Hard to argue with the first-hand experience of a UC math professor that the system made a bad mistake by banning the use of standardized math tests in admissions. sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...

Opinion: I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math

Since the University of California abandoned the SAT and ACT, thousands of faculty say it’s admitting students who aren’t prepared for the coursework. Will UC listen?

sfstandard.com

You can argue that we need to just take the L and cede freedom of navigation in the Hormuz but the fundamental problem is that a lot of American leadership (distinct from Trump) does not believe that to be an acceptable outcome and thus will opt to continue fighting

A lot of people are able to correctly identify why this war started but that does not give us a path to conflict termination which itself is *extremely* distinct from a theory of victory and also does not account for the inertia behind not wanting to throw in the towel

It's an interesting question, but the thing about Putin's regime is that it's functionally the autocannibalization of an ostensibly "normal" (as much as post-Soviet Russia was ever normal) nation by the security apparatus. In a real sense, the FSB *is* the Deep State that Republicans scream about.

Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · yesterday

I think the fundamental issue here is that the welfare economics of both (a) avoiding catastrophe for Russia's aging population and (b) reintegrating a disgruntled generation of soldiers at the same time are effectively impossible for Russia without prolonged internal fighting over who loses what.

Area man does not realize that Nazis can be anti-West, Commies can be racist, and Islamists can be totalitarian, without also being 'pro-Palestinian'.

Joffrey, First of his name, King of the 7 Kngdms@jetskijerseyboy.bsky.social · 14h ago

If you take a look at this diagram, Hasan Piker is actually closer to Jihadist Fascism than to Communism. That's the Turkish Model being practised in his native Turkey and in Iran

genuinely hard to wrap your head around how productive single industrial facilities can be. the one pictured here produces ~18 million tons of steel a year

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 5h ago

If you're writing and thinking a lot about a new industry it's helpful to have a reference for what other industry looks like

"We're going to alienate so many people, so powerfully"

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16h ago

Not that anything matters anymore, but Oman hosts U.S. forces including USAF air wings alongside allowing us access to naval support facilities at Duqm. Great coalition building Mr. President! Very reassuring to our security partners!

This is the greatest summary of the failed Pivot to Asia I've ever seen. @diplomatofnight.com

once again, essential reading:

Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism - New Politics

La Botz analyzes the pseudo anti-imperialist character of campism and calls for genuine internationalism of workers against imperialism.

newpol.org

waxmonkey@waxmonkey.bsky.social · 23h ago

uh huh

"you know who also rode a bike"

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 7h ago

Holy shit you need to smell this

We’ve been very good. Treats, please

The Administration is acting like this is a story that’s a million times worse than anyone knows and wants it shut down immediately

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 8h ago

The White House is pissed after Senator Jon Ossoff questioned Trump’s relationship with his much younger aide. trib.al/NDDnUUP

the synthesis of this maybe is that Trump is not physically capable of fucking her but they're definitely doing sex stuff

"Biden ruined our military. He is why we ran out of ordinance so quickly." "Ok if there were major issues why didn't you fix them before ordering a war?" "shut up"

IMO this is the slow-moving disaster that most epitomizes the nightmare that is the Modern Information Environment

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 7h ago

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

“Everything is fine, morale is great, it’s just you dumb libs and media blowing it out of proportion” *Ends deployment, brings another carrier to replace* “Everything was fine, morale was great, it’s just you dumb libs and media blowing it out of proportion”

You do not hate military leadership enough and you should maybe, I dunno, listen to the voices of the enlisted class who deals with them.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 6h ago

There’s truly something pathetic about the military leadership (Brad cooper in particular for writing this slop) that it basically took family members blowing the whistle for this deployment to come to an end

pivot to (central and western) asia

It’s also a v accurate view of how many white Americans have seen the US in relation to Central America for generations too. They don’t want these people not doing those jobs, they just want them to be permanently subjugated. And they’ve succeeded in that to some degree.

Oh my God. Now I get it! I couldn't understand why they were worshiping Alabama, Mississippi, and northern Florida when they were already IN those places!

(to be clear, I'm talking about the *UK* right-wing here; Gulf worship is much weaker among the US right.)

Yeah, I think it’s a big part of specifically designing AI to be sycophancy machines, rather than impersonal bots.

Understand that the Billionaire class is just absolutely furious that even being that rich doesn’t mean they can own people. It explains so much of their obsessions, from driverless cars and AI to zero hours contracts and migration paranoia.

So they want slaves

they also want to be able to rape their servants, because, as I said, they're jealous of the Gulf.

they still want cleaners and nurses, but they want to pay them less money, cut them off from their families, give them no route to citizenship, and be able to deport them at will.

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 22h ago

What is the right-wing vision for a world where immigrants have been deported and public services cut? Care and other services would dry up. The return of living in squalor for those beyond working age? The workhouse? The pauper’s grave?

The attempts to strip birthright citizenship & amend the Constitution by fiat is about subordination: to create a permanent underclass/caste of people without access to rights, protections, privileges, living in the shadows & ripe for exploitation. Plus making POC all suspects of illegality.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h ago

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

"meep meep ass location" i cannot breathe omfg 💀

What’s amazing is nowhere in the story does the person in question actually outright state he doesn’t still support Trump lol

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 14h ago

He voted for President Trump three times. He never imagined the immigration policies he supported would ensnare his own wife. Read more: nyti.ms/3SDOyhV