe it is just me but I can’t get too upset when a company that should be broken up after years of unfair trade practices complains about unfair competition

Paresh Dave@peard33.bsky.social · 4w ago

OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

In other news, you can’t end what never started

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "The Cease Fire is OVER!"

I think he means he’ll be in prison on the moon.

Forbes@forbes.com · 4w ago

The billionaire CEO said the company planned to land astronauts back on the moon in the next few years, before eventually building a permanent “metropolis” on its surface.”

Doug hopes becoming Prime Minister of Canada will finally make him Mayor of Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Alberta, Ontario propose new pipeline in bid to boost Canada’s energy independence

Northern Shield Energy Corridor would carry crude oil across four provinces and end in Sarnia, Ont.

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Posted outside a Vermont elementary school. Can’t decide if the best joke is political or metaphysical.

John Roberts’ Unitary Intellect Theory for academia: Nothing I write or say in my role as philosopher can be wrong and I can fire reviewer two whenever I like.

John Roberts is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Yes!

This was from start to finish a dispiriting read. Happy Sunday! paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-will-...

What Will AI Do To Our Minds?

Cognitive damage, not productivity gains, may be the most important consequence

paulkrugman.substack.com

Maybe Yale could hire someone who knows that Trump breaks every deal he makes. Like…anyone who has been paying attention

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last mo.

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation

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The dogma that experts ought to know stuff is the ultimate epistemic injustice. inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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“They are killing the ducks! The MAGA are killing the ducks!”

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

Washington's Department of Energy and the Environment is investigating the deaths of three ducks found near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as a wildlife rehab group plans daily checks on the birds dwelling in the algae-bloom-filled water.

What happened to being serious? Seems like that’s not a thing anymore

Americans are going to be so surprised when they find out who made Trump President

Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎@drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

US officials downplay text of the Iran agreement, saying it doesn’t account for back-channel commitments | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

Right! That’s almost as bad as getting caught on tape boasting about sexual assaults

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If J.D. Vance runs for President in 2028, his position in January 2026 to invoke the Insurrection Act against peaceful protestors in Minneapolis is going to garner significant attention: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

To be honest, it’s surprising someone who lost money owning a casino couldn’t win a war in the Middle East.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“He accepted the rose-colored assessment .. that the .. regime would quickly fall. He failed to plan for Iran’s obvious ability to close the Strait .. He made threats about destroying Iranian civilization that succeeded only in diminishing America’s moral standing.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

Fascists are cute when they try to shift blame to others. Scharf could quit and have a press conference if he really cared about his reputation.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.

Port-a-potty. Farragut Square, Washington, DC. June 14, 2026.

This story is also playing out in Canada’s universities

Ann-Sophie Barwich@smellosopher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Consider the incentives for senior management. Do they really want to make it clear how close their university is to the edge, at least before they can move on to a safer job elsewhere or retire?" www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...

I’m so glad that basket game is done. Hopefully the ball tournie will end soon and we can go back to dreading the end times together

Quine was right about most things

Written by Uju ✍🏽@writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's a hill you'll die on?

Corruption. They are all grifters

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2mo ago

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

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We are delighted to announce that HOPOS will become a publication of Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org as of 2027. All publications starting with vol. 17 will be open access. It is an honor to join the Cambridge family of journals. #HOPOS #HPS #philsky #philosophy #histsci