Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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I’m not against time zones or daylight saving time per se, but try having an online meditation group between the US and the UK/Ireland during the three-week period every spring and fall when their daylight saving times are different and you really will go effing insane.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Amen to @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, who unloads on my least favorite genre: people who hate & want to defeat Democrats ... giving Democrats strategic advice.

Don't Take Advice From Your Enemies

The most useless genre on earth.

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The trains didn’t even actually run on time.

Russ@russ41.bsky.social · last mo.

Fascism is built upon many load-bearing lies, but one of the most egregious is the claim of competence and fiscal responsibility. They don't fucking know how to govern; never have, never will.

Lots of valid criticism of the “let’s run everything like a business” but also what these guys really, really can’t understand is that educating a child is orders of magnitude more difficult than delivering a package.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

As you said—market logics only. Remember when he was pitching schools with the tagline that “the child will be the customer” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

DO NOT REFLECT AT THE REFLECTING POOL

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · last mo.

So no thinking about things while looking at the water, what’s that called again?

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · last mo.

Private equity is changing youth sports in America with rising costs, fees and concerns over inequality - writes @sindap.bsky.social here. www.ft.com/content/e6be...

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

The world's wealthiest man continues to post open racism endorsing pogroms

1/ The purpose of green industrial policy has inverted. It used to pay for a public good: clean energy that cost more, benefiting everyone. Now it captures advantages a country keeps for itself. That shift, from a shared cost to a prize seized, is the story of the transition.

One of my standard jokes for explaining how billionaires are different from the rest of us: You know the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars? About a billion dollars!

The Best Captain@thebestcapt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reg peeps can’t even comprehend millions let alone billions…we’re just like..ok, can we get lettuce for less than $3? Sad.

A, this is completely nutso. B, YOU'RE THE NEW YORK TIMES, GO FIND HIM

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Saturday marked 100 days since Rep. Thomas Kean Jr.’s last public act. The congressman has missed 135 House votes during his absence. During that time his office has released statements, attributed to Kean, indicating he is under medical care for an undisclosed health condition.

It's an objective fact that Elon Musk is a mass murderer. He intentionally caused the deaths of millions of people. There's no caveats to this, no alternative explanations, no defenses, no missing context; that was the sole reason for doing what he did.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anyway capitalism and feminism are not the same, capital is not feminine in general and management positions are not feminized, but antifeminism sure is a socialism of fools.

this is going to go on all summer, isn't it

elon musk had his brain melted by right wing twitter slop and illegally shut it down. six figure body count plus a new strain of ebola is ravaging africa as we speak. the discourse is about whether they hired enough conservatives to justify not torpedoing the agency. illegally, i might add

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3mo ago

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i have told people i know point blank that musk has hundreds of thousands of deaths on his hands and provided links to reputable sources. i did the same with the CSAM stuff. it deeply frustrates me that they just act like its not real

He doesn't mean they're doing better now. He just means we stopped helping them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Trump: "Under our leadership, 5 million people have been lifted off food stamps just in a short period of time"

ICYMI: my first book, WHEN COMPANIES RULE, will be out in November. It's a gripping 400-year history of super-powerful corporations, and a guide to challenging corporate power today. cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co...

Dr Maha@maharafiatal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Corporate power today is scary, but not new. In WHEN COMPANIES RULE, I recount its 400-year history from the East India Company to Amazon, what motivates the oligarchs who would be kings, and what we can do about them. Out in November, pre-order now: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co...

😳 From an industry book on IP licensing

I wrote in March about the billionaire ownership class’ doomed strategy of trying to attract readers by pivoting right — and who it ends up hurting.

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"So far, the investment has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views." More from @nataliekorach.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/washington...

Let me put it this way. If the US wants the trade deficit as a share of GDP to fall, and the investment share of GDP to rise, the consumption share of GDP has to fall for arithmetic reasons. Amazingly enough, there’s a way to do it that raises aggregate welfare!

Karthik Sankaran@rajakorman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Longtime followers have read my complaining about this in increments of 280-300 characters for about a decade so here it is in 1000 words. www.ft.com/content/631a... American healthcare costs drive global imbalances

the US Treasury's ability to borrow is premised on decades of effective efforts to position the US as a good investment, based on practices and policies and relationships that are being willfully burned to the ground by people who used to whine about deficits www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...

As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices

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