Tonight the American people sent a clear message - the president must go to jail

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 10h ago

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up? Clear your schedule.

The fact that the main financial backer of the Republican Party gave a Nazi salute on national television and no one cares is one of the amazing aspects of current politics.

Three long-running, gold standard, nonpartisan, publicly available social science surveys are on chopping block: GSS, ANES, & PSID. These surveys are public goods. They help policymakers make better decisions, journalists write evidence-based stories, and academics understand the social world.

US social sciences face existential crisis after NSF cuts

The US National Science Foundation is a major funder of economics and archaeology research but in 2026 awarded no new grants in those disciplines.

nature.com

Just had a similar conversation with JEPP’s Berthold Rittberger. We must get serious about the attentional externalities of submissions. I’d favor an ORCID-based cap of three submissions per year, which would force fewer and better papers. If top-50 journal editors got on board, it could happen :)

(Stares in "Lady Professor" who is judged on these criteria daily...)

Thankful Musgrave 🦃🥧@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the future, professors will be judged not by output but by their ability to care and nurture This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters

In the future, professors will be judged not by output but by their ability to care and nurture This will be deeply unpopular in some quarters

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 2d ago

And where will new professors come from without RAs. But clearly our institutions consider professors a nuisance and find this development a welcome excuse to stop pretending to care about that

📢 I am excited to share that my paper "Studying Historical International Orders through System Encounters" has just been published in @risjnl.bsky.social @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org! #HistIR doi.org/10.1017/S026... A brief 🧵:

Studying historical international orders through system encounters | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Studying historical international orders through system encounters

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"The U.S. proposal: a quick resumption of russian natural-gas sales to Europe via Ukrainian pipelines, with an American company acting as an intermediary and money going to an escrow account" How about you fck off weasels? www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Exclusive | U.S. Pushes to Restore Russian Gas Sales to Europe Via Ukraine

The idea is intended to unlock an energy ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv but it faces resistance in European capitals.

wsj.com

This is what happened to us at UCSD in summer 2025. We received a phone call one morning that the funding for our daughter's spot was gone. The teachers had to tell her that this was going to be her last day at the center.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4d ago

The US Dept. of Education abruptly cut off funding for a Wisconsin program that funds campus childcare centers and covers 75-95% of care costs for student parents at state schools. This will almost certainly force parents (and especially mothers) out of college. civicmedia.us/news/2026/10...

this remains the greatest reddit post of all time

I have been in the US for too long to appreciate how truly ridiculous politics is in this country.

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d ago

Each of the stories behind the state races in the US next week is a perfect mix of fascinating and bonkers

Equally hilarious and educational

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Senate race between Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins gives us good material to illustrate two common problems with men's trousers, which most people miss when shopping. Let me show you. 🧵

Sad. Novaya Gazeta was terrific.

Meduza in English@meduza.io · 5d ago

With Novaya Gazeta closing 33 years after its founding, three former journalists recall a paper that exposed Russian atrocities, mentored young reporters, and lost colleagues to violence. Their memories trace the newspaper’s history — and Russia’s. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

I thought the October surprise was the president being accused of another rape

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5d ago

Allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign secretly worked to recruit a spoiler candidate to help her party win the pivotal Alaska seat—and potentially retake control of the Senate—has become this midterm election’s biggest October surprise. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4yPvMTG

These are the people - folks like the Alliance for Civics in the Academy - that are spending all of the money on hiring in the humanities right now. Not the Left. It's a disaster for humanistic knowledge, aimed to set us back from the massive insights produced by humanists over the last 50 years.

Since we are talking about fugitives from justice, where will Trump, his family, and senior officials run to? Serious question. What's your best guess as to where they will end up?

Someone on this site said the other day that we should treat students' AI use on assignment as fraud, not simply an academic integrity issue. I am strongly in favor of revisiting this idea.

incredible ratio on this one

ian bremmer@ianbremmer.com · last wk.

brazil supreme court decision to seize flavio bolsonaro’s passports immediately after the election looks like political retribution to most brazilians (and to me). rule of law not what it should be here.

@dhnexon.net we need to edit the foreign affairs piece about far-right cooperation to account for *checks notes* hosting defeated allies in exile. This is some neo-medieval bullshit.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost Brazil’s presidential election, left the country for the U.S. after the Brazilian police asked for his passport because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case. nyti.ms/4A0AfnN

What are we? Russia?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Breaking News: Flávio Bolsonaro, who just lost Brazil’s presidential election, left the country for the U.S. after the Brazilian police asked for his passport because he was being investigated in a money-laundering case. nyti.ms/4A0AfnN

Could we slow it down on the news, please? Thx

gotta pump these numbers up

Alex Knapp@thealexknapp.bsky.social · last wk.

More of the world's electricity is now being generated by solar rather than nuclear. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Some context around this, from a markets person. Historically in LatAm, leftist victories have led to sharp losses over the ~3 months after an election where the left wins. Stocks also typically underperformed into those victories. But 3y post-election, returns for leftists have been *higher*.

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · last wk.

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

👇🎯 Again, whatever else you don’t like about universities & think is the problem - too many fancy dorms, too many overpaid professors, too much bloated & overpaid admin, football coach salaries, etc. - is orders of magnitude smaller than the decline in public funding since the 1980s.

Big Frickin' Swede@bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · last wk.

This. And if most Americans weren't aware of this in 2019, I'd guess they're even less so now. Public university students were paying for a third of the cost of their education in 2009, and it was up to half by 2019. 2009 wasn't great compared to the 60s-70s, either. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff

Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

washingtonsun.com

Spent about 3 minutes scrolling on LinkedIn and now I want to throw up

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2w ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

You don't have to pay for electricity when there are constant outages

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