this is your periodic reminder that the first generation of Americans to go to fully legally integrated schools for the entirety of their k12 career are millennials.

Sticker protest art in Santa Cruz is top notch.

This messaging

US science funding in 2025 is down by 50 percent.

this is on page 5 and there's a profile of Usha Vance on page 1, which really tells you how fucked the media's priorities are

Grilling Mamdani on whether uncountably infinite sets have a right to exist

anyway, there’s another person who’s also the descendant of Gujarati Indians from Uganda who would be, I think, the funniest person to weigh in on this

Me every time I have to remember someone’s boyfriend name.

Netanyahu: I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee, nominating you for the peace prize, which is well-deserved Trump: Thank you very much. Coming from you in particular this is very meaningful Beyond parody

Why left-wing people are sadder (but activists are happier)

On the importance of the stickers (and graffiti) in your neighbourhood.

Saturday (7/26), join Sarah Stein Lubrano for DON'T TALK ABOUT POLITICS - about the psychological and sociological factors that really shape our politics. - w/Alexandra Petri - 5pm @ Conn Ave: politics-prose.com/sarah-stein-lu…

Happy #bookbirthday to Kate Broad, mike ayers , Minda Harts, J.B. Hwang, @ssteinlubrano , Paul Vigna , and all our talented authors with books out today #StMartinsPress #Flatiron #Bloomsbury

"It is rare for people to come into themselves if no one is excited and curious about their core, their potential."

Check out Part 2 of my conversation with Sarah Stein Lubrano about her new book, Don't Talk About Politics. It's my most impactful read of the year. Tune in, subscribe, buy this book! youtu.be/QlYzoC3UR_4?si…

🚨 | NEW PAPER: Community spaces are vanishing, and with them, the ties that bind us. A year on from the Southport riots, we explore how the loss of pubs, parks and youth clubs is weakening social connection, and how to rebuild it 👉 ippr.org/articles/place…

Has anyone written well about democratic deliberation and introversion?

Nice to be book of the day for Next Big Idea Club bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/debate-me-br…

So so so pleased that my piece on social atrophy is out in the Open Society Foundation’s The Ideas Letter. In it I bring in a bit more Marx, and think about how alienation and neuroplasticity are related. theideasletter.org/essay/the-peri…

Willingness to be cringe is of massive professional benefit.